PROXENUS. 



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points on (lie veins, bent outwards below costa and oblique below 

 vein 4; the veins of terminal area -with slight pale streaks: a 

 terminal series of black points. Hind wing white, the apical area 





Fig. 118.— Proxenus hospes, J. 



slightly tinged with brownish ochreous ; the underside with the 

 apical half of costal area irrorated with brown. 



Hab. S.W. France, Leech Coll.; Spain; Italy; Sictly ; Dal- 

 matia. Ed- p. 30 rnillim. 



Larva. Hffm. Raup. p. 298. 



Greyish yellow, the ventral surface whitish ; dorsal line whitish ; 

 subdorsal and stigmata! lines red-brown ; stigmata yellowish with 

 dark rings ; head brown. Food-plants : Plantago and low-growing 

 herbs. 6-8. 



4118. Proxenus xantholopha. (Plate CXXXIII. fig. 14.) 

 Caradrina xantholopha, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 305 (1902). 



Head and thorax fuscous brown tinged with reddish and mixed 

 with grey ; palpi black at sides, whitish in front and at tips ; mid 

 and hind tibia; of male fringed with whitish hair ; abdomen 

 whitish suffused with brown, the basal segments in male with 

 lateral fringes of white hair and the genital tufts yellowish white. 

 Fore wing reddish brown suffused with fuscous and mixed with 

 grey ; traces of a waved dark antemedial line bent inwards to 

 costa ; orhicular a black point ; reniform a small lunule slightly 

 defined by blackish : traces of a blackish posfmedial line bent out- 

 wards below costa, then dentate and produced to black points on 

 the veins, oblique below vein 4, the veins beyond it with dark 

 streaks ; traces of a subterminal line excurved below vein 7 and at 

 middle ; a terminal series of black points with some pale scales 

 between them. Hind wing white, the apical area tinged with 

 fuscous ; cilia tinged with fuscous towards apex ; the underside 

 with the costal area irrorated with brown. 



Hab. Transvaal, White 11. (Cooke), 1 S ; Natal, Estcourt 

 (Hutchinson), 1 $ ; C. Colony, Transkei (Miss F. Barrett), 1 J, 

 1 $ type. Exp. 30-34 rnillim. 



4119. Proxenus dissimilis. (Plate CXXXIII. fig. 15.) 

 Caradrina dissimilis, South, ined. 



Head and thorax brown mixed with grey ; palpi black at sides, 



