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CYDOSIA NOBILITELLA, Westwood.
PLATE XXIV. Fig. 2.
Phalæna 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 doubtful also whether the wings are convoluted when at rest. The head, setaceous antennæ, small palpi closely applied to the lower part of the face, elongated spiral tongue, and feet, agree with the typical Lithosiæ. 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[1] terminal branches as in many of the Tortricidæ (such as Cnephasia longiana, Curtis, pl. 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 Lithosia complana there are only two terminal branches.
