OKIA. XYLOSTOLA. 



335 



marks, smaller above. Hind wing white, the veins tinged with 

 ochreous. 



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Fig. 150. — Oria musculosa, ^ . \. 



Hah. Bbeeaut, Leech Coll. ; France, Sand Coll. ; Denmark ; 

 (iKKMANY.Zellerand Leech Colls.: At/stela: Hunsabt; Switzerland: 

 Spain ; Italy. Capri \ C. S. Browne) : Sicily. Zeller Coll, ; Palmatia ; 

 Greece; Algeria: Caxaeies: Cxfrtts (Miss Bate), 3 ': Armenia: 

 Asia 3Iinor; Syeia. 2 tf ; Persia. Shahkuh (Christoph), 1 5 • 

 Exp. 28-38 millim. 



Luna. Kirby. Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 164. 



Pale greenish with four dark lines becoming blackish dots at 

 hinder extremity of each segment. Food-plant, in stalks of Eye. 



4772. Oria flavescens. (Plate CXL1V. rig. 27 

 Sesamia jlavescens, Hnipsn. Aim. S. At'r. Mus. ii. p. 298 1902 . 



2 . Head and thorax white tinged with ochreous. the patagia 

 slightly with pink: palpi and legs more ochreous ; abdomen white 

 tinged with brownish ochreous. Fore wing pale yellow, the costal 

 area faintly tinged with pink, the costal edge white; the median 

 nervure. base of veins arising fiom it and medial part of vein I 

 streaked with whitish and irrorated with a few dark scales ; tl 

 of an obliquely curved postmedial series of dark points on veins 6 

 to 1 ; cilia whitish. Hind wing white faintly tinged with brown 

 and the terminal area with yellow : the underside pale yellow with 

 slight brown irroration. 



Bab. C. Colony. Annshaw (Miss F. Barrett), 1 J type. Exp. 

 26 millim. 



Genus XYLOSTOLA, nov. 



Type, X. indistincta. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to about 

 vertex of head and broadly fringed w ith scales in front, the 3rd long; frone 

 with small rounded prominence covered by a tuft o\' hair ; eyes large, round: 

 antnnnse of male ciliated: thorax clothed with hair and hair-like scales, and 

 without crests ; tibiae fringed with rather long hair; abdomen with some rough 

 hair at base but without crests. Fore wing with t lie apex rather produced and 

 acute, the termen evenly curved and hardly 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 reins 3, 4 from angle of cell: 5 obso- 

 lescent from just below middle of discocellulars . 6. 7 from upper angle ; 

 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



