amphipyka] 



CARADRINIDAE 



115 



Britain to Koss, Ireland, common ; N. and C. Eui'ope, WC. 

 Asia to Turkestan, N. America ; 8. Larva green ; dorsal, sub- 

 dorsal, and spiracnlar lines white or pale yellow, spiracular 

 sometimes partly blackish-edged above ; head green ; 1 2 with 

 slight protuberance : on Plantago, hawthorn, Aquilegia, etc. ; 

 5,^6. 



31. Caradrina, 0. 



Head rough-scaled ; eyes glabrous. Antennae in S ciliated, 



seldom bipectinated with apex filiform. Thorax sometimes 



with anterior and posterior crests, usually slight. Abdomen 

 not crested. 



A large genus of almost universal distribution, but absent 

 from New Zealand. 



1. Reniform obsolete . . . .2 



,, more or less indicated . . .13 



2. Second line entire, not dotted . . .3 



,, black-dotted or absent . . 5 



3. Second line angulated . . . .4 



,, not angulated . 29. trigrammica. 



4. First and second lines forming white spots on costa 



2. diffinis. 

 ,, ,, not forming white spots . 1. pyralina. 



5. Subterminal line brownish-edged . . 21. arcuosa. 



„ ,, obsolete . . .6. 



6. Forewings whitish-ochreous . . .7. 



,, not whitish-ochreous . . .12. 



7. Second line black-dotted . . . .8. 



,, obsolete . . . .11. 



8. Veins sprinkled with dai'k fuscous . . 9. 



,, not sprinkled with dark fuscous . . 10. 



9. Hindwings fuscous-sprinkled . . 12. lutosa. 



,, not fuscous-spi'inkled . . 13. elymi. 



10. Hindwings terminally dark fuscous . 20. Morrisii. 



,, not dark fuscous terminally . 19. concolor. 



11. Hindwings brownish-whitish . .15. imcsculosa. 



,, light fuscous . . 16. phragviitidis. 



12. Forewings usually with black basal dash; species 



larger . . .17. brevilinea. 



„ without black basal dash ; species 



smaller . . . 14. fulva. 



13. Hindwings with broad defined dai-k terminal band 14. 



without defined dark terminal band 



16. 



