56 CARADRINIlSrA [miselia 



1. M. oxyacanthae, L. 36-42 mm. Forewings rather light 

 brown, veins and dorsum suffused with brassy-green, interrupted 

 before subterminal line ; a black median dash from base passing- 

 first line ; first and second lines black, second followed by a 

 white crescent near dorsum ; spots rather pale, roundish, finely 

 and indistinctly blackish-cdged, reniform lai-ge ; subterminal 

 line whitish-dotted, preceded by dark fuscous dots. Hindwings 

 fuscous, with darker angulated postmedian line. 



Britain to Ross, Ireland, common ; C. Eui'ope, Asia Minor ; 

 9, 10. Larva fuscous, darker-marked, dots pale; dorsal and 

 subdorsal lines indistinctly pale ; 12 somewhat raised, with four 

 small tubercles ; head brown : on hawthorn and blacktliorn ; 4-G. 



2. M. bimaculosa, L. 48-54 mm. Forewings pale brown 

 much mixed witli white, veins partly black-marked ; lines 

 waved-dentate, brown-edged ; spots i-oundish, brown-edged, reni- 

 form lai'ge, partly suffused with white, edged beneath by a black 

 dash ; a brown suffusion on fold above tornus. Hindwings 

 whitish-fuscous; discal spot rather large, fuscous; a fuscous 

 subterminal suff'usion, forming a darker spot above tornus. 



Gloucester, once eighty years ago, perhaps now extinct ; C. 

 Europe ; 8, 9. Larva brown, darker anteriorly, dots pale ; 

 spiracular line pale, dai'k-edged above; 12 with two tubercles: 

 on elm ; 5-6. 



6. DiLOBA, B. 



Head rough-haired ; eyes glabrous, ciliated. Tongue short, 

 slight. Antennae in c? bipectinated to apex. Thorax with 

 slight posterior crest. Abdomen not crested. 



The single species is of somewhat peculiar facies, but un- 

 doubtedly referable here. 



1. D. caeruleocephala, L. 32-.37 mm. Forewings fuscous, basal 

 and praesubterminal spaces browner ; a short black median 

 dash from base ; first and second lines black ; spots bi'oadly 

 edged with bluish-white, orbicular and claviform circular, con- 

 fluent ; subterminal line pale, terminal space often irrorated 

 with whitish. Hindwings fuscous-whitish ; discal spot and post- 

 median line grey ; a suffused black tornal mark. 



Jlritain to the Clyde, L-eland, common ; Europe, Asia ISTinnr; 

 9. Larva blue-gre}^ ; dorsal line yellow, interrupted ; s])iracnlar 

 yellow ; tuljcrcular dots black : on hawthorn and blacktiiorn ; 

 4-6. 



7. ASTEROSCOPUS, B. 



Head rough-scaled ; eves glabrous, ciUnted. Tongue short, 



