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Xanthanomis vomeroi Holloway & Zilli sp. n.
, 18-20mm. This species is larger than fuscifrons, with a more irregular forewing margin and a more rounded hindwing one. The ground colour is more a dull, pale orange, with the more purplish zone distal to the fasciae only slightly (rather than abruptly) darker. The reniform is conspicuous, dark brown. The pale submarginal markings are also more conspicuous, ovate rather than lunulate, two and a smaller one at the forewing apex, and three at the hindwing dorsum. The male genitalia have a shorter uncus. The valves are straight, rather than outturned, and much more robust with a more complex array of small processes subbasally.


Xanthanomis vomeroi
(holotype)


The juxta is more elongate. The female has a tongue-like process at the ostium, and the band of sclerotisation in the bursa is very much longer than in
fuscifrons.

Holotype . SARAWAK: Gunong Mulu Nat. Park, R.G.S. Exped. 1977-8 (J.D.Holloway et al.), Site 26, April, G. Api Pinnacles, 1200m, 428545, open scrub, BM noctuid slide 10771.

Paratypes: 2 BRUNEI: 1618m, Bukit Retak, montane forest, 25 Apr. '81 (Lt. Col. M.G. Allen); 1 BRUNEI: 30-60m, Labi, lowland forest and secondary veg., 12.1.80 (Lt. Col. M.G. Allen); 1 (slide 9182) SABAH: Kundasan, 1050m, vii-ix.1965, Cambridge Expedition to Mt. Kinabalu 1965 (H.J. Banks, H.S. Barlow & J.D. Holloway); 1 SABAH: Brumas, E[ucalyptus] deglupta, 14. viii.1991 (Chey Vun Khen).

Geographical range. Borneo, Palawan, Sumatra (HS / ZSM), Peninsular Malaysia, Burma (Tenasserim).

Habitat preference. Three out of six specimens are from montane forest; the Kundasan locality had extensive cultivation as well as forest remnants. The forest at the lowland localities was also partly disturbed or secondary within a Eucalyptus plantation.

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