ANTAXIA. PTYCUOTRICHOS. 



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black spots ; thorax orange ; teguloe and patagia banded with 

 black ; legs with black points ; abdomen orange above. Fore wing 

 with the veins slightly streaked with oclireous, the interspaces with 



fine black streaks inter- 

 rupted in many jdaces ; an 

 obscure subbasal orange 

 Hue ; a large black-edged 

 orange discoidal lunule ; a 

 postmedial lino highly ex- 

 curved beyond cell, then bent 

 inwards to near origin of 



Fig. 262. — Antaxia cddominalis, cj'. 



vein 2 ; a curved orange 



fulvous subterminal band obsolete towards costa, and expanding 

 above vein 5 and towards tornus ; a terminal series of black lunulate 

 marks, the two below apex larger and conjoined to the streaks 

 ai)ove veins 5 and 6. Hind wing seraihyaline, the inner area 

 clothed with orange hair. 



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Genus PTYCHOTRICHOS. 



Ptychutrichos, Scbaus, P. Z. S. 1894, p. 227 



Tvpe. 



seus. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi uptiiriiccl and reaching just above vertex of 

 bead ; antenna? of male bipectinate, with moderate branches dilated at ex- 

 tremity ; tibiae with the spin's moderate ; abdomen dorsally clotlied with rough 

 hair at base. Fore wing long and narrow, the termen very oblique; vein 3 

 from before angle of cell; 4. .5 stalked ; fi from upper angle; 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 

 stalked. Hind wing with the cell long ; vein 2 from well before angle ; 3 and 

 5 from angle ; 4 absent ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; male with the tornus pro- 

 duced to a point, the inner area with a fold containing a tuft of long hair. 



1055. Ptychotrichos zeus. 



Ftychotrichos zeus, Schaus, P. Z. S. 1894, p. 228. 



<S . Head and thorax black -brown ; neck orange, fore coxae white, 

 base of femora and extremity of 1st tarsal joint with white points; 



Fig 263. — Ftychotrichos zeus, J . \ 



metathorax with orange point; abdomen black, with large sub- 

 dorsal blue patches, slight traces of orange between some of the 

 segmt'nts, and ventral w^hite bands ou 3rd and 4th segments, followed 



