018 NocTiriD^. 



NAViA ; Russia, Livonia, Urals ; Armenia ; C. Asia, Kuldja, 1 d" > 

 1 2 'i Liberia ; Amur ; Japan, Oiwake {Pryer), 2 5 . Exp. 46-54 

 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 108; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 104, pi. 149. f. 1. 



Violet-brown, with double series of darker blotches above ; dorsal 

 line pale ; spiracular line pale, dark-edged above ; head pale 

 reddish brown, with dark markings. Food-plants : Rumex, birch, 

 Ruhns, etc. 



1070. Eurois virens. 



Envois virens, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) i. p. 194 (1878) ; id. El, Het. iii. pi. 45. 

 f. 5 ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 1^31 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 153. 



Head, tegulte, and patagia bright yellow-green ; palpi black at 

 sides, pale at tips ; antennae black, tegnlae tipped with black and 

 white, patagia edged with black and white above ; thorax rnfous. 

 the scales tipped with grey ; pectus and abdomen blue-grey ; legs 

 black, the fore tibia) rufous, the tarsi with pale rings. Fore wing 

 slate-grey, the costal area and streaks in the interspaces bright 

 yellow-green, the terminal area with the streaks less developed or 

 absent ; a double black subbasal line tilled in Avith green from costa 

 to submedian fold ; a similar autemedial line angled outwards below 

 costa and in submedian fold and more strongly above inner margin ; 

 orbicular and reniform large, with slate-coloured centres defined by 

 black and purple-red and pale annuli defined by black, the former 

 somewhat oblique, oblong ; the postmedial line double, dentate, 

 black filled in with green, bent outwards below costa and incurved 

 below vein 4 ; the subterminal line represented by a series of green 

 and black dentate marks, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved 

 at middle, with stronger dentate black marks on its inner side 

 below costa and above veins 5 and 4 ; a terminal series of small 

 black lunules. Hind wing black-brown, the basal two-thirds 

 suffused with blue-grey : the cilia pure white. 



Hah. Amtjrland, Ussuri; Japan, Yczo {Fryer), 1 J , 1 $ , Hakodate 

 {Wliitehj), 1 (S type; Coeea, Gensan (LeecJi), 1 (S ; W. China, 

 Chang-yang (Pratt), 1 c?, 1 5 ; N.W. Himalayas, Thundiani 

 (Yerbury), 1 (5", Simla {Harford), 1 c5" , Dalhousie, 1 $, Dharmsala 

 (HocUny), 1 c? , 2 $ . Exp. 70 millim. 



Subsp. 1. magnifica, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 127 (1882). 



Fore wing with the inner area and termen suffused with blood-red. 



Hah. SiKHiM {Pilclier), 1 c? , 2 $ , type. 



Genus N^NIA. 



Type. 



Nania, Steph. 111. Brit. Eiit., Haust. ii. p. 165 (1829) typica. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi uptui-ued, the 2nd joiut fringed with hair 

 in front, produced to a long point at extremity, the 3rd long, naked ; frons with 

 tuft of hair; eyes large, rounded; antenna? of male ciliated; head and thorax 

 clothed with hair and scales, the pro- and metathorax with large spreading 

 crests ; fore tibiaj fringed with hair ; mid and hind tibiaj spined ; abdomen 

 dorsally flattened, clothed with rough hair at base of dorsum and with lateral 



