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Alphabetical List of the Palearctic Cossida«. 



belts of hooks on the abdomen and a hook-like process on the head. The moth appears ui June and rests closely 

 appressed agamst the reed, so that it can hardly be distinguished except when it settles on a green stalk, as 

 it sometimes does, in which case it is visible from a long distance. When the insect is at rest the abdomen protrud- 

 es far from the clo.selj^ folded wings. In boggy districts, also at rivers, but not everywhere, and absent from 

 large districts. The body of the moth is best emptied before the insect is set, as it otherwise gets greasy very easily. 

 Certamly black pins should be used to avoid the development of verdigris which would ultimately burst the 

 thorax. Small specimens, minor Moore {= pygmaea Graes., minima Hamps.), occur especially hi Eastern Asia, 

 but also in Europe ; these are very pale m colour, almost like territa, and without dark specks on the forewmg. 

 — Inversely, also more densely dusted and smaller specimens are known from the Ussuri, with dull grey 

 and somewhat narrower forewings. Perhaps the next msect belongs here. 



furia. 



territa. 



P. furia Gr.-Grsh. Shape and size of castaneae; but fore^\•mg dusted with dark ashy grey nearlj' to the 

 outer margins, so that a narrow edge of the latter is ivory. — From the Pamir. 



P. territa Stgr. (54 h). Like the preceding, but the forewing a clearer ivory or light straw-yellow, not 



dusted with grey; forewing narrower at the base, hmdwing more elongate, with the anal angle effaced. — 



At the Black Sea and ui Turkestan. According to a verbal communication of Herrn M. Bartel also m South 



Russia near Saratow and at the salt sea of Indcrsk. A smaller, slenderer, and somewhat lighter form of this 



Iramcas- insect also occurs, which I caught in June at Shanghai, resting on blades of grass ; this is transcaspica Gr.-Grsh 

 pica. 



oboroicskii. P. roborowsltii Alph. (52 i). Size and shape as in territa, but the forewing darker, more ochreous, although 



not so much so as in our rather too golden yellow figure. Huidwmg white, brownish white at the anal margui. 



— From the desert of Gobi in Eastern Asia. 



reticulata. P. reticulata Piliuf. (52 h). We give an exact figure of the type, which Herr Pungeler was good enough 



to lend me for the jjurpose. Size, colour and markings are just as in our figure, also the peculiarities of the shape, 

 in which the species differs iTomothev Phragmntaecia, viz. the develoj^ed palpi, the much stouter thorax, the 

 broad foi'ewing recalling Cossus, the much larger, not elongate hindwmg and the shorter abdomen. The hairs 

 are also more rough, \Aoolly, not so smooth as in other Phragmataecia. The head is more hidden beneath the 

 much shorter prothorax. In the hindwuig the submedian and the hmd-marginal veins are more strong]}' curved. 

 From Merv. — This insect unites generic characters of the most different Cossid-genera, and should be separated 

 as a distinct genus, if it does not belong to the Indian genus of Argyrophleps Hamps. 



Alphnbotical List 



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

 * signifies that the form is figured at the place quoted. 



avrunyctoides Coss. Moore Prou. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1879. 



p. 111. * 

 aculeata Dy,sp. Tim/ii, Natural. Sicil. 1909, p. 121.* 

 aethiops Styg. Stgr. Stett. Zg. 1887, p. 91. 

 a^ilis Dysp. Clirist. Rom. M(^m. L6p. 1, p. 113. * 

 ahntreri Styg. Gr.-Grsh. Abu. Mu.s. P(St. VII, p. 203. 

 albida Hole. Seilz, iSIaciolep. 2, p. 421. * 

 alboniibilus Cat. Graes. Berl. Ent. Zcit.schr. 1888, p. 119. 

 al^eriensis Dysp. Ramh. Cat. Aiulahis. p. 331. 

 alpherakyi Dy.sp. Stgr. Rom. M6m. L6p. 2, p. 3. * 

 araraticus Coss. Telcli, Stett. Zg. 1896, p. 28. 

 areiiicdla Hole. Styr. Stett. Zg. 40, p. 317. 

 ar^ai^eiisis Dy.sp. Hrhrl, Ann. Wien. Hofmus. 20, p. 205. 

 argentatiis Cossulinus, Stgr. Stett. Zg. 1887, p. 90. 

 aries Coss. Piing. Iiis 15, p. 145. * 

 aseina Dysp. Pilng. Iris 12, p. 288. * 

 australis Styg. Latr. Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. 21, p. 2(52. 



balcanicus Coss. Led. Wien. Ent. Mon. 7, p. 22. * 

 bohatschi Coss. PUyig. Soe. Entom. 13, p. 57. 

 bucharana Dysp. Bang-H. Iris 24, p. 51. 



cacstruin Hyp. Hbn. Smlg. Eur. Sehmett. Bomb. * 

 raiupicola Hole. Ev. Bull. Mose. 1854 (III), p. 181. 

 castaiioae Phr. Hbn. Beytr. Sehmett. 2. * 

 caucasicum Hyp. Gr.-Gr»h. Ann. Mus. Petersb. 1902, p. 202. 

 clathrata Dysp. C/tm/. Rom. M6ni. L6p. 1, p. 114. » 

 ROlohica Styg. H.-Sctiaff. Em-. Sehmett. H. * 



colossus Coss. Stgr. Stett. Zg. 48, p. SO. 

 consobrinus Hole. Piing. Soc. Entom. 13, ]t. 57. 

 cossoides Dysp. Graes. Berl. Ent. Zeitsehr. 1892, p. 300. 

 cossus Coss. L. Syst. Nat. 1, p. 504. 



dercetis Styg. Gr.-Grsh. Ann. Mus. Petersb. 4, p. 409. 

 deserta Hyp. Fiscli.-Wald. Nouv. M(Sm. Mose. 1832, p. 358. 

 drangiaiiicus Hole. Gr.-Grsh. Ann. Mus. Petersb. 1902, p. 201. 



einilia Dysp. Ev. Hor. Ent. Ross. 14, p. 317. 



faroulti Hole. Oberth. tt. L^p. Comp. V. * 



tereiduii Coss. Gr.-Grsh. Hor. Ent. Ross. 29, p. 291. 



funkei Coss. Rob. Entom. Nachr. 22, p. 3. 



luria Phr. Gr.-Grsli. Rom. M6m. L6p. 4, p. 542. * 



tuscula Dysp. Stgr. Iris 5, p. 283. * 



gloriosus Hole. Ersch. Fedtseh. Reise Turk. Lep. p. 35. ■ 

 gracilis Hole. Christ. Rom. M^m. L6p. 3, p. 59. * 



henleyi Par. Roths. Nov. Zool. 1905, p. 23. * 



herzi Hyp. Alph. Iris 6, p. 346. 



holospriceus Hole. Stgr. Rom. M6m. Up. 1, p. 149. * 



hyroanus Coss. Christ. Hor. Ent. Ross. 22, p. 309. 



iiifuscata Dysp. Stgr. Iris 5, p. 284. 



Inspersus Hole. Clirist. Stett. Ent. Zg. 1887, p. 103. 



insularis Hole. Stgr. Rom. M6m. L6p. 6, p. 292. 



