XENOrSEUSTIS. 



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Genus XENOPSEUSTIS. 

 Xenopseustis, Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1897, p. 369. 



Type. 

 pcecilastis 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect, slender, extending to just beyond the 

 frons which has a rounded prominence with corneous plate below it ; eyes 

 large, round ; antennas of male rather laminate and ciliated ; thorax clothed 

 chiefly with scales and without crests ; tibia' smoothly scaled ; abdomen without 

 crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not 

 crenulate; veins o and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 7, 8, 9 

 stalked, 10, 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 ob- 

 solescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing 

 with the cell to near middle. 



* 4934. Xenopseustis pcecilastis. 



Xcnojisevstis pcecilastis, Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1897, p. 370. 



$ . Head pale yellow faintly tinged with rufous ; palpi brown ; 

 antenna? rufous with slight whitish annuli ; tegulae red-brown with 

 pale yellow tips ; thorax red-brown, the tips of patagia and paired 

 patches on mesothorax yellowish white ; pectus and legs red-brown 

 mixed with yellowish w hite, the tarsi red-brow n ringed with white ; 

 abdomen yellowish with red-brown bands, ventrally suffused with 



Fig. 218.— Xenopseustis pcecilastis, J. |. 



rufous. Fore wing . red-brown ; a yellowish- white subbasal line 

 from costa to submedian fold, with a patch just beyond it from cell 

 to inner margin ; a yellowish-white antemedial band with irregularly 

 sinuous edges ; a yellowish-white striga from middle of costa and 

 line from submedian fold to inner margin followed by a point on vein 

 1 ; an oblique discoidal band strongly constricted at middle and with 

 rounded extremities, a spot beyond it on costa and oblique band from 

 below it to tornus with traces of a sinuous line between then ; an 

 irregular subterminal maculate band from apex to termen at vein 3, 

 its outer edge indented at vein 7 and bent inwards at discal fold ; 

 cilia yellowish white, red-brown at middle and above tornus. Hind 

 wing red-brown, the base and inner margin pale yellow; cilia 

 yellowish mixed with red-brown ; the underside yellowish white, 

 the costal area irrorated with red-brown, a diffused medial band from 

 costa to submedian fold and a curved minutely waved postmedial 

 line, a terminal series of rather wedge-shaped streaks on the veins. 

 Hob. Queensland, Duaringa, type f S hi Coll. Meyrick. Exp. 

 24 millim. 



