Hab. Austria ; Hungary, Zeller, Frey, and 

 ? IS". Italy ; ? Russia, Urals. Exp. 34-42 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 185; Hffm. Raup. 



Green with fuscous dorsal stripes ; head brown, 

 Populus alba. 7-8. 



241 



Leech Colls. ; 



p. 115. 

 Food-plant: 



Genus DERRIMA. 



Type. 



Derrima, Wlk. xii. 770 (1857) stellata. 



Philomma, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. iii. p. 2 (1864) stellata. 



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

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

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

 eyes large, round ; antennae of male serrate ; thorax clothed with hair over- 

 lying scales and without crests ; tibiae moderately fringed with hair, the fore 

 tibia; with long curved claw on inner side and two claws on outer ; abdomen 

 without crests. Fore wing short and broad, 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 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base 

 only. 



4618. Derrima stellata. 



Derrima stellata, Wlk. xii. 770 (1857). 



l'ldlomma henrietta, Grote.. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. iii. p. 3, pi. 2. f. 1 (1864) ; 

 Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 271. 



{henrietta). Head and thorax bright crimson-pink, the meta- 

 thorax yellowish, the antennae whitish tinged with crimson, the 

 pectus ochreous except in front, the legs crimson ; abdomen 

 ochreous tinged with crimson. Fore wing olive-yellow, the costal 

 and terminal areas broadly bright crimson-pink ; an antemedial 



Fig. 97. — Derrima stellata, $ . \. 



round silvery white spot below the cell defined by black and ringed 

 with crimson and a similar discoidal spot ; postraedial line repre- 

 sented by a series of white poiuts on inner edge of the pink 

 terminal area, excurved from costa to vein 6, then oblique. Hind 

 wing ochreous yellow. Underside of fore wing with the disk 

 suffused with fuscous brown ; hind wing with the costa suffused 

 with pink. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the ocellate spot below the cell centred 

 with grey. 



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