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the forewing and the submarginal dentate band the colour is slightly lighter, in the (J usually whitish violet. 

 The dark transverse band of the forewing is always absent. Southern Amurland, Corea and Japan. In Amur- 

 land in June and July. — Larva ^v^th large orange-brown dorsal spots edged with white, and four tufts of hair 

 at each side on segments 4 to 10 respectively, these being still shorter than in potatoria; laterally and ventrally 

 brownish. Habits as in potatoria, likewise the shape and colour of the cocoon. 



C. laeta Walk. (26 g). A very beautiful brightly coloured species (the figure is rather too dark). Base laela. 

 and costal marginal area of the forewing warm yellowish brown, inner margin lighter ochreous, the marginal 

 area lying beyond this blackish transverse band reddish violet, the forewing of the same colour, but more light 

 brownish towards the base than the abdomen. Discalspotof forewing very large and irregularly angulate, touching 

 the small spot, with a dull silvery gloss. Distributed from Eastern Siberia, Corea and Japan to Anterior India 

 and the Sunda Islands. The specimens from India and the Sunda Islands are more unicolorous, and above all 

 do not possess the large deep yellow inner marginal sjiot of the forewing which characterises the East Asiatic 

 ab. sulphurea Auriv., occurring as far as North India. — Larva common in Amurland on Laspedeza bicolor, tiulphurea. 

 in shape and colour similar to that of potatoria, grey, laterally intermixed with yellow and blackish, with broad 

 black dorsal band formed of connected rhomboidal spots. On segment 2 a slightly longer and tliinner tuft of 

 hair beyond a black one; the tuft on segment 11 mixed black and wliite. Short black tufts of bristles on seg- 

 ments 3 to 10. The eggs are glued to the small stalks of the food-plant and hibernate. The young larvae do 

 not appear until the beginning of June, in small clusters of from 10 to 20 specimens, and are full-grown the 

 middle of July. Cocoon yellowish white, somewhat lighter and slenderer than in potatoria. Moth the beginning 

 of August. 



13. Genus: SSeleiiepliera Ramh. 



Antennae scarcely half as long as the forewing, in the ^J with fairly long pectinations, in the $ serrate 

 at the base, then pectinate. Palpi scarcely extending beyond the forehead, with bristly hairs and with stumpy 

 knob-like end-segment. Eyes hairy. Body with long dense hair. Margin of both wings slightly wavy. Forewing 

 triangular with rather sharp rectangular apex, costal margin only slightly curved in the outer half, distal 

 and inner margins moderately curved. Hindwing strongly rounded, with strongly curved distal margin, and the 

 costal margin excurved at the base. Venation similar to that of Cosmotriche, 6 and 7 as well as 9 and 10 

 of the forewing on longer stalks, basal cell of hindwing also large and broad, but without accessory vein, onty 

 from the base of the hindwing an accessory vein to the costal margin. Femora and tibiae also long-haired, 

 tarsi without hair, smoothly scaled. Hindtibiae Math short end-spurs usually concealed in the hair. Only one 

 species. — Egg large, elliptical, bluish green with a dark median spot at each end. Larva with tliin hair like 

 that of Cosmotriche, with long tuft of hair on segments 2 and 11, segments 3 to 10 respectively with three tufts 

 of short black bristles close together on each side, the anterior ones very small, the last four large and 

 broad, on segments 11 and 12 two small similar tufts. Ventro-lateral white hairy spots as in Cosmotriche. 

 Lateral warts absent. Pupa naked, with stumpy anal end, without hooked bristles, in a long-elhptical soft 

 cocoon, intermixed with the hairs of the larva. 



S. lunigera Esp. (= lobulina Frr.) (27 a). Forewing ashy gi'ey, with large half moon-shaped white IwiKjera. 

 discal spots, median area bounded by two black transverse bands, edged with white on the proximal respec- 

 tively outer side, the outer band especially strongly dentate. In the marginal area a black submarginal dentate 

 line. Hindwing dark greyish brown with ill-defined whitish oblique band. Fringes of both %vings white, with 

 black spots at the ends of the veins. From Lapland over Sweden, Russia, Central and South Germany, Bohemia, 

 the Alpine countries to Roumania. ab. lobulina Esp. (= lunigera Frr.) (27 a), the dark form, is entirely lobulina. 

 black without markings except for the lunule and perhaps the light edges to the transverse bands of the 

 forewing. Between these two forms stands intermedia Rhl., in wliich only the median area of the forewing intermedia. 

 is blackened. Larva bluish black, «ath irregular yellow dorsal spots, or bluish grey with red spots (lobulina), 

 dorsal hair black, ventral hair whitish grey, all tufts black; dorsally on the anterior and posterior margin of 

 segment 2, at the extreme anterior margin of 3 and between the tufts of hair on 3 to 1 1 there are also white 

 hairs. The dorsal patches on wliich stand the tufts of bristles are bounded by bright light yellow spots. On 

 firs, more rarely on pines, liibernates when young on a branch (only exceptionally full-grown already in the 

 autumn), in the following year until June. Cocoon dirty grey, pupa yellowish grey. Moth in July and August. 



14. (ieiius: Trabala Walk. 



An essentially tropical genus, distributed from Southern Asia over South-Eastern and Southern Africa 

 to Central America. Antemiae of both sexes with long pectinations, these only slightly shorter in the $ than 

 in the ^. Palpi short, densely and broadly hairy. Eyes naked. Body densely hairy. Abdomen of (^ slender 

 and pointed, of $ with broad thick anal tuft. Margin of both wings wavy, more so in the hindwing, forewing 

 broad, triangular, apex rectangular, slightly rounded, costal margin only curved in the outer half, distal margin 

 also only slightly curved, inner margin more strongly so. Hindwing very broad, rounded, anal angle of (^ much 

 produced backward, hindmargin as long as the abdomen. Foi-ewing with 12 veins; vein 2 originating near the 



