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Genus BRACHYXANTHIA. 



Tvpe. 



Brachyxauthia, Butl. A. M. N. 11. (5) i. p. 109 (1878) zd'otypa. 



Proboscis fully clcveloped ; pnlpi obliquely upturned, ihe 2ncl joint extending 

 to well beyond Irons and (ringed with long hair in front, the 3rd moderate ; 

 frons smooth, willi large tuft of hair; eyes large, round; antennre of male 

 serrate and fiiscjcnlate ; thorax clothed with scales and hair mixed, the legnlaj 

 )>rodueed to a slifjlit dorsal ridge, the prothorax with sharp triangular crest, 

 the metathorax with doulde ridge-like crest; tibiaj fringed with long hair; 

 abdomen without crests. Fore wing short and broad, tiie apex produced antl 

 acute, the termen strongly excurved at middle and crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 

 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 

 to form the areole; II from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of 

 cell; T) obsolescent from middle of iliscocellulars ; G, 7 from upper angle; 

 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



4352. Brachyxanthia zelotypa. 



Xanihia zelotypa. Led. Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1853, p. 373, pi. 3. f. 4 ; 



Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 207. 

 Brachyxanthia peculiaris, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) i. p. 160 (1878) ; id. 111. 



Lep. Het. B. M. ii. p. 31. pi. 30. f. 11. 



Head and thorax j-ellow slightly mixed with rufous ; antennae 

 brown except at base ; vertex of head, tegulae and tips of crests 

 with red-brown streak ; abdomen yellow irroratcd witli brown. 

 Pore wing yellow irrorated with red, the veins streaked with red- 

 brown ; subbasal line red, angled outwards in cell and ending at 

 vein 1 ; antemedial line red, very oblique from costa to submedian 

 fold, then inwardly oblique ; claviforni defined by red, rounded : 

 orbicular and reniform defined by red-brown, the former round, the 

 latter rather irregularly rounded ; medial line strong, red-brown, 



Fig. 14. — Br achy xanihia zelotypa, (^ . ]. 



very oblique from costa to lower angle of cell, then inwardly 

 oblique to inner margin at antemedial line ; postmedial line fine, 

 brown, bent outwards below costa, oblique to vein 6, oblique and 

 sinuous below vein 4, met at vein G by an oblique streak from 

 apex ; subterminal line dentate, curved, incurved below vein 3 and 

 ending at tornus ; a fine wavc'd brown termiiial line. Hind wing 

 yellowish white suffused with brown except on costal area and 

 termen from apex to submedian fold ; the underside yellowish 

 white, the costal area rather yellower. 



Ilab. W. SiBEKiA. Altai; E. 'Siberia, Ussuri ; Japan. Hakodate, 

 1 J type peculiaris, Tokio {Maries), 1 § , Yokohama {Jonas), 1 § . 

 Exy. 32 millim. 



