132 OCNERIA. By Dr. E. Strakd. 



icrcbynihina. Q. terebytithina Stgr. (22 h), from Mardm in Mesopotamia, is closely allied to the preceding species, 



but the forewing is narrower, more pointed at the apex, size smaller (^ 20 — 31 mm), forewing dark grey 

 with three conspiciunis white spots, the fringes very sharply chequered with light and dark. Hindwing whit- 

 ish grey. The palpi appear to be shorter and slenderer than in terebinthi. 



raddei. 0. raddei Chr. (21 b), from Armenia, is white, with an orange-yellow anal tuft in the $; in both sexes 



the forewing dotted with black, the dots forming an antemedian and a postmedian transverse row, 

 both being slightly curved, and each ending at the costal margin with a larger dot; proximally to the posterior 

 end of the outer transverse row there is an abbreviated similar row parallel with it. Fringes of forewing ^vith dark 

 spots, those of the hindwing without. 13 — 16 mm. Transcaucasia — Staudixgee has described a form from 

 vesialhia. Mardin in Mesopotamia as var. vestalina; this has the forewing almost imicolorous, without dots. 



/lavipalpata. ®* flavipalpata Stgr. (21b). Closely allied to Ocn. raddei, but has the forewing distally much narrower, 



of more uniform ^\idth, etc. Size 38 mm. Colour chalky white; forewing finely irrorated with blackish, with a 

 small black spot at the lower angle of the cell; on the underside dirty yellowish grey. Hindwing, especially 

 in the outer half, very slightly dusted with light gi'ey; beneath only the costal margin is naiTowly yellowish 

 grey. Palpi chrome-yellow, extending beyond the white frons. — Valley of the Jordan. 



signatoria. 0. signatofia Chr. (21 b), from Transcaucasia and Turkestan, is light reddish gi'ey in the $, slightly 



ochreous, ^\ith the indication of a band at the base and two obsolescent transverse stripes, the anterior 

 one of which is curved, the posterior one iindvilating and geminate; the discocellular spot forms a deep 

 black circular ring wliich is prolonged distad into a small streak; in the cell there is a small deep black 

 dot and below the cell in the basal half one or two similar ones. Fringes with the indication of darker spots. 

 o rather darker, more broMiiish than the $. Both sexes with the hindwing unicolorous or only very slightly 

 poenitens. darker distally. — A form from Palestine has been described as poenitens Stgr., which is smaller, lighter 

 yellowish gi'ey and with the markings still more indistinct, and which is perhaps better regarded as a distinct 

 species. 



nibea. 0. rubea (Schiff.) F. (21 c). Reddish or yellowish grey with nan-ow dark submarginal line on both 



wings, darker veins and white discocellular spot narrowly edged with black, j* with or without an antemedian 

 indistinct dark transverse line; the $ often Avith a fairly distinct darker marginal band, reddish on the fore- 

 wing and brownish yellow on the hindwing. Hindwing sometimes a little lighter than the forewing. In Germany 

 ruhrior. the species only occurs in the Rheingau, where it is represented by var. rubrior Fuchs, which is bright red 

 on both sides. Otherwise the species occurs in Spain, Southern France, Italy, Southern TjtoI, Moravia, 

 Lower Austria, Western Hungary, Transsylvania, Dalmatia, and North-Westem Africa. — Larva yellow, 

 slightly brown above, with two blackish stripes ; it hibernates, and lives until May on low oak Imshes hidden 

 in daytime. It changes into a light bro^vn pupa with yellow hair, the moth already emerging in barely a 

 fortnight. 



ledereri. 0.(1) ledereri Mill. (22 h), from Sicily, is said to resemble Dasychira selenitica; antermae strongly 



pectinate, wings with two, only slightly distinct, transverse bands and rather lighter fringes. About 33 mm. 

 According to STAuriNGER?e(7e»-erz is about of the same size and has on the whole the same colouring and mark- 

 ings of the wings as his Ocneria nova; the third transverse line is acutely angled inwards in its lower portion 

 (below median vein 1) as in Oc. nora. The antennae have long pectinations, about as in 0. terebinthi, the palpi 

 are shorter than in 0. nora, abdomeii slenderer than in terebinthi. 



nora. 0. ( ?) nora Stgr. ^ : Forewing smoky bro-woi, sprinkled with yellowish grey scales and bearing three black 



transverse lines and a narrow central lunule. The first transverse line is situated close beyond the base, the 

 second is very distinct and broad, at one-third the length of the wing, and the strongly dentate third 2mm 

 before the distal margin, being very acutely angled inwards in its inner portion and edged with light on 

 the outer side. Underside of forewing rusty brown with blackish costal margin, the median cell being 

 almost entirely filled in with black. Hindwing rusty brown, broadly irrorated with blackish costally almost 

 to the apex, this irroration being particularly distinct on the similarly coloured brown luiderside. 33 or 34 mm. 

 — Marash in the Taurus. 



samarUa. Q. ( ?) saniatita Stgr. (21 c), from Palestine, has in the 9 ashy grey mngs with dark iiToration and 



three black transverse lines ; discocellular spots narrow, obtusely angled, about half moon-shaped, light with 

 black edges; fringes dark with small white checks. Hindwing dirty clay-grey, densely irrorated with blackish, 

 with narrow black outer margin, and lighter indistinctly chequered fringes. Underside of both wings blackish 

 grej^ with a subnnxrginal lighter transverse line (forewing) or transverse band (hindwing). 



