GEOME TRIl). E—PHi ^RODESMA . 



>97 



I have uo knowledge of its existence in these Islands 

 beyond the Counties of Essex and Kent ; but on the Con- 

 tinent it is found at Wiesbaden, Frankfort and Nassau in 

 North Germany, very far from the sea, and is recorded from 

 Southern and Western France, Central and Southern 

 Germany. Spain, Italy. Eastern Europe, Bithynia. Armenia, 

 Tartary, and Siberia. 



2. P. bajularia, S(Mf. ; pustiilata, St^duL rat— 

 Expanse 1 to 1| inch. Body and wings of a very soft full 

 pea-green, blotched at the anal angle of the fore wings and 

 along the margin of the hind with fulvous and white, cilia 

 chequered with the same. 



Antenna? of the male strongly pectinated with solid ciliated 

 teeth three-fourths of their length, the remainder simple, 

 smoky- white ; palpi small, slender, of the same colour ; head 

 and face smooth, snowy-white; collar green, edged with 

 white, and the front of the remaining portion of the thorax 

 barred with white, the rest rather rough, pea-green ; abdomen 

 smooth, green at the base, white or brownish- white behind ; 

 lateral and anal tufts white. Fore wings somewhat ovate ; 

 costa decidedly arched ; apex bluntly angulated ; hind margin 

 very smoothly curved and rather oblique; dorsal margin 

 nearly straight, strongly ciliated ; colour rich soft pea-green ; 

 a greenish-white stripe on the costa from the base narrows 

 off beyond the middle ; first line white, erect, slender, except 

 the portion near the dorsal margin, which is expanded into a 

 narrow angnlated blotch; second line also white, sinuous 

 and extremely slender, but passing through a large brownish- 

 white blotch which extends from a little beyond the middle 

 of the dorsal margin to the anal angle, and contains a fawn- 

 coloured cloud ; discal spot minute, red-brown ; cilia white, 

 chequered with fawn colour or pale purplish-brown. Hind 

 wings rather elongated, rounded behind; rich pea-green; 

 central spot a red-brown dot in a faint white streak ; on the 

 costal margin beyond the middle is a large ovate whitish- 



