XANTHOTHRIX. APAtTSTIS. 469 



4953. Xanthothrix ranunculi. 



Xanthothrix ranunculi, H. Edw. Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci.,Pac. Coast Lep no °9 

 (1878); Smith, Cat. Nocfc. N. Am. p. 290. 



d 1 . Head and thorax olive-yellow with some fuscous hair on 

 vertex of thorax ; antennae fuscous ; palpi with some black hairs ; 

 abdomen olive-yellow with some fuscous towards base, the ventral 

 surface whitish. Fore wing olive-yellow with a few fuscous scales. 

 Hind wing olive-yellow irrorated with fuscous brown, the costal 



Fig. 226. — Xanthothrix ranunculi, rf . }. 



area and the termen to vein 2 suffused with brown. Underside 

 olive-yellow ; fore wing irrorated with brown except on marginal 

 areas ; hind wing with some brown irroration on basal and inner 

 areas. 



9 . Head, thorax, and fore wing much browner and less yellow. 



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Genus APAUSTIS. 



Tvpe. 



Apaustis, Hiibn. Verz. p. 258 (1S27) rupicola. 



Heliodes, Guen. Ann. Soc. Eiit. Fr. x. p. 61 (1841) rupicola. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect, extending to just beyond frons and 

 fringed with long hair below; frons with large round corneous prominence 

 with raised edges and truncate process in middle, a corneous plate below it • 

 eyes small, reniform ; antennas of male ciliated; thorax clothed with rou<*h 

 hair overlaying scales and without crests ; tibiae fringed with long hair, the 

 fore tarsi with the joints very short and. the ungues large; abdomen sparsely 

 clothed with long hair but without crests. Fore wing with the apex somewhat 

 produced, the teriuen obliquely curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from 

 near angle of cell ; 6 from below upper angle ; 7 from angle ; 8, 9, 10 stalked ; 

 ] 1 from cell. Hind wing with veins o, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent 

 from below middle of ciiscocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing 

 with the cell near base only. 



A. Fore wing with the cilia chequered black-brown and white at 



base, the tips white rupicola. 



B. Fore wing with the cilia black-brown at base, white at tips, 



with black-brown patches below middle and at tornus theophila. 



