XANTHOTHKIX. APATTSTIS. 



4G9 



4953. Xantliothrix ranunculi. 



Xa.)ithnfh-ix ranunculi, II. Edw. Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci., Pac. Coast Lep. no 29 

 (1«78); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 290. 



S ' Head and thorax olive-yellow with some fuscous hair on 

 vertex of thorax ; antenuaj 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. — Xantliothrix ranunculi, S ■ !• 



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. 



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



Hah. U.S.A., California, Haviluh, 3^,3$. Exp. 22-24 millim. 



Genua APAUSTIS. 



Type. 



A}>nuf,ti», Hiibn. Vevz. p. 258 (1827) rupicola. 



Heliwlcs, Gueu. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. x. p. 61 (1841) rupicola. 



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

 frino-ed witli long hair below; frons witli large round corneous prominence 

 witli raised edges and truncate process in middle, a corneous plate below it; 

 eyes small, reniform ; antenmie of male ciliated; tliorax clothed with rough 

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

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

 clotiied with long hair but without crests. Fore wing wii,h the apex somewhat 

 produced, the tcrnieu obliquely curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and .0 from 

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

 11 from cell. Hind wiiig with veins ii, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent 

 from below middle of discocellulars ; 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-browu patches below middle and at tornus thecphila. 



