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LEPIDOPTERA PHAL^NiE. 



Family LITHOSIAD.E. 



The genus Lithosia, Fabr., 1798, type quadra, is older than 

 Arctic/, Schrank, 1802, type caia. 



Subfamily ARCTIAN/E. 



Genus GONOTREPHES. Type< 



Gonotrephes, Hmpsn. A. M. N. H. (8) iv. p. 348 (1909) friga. 



Proboscis aborted, minute ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to 

 about middle of irons and moderately fringed with hair, the 3rd short ; Irons 

 smooth ; antenna? of male bipectinate with moderate branches to apex ; 

 tegulre dorsally produced to form a hood ; tibiae fringed with long hair ; 

 abdomen clothed with rough hair on dorsum, the anal segment with long 

 lateral tufts of hair. Fore whig with the apex rather produced and acute, the 

 termen angled at vein 5, then obliquely curved ; vein 3 from well before angle 

 of cell ; 5 from well above angle ; 6 from upper angle ; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked ; 11 

 from cell. Hind wing with vein 4 absent ; 5 from well above angle of cell ; 6, 

 7 coincident ; 8 absent. 



In key differs from Thyrarctia in the hind wing having vein 8 absent. 



1194 a. Gonotrephes friga. 



Thyrarctia friga, Druce, A. M. N. H. (7) xvii. p. 406 (1906). 



d . Head orange ; palpi above, sides of irons, and antennae red- 

 brown ; tegulae and patagia red-brown ; thorax orange ; pectus red- 

 brown ; fore legs orange with black patch on femora above, the 

 tibiae red-brown, the tarsi black at extremity ; mid and hind tibiae 

 red-brown, the tarsi white with black marks at base and extremity ; 

 abdomen red-brown, orange at base, the ventral surface white with 



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