158 LEPIDOPTERA. 



but is found throughout Central Europe, and in Piedmont 

 and Sweden. 



2. P. nubeculosa, ^sp. ; Asteroscopus nubeculosus 



Staud. Oat. — Expanse If to 2 inches. Thorax densely furry ; 

 fore wings dark grey or reddish-grey, with black streaks and 

 nervures, and a large pale discal spot; hind wings pale grey 

 with brown-dotted margin. 



Antennae rather long, pectinated in the male with short, 

 stout, knobbed teeth, the rows placed widely apart and almost 

 opposite ; dark brown, back of shaft silvery white ; face pale 

 grey ; head dark grey, scales erect ; thorax broad and squared, 

 densely covered with fur-like, long, raised scales, mixed black 

 and grey ; the shoulder lappets uplifted and very large. 

 Abdomen rather tapering, covered with downy red-brown or 

 grey scales, which form a broad ridge down each side, and a 

 rather flat anal tuft. Fore wings long, with the costa very 

 gently curved, apex rounded; hind margin oblique, very 

 gently rounded ; dorsal margin long, rather curved, fringed 

 before the middle with long projecting scales. Ground 

 colour reddish-white or greyish-white, greatly obscured with 

 smoky black clouding and black markings; base cloudy, 

 brown and blackish ; first line black, but only as a succession 

 of small clouds, blackest on the nervures ; across this runs a 

 lono- black streak from the base, which bends back and forms 

 a lonfT tooth-shaped marking below the median nervnre ; 

 second line far beyond the middle, thick, curved, black, much 

 indented and broken, edged with whitish ; between these 

 lines the nervures are black, there is also much black clouding, 

 and on the outside edge of the discal cell a large rhomboidal 

 or kidney-shaped whitish spot, encircled with black ; a small 

 rounder spot in a black ring lying just before it ; beyond the 

 second line is a deep black costal blotch before the apex, and 

 from it a series of black cloudy blotches parallel with the 

 hind margin and massing into a considerable blotch within 

 the anal angle ; along the hind margin is a series of black 



