448 NOCTUID.E. 



Genus METAXANTHIA, nov. 



Type, M. cosmopis. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect to just below frons, the 2nd joint 

 broadly scaled, the 3rd minute; frons with rounded prominence with sligbt 

 vertical ridge at middle and corneous plate below it ; eyes large, round ; 

 antennae of male serrate ; thorax clothed with hair and scales mixed and 

 without crests ; tibiae moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen with dorsal crest 

 at base only. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and 

 hardly crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near anijle of cell ; (> 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. 



4923. Metaxanthia cosmopis. 



Britha cosmopis, Lower, P. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. xxii. p. 17 (1897). 



Head fuscous brown, frons pale, antenna? rufons ; thorax yellow 

 mixed with red-brown ; fore legs fuscous brown ; mid and hind legs 

 mostly yellow ; abdomen yellow. Fore wing red-brown turning to 

 greyish brown towards costa, the area below submediau fold white 

 turning to yellow then pale rufous towards inner margin ; an 

 oblique black striga from median nervure to submedian fold before 

 middle ; a fine white streak beyond the cell below vein 4 and 

 shorter streak below vein 3 before the obliquely curved black post- 

 medial line running from below apex to submedian fold, the area 



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Fig. 214. — Metaxanthia cosmopis, <$ . \. 



beyond it yellowish white turning to grey beyond the indistinct fine 

 white obliquely curved subterminal line running from below apex 

 to submedian fold ; a fine black terminal line ; cilia grey-brown 

 with a dark line through them. Hind wing yellow with fuscous 

 terminal band, broad at costa, narrowing to tornus, its inner edge 

 slightly angled at veins 5 and 1 ; cilia, yellowish with a dark line 

 through them. Underside of fore wing yellow with round fuscous 

 discoidal spot and broad terminal band. 



Hob. Queensland, Thursday I., 1 $ , Cape York, 1^,1$, 

 Cooktown, type f $ in Coll. Turner. Exp. 32 millim. 



