MERISTIS. — TRICHOCOSMIA. 



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brown. Hind wing whitish ochreous suffused with brown except 

 on costal area; cilia whitish at tips : the underside with the costal 

 area irrorat-ed with brown, a discoidal point, slight bar from middle 

 of costa, and subterminal line from costa to vein 6. 



Fig. 46. — Meristis trigrammica, J. {. 



Ab. 1. bilinea. Fore wing suffused with brown, the medial line 

 hardly traceable. 



Ab. 2. fringsi. Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines 

 absent, the medial line present. 



Hah. Britain, Leech Coll.; France; Holland, Zeller Coll.; 

 Germany, Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls.; Austria, Frey Coll.; 

 Hungary; Switzerland; Italy; Dalmatia, Leech Coll.; Balkan 

 States; S.Scandinavia; Hussia, Livonia ; Armenia; Asia Minor, 

 Pontus. Exp. 32-40 ruillim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 123 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. v. p. 297, pi. 222. f. 1. 



Greyish ochreous, dull reddish brown or dark grey ; dorsal line 

 pale, black-edged at excisions ; subdorsal line pale, interrupted, 

 sometimes edged with blackish marks above; spiracular line 

 brown ; head brown. Food-plant : Plantago, subterranean in 

 habit. 7-4. 



Genus TRICHOCOSMIA. 



Trichocosmia , Grote, Can. Bnt. xv. p. 6 (1883) 



Type. 



inoi nattt . 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint not 

 reaching middle of frons and moderately fringed with scales in front, the 3rd 

 short; frons with slight rounded prominence with corneous plate below it ; 

 eyes large, round ; antenna? of male ciliated ; thorax clothed with hair and 

 scales mixed, the prothorax without crest, the metathorax with spreading 

 crest; tibias slightly fringed with hair; abdomen with dorsal crest at base 

 only. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not 

 crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 

 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with 

 veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 

 6, 7 shortly stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



44'. >7. Trichocosmia inornata. 



Trichocosmia ivornata, Grote, Can. Ent. xv. p. 6 (1883); Smith, Cat. Noct. 

 N. Am. p. 210. 



Head and thorax white tinged with rufous ; abdomen white, the 

 basal crest tipped with rufous. Fore wing white tinged with 

 rufous ; antemedial line indistinct, rufous, slightly defined by 

 whitish on inner side, erect, waved, with minute black points on 



