XANTHOPTEHA. SS/ 



5996. Xanthoptera botyoides. 



Xantho'ptera hofyoides, Q-uen. Noct. ii. p. 240 (1852). 

 Xanthoptera alhoflava, Wlk. Trans. Ent. Soc. (3) i. p. 92 (1862\ 

 Marimatha dinumeratalis, Wlk. xxxiv. 1204 (1865) ; Druce, Biol. Centr.- 



Am., Het. i. p. 4.53. 

 Xanthoptera nigrofimbna, Druce, Biol, Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 316 (part.), 



nee Guen. 



Head ochreous white mixed with red-brown ; palpi red-brown, 

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

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

 abdomen ochreous yellow. Fore wing bright yellow ; claviform 

 and orbicular represented by black points ; reniform a black point 

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

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



Fig. 185. — Xanthoptera botyoides, S- |. 



below vein 4 ; a terminal rufous shade narrowing to points below 

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

 lunules ; cilia red-brown mixed with some whitish. Hind wing 

 white, the terminal area suffused with red-brown ; a fine brown 

 terminal line ; cilia whitish mixed with brown and with brown line 

 through them ; the underside yellowish white irrorated with red- 

 brown, a brown discoidal point. 



Hah. Mexico, Tabasco {H. H. Smith), 2 c5' , 1 $ , Godman-Salvin 

 Coll. ; HoNDTJEAS (Dyson), 1 § type dinumeratalis, type f cJ albo- 

 flava in Mus. Oxon. ; Trinidad (Kaye), 6 c? , 3 $ ; Bk, Gtjiana 

 (Rodway), 1 c? , Rockstone {Kaye), 2 (S ; Brazil, Amazons, 

 Parantins (Austen), 1 c? , Organ Mts., Tijuca (Wayner), 2 §, 

 Exj). 18-20 millim. 



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



Xanthoptera aurifera, Wlk. xii. 819 (1857). 



Xanthoptera nigrofimbria, Druce, Biol. Oentr.-Am., Het. i. p. 316 (part.), 



nee Gruen. 

 Xanthoptera tripuncta, Moscbl. Abh. Senck. Gres. xvi. p. 158 (1890). 



Head and thorax pale ochreous yellow ; palpi blackish, pale at 

 tips ; frons blackish at sides; antennae blackish ; pectus, legs, and 

 abdomen pale ochreous irrorated witii brown. Fore wing pale- 



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