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XANTHORHOE. By L. B. Prout. 
gypsomela. dark-shaded — altogether a smoother-looking and more contrastingly marked insect. — ah. gypsomela Lower 
(the type <$, from Blackwood, S. A.) has the median band interrupted, but this is quite exceptional. Meyrick’s 
type $, from Melbourne, here figured, has hitherto been unrecognized and the species has been called gypsomela. 
pentodonta. X. (?) pentodonta Lower. “<$, $; 22, 24 mm. Palpus 2; filiations No affinities indicated, but the 
description would almost fit to small gpysomela except in the structural details (if accurate) and that the vein- 
streaks are called “ferruginous”; the post-median line is more distal anteriorly (“from %”) and has “5 rather 
sharp projections, one near costa, two contiguous in middle, anterior one longest, two posterior abbreviated”. 
Broken Hill. New South Wales. Should be distinguishable from imperviata (which is not uncommon there) by 
the <J antenna and the “snow-white” intermediate areas. 
strumosata. X. strumosata Guen. (= solutata Walk., intentata Walk.) (26 d). Very similar on the upperside to 
vacuaria ab. quartanata though generally larger, the hindwing with more distinct markings, etc. Antenna in 
the S with the ciliation shorter (scarcely as long as tire diameter of the shaft) and arising from less well-developed 
lamellae. Underside very characteristic, much less uniformly brownish, sometimes pale, in any case strongly 
marked, with dark subterminal shading, irregularly developed, strongest in the anterior part of each wing, or 
solHala. at least of the hindwing, commonly assuming a macular aspect. Tasmania to New South Wales. — ab.solitata 
Walk, is a dwarfed $ (? a 2nd brood), not much larger than imperviata; underside rather less variegated than 
in the type, the subterminal dark spots of the hindwing beneath perhaps less unequal in development (but the 
specimen is somewhat rubbed). “Australia.” 
formosicola. X. formosicola Bastelb. (= viridilineata Bastelb., viriditincta Wileman) (26 c). Generally smaller than 
curcumata, especially in the <J, which is further distinguished by the merely ciliate, not pectinate antenna. Other¬ 
wise extremely similar, but with more solidly dark, less red-mixed median band, generally deeper sinus before 
its (usually longer) post-median lobe, and with the hindwing less clean white costally and apically; hindwing 
beneath also considerably less white. From its nearest Formosan relative, cybele Prout (see above) it differs' 
in the antenna, the less small size, less strong central projection of the postmedian and generally less uniformly 
dark hindwing. Formosa and N. E. India. 
aridaria. X. aridaria Leech (26 d). As this has not yet been figured (see Vol. 4, p. 253; the Kulu $ there men¬ 
tioned is, I think, a dark-banded aberration of griseiviridis) and the group is almost exclusively Indian, we 
show the unique type here. Perhaps it is a- large aberration or subspecies of curcumoides, with broad band and 
rather dusky underside; the form of the antemedian line, the dark hindwing and some other details do not 
accord so well with formosicola. The should throw some light on it. Wa-shan, 6000 feet-. 
curcumoides. X. curcumoides Prout (26 c). Distinct from formosicola in the longer, more fasciculate ciliation, paler 
distal area of forewing (with reduced markings) and darker, much more unicolorous hindwing. Antemedian 
without the angle outward at- the fold; median band in the <§ narrower, but not- in the $, which otherwise resembles 
the (U Only known from the Khasis and a few specimens from Sikkim. 
saturata. X. saturata Guen. (= exliturata Walk., livida Bull., inamoena Bull.) (Vol. 4, pi. 7 f). Variable in size, 
on the whole less large than in the figured $, the $$ usually the smaller sex and the Indian forms on an average 
smaller than the Eastern ones. Antennal ciliation of the $ short. Wing markings recalling the Palaearctic 
ferrugata Cl. but with the band red-brown or brown-grey, apparently never purple-red or blackish. Very widely 
distributed, India, Tonkin, across China and in Japan and Formosa. The report of Africa (Vol. 4; p. 227) was 
due to the confusion of two distinct though closely allied species; see Vol. 16, p. 86, X. exorista Prout. Guenee's 
type of saturata came from Pondichery, exliturata probably from the Nilgiris; the name of livida Butl. (Yoko¬ 
hama) will be available if the Japanese race is separable. 
mecoterma. X. mecoterma Prout (Suppl.-Vol. 4, pi. 12 e) is more elongate-winged, the band narrower, differently 
shaped, more tinged with pink and broadly dark-edgecl anteriorly, the dark subterminal markings between the 
radials undeveloped. Recalls the Palaearctic designata but with shorter antennal ciliation and straighter ante- 
median band. Kashmir. 
mediofascia. X. mediofascia Wileman (26 c). Closely similar to mecoterma and to the Ussuri rectantemediana Wehrli 
(Suppl.-Vol. 4, pi. 13 c), especially — in the weakly defined posterior part of the post-median — to mecoterma; 
more greyish, perhaps on an average smaller and with the band scarcely so narrow, the lines not quite so straight 
at their costal end. The antennal ciliation is apparently about as long as in X. designata. Formosa. 
elusa. X. elusa sp. n. (26 d). Palpus strong. Antenna with paired fascicles of moderately long cilia. Forewing 
with median band twice as broad anteriorly as posteriorly, formed of partly connected dark bars, ante- and 
postmedian, which enclose in the anterior half a moderate white space, in which stands the weak cell-mark; 
antemedian well curved; 2nd and 3rd lines of postmedian connected by blackish shading, which in its anterior 
