458 ARCTIAD^, 



Genus PARASEMIA. 



Type. 



Parasemia, Hiibn. Verz. p. 81 (1827) plant agom. 



NemeophUa, Steph. III. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 112 (1828) ... plantaginis. 

 Ezipsychoma, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. iv. p. 317 ■plantaginis. 



Proboscis aborted, minute ; palpi porrect to just beyond frons and clothed 

 with rough hair ; head and thorax clothed with rough hair, especially in male ; 

 eyes small ; antennte of male bipectiuate, of female minutely serrate ; tibiae with 

 the spurs long ; abdomen rather slender, dorsally clothed with rough hair at 

 base in male. Fore wing with vein 3 from before angle of cell, 5 from above 

 angle ; 6 from cell or from areole ; 9 from 10 anastomosing witii 8 to forui the 

 areole; 11 free. Hind wing with vein 3 from close to angle of cell; 5 from 

 well above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 from middle of cell. 



2054. Parasemia plantaginis. 



Bomhyx plantaginis, \Jvan. Syst. Nat. i. p. 501 (1758); Esp. Schmett. iii. 

 p. 188, pi. 3(). ff. 1-8; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett. ii. ff. 127. 128; Godt. Lep. Fr. 

 iv. p. 320, pi. 23. ff. 2-4 ; Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 72 ; Staud. 



Cat. p. 56 ; Kirby, Oat. Het. p. 2.50. 

 Bomhyx alpicola, Scop. Ent. Carn. p. 205 (1763). 

 Bombyx hospita, Den. & Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 310(1776) ; Esp. Schmett. iii. 



p. 188. pi. 36. ff. 3, 4; HUbn. Eur. Schmett. ii. f, 126; Streck. Proc. 



Davenp. Soc. ii. p. 272, pi. 9. f. 2. 

 Bombyx matronalis, Freyer, Neu. Beitr. v. p. 37, pi. 405 (1843). 

 Ghelonia caucasica, Herr.-Schafl". Schmett. Eur. ii. p. 147, if. 42—44 (1845). 

 NemeophUa pefrosa, Wlk. iii. 626 (1855) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 251. 

 Lithoda nicticans, Men. Bull. Acad. Pet. xvii. p. 217 (1859) ; id. Schrenck's 



Reisen, Lep. p. 50, pi. 4. f. 4 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 911. 

 Tlatarctia modeda, Pack. Proc. Ent. Soc. Philad, iii. p. 113 (1864) ; Kirby, 



Cat. Het. p. 251. 

 Platarctia scudderii, Pack. Proc. Ent. Soc. Philad. iii. p. 113 (1864); 



Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 251. 

 Eitpsychoma geometrica, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Philad. iv. p. 318, pi. 2. 



f. 1 (1865) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 251 ; Streck. Proc. Davenp. Soc. ii. 



p. 273, pi. 9. f. 3. 

 Nemeophila ccBspitis, Grote & Rob. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. i. p. 337, pi- 6. f. 43 



(1868). 

 Nemeophila cichorii, Grote & Rob. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. i. p. 338, pi. 6. f. 44 



(1868). 

 Nemeophila macroviera, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, p. 5 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 



p. 251. 

 Nemeophila macromera, ab. leucomera, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, p. 5. ' 

 Nemeophila macromera, ab. melanomera, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, p. 5. 

 Nemeophila geddesi, Neum. Papilio, iii. p. 137 (1884); Kirby, Cat. Het. 



p. 251. 

 Nemeophila selwynii, H. Edw. Can. Ent. xvii. p. 65 (1885) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 



p. 251. 

 Nemeophila plantagiiiis, ab. floccosa, Gr^eser, Berl. ent. Zeit. xxxii. p. 115 



(1888). 

 Nemeophila plantaginis, var. syfanica, Grumm-Grschm. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. 



XXV, p. 462 (1891) ; Kirby, Cat, Het. p. 911. 

 Nemeophila plantaginis, ab. melas, Christ, Deutsch. ent. Zeit., Lep. vi. p. 88 



(1893). 

 Nemeophila plantaginis, \a,r.flava, Kilian, Soc. Ent. xii. p. 4 (1897). 



S . Head and thorax black ; palpi orange ; basal joint of antennae 

 orange with yellowish hair ; sides of teguloe orange ; patagia edged 

 with yellowish ; femora striped with orange and fringed with orange 



