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CYDOSIA NOBILITELLA, Westwood. 



PLATE XXIV. Fig. 2. 



Phalaena nobilitella, Cramer, Pap. Exot., Plate 264. 



This lovely insect belongs to the present family, 

 from the majority of which, however, it offers a 

 marked distinction in the splendour of its colours, 

 whilst the arrangement of the veins of the wings 

 appears to differ from all the rest. It seems doubt- 

 ful also whether the wings are convoluted when at 

 rest. The head, setaceous antenna?, small palpi 

 closely applied to the lower part of the face, elon- 

 gated spiral tongue, and feet, agree with the typical 

 Lithosias. The medial vein of the fore wings has 

 the terminal branches all arising close together at 

 the extremity and at a great distance from the first 

 branch, and there are three * terminal branches as 

 in many of the Tortricidae (such as Cnephasia 

 longiana, Curtis, pi. 100, f. 9) ; but the terminal 

 branches of the postcostal vein are similar to those 

 of Lithosia quadra, except that the third branch 

 anteriorly emits two branchlets, whereas in Lithosia 



* In Lilhosia complana there are only two terminal branches. 



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