. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. XANTHOSriLOPTERYX. POLACANTHOPODA. 573 and thorax with white spots ; gulic white ; pectus, coxae, femora, and tarsi with white points; tibiae with orange patches ; abdomen black, a little orange hair at base, dorsal, lateral, sublateral, and ventral series of white spots, the anal tuft orange. Fore wing black ; a white point below base of costa and yellowish spot on inner margin ; a yellowish-white triangular antemedial patch from sub- costal nervure to vein 1;
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. XANTHOSriLOPTERYX. POLACANTHOPODA. 573 and thorax with white spots ; gulic white ; pectus, coxae, femora, and tarsi with white points; tibiae with orange patches ; abdomen black, a little orange hair at base, dorsal, lateral, sublateral, and ventral series of white spots, the anal tuft orange. Fore wing black ; a white point below base of costa and yellowish spot on inner margin ; a yellowish-white triangular antemedial patch from sub- costal nervure to vein 1; a quadrate spot in end of cell, and a some- what wedge-shaped patch below vein 2 ; an oblique band beyond the cell between veins 8 and 3 intersected by a black streak on vein 4 ; a spot above tornus ; a silvery-blue spot in middle of cell, some scalea below it, and a line on discocellulars. Hind wing yellowish white; a terminal black band narrowing from costa to tornus, the black on costa extending to base. Ab. 1. Fore wing without black between veins 3, 2 running up to the cell. Hah. Old Calabar, Isubu, 1 $ ; Cameroons {Rutherford), 1 $. Eoop, 88 millim. Genus POLACANTHOPODA, nov. Type, P. tigrina. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2ncl joint broadly scaled in front, the 3i-cl short with rough scales in front; frons with rounded prominence and narrowed above; antennse almost simple, distinctly dilated towards extremity ; mid and hind tibige spined, the tibia fringed with long hair on outer side ; abdomen with dorsal tuft on basal segment. Fore wing with vein 3 from near angle of cell, 5 from above angle ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anasto- mosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with vein 2 from near angle of cell; 3, 4 from angle ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 from upper angle ; male with large lateral tufts of hair at base. 82. Polacanthopoda tigrina. Hespagarista tigrina, Druce, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 778, pi. 60. f. 4 H
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