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Genus BRACHYXANTHIA. 

 Brachyxanthia, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) i. p. 169 (1878) 



Type. 

 selotypa. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint extending 

 to well beyond irons and fringed with long hair in front, the 3rd moderate ; 

 frons smooth, with large tuft of hair; eyes large, round; antenna' of male 

 serrate and fasciculate; thorax clothed with scales and hair mixed, the tegulre 

 produced to a slight dorsal ridge, the prothorax with sharp triangular crest, 

 the nietathorax with double ridge-like crest; tibia? fringed with long hair; 

 abdomen without crests. Fore wing short and broad, the apex produced and 

 acute, the termen strongly excurved at middle and crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 

 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 

 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of 

 cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 

 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



4352. Brachyxanthia zelotypa. 



Xanthia selotypa, Led. Verh. zool.-bot. Gres. Wien, 18.")3, p. 373, pi. 3. f. 4 ; 



Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 207. 

 Brachyxanthia peculiaris, Butl. A. M. K H. (5) i. p. 169 (1878) ; id. III. 



Lep. Het. B. M. ii. p. 31, pi. 30. f. 11. 



Head and thorax yellow slightly mixed with rufous ; antenna? 

 brown except at base ; vertex of head, tegulse and tips of crests 

 with red-brown streak ; abdomen yellow irrorated with brown. 

 Fore wing yellow irrorated with red, the veins streaked with red- 

 brown ; subbasal line red, angled outwards in cell and ending at 

 vein 1 ; antemedial line red, very oblique from costa to submedian 

 fold, then inwardly oblique ; claviform defined by red, Tounded : 

 orbicular and reniform denned by red-brown, the former round, (he 

 latter rather irregularly rounded ; medial line strong, red-brown, 



Fig. 14. — Brachyxanthia zelotypa, rf . \. 



very oblique from costa to lower angle of cell, then inwardly 

 oblique to inner margin at antemedial line ; postmedial line fine, 

 brown, bent outwards below costa, oblique to vein 6, oblique and 

 sinuous below vein 4, met at vein 6 by an oblique streak from 

 apex ; subterminal line dentate, curved, incurved below vein 3 and 

 ending at tornus ; a fine waved brown terminal line. Hind wing 

 yellowish white suffused with brown except on costal area and 

 termen from apex to submedian fold ; the underside yellowish 

 white, the costal area rather yellower. 



Hab. W. Siberia, Altai ; E. Siberia, Ussuri ; Japan. Hakodate, 

 1 S type jiecuUaris, Tokio {Maries), 1 $ , Yokohama [Jonas), 1 $ . 

 Exp. 32 millim. 



