514 N0CTUID.E. 



1 c? , Periripachcram (Yerbury), 1 d ; Burma, Salween, 1 9? 

 Singapore {Ridley, Wood-Jones.), 1 ^ , 3 $ ; Borneo, Sarawak 

 (JTaZZace), 3 <$ type; La.bu.an (Everett), 1 J . ##p. 24-32 millim. 



Page 584. 



Genus XANTHOLEPIS, nov. 



Type, X. dicycla. 



Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint broadly scaled, 

 hollowed out on inner side and reaching to middle of frons, the 3rd moderate 

 and thickly scaled ; frons oblique below and produced to a transverse corneous 

 ridge at middle; eyes large, round ; antennae of female almost simple; thorax 

 clothed almost entirely with scales, the prothorax without crest, the metathorax 

 with appressed crest; tibiae moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen with dorsal 

 crests on basal segments. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen 

 evenly 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 : 11 from cell. Hind wing 

 with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocel- 

 lulars; C, 7 shortly stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



3452 b. Xantholepis dicycla. 



Acontia dicycla, Wlk. xxxv. 1964 (18(50) ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 338. 



2 . Head and thorax sulphur-yellow mixed with cupreous red ; 

 palpi, lower part of frons, and antennae except basal joint red- 

 brown ; patagia red ; pectus white ; tibiae and tarsi banded red- 

 brown and yellow ; abdomen white tinged with red-brown at 



Fig. 243. — Xantholepis dicycla, 2 ■ t- 



extremity, the basal crest yellow. Fore wing sulphur-yellow ; a 

 small sub basal cupreous red anuulus on costa ; a curved diffused 

 cupreous red antemedial band with small yellow spots on it at costa 

 and below the cell ; reniform a figure-of-eight shaped mark defined 

 by red ; postmedial line minutely dentate, angled outwards at 

 discal fold, then inwards to reniform, the area beyond it cupreous 

 red with small yellow spots just beyond it at costa and inner margin, 

 a bifid subapical spot and three spots just before termen between 

 veins 5 and 2 ; cilia chequered cupreous red and yellow. Hind 

 wing white, the terminal area red-brown ; cilia white tinged with 

 rufous at base ; the underside white with a sinuous red-brown post- 

 medial line, the area beyond it tinged with rufous. 



Hab. N. India (James), 1 $ type; Burma, llangoon (Scott), 1 $. 

 Exp. 24 millim. 



