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XANTHORHOE. By L. B. Prout. 



gypsomela. dark-shaded — altogether a smoother-looking and more contrastingly marked insect. — ab. gypsomela Lower 

 (the type ^, from Blackwood, >S. A.) has the median band interrupted, but this is qiiite exceptional. Meyrick's 

 type $, from Melbourne, here figured, has hitherto been iinrecognized and the species has been called gypsomela. 



penidilonta. 



X. (?) pentodonta Lower. "3*, ?; 22, 24 mm. Palpus 2; ciliations i^- No affinities indicated, but the 

 description woukl almost fit to small gjyysomela except in the structural details (if accurate) and that the vein- 

 streaks are called "ferruginous"; the postmedian line is more distal anteriorly ("from % ') and has ''5 rather 

 sharp projections, one near costa, two contiguous in middle. anterior one longest, two posterior abbreviated'. 

 Broken Hill, New South Wales. Should be distinguishable from iniperviata (which is not uncommon there) by 

 the ö antenna and the "snow-white" intermediate areas. 



striimosaüi. 



X. strumosata Gnen. (= solutata Walk., intentata Walk.) (2(i d). Very similar on the upperside to 

 vacuaria ab. quartanata though generally larger, the hindwing with more distinct markings, etc. Antenna in 

 the (^ with the ciliation shorter (scarcely as long as the diameter of the shaft) and arising from less well-developed 

 lamellae. Underside very characteristic. much less uniformly brownish, sometimes pale, in any case strongly 

 marked, Mith dark subterminal shading, irregularly developed, strengest in the anterior part of eaeh wing, or 

 fiolUala. at least of the hindwuig, commonly assuming a macular aspect. Tasmania to New South Wales. — ab. solitata 

 Walk, is a dwarfed ? ( ? a 2nd brood), not much larger than imperviata; underside rather less variegated than 

 in the type, the subterminal dark spots of the hindwing beneath perhaps less unequal in development (but the 

 specimen is somewhat rubbed). "Australia." 



formosicohi. X. formosicola Bastelb. (= viridilineata Bastelb., viriditincta Wileman) (26 c). CJenerally smaller than 



rurcumata, especially in the (J, which is further distinguished by the merely ciliate. not pectinate antenna. Other- 

 wise extremely similar. but with more solidly dark, less red-mixed median band, generally deeper sinus before 

 its (usually longer) postmedian lobe, and with the hindwing less clean white costally and apically; hindwing 

 beneath also considerably less white. From its nearest Formosan relative, cybele Prout (see above) it differs 

 in the c^ antenna, the less small size, less strong central projection of the postmedian and generally less uniformly 

 dark hindwing. Formosa and N. E. India. 



aridaria. X. aridaria Leech (26 d). As this has not yet been figured (see Vol. 4, y). 253; the Kulu $ there men- 



tioned is, I think, a dark-banded aberration of griseiviridis) and the group is almost exclusively Indian, we 

 show the unique type here. PerhajDS it is a large aberration or subspecies of cirrcuiiioides. with broad band and 

 rather dusky underside; the form of the antemedian line, the dark hindwing and some other details do not 

 accord so well with formosicola. The o should throw some light on it. Wa-shan, 6000 feet. 



curcumoides. X. curcumoides Prout (26 c). Distinct from formosicola in the longer, more fasciculate 3" ciliation, palei- 



distal area of forewing (with reduced markings) and darker, much more unicolorous hindwing. Antemediaa 

 without the angle outward at the fold; median band in the o narrower, but not in the $> which otherwise resembles 

 the (^. Only known from the Khasis and a few specimens from Sikkim. 



saturata. X. saturata Gnen. (= exliturata Walk., livida Bufl., inamoena Butl.) (Vol. 4, pl. 7 f). Variable in size, 



on the whole less large tlian in the figured $. the q,^ usually the smaller sex and the Indian forms on an average 

 smaller than the Eastern ones. Antennal ciliation of the (J short. Wing markings recalling the Palaearctic 

 ferrugata Gl. but with the band red-browii or brown-grey, aj^parenfly never purple-red or blackish. Very widely 

 distributed, India, Tonkin, across China and in Japan and Formosa. The report of Africa (Vol. 4; p. 227) was 

 due to the confusion of two distinct though closely allied species; see Vol. 16, p. S6, X. e.vorista Prout. Guenee's 

 type of saturata came from Pondichery, exliturata probably from the Nilgiris; the name of livida Buil. (Yoko- 

 hama) will be available if the Japanese race is separable. 



niecoterma. X. mecoterma Prout (Suppl.-Vol. 4, pl. 12 e) is more elongate-winged, the band narrower. differently 



shaped, more tinged with pink and broadly dark-edged anteriorly, the dark subterminal mai'kings between the 

 radials undeveloped. Recalls the Palaearctic designata but with shorter antennal ciliation and straighter ante- 

 median band. Kashmir. 



niediofascia. X. mcdiofascia Wileman (26 c). Closely similar to mecoterma and to the Ussuri recfantemediana. Wehrli 



(Suppl.-Vol. 4, pl. 13 c), especially — in the weakly defined i^osterior pent of the postmedian — to mecoterma: 

 more greyish, perhaps on an average smaller and with the band scarcely so narrow, the lines not quite so straight 

 at their eostal end. The (^ antennal ciliation is apparently about as long as in X. de.signata. Formosa. 



elKsa. X. elusa sp. n. (26 d). Palpus strong. Antenna with paired fascicles of moderately long cilia. Forewing 



with median band twice as broad anteriorly as posteriorly. formed of partly connected dark bars, ante- and 

 postmedian, which enclose in the anterior half a moderate Avhite spaee, in which Stands the weak cell-mark; 

 antemedian well curved; 2nd and 3rd lines of postmedian connected by blackish shading. wliich in its anterior 



