XrCOPHOTlA. — ADITA. 



579 



Ab. 1. flavomaculata. Fore wing bluish green ; hind wing much 

 darker. — Mongolia ; Amurland ; Japan. 



Hah. Britain, Leech Coll. ; France ; Geriiany, Zeller Coll. ; 

 Switzerland, Frej- Coll. ; Scandinavia ; Russia, Livonia ; Mongolia, 

 Changai Mts. ; Amurland; Japan, Oiwake (Prt/er), 1 c5" , 2 $. 

 Exj}. 40-48 millim. 



L(mr(. Meyr. Erit. Lep. p. 93 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iii. p. .3(i7, pi. 132. f. 3. 



Pale brown to ferruginous ochreous, sides greenish or pale grey ; 

 dorsal line grey-white, developed into a series of confluent spots 

 edged with dark spots : subdorsal line whitish, dark-edged ; 

 spiracular line whitish ; head pale brownish, Avith indistinct dark 



markings. Food-plants : Saliv, Artemisia, grasses, &c 



5-6. 



Genus ADITA. 

 Adita, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 63 (1874). 



Type 

 chionanthi. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi short, upturned, the 2nd joiut ronghly 

 scaled; eyes large, round, .smooth, not ciliated; frons and vertex of bead with 

 ridges of scales ; auteuna? of male bipectinate to apex, with moderate brauches 

 dilated at extremity ; thorax quadrately scaled, the tegulas with slight dorsal 

 ridge; fore tibiai with long curved claw on inner side; mid and hind tibiaj 

 spined. Fore wing with veins 3 and 5 from close to angle of cell ; 6 from 

 upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. 

 Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of 

 discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle. 



1012. Adita chionanthi. 



Phalana chionanthi, Abbot & Snu'th, Ins. Georgia, ii. p. 195, pi. 98 (1797) ; 

 Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 158. 



6 . Head and thorax grey-white mixed with blackish scales, the 

 tegulce in front and behind and patagia banded with black: abdomen 

 grey irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing grey suffused with fuscous ; 

 a subbasal black line from costa to vein 1 ; an antemedial black 



Fig. 9.3. — Adif a chionanthi, cj. }. 



line oblique from costa to median nervure, then erect, and with the 

 small black-edged claviform on its outer edge ; the orbicular and 

 reniform with brownish centres, white annuli, and black outlines, 

 the former round, the latter large, and with black strigaj from 

 costa above each ; the postmcdial black line oblique from costa to 

 vein 6, slightly angled inwards at discal fold, at vein 4 recurved to 

 near origin of vein 2, then sinuous; the subtcrmiual line irregularly 



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