XAJMJHOPTERA. 



5996. Xantkoptera botyoides. 



Xanthoptera Botyoides, Guen. Noct. ii. p. •_' lu | is... 

 Xantkoptera alboflava, Wlk. Trans. Ent. 800. (3) i. n 92 [6 

 Marimcttha dinv/meratalis, Wlk. xxxiv. 1204 (1865J5 Druee, 



Am.. Met. i. J). 453. 



Xanthoptera nigrofimbria, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 316 (pari I, 

 nee Guen. 



Head ochrcous white mixed with red-brown: palpi red-brown, 

 the extremities of 2nd and 3rd joints whitish ; thorax bright 

 yellow; pectus and legs ochreous white mixed with red-brown; 

 abdomen ochreous yellow. Fore wing bright yellow; clavifonn 

 'and orbicular represented by black points; reniform a black poini 

 followed by a rounded rufous spot with some whitish in centre ; 

 traces of a punctiform rufous postmedial line, oblique to vein 6 and 



Fig. 185. — Xanthoptera botyoides, J. 



ielow vein 4 ; a terminal rufous shade narrowing to points i>elow 

 ipex and above tornus ; a terminal series of minute black-brown 

 unules ; cilia red-brown mixed with some whitish. Hind n 

 vhite. the terminal area suffused with red-brown; a tine brown 

 erminal line ; cilia w T hitish mixed with brown and with brO'W n line 

 hrougb them ; the underside yellowish white irrorated with - 

 >rown, a brown discoidal point. 

 Hab. Mexico, Tabasco (II. 11. Smith). 2^,1$, Godman Balvin 

 •11.; Honduras (Dyson), 1 $ type dinwmeratalis, type t 



' in Mus. Oxon. ; Trinidad (Kay> I, 6 J, 3 $; Bb. <>i uni 

 li'xlway), 1 tf, Rockstone (Kaye), 2 c?; Brazil, V 

 'arantins (Austen), 1 J, Organ Mts., Tijuca (Tl I $>. 



top. 1- 20 millim. 



5997. Xanthoptera aurifera. (Plate CLXVIII. fig. 24.) 



'hoptera aurifera. Wlk. xii. 819 (18J 

 Xanthoptera nigrofimbria, Druce, Biol. Oentr.-Am., Bel 



nee Guen. 

 Xanthoptera tripuncta, MoschL Abb. S 



Eead and thorax pale ochreous yellow; palpi 1 

 ps; frons blackish at sides; antennae blackish ; p 

 bdomen pale ochreous irrorated with brown. 

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