194 MIRINA. By Dr. A. Seitz. 



so that we leave it with Endromis, in order to avoid a radical change in its position, which is outside the scope 

 of this work, while at the same time we emphasize that Mirina cannot naturally be united with any of the 

 families adopted in classification. According to Staudinger there is also no close affinity to exotic genera. 

 The moth is moderately small, strongly hairy, tliinly scaled, the antennae bipectijaate, with rather long pecti- 

 nations in (J and $; head and thorax with woolly hair, patagia with stronger hairs at the edge, legs strong, 

 abdomen in the (^ somewhat stumpy posteriorly, in the $ moderately stout. Wings with entire margins, fore- 

 wLng without produced apex and without curved outer margin, ground-colour light with dark median spot. 

 The larva black when yoimg, with moveable thorns, later on green; the pupa hibernates, producing the moth 

 in the spring. One East-Asiatic species. 



christopM. M. chrlstophi »S/(/r. (35d). Moth almost alike in both sexes, wliitish with grey and golden-brown markings. 



At once recognisable by tlie large dark distally concave cell-spot on tlie forewing, below which there is a gre\ash 

 yellow cloud, and behind which is a tiny black dot. Larva when young black with a dentate brown longi- 

 tudinal lateral mark; the tentacles on the anterior segments nearly attain the length of the body and are 

 slightly curved at the tip; when the larva is at rest reposing curved in a half-circle on the surface of a 

 leaf, the thorns are lying forward flat on the body, but are at once raised when the insect is disturbed, the 

 larva throwing the forepart of its body wildly from side to side. Later on the darker colour disappears, the 

 larva becoming green; at tliis stage it remains concealed in daytime among the foliage. When disturbed 

 long bluish green processes appear laterally above the legs on segments 5 to 9, similar to the fleshy fork 

 of the larvae of Papilio (Gr.4ESEr). Larva from June onward on Lonicera, moth in the spring. In the Ussuri 

 district, Amurland, not rare, as Graeser collected 160 pupae in one year. 



Alphabetical List 



of the Palearctic forms of Endromididae with a reference to the original descriptions. 

 * signifies that the form is also figui'ed at tlie place cited. 



christophi AI. Sigr. Rom. Mem. Lep. 3, p. 312. 

 lappnnioa j;. Bau, Stett. Zg. 1S77, p 152. 

 Tersicolora E. L. Syst. Nat. (X) p. 499. 



