274 NOCTTJID^. 



3886. Xylomyges sunia. (Plate CXXIX. fig. 2.) 



Xylomyqes sunia, Guen. Noct. i. p. 149 (1852). 



Xylina'albula, Wlk. xi. 629 (1857). 



Laphygma orbicularis, Wlk. xi. 719. 



Laphygma caudata, Wlk. Char. Lep. Het. p. 32 (1869). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen pale oehreous slightly tinged with 

 rufous ; palpi with slight brown marks at sides of 2i)d joint. JFore 

 wing oehreous white faintly tinged with rufous and irrorated with 

 a few dark scales ; a black streak below base of cell ; very faint 

 traces of an oblique waved antemedial line ; orbicular represented 

 by a few black scales, the reniform by a small greyish mark with 

 some black scales at sides ; postmedial line very indistinct, whitish, 

 bent outwards below costa, then with black points on the veins, 

 oblique below vein 4, some faint whitish points beyond it on costa ; 

 a faint oblique whitish streak from termen below apex ; three 

 slight oblique white streaks in echelon from termen below vein 4 

 to submedian fold near postmedial line slightly defined by brown 

 above ; a slight fuscous mark on inner margin before tornus ; a 

 terminal series of black points ; cilia chequered white and brownish 

 with slight brownish lunules at tips. Hind wing pure semi- 

 hyaline white ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with a 

 few black scales towards apex, a terminal series of black points 

 from apex to vein 2. 



Ab. 1. orhiculavis. Pore wing with the reniform prominent, 

 black. 



Bab. Honduras (i)^5on), 1 J; Jamaica. (CocJcereU^ Eai/e), 2 §; 

 Haiti (Tweedie), 4 c? , types cdbula and orbiadaris ; St. Thomas ; 

 Dominica (Elliott), 1 ^ ; Geenada (ff, H. Smiih), 1 c5' , 1 2 : Bar- 

 bados {Frampton), 1 S '■> Argentina, Gran Chaco, Florenzia 

 {Wagner), 2 J, 2 $ . Hab. ign., 2 J type caudata. Exp. 32-36 

 millim. 



Genus ANTHA. 



Type, 



AntJia, Stand. Eom. Mem. vi. p. 448 (1892) grata. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi xiptorned, the 2ud joint not reaching vertex 

 of head and smoothly scaled, the 3vd rather long ; frons oblique, produced to 

 a transverse ridge above ; eyes large, rounded ; antennae of male minutely 

 ciliated, a ridge of scales between antennse ; thorax clothed chiefly with scales, 

 the prothorax with divided crest, the metathorax with slight crest; tibite 

 moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen long with small dorsal crests on basal 

 segments. Fore wing with the costa nearly straight, the apex rectangular, tlie 

 termen oblique below vein 4, the inner mai-gin lobed near base ; Teins 3 and 5 

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

 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of 

 cell ; 5 obsolescent from just below middle of discocellulars ; 6,7 from upper 

 angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



