234 AECTIADiE. 



the head retracted; tibia ■witli the spurs short. Fore wing with rein 3 from 

 close to angle of cell ; 4, 5 from angle or 5 above angle ; G from upper augle 

 or stalked with 7 ; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 

 o, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 from above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle or stalked ; 

 8 from middle of cell. 



In one specimen of N. casta, there is a bar between veins 6, 7 of fore wing, 

 and vein 7 of bind wing forks before the apex. 



Sect. I. (Ckelis). Antennae of male bipectinate, with moderate branches. 

 A. Female with the wings aborted, small, 



1656. Phragmatobia zoraida. 



ChcIo7iia zoraida, Grasl. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (2) v. p. 5fil, pi. 17. f. 3 

 (1836) ; Dup. Lep. Fr. Suppl.iii. p. 54, pl.4.f.4; Herr.-Schaff. Schmett. 

 Eur. ii. p. 144, f. 92; Eamb. Cat. L6p. And. ii. p. 257, pi. 4. f. 1; Staud. 

 Cat. p. 59 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 273. 



S . Head black, palpi and sides of frons blackish ; thorax and 

 abdomen blackish, with some brown on edges of tegulte and patagia, on 

 legs and sides and ventral surface of abdomen ; femora crimson above. 

 Fore wing pale reddish brown ; a black spot on base of costa ; two 

 antemedial spots from costa to median nervure sometimes conjoined, 

 and a double spot on vein 1 ; a postmedial triangular spot on costa, 

 sometimes with an excurved line from it to vein 2, and a spot on 

 vein 1 ; a subterminal spot on costa, with two small conjoined spots 

 below its outer extremitj'. Hind wing with a dusky tinge ; a 

 black discoidal point and subterminal points below costa and on 

 veins 5 and 2, 



2 . Fore wing with the black markings reduced; abdomen brown, 

 with dorsal black band and sublateral spots. 



Hab. Spain, Sierra del Alfakar, in Coll. Oberthur. E.q:>., c? 30, 

 5 20 millim. 



Subsp. 1. hcmigeva, Grasl. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (2) viii. p. 402, pi. 10. ff. 9- 

 11 (1850); Herr.-iSchafF. Schmett. Eur. vi. p. 52, ff. 156-157; Staud. Cat. p. 59; 

 Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 273. 



S . Redder brown ; vertex of head brown. 



$ . Fore wing with the antemedial and medial costal patches 

 confluent. 



Eah. Pyrenees, 2 d , 2 2 , Zeller and Frey Colls. 



A hybrid " zoragena " between the two forms has been bred in 

 captivity. 



B. Female with the wings not aborted. 



a. Fore wing with the subterminal line angled inwards at 

 vein 4. 

 a\ Fore wing with a fascia in the submedian fold. 

 a'-. Fore wing with the submedian fascia extending to 

 subterminal line. 

 a^. Fore wing with costal fascia. 



W*. Hind wing crimson or tinged with crimson ; 



abdomen not yellow at extremity maculosa, 



b*. Hind wing grey-brown ; abdomen yellow at 



extremity rupicola. 



