OXICESTA. 113 



hair only, the metathorax with double crest, the patagia with curled-up hair at 

 extremity ; tibiae fringed with long hair ; abdomen with some rough hair at 

 base, a large crest oa basal segment and lateral fringes of hair. Fore wing with 

 the costa nearly straight, the termen obliquely curved; veins 3 and 5 from 

 near angle of cell ; 6 fi-om 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 middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 

 anastomosing with cell near base onlj-. 



A. Hind wing of male white with brown postmedial line and 



subterminal band geographica. 



B. Hind wing of male uniform fuscous brown chamoemces. 



2212. Oxicesta geographica. 



Noctua geographica, Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. p. 167 (1787) ; Boisd. Ic. pi. 65. 



f. 5; bup. Lep. Fr. vi. pi. 84. f. 5 ; Frr. Neue Beitr. vii. pi. 638 ; Staud. 



Cat. Lep. pal. p. 134. 

 Bomhyx cm&tera, Scriba, Beitr. Ins. p. 176, pi. 7. f. o (1791) ; Esp. Schmett. 



iv.pl. 191. ff. 4-6(1796). 

 Bombyx sericina, Hilbn. Beitr. ii. 1, pi. 4. f. Y (1827). 



Head and thorax yellowish white mixed with pale rufous ; palpi 

 at sides, tegulae at middle and outer edge of tegulae and patagia 

 dark rufous ; abdomen yellowish white suffused with dark brown. 

 Pore wing yellowish white, the basal and postmedial areas suffused 

 with rufous, the latter extending to termen below veins 6 and 3 ; 

 the basal part of medial area suffused with rufous extending to just 

 before postmedial line beyond and below lower angle of cell ; 

 subbasal line oblique defined by white on inner side and ending at 

 submedian fold ; antemedial line double except towards costa, dark 

 brown filled in with white, slightly angled outwards below costa 



Fig. 28. — Oxicesta geographica, c? . \. 



and in cell and inwards below cell, then outwardly oblique, an 

 oblique dark brown mark beyond it in cell ; traces of a pale 

 discoidal line ; postmedial line dark brown except towards costa, 

 defined by white on inner side, with some dark brown before it 

 at costa and below lower angle of cell, minutely dentate, angled 

 outwards at vein 4, then bent inwards to below end of cell and 

 outwardly oblique to inner margin ; some slight wedge-shaped 

 brown marks in interspaces on termen from above vein 6 to below 

 2 ; cilia chequered yellowish white and brown. Hind wing 

 yellowish white, the costal area tinged with brown to the post- 

 medial line, which is excurved at middle and above inner margin ; 



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