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outer inari^iii therefoi'i' iimch longtT; the outer margin of the hindwing sHghtly incurved below tlio apex. 

 Beneath, the forewing in the 3* dulled with pale grey, with orange costal and broad bright yellow outer 

 margin. The $ is half the size of the ^. In North Europe and the Alps. — Egg rose-red. Larva reddish 

 grey-brown, lighter laterally; two light yellow dorsal lines; stigma-line yellow; until June on hchens on 

 stones. Pupa brownish yellow, glossy. The moth in Juh' and August, on damp meadows. 



L. albicosta i?o(/. (13 c). One of the smallest species, most closely allied to the Andalusian sordidula; albicosta. 

 silvery grey, forewing with a glossy white costal stripe. From the Canaries; the specimen before me is 

 dated October; according to Rebel others were caught in August. Pungeler possesses similar specimens 

 from April. 



L. atratula Ev. (13 c). Black, with the .shoulders and end of abdomen orange; a bright yellow ulmlula. 

 costal streak on the forewing; on the hindwing the costa also nan-owly yellow, this streak being covered 

 by the forewing. From the Kentei Mts. (Dauria). 



L. fumidisca Hamps. (13c). Forewing dark violet grey, costal and outer margins orange-yellow: [mnidisca. 

 hindwing yellowish gre_y. Cannot be confused with any other species. An Indian moth, which, however, 

 has also been caught at Sikawei near Shanghai, in East China, and by Korb in Amurland. 



L. nigripars Walk. (= pallens Moore). As large as the 3* of quadra; both wings uni^formly ivory, nujriparn. 

 fringes and margins orange-yellow. In the (^ the costa of the forewing is thinly black at the base. 

 Beneath, the forewing and the costal area of the hindwing are suffused with sooty. Kashmir. 



L. conformis TFai/i:. (= nigrifrons Moore, laevis Bfi^L) (13 c). As large as the preceding, and with confonnis. 

 similar colouring, but the outer margin of both wings orange-yellow, that of the forewing sometimes very 

 dark. Kashmir, distributed throughout the Indian Himalayas, as far as Japan. 



L. tetragona. Two forms are known of this species, which is distributed over nearly the whole of tclraijona. 

 South Asia, but is usually not abundant: one form (tenuisig^ia Moore) is not Palearctic; the forewing bears 

 on a pure ivory yellow ground a greenish-black square spot, scarcely extending beyond the median area, 

 and a small dot-like costal marginal spot before the last costal third. — In the Palearctic form, sordida .sordida. 

 Bull. (13 d), the blackish green inner marginal spot occupies the greater part of the forewing, and the 

 costal spot of tenuisigna is so much enlarged in sordida that they nearly or actually touch one another. 

 At the same time the ivory hindwing is dulled with grey in its outer area. North India and China, 

 northward to Fu-chow. 



L. signata TFo/fc. (13 d). This species also occurs in 2 forms. In true signaia the inner marginal spot svjnuln. 

 is round, and sometimes slightly reduced, this being the case in ab. brevimacula Alfh. In the other form, brevimacula. 

 d'lrecta Leech, it is larger than in the figure, and somewhat elongate, so that the species slightly resembles direda. 

 the preceding. North China. 



L. iimbr'iAta Leech (13 d). Bright reddish brown above. Thorax and forewing intermixed with grey, [imbriuiu. 

 dark cloudy markings at the inner margin of the latter. The base of the costa broadly white, this colour 

 surrounding a triangular dark costal spot; the costal margin itself angulate before the last costal third. 

 Hindwing dirty brown-grey, apical area and margin darker. Central China. 



L. reticulata Moore (13c). Forewing yellowish grey, dusted with scattered black scales: through rclividula. 

 the middle of the forewing a diffuse rust-brown stripe elbowed btdiind the lower angle of the cell. Kashmir; 

 also distributed over the Indian Himalayas. 



L. pallida Moore (13 c). Forewing dull yellowish grev; before the outer third a transverse band i>allida. 

 composed of dark raised scales; in the centre a few dark spots, in the (j' another one on the costa before 

 the centre. Hindwing orange-j-ellow with broad black veins. Kashmir. 



L. vagesa Moore. This moth, distributed in several forms over the whole of Northern, Anterior vayvsa. 

 and Further India, only enters the Palearctic region at the southern frontier of Kashmir. It has about 

 the same shape and size as the (^ of quadra, and is like the $ of tlie latter uniformly golden-yellow 

 in colour, but without markings or dots. The (J has, however, a patch of scales below the cell of the 

 forewing and an oval scent-patch on the disc of the hindwing. 



L. costalis Moore (= fimbriata Hamps. nee Leech) (13 d). Only half as large as the preceding; custalis. 

 the $ dirty yellowish brown, almost without markings, only small faint spots being present below the 

 costa; the (J has an ochreous stripe below the costa and narrow black streaks in the median area and 

 before the outer margin. Hindwing ochreous, suffused with brown. In South East Asia, especially Further 

 India, northward to China, where the name-typical form occurs. 



29. Genus: Pelosia Hbyi. 



This exclusively Palearctic genus may be considered an offshoot of Lithosia. It consists of 6 or 7 

 forms, usually grey-brown or straw-yellow in colour, which are distributed over Europe and North Asia. 

 No form extends into North Africa or India. 



