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whitish at the base and below iii the centre; mid and limd tibiae broadly suffused with white in the middle, 

 otherwise brown. • — Only from Corfu. 



Ch. lanipes Led. Resembling doleriformis in the tibiae being clothed with thick furry hair; the tibiae lanipea. 

 are, however, not orange yellow but white, and bear a blackish ring at base and apex. Tarsi brownish with 

 lighter rings. Forewing blackish brown, and, with the exception of the median band, du.sted with whitish 

 speckles. Outer area with four or five small whitish spots. Outer vitreous area traversed by four veins, the 

 upper and lower ones of which touch the ground-colour. The dense scaling of the cross-vein of the hindwing 

 only extends to vein 5. Antennae blackish brown, in the ^ stout and with rather long cilia. Thorax clothed 

 with whitish grey hair, with light inner edges to the patagia; abdomen dull blackish brown, segments 2, 4 

 and 6 edged wit4i white posteriorly; the other segments with narrow obsolescent yellowish brown hind edges. 

 Anal tuft blackish brown, whitish below and at the sides. Distinguishable from colpiformis by the hmd tibia 

 being clothed with furry hair, by the yellowish brown edges of segments 3, 5 and 7 and the anal tuft having 

 no light stripes in the middle. According to Rebel allied to bibioniformis, but differing especially m the hind 

 tarsus being much less spiny, and ua the habs of the hind tibia more tufted. — From Eastern Roumelia 

 (m the higher ranges of the Balkan Mts.). 



Ch. pernix Leech (51 k). Forewing reddish brown, lighter and semitransparent towards the dise pernix. 

 and at the base; outer vitreous area not present. Hmdwmg transparent with the outer margm and fringes 

 dark. Head black, palpi and collar light yellow. Antennae with reddish apex. Thorax and abdomen black, 

 the latter with two narrow light yellow belts near the anal tuft and two broader belts, one of these towards 

 the centre, the other at the base of the abdomen. Anal tuft apically variegated with white. Legs black with 

 slight pale markings. Underside of forewing lighter than the upper. — Japan (Shimonoseki, July; Oiwake, 

 June). Leech placed the species into the genus Bembecia Hbn. 



Ch. leucopsiformis Esp. (51 k). With a conspicuous yellowish dorsal line of spots and with a white leucopsi- 

 posterior edge otily to the fourth segment. Patagia broadly yellowish on the inner side; a narrow median /<""'"*«• 

 thoracical line present. Frons dark, without white borders to the eyes. Palpi white with darker end-segment. 

 Antennae blackish broAvn, yellowish on the outer side, in the ^ strongly dentate and ciliate. The white hind 

 margin of segment 4 somewhat broader laterally and extending on to the edges of the other segments. Ventral 

 side also with an indistinct yellow line of spots. Anal tuft of cJ narrowly striped wdth yellow in the middle 

 and at the sides, median tuft whitish below laterally; that of the $ black-brown slightly variegated with whit- 

 ish, with two whitish lateral stripes below. Fore coxae white, dark on the inner side, legs brownish black, 

 tibiae of the last two pairs white on the outside. Wedge-shaped patch vestigial in the $, longitudinal patch 

 only present m the (J ; outer vitreous area consisting of three small spots, more rarely of five, onethird broader 

 than it is high. Outer area usually with yellowish white, rather conspicuous streaks. The $ is much darker 

 than the ^. From Germany, Neuchatel, Aargau (Switzerland), the Tyrol, Bohemia, Lower Austria, Hungary, 

 Galicia, Bulgaria, Roumania and Tuscany; always very local and rather rare. — Larva cylmdrical with the 

 thoracical segments rather swollen, ivory white, with a dark dorsal vessel shming through and minute hair.s 

 on the small dark warts. Head reddish browm with small lighter bristles; nuchal plate light brown. The teeth 

 at the inner side of the mandibles rounded and standing nearer the apex. Annual, hibernates when young 

 and lives until the end of July or beginnmg of September in the roots of a Euphorbiaceae (Tithymalus cypa- 

 rissias), only on sandy soil, makes a sUk-lmed tubular tunnel of wood-mould along the root and up to the 

 surface of the earth; it pupates in this tunnel or in the top of the root, the pupa being yellowish brown and 

 lying very near the surface of the ground. The moth flies at the end of August and in September, the species 

 bemg the latest of those mhabiting Central Europe; often obtained mth the sweeping net off Euphorbiaceae 

 in the evening. 



Ch. crassicornis spec. nov. (50 m). While leucopsiformis appears from the end of August to Septem- cra^sicomis. 

 ber, I found a closely allied species at Uralsk from the begmning to the end of July 1907 which differs from 

 it in the following particulars: Outer area of forewing longer, consisting of 3 spots; cross- vein of hindwing 

 more densely scaled. Antennae of ^ with decidedly longer cilia, lighter brown above, m the $ yellowish brown 

 with a tuft of whitish bristles at the apex ; those of the (J are longer in comparison with those of leucopsiformis, 

 extending beyond the median band. Palpi similar to those of leucopsiformis, but the hair shaggy in the ^, 

 and in the $ thicker than in the 9 of the preceding species. The colour of the scaled patches and of the body 

 is lighter brown; the abdomen especially is strongly variegated with whitish and yellowish specks; it bears 

 a vestigial white hind edge on segment 6 and similar traces on other segments. Anal tuft quite light yello^vish 

 below m the centre. Anterior coxae entirely aenescent, or also white on the outer side. The wedge-shaped 

 patch of the forewing is longer iu the 9 than ui the leucopsiformis 9- The outer area always ■with distinl 

 whitish yellow streaks. Usually another small vestigial transparent spot above the outer vitreous patch. 



Ch. armeniaca Bartel (50 1). An exceedingly slender species, with very narrow, long and pointed armeniaca. 

 forewuig, resembling leucopsiformis Esp. m the light dorsal line of spots, but not related to it. Its proper 

 place in classification is near triannuliformisFrr., this bemg indicated especially by the white anterior borders 

 to the eyes, the shape of the anal tuft, and the antennae, which are dark on the outside, etc. The differences 



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