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thorax unci terminal part of abdomen dorsally blackish ; femora 

 above and ventral surface of abdomen yellowish. Fore wing with 

 black antemedial, medial, postraedial, and subtcrminal spots on costa; 

 antemedial black points on median norvure and vein 1 ; a medial 

 point on vein 1 ; two discoidal points, a postmedial point on vein 1, 

 and subterminal points below veins 7, 6, 3, and 1 ; a series of points 

 on the cilia. Hind wing with obscure discoidal and some subterminal 

 spots. 



Hab. E. Europe, Hungary, 3 d , 3 $ , Zeller & Frey Colls., Dalmatia, 

 Greece. Ki^i. 30-34 millim. 



1806. Diacrisia mendica. 



Bomhi/x mendica, Clerck, Icones, pi. o. i'. 5 (17.'39) ; Linn. Faun. Suec-. 



p. 25'J ; Mar.-ih. Trans. Linn. Soc. i. p. 72, pi. i. f. 3; Esp. Sclimett. iii. 



(2) p. 218, pi. 42 ; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett. ff. 148, 149 ; Godt. Lcp. Fr. iv. 



p. 3o6, pi. '61. ff. 1, 2; Stepli. 111. iJrit. Eat., Haiist. ii. p. 78; Stand. 



Cat. p. 59 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 225. 

 Bomhi/.v liihricipeda, Poda, Mus. Grajc. p. 87 (1761), nee Linn. 

 Bombyx tnurina, Hiifn. Berl. Mag. ii. (4) p. 424 (1766). 

 FJialana punctata, Fourcr. Ent. Paris, ii. p. 270 (1785). 

 Bomhjj.v rustica, Iliibn. Beitr. Schmett. ii. (3) p. 64, pi. 2, H (1827) ; id. 



Eur. Schmett. f. 150. 



cJ . Grey- brown; palpi and antenna) blackish ; legs orange-j-ellow 

 striped with black; fore femora clothed with orange hair, tlie mid 

 and hind femora with whitish hair; abdomen with slight dorsal. 

 lateral, and sublateral series of black points, the anal tuft yellowish, 

 the ventral surface whitish. Fore wing with antemedial bhxck point on 

 median nervure, medial and postmedial points above vein 1, a point 

 at lower angle of cell. Hind wing with discoidal point ; three sub- 

 terminal points towards costa and one below vein 2. 



2 . Ground-colour pure white ; wings ftiorc thinly scaled ; fore 

 wing with more or less developed point in upper angle of cell, and 

 often one or two additional points on costa. , 



Ab. 1. rustica. Male white like the female. 



Ab. 2. 5 . Wings more or less streaked and blotched with fus- 

 cous, the terminal area sometimes sutfused with fuscous. 



Jfah. EuROPK except Arctic region, Germany, Zeller & Frey Colls., 

 Ky eves (y^^crbur)/); Bitiiynia ; Altai. Exp., J 36, § 40 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lap. p. 40 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. ii. pi. 75. f. 2. 



Grey ; tubercles reddish ; hairs reddish brown ; head reddish 

 brown. Food-plants: 2tuiiieu\ Mi/osotis, I'lauf(!(/o, etc. 7-9. 



1807. Diacrisia sikkimeusis. 



Eitchcefcs sik/dmcn si-it, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 39, pi. 2. f. 12 (1879) ; Hmpsu. 

 Motbs Ind. ii. p. 14 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 237. 



cJ . Grey-brown ; palpi and antenntc blackish; neck with crimson 

 patches; legs bLickish ; abdomen crimson above except at base and 

 extremity, dorsal, lateral, and sublateral serii's of black spots. Fore 

 wing with the veins pale ; an obscure pale band from origin of 

 vein 2 to inner margin. Hind wing fuscous black. 



