38 CARADRmmA [utetheisa 



England, Roxburgh, S. Ireland, occasional, not permanently 

 resident ; C. and S. Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, New 

 Zealand ; 6, 8, 9. Larva dark grey, dixll purplish, or blackish, 

 often with orange-red transverse bars on each segment ; hairs 

 black and whitish ; dorsal area more or less white-marked ; 

 spiracular line often whitish ; head reddish-ochreous, blackish- 

 marked : on Myosotis, grasses, etc.; 7, 8, 10-5. This species 

 has been several times taken on open sea, 500 miles or more 

 from land. 



17. CosciNiA, Hh. 



Head with short rough or loosely appressed haii's. Ocelli 

 present. Antennae in $ bipectinated to apex. Palpi moderate 

 or short, porrected, with long rough hairs. Thorax hairy be- 

 neath. Abdomen smooth-scaled. Tibiae smooth-scaled. Fore- 

 wings : 7 absent, 8 and 10 out of 9. Hindwings : 3 and 4 

 connate or stalked, 5 absent, 6 and 7 connate or stalked, 8 

 from middle of cell. 



A very small European genus, with one or two species else- 

 where. Larva with tufts of hairs. 



Hindwings grey . . . .1. cribrum. 



,, orange .... 2. striata. 



1. C. cribrum, L. 33-35 mm. Forewings white, somewhat 

 blackish -sprinkled ; five cloudy blackish-grey more or less 

 interrupted transverse streaks, second angulated ; two longi- 

 tudinal cloudy blackish-grey streaks in disc above and below 

 middle ; a transverse sometimes interrupted blackish discal 

 mark ; a terminal series of blackish-grey marks. Hindwings 

 rather dark grey, sometimes dorsally yellowish-tinged. 



Hants, Dorset, Derby (?), very local ; Europe, Asia Minor, N. 

 Africa ; 7. Larva brown, tubercles black, hairs black and 

 whitish ; dorsal line pale or whitish ; subdorsal sometimes 

 whitish ; head dark brown : on grasses. Erica, etc. ; 8-5. 



2. 0. striata, L. {grammica, L.) 34-38 mm. Forewings 

 whitish-ochreous, yellowish-tinged ; interneural spaces streaked 

 with black except towards termen ; veins tovvai'ds termen 

 streaked with black ; two black discal dots transversely 

 placed ; cilia light orange. Hindwings orange, sometimes 

 slightly black-sprinkled ; veins blackish-sufiused towards base ; 

 a blackish band along costa and termen, not reaching tornus ; 

 a black discal crescentic mark. 



Berks, Anglesea, York ('^), probably casual immigrants only, 

 not for many years ; Europe, Asia Minor, Syria ; 7. Larva 



