186 



AECTIAD>E. 



1561. Tyria jacobaeae. 



Noctua jacolmw, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 5L1 (1758) ; Esp. Schmett. ir. (1) 

 p. 87, pi. 91. fP. 6-8 ; Curtis, Brit. Ent. v. pi. 499 ; Stepb. III. Brit. Eiit., 

 Haust. ii. p. 90 ; Staud. Cat. p. 56 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 351. 



CaUimorpha senccionis, Godt. Lep. Fr. iv. p. 377, pi. 42. t". 4 (1822). 



Euchelia jacohcBa, ab. Jiavesce7i^, Tbierry Mieg, Le Nat. ser. ii. vol. iii. p. 181 

 (1889). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen black-brown with a slight bluish 

 gloss. Fore wing fuscous ; a crimson subcostal fascia ending in a 

 spot near base on costa and one towards apex just below costa ; a 

 fascia on inner margin from close to base to middle ; terminal spots 

 on veins 6 and 2. Hind wing crimson, 'the costal area and cilia 

 fuscous. 



Fig. 108. — Tyric jacoh<S(e, (^ . |. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the terminal spots conjoined into a band 

 and conjoined to the subcostal fascia. 



Ab. 2. Jlavescens. Tbe crimson replaced by yellow. 



Hah. Europe except Polar region, Norway, Germany, Switzer- 

 land, Zeller and Trey Colls. ; Asia Minor; Armenia ; Altai. Exp. 

 40-48 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 37 ; Barratt, Lep. Brit. ii. p. 248, pi. 69. f. 4. 



Orange ; hairs black, scanty ; each somite with a broad black 

 ring ; head black, tubercle i. anterior, ii. posterior, iii. lateral ; 

 iv. small, stigmatal, posterior ; v. subventral; vi. subventral posterior 

 with two hairs, vii. with four hairs, viii. with one hair. Food- 

 plants, Senecio jacobcea, S. vulyaris, and Tussilago farfara. 



Genus EUCHL^NIDIA, nov. 



Ty E . transcisa. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned to above vertex of head 

 and roughly scaled ; antenna; of female bipectinate, with moderate branches ; 

 tibije with the spurs short ; build slender. Fore wing with vein 3 from well 

 before angle of cell ; 4, 5 from angle ; 6 from upper angle ; 7, 8,9, 10 stalked ; 

 11 from cell. Hind wing with vein 3 from well before angle of cell ; 5 from well 

 above angle ; 6, 7 on a long stalk ; 8 from before middle of cell, which is long. 



1562. Euchlaenidia transcisa. 



FhaochlcBna transcisa, Wlk. ii. 468 (1854) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 291. 



5 . Brown ; 1st joint of palpi, sides of frons, and neck orange ; 

 metathorax with orange patch ; abdomen with lateral and ventral 

 orange stripes. Fore wing yellow-brown, the veins rather paler ; 



