346 ARCTIOBLEPSIS. By Dr. A. Seitz. 



in the adult denser and more localised. The pupa in an ovate cocoon, which is frequently concealed on 

 the ground or under leaves. The moths fly at night, and rest by day on the underside of leaves, from which 

 they can be beaten. 

 consocia. P. consocia Walk. (= tesselata Moore, princeps Stgr., humeralis Sidnh.) (50 e). Thorax, head and 



forewing apple-green, on thorax often a violet-brown line. Base of forewing with brown spot angulate on the 

 median vein; distal marghi pale yellow for a width of 2 mm.; abdomen and hindwing the same colour. Ex- 

 ceeduigly variable, the distal border now narrower, now broader, uniformly yellow, or dusted with brown, 

 or traversed by brown veins and a brown line in its centre, the proximal edge of the yellow marginal band 

 usually somewhat convex above the hmd angle, but sometimes almost even, or projecting proximad as a tooth 

 below costal margin. — ■ Larva adult yellowish green, with minute paler markings, on the back a sky-blue 

 black-spotted longitudinal band; the dorsolateral tubercles green, those placed above the spiracles with orange- 

 yellow tips, especially prominently yellow on the first thoracical segment. At the hind end 4 deep black spots, 

 2 almost contiguous on segment 12 and the other 2 more separate on 11. On deciduous trees, in South-East 

 Asia, full-fed in June and September, in the North presumably one brood only. The moth in July and Octo- 

 ber, abundant in the South of it area. Apparently distributed throughout China, northward to Amurland, 

 Corea and Japan. 

 pastoralis. P. pastoralis Butl. (50 c). This form appears to represent the preceding one in the western districts. 



The yellow distal border more even and considerably broader; the brown basal spot extends to near the centre 

 of the wing and bears a yolk-yellow suffusion at the base. — ■ Kashmir and the Indian Himalayas. One of the 

 largest Indian species. 



Icpida. P. lepida Cr. {— media Walk., graciosa Westw., latifascia Walk.). In tliis moth the broad distal border 



is proximally quite straight, and the basal spot is marked only below the costal edge, not reaching the hind 

 margin. — Kashmir; widely distributed over British India and Ceylon to the Sunda Islands. The larva, 

 similar in shape to that of P. consocia, is differently coloured according to the food-plant; those feeding on 

 the coffee-plant almost uniformly light green, those on tea more yellowish green, with broad brown- violet 

 dorsal stripe. The yellow eggs are deposited in clusters. 



hilaris. P. hilaris Westw. (= laeta Westw., hockingi Moore, mirza Swinh.) (50 c). Near to the previous, but the 



violet outer border very broad, occupying the whole marginal area, its inner edge curved; the brown basal spot 

 vestigial. ■ — Kashmir, in India common throughout Southern India and Ceylon. T still found a specimen 

 in the Nilgiris at a considerable altitude, at Utacamund. 



sinica. P. sitiica Moore (= hilarula Stgr.) (50 c). Very close to the preceding form, but with distinct basal 



spot, angulate on the median vein, and (in (J) dark brown hindwing. — Larva light green, with numerous 

 yellow transparent granules on which small black spines are placed. These spines occasion a "burning 

 pain on the human skhi which is similar to the pain inflicted by nettles, but much more acute and often 

 lasting for days" (Gr.veser). Korb says on the contrary that the larvae are quite smooth, green, with violet 

 stripss. But as the setiferous tubercles are the places which bear the urticating hairs and Graeser describ- 

 es the effect of the urtication one of the two observers must have made a mistake. — In Amurland and Corea, 

 and in Japan on Hondo and in the Hokkaido, abundant in same places. 

 hilarata. P. hilarata Stgr. (= sinica Stgr.) (50 c). Very similar to the preceding form, but larger, the hind- 



wing of the o palp yellow, slightly brownish at the outer margin, not mouse-grey as in the preceding moth. 

 — Tliis form might be considered a variety (seasonal of the preceding species, if Graeser had not described 

 the larvae as being quite different. The caterpillar of hilarata is light green with blue marking on the 

 back (i. e. more similar to consocia). In the autumn on Oak, Birch, Sloe and other deciduous trees. The moth 

 in July, common, in Amurland, and on Hondo in Japan. 

 inexpeetata. P, inexpectata Stgr. At once distinguished from all the other green Palearctic Parasa by the very, 



narrow brownish distal border of the otherwise entirely green forewing, the border being almost restricted 

 to the fringes. Only the Indian bicolor is similar in colouring, having the forewing entirely green. — In 

 Southern Asia Minor (Akbes). 



14. Genus: Aretioblepsis Feld. 

 Head, thorax and shape of forewing recalling Scopelodes, but the palpi and antennae are absent in the 

 only known specimen on which Felder based this genus. Proboscis of medium length. Forewing elongate, 

 median cell about reaching to middle of costa, subcostal with 5 branches, 1 and 2 thrown off before apex 

 of cell, 3 and 4 on a long stalk banching off far beyond cell; discocellular strongly angulate; the first 

 median branch originating before the middle of forewing. Legs long and thin, clothed with smooth hair- 

 scales; hind tibia with 4 long spurs. Abdomen slender, extending little beyond the hindwing. 



ruUda. A. rubida Feld. This moth, which is unknown to me in nature, is described by Felder from a very 



imperfect specimen from the Ningpo Hills in Tse-king. Antennae and palpi wanting ; the author only says of 

 the moth that it is one-third smaller than Westwood's Scopelodes unicolor, according to which the expanse 

 would be about 30 — 40 mm; the wings are flesh-red, the forewing lighter, with black veins. As he adds 

 that the moth has the facies of a Lithosiid and recalls "5/zo«e" (cf. this vol. p. 61 [Chionaema], pi. II a— c), 

 it remains doubtful, if this species is correctly placed here. The species bears only some similarity to Sco- 

 pelodes of all the genera of this family. But the description of the legs does not give one the impression that 

 the similai-ity is real, since the legs of Scopelodes are very peculiar. 



