78 CLETIS. By Dr. A. Seitz. 



chinensis. Spul. has orango hindwing. — chinensis Gr.-Grsh., from the Chingan Mts. in China, has the head orange- 

 yellow, and the basal area of the forewing entirely black; according to Staldinger & Rebel perhaps 

 a separate species. — Larva grey-brown, with dark hairs, white dorsal and dull subdorsal lines. Nuchal 

 shield and anal tergite black, the former divided by a light hne. Until the autumn on low-growing plants; 

 pupa brown, in a brown cocoon, in moss. Moth in March and April, in the mountain regions of Spain. — 

 The wings of the $ frequently distorted and reduced. 



pretiosa. 0. pretiosa Stgr. (= pomona SIgr.) (14 e). Head and thorax with light spots and margins; body in 



both sexes larger than on our figure, which was taken from papered specimens. Wings very like those 

 of the preceding species in colour, the black of the forewing generally divided into more black spots by 

 the more numerous light bands; hindwing more yellowish red. From Amurland. This species is placed 

 in Ocnogyjia by Hampson; but it would perhaps be better placed witii Micrarctia kindermanni, of which 

 it is probably only a form. 



bdlieri. 0. bellieri Led. (16 a). Forewing dirty grey-white or isabella-colour, with four rows of grey-brown 



transverse markings, wliich restrict the ground-colour to a great extent; from the Taurus. — In the form 

 banghaasi. banghaasi Stgr. (14 e), from Akbes in the Southern Taurus, there are dark contiguous transverse stripes 

 before the outer margin of the forewing, and the hindwing is tinged with bright rose-red, especially in the 

 berylta. anal area. — In berytta Stgr. (14 e), from Beirut, the wings of the (J are entirely tinged with reddish 

 brown, and the bands of the forewing are indistinct. The only specimen of the $ of herijtia which is 

 before me, and from which our figure is taken, is very different from the ^ of banghaasi; and the opinion 

 is quite justifiable that bellieri, banghaasi and berytta are three different species. Very little is known 

 about these moths. They would perhaps be better placed with the following genus. 



41. Genus: Cletis Bambr. 

 About a dozen rather closely allied species belong here. Head large, but hidden in the wool of 

 the thorax; frons narrow, but covered with long hair; eyes moderately large; palpi short with dense long 

 bristly hair; tongue aborted. Thorax very broad, tegulae with very long hairs in the (^. Abdomen of ^J 

 slender, slightly flattened, with shaggy hairs, that of the $ stout, covered with almost entirely smooth 

 short hair. Legs smoothly scaled, often with a metallic gloss, hindtibia with 2 pairs of large spurs. Fore- 

 wing more or less yellowish grey, with dark angular spots. Hindwing light red with black median 

 and marginal spots. — Larvae with short black hairs, light dorsal line and small glossy black head 

 with yellowishmarkings. They prefer sandy districts and have only one brood; their area of distribution 

 embraces Europe and North Asia. 



maculosa. C. maculosa Gerning (14 f). Typical South German specimens of this species described from Frank- 



furt a. M., — where it has now almost disappeared — are dull grey-brown with dark spots on collar, 

 thorax, tegulae and forewing. The hindwing is purple-red, lighter in the (J and darker in the $, with 

 flava. black spots, or in rare cases the hindwing yellow (ab. flava Spul.). Transitions, more leather yellow in 

 pallida, colour, are ab. pallida Aign. Typical specimens are onl_v found in Austria-Hungary and in the countries 

 of the lower Danube, besides Southern Germany. But the species varies greatly, if every small difference 

 simplonica. is considered a characteristic of a separate local form. — In Switzerland is found simplonica (14 f), from 

 the higher Alps, which is much darker in the ^ and almost without any red, both sexes being without 

 sirigulosa. a black marginal band on the hindwing. — In strigulosa Hamps. (14 f) the black spots are more numerous 

 in the forewing, especially at the margin, and the hindwing also has strongly developed spots on the disc, 

 dahurica. beside the marginal band composed of larger spots. — dahurica Bdv. {= reticulata Christ.) (14 f), from 

 Turkestan and South Siberia, the increase in the number of black spots on the forewing is more evident 

 on account of the lighter tint of the ground-colour, the wings having a finely recticulate appearance, 

 manner- especially in the $. — mannerheimi Dtip. (= honesta Frr.) (14 g) has the reticulations thicker, as the 

 black spots are smaller; the moth itself is often larger, and the (J has stouter antennae. In the Ural and 

 caccilia. in Anterior Asia. — In caecilia Led. (14 g), a smaller form from Anterior Asia as far as the Altai, trans- 

 itions to which are already found in Eastern Europe, the black spots are deeper black and so enlarged 

 slivnoensis. ^^^^ ^^^Y almost touch in the marginal area. Rebel named such East-European transitional specimens 

 arrago- from Bosnia slivnoensis (16 a). — On the other hand, in the West-European form arragonensis Stgr. (14 g), 

 ncnsis. from Spain, the spots on both wings are reduced, so that there sometimes only remain dots of varying size. 

 latina. — latina Tur. (14 g). from the neighbourhood of Rome, forms a transition io mannerheimi, the ground- 

 colour being mostly lighter than in true maculosa and the spots being intermediate between both forms, 

 but are sometimes reduced nearly as much as in arragonensis. — Lastly, it must be mentioned that the 

 ground-colour, especially that of the forewing, varies in all the forms, and not least in true maculosa, 

 slerlzi. SciiULTZ has given a name to one of these aberrations, calling the light form stertzi. — Larva velvety 

 black, with short hairs and glossy black head, with a yellow clover-leaf shaped spot over the mouth, 



