. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. PROXENUS. 431 points on the veins, bent outwards below costa and obliqne below vein 4 ; the veins of terminal area with slight pale streaks : a terminal series of black points. Hind wing white, the apical area. Fig. lis. —Proxe7ius kos2:>es, (^. \. slightly tinged with brownish ochreous ; the underside with the apical half of costal area irrorated with brown. Hab. Feance, Leech Coll.; Spain ; Italy ; Sictly ; Dal- MATiA. Fivp. 30 millim. Larva. Hffm. Raup. p. 298. Greyish yellow, the ventral surface whitish ; dorsal l
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. PROXENUS. 431 points on the veins, bent outwards below costa and obliqne below vein 4 ; the veins of terminal area with slight pale streaks : a terminal series of black points. Hind wing white, the apical area. Fig. lis. —Proxe7ius kos2:>es, (^. \. slightly tinged with brownish ochreous ; the underside with the apical half of costal area irrorated with brown. Hab. Feance, Leech Coll.; Spain ; Italy ; Sictly ; Dal- MATiA. Fivp. 30 millim. Larva. Hffm. Raup. p. 298. Greyish yellow, the ventral surface whitish ; dorsal line whitish ; subdorsal and stigmatal lines red-brown ; stigmata yellowish with dark rings ; head brown. Food-plants : Plantago and low-growing herbs. 6-8. 4118. Proxenus xantholopha. (Plate CXXXIII. fig. 14.) Caradrina xantholopha, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 30o (1902). Head and thorax fuscous brown tinged with reddish and mixed with grey ; palpi black at sides, whitish in front and at tips ; mid and hind tibise of male fringed with whitish hair; abdomen whitish suffused with brown, the basal segments in male with lateral fringes of white hair and the genital tufts yellowish white. Fore wing reddish brown suffused with fuscous and mixed with grey; traces of a waved dark antemedial line bent inwards to costa; orbicular a black point; reniform a small lunule slightly defined by blackish; traces of a blackish postmedial line bent out- wards below costa, then dentate and produced to black points on the veins, oblique below vein 4, the veins beyond it with dark streaks ; traces of a subterminal line excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a terminal series of black points with some pale scales between them. Hind wing white, the apical area tinged with fuscous; cilia tinged with fuscous towards apex ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown. Hah. Transvaal, White E. {Cooke), 1 S ; Natal, Estcourt {Hutchinson), 1 $ ; C. Colony, Transkei {Miss F. Barrett), 1 6,
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