THOLERA. 



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angled outwards above inner margin ; claviform large, defined by 

 black and with white streak in centre ; orbicular and reniform 

 with red-brown centre and ochreous annuli defined by black, the 

 former rather small round, the latter, angled inwards on median 

 nervure and with white discocellular line ; postmedial line double, 

 minutely waved, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, 



Fig. 31. — Tholcra poptdaris, (^ 



then incurved ; subterminal line represented by a series of pale 

 lunules with dentate black marks on their inner side, slightly 

 angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a fine waved 

 terminal black line ; cilia ochreous, with brown line through them 

 and brown at tips. Hind wing ochreous white tinged with brown, 

 the terminal area suffused with fuscous ; the underside with the 

 costal area irrorated with fuscous, a black discoidal point and sinuous 

 postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. hilaris. Paler ; hind wing of male almost entirely white. 

 — S.E, Russia, Armenia, Asia Minor, 



Ilab. Britain, Leech Coll. ; France, Leech Coll. ; Germany, 

 Zeller and Frey Colls.; IS", and C. Italy; Norway, ZellerColl. ; 

 Russia, Livonia, Zeller Coll., St. Petersburg, Zeller Coll., Sarepta, 

 Zeller Coll. ; Armenia ; Asia Minor, Pontus ; Siberia. Ea;p. 38-50 

 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 76; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 135, pi. 152. f. 1. 



Bronze-brown ; dorsal, subdorsal, lateral, and subspiracular lines 

 ■pale ochreous edged with blackish ; head brownish marked with 

 black. Food-plant : Grasses. 4-6. 



1435. Tholera americana. (Plate LXXXIV. fig. 14.) 



Neuronia americana. Smith, Trans. Am. Eut. Soc. xxi. p. 59, pi. iii. f. 3 

 (1894). 



S . Head and thorax white mixed with ochreous brown ; tegula? 

 pale at base and tips ; patagia witli blackish line near upjjcr edge ; 

 tarsi with white rings ; abdomen ochreous white. Fore wing 

 ochreous suffused with grey and irrorated Avith black ; the veins 

 prominently streaked with white except on terminal area, where 

 they are blackish defined by white ; subbasal line indistinct, 

 represented by double, oblique dark striae from costa and median 

 ncrvuro filled in with whitish ; antomedial line indistinct, e.\curved 

 in interspaces and angled inwards in cell ; claviform elongate, 



