cr.RAl'TKKVX. 403 



obli(iue, the latter excurvcd from costa to veiu 4, then incurved ; 

 claviform elongate, brownish white; orbicular and reniforra brownish 

 white, small, the former rather elongate elliptical, the latter con- 

 fluent with the white streak on median nervure, which is tricuspid 

 on base of veins 3, 4, 5 ; subterminal lino represented by a curved 

 series of small dentate black marks ; a terminal black line ; cilia 

 ochreous. Hind wing fuscous, the cell and area just below it pale ; 

 cilia ochreous ; the underside whitish irrorated with brown, the 

 terminal area suffused with fuscous, a discoidal point. 



Ab. 1. fricnsjyis. Fore wing more uniform bright rufous, the 

 markings obsolescent except the prominent tricuspid white mark 

 at lower angle of cell. 



Ab. 2. alhineara. Fore wing with all the veins streaked with 

 white. 



Ab. 3. meijala. Larger; the antennae of male more strongly pecti- 

 nated ; markings as in tricuspis. — Armenia ; W. & E. Turkestan. 



Hub. BritaiiV, Leech Coll. ; France ; Germany, Zeller, Frey, and 

 Leech Colls. ; Switzerland, Frey Coll. ; Iceland, Zeller Coll. ; Nor- 

 way, Dovrefjeld, Odalen, Frey Coll.; liussiA, Livonia, Zeller Coll. ; 

 Armenia; W. Turkestan, Ferghana, Issyk-Kul ; E. Tukkkstan, Hi, 

 Korla ; E. Siberia. Exp. 28-3(3 millim. 



Larva. Mejr. Brit. Lep. p. 75 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 129, pi. 1.51. f. 2. 



Much wrinkled, greenish ochreous to dark bronze-brown ; dorsal, 

 subdorsal, lateral, and subspiracular lines pale, black-edged ; head 

 brownish with dark markings. Food-plants, Grasses. 4-6. 



1809. Cerapteryx albiceps. (Plate XCI. fig. 10.) 



Hadena albiceps, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 203 (1894). 



$ . Head and tegulae white ; palpi black except at extremity ; 

 frous with black bar ; antennse except at base black ; thorax choco- 

 late-brown, with white patch on metathorax ; pectus white ; legs 

 banded black and white ; abdomen black irrorated with brown, the 

 anal tuft white, the ventral surface white irrorated with black and 

 ■with a broad black band before extremity. Fore wing white 

 irrorated with a few black scales, thicker on terminal area ; sub- 

 basal line represented by a black striga from costa and another 

 from cell connected with a patch above base of inner margin ; ante- 

 medial line represented by an obli(|ue striga from costa to median 

 nervure, its extremity hooked on outer side, and by a curved band 

 from submedian fold to inner margin, connected by a curved fascia 

 above vein 1 with the postmcdial line which is represented by a 

 small black spot on costa, a lunule beyond the cell and a line from 

 above vein 2 to inner margin, excurved at vein 1 ; orbicular and 

 reniform only indicated by a few black scales and a discoidal striga ; 

 a triangular patch on costa before apex with some white points on 

 it, and a small wedge-shaped patch on inner margin before tornus ; 

 a terminal series of minute black lunules ; cilia chequered white 

 and fuscous. Hind wing fuscous, the cilia white ; the underside 



