Ill Korrcin.i:. 



a clifVtified brown sultterniinal liaiul : rilia intersected witli lirnwn 

 towards aju'x : \hv undorhidt' with slight discoidal spot and distinct 

 diffiisod i»ost medial litif. 



I/ii/i. AisTHiA, (Jalicia ; HrNoAUY, Zelkr, Frey, and Leech Colls. ; 

 S. HissiA : Ti'BKKY. Kvj). 24-',i2 mWWra. 



Liirvtt. Kirbv, Unit. A; Moths Knr. p. l.V> ; llfrm. Rnup. p. 74, pi. 21. 

 f. 18. ■ 



iJiack with liairy wnrts and two dorsal white line.s; the sides 

 whitf spot trd with black and with yellow lateral line: sepniiiital 

 incisions lioidcred with reddish vellow. Food-plaut, L'maria 

 vulgaris. G-8, 



2213. Oxicesta chamcenices. 



liomhyx sericina , Iliibn. Eur. Scliinett., Bomb. f. 2.^9(18*27); iiec id. Ecitr.ii. 

 Koctua cha7ii(Tnices, Herr.-Scliaff. Eur. Schniett., Noct. f. o<)8 (184.')). 

 Colocasia cfiamcpsi/ces, Guen. Noct. i. p. 4U(1852); Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. 

 p. 134. 



Head and thorax yellowi.^h white tinged with rufous in parts, the 

 upper half of patagia and dorsum of thorax deep red-brown ; 

 abdomen dark brown with some whitish hair and slight pale 

 segmental lines. Fore wing ycllo\\ish white almost whoUy suffused 

 with dark red-brown ; subbasal line represented by slight dark spots- 

 Itclow costa and cell defined by whitish on outer side; antemedial 

 line dark brown, rather diffused, defined by whitish on inner side, 

 obliijue from eosta to submedian fold, then outwardly oblique ; 

 postmedial line double except below submedian fold, dark brown 

 tilled in with whitish, obli(|ue from costa to discal fold, then 

 minutely dentate, angled outwards at vein 4 and inwards in sub- 

 median fold, then outwardly oblique to inner margin, the white 

 before it diffused inwards in submedian fold to antemedial line; 

 the terminal area with more or less prominent whitish streaks on 

 each side of the veins, forming V-shaped marks below veins 8, 7, 

 and 4 ; cilia more or less prominently chequered whitish and brown. 

 Hind wing uniform dark brown ; the cilia whitish at tips ; the 

 underside with the medial pait of costal area and termen whitish 

 with diffused dark postmedial band from costa to lower angle of 

 cell, the inner edge of terminal band dentate. 



Jluh. 8. Fkaxck, Zcller, D'Emmicli, and Leech Colls. ; Spaix, 

 Catalonia, Murcia, Aragon ; X. Italy. Krj). 24-28 millim. 



lAii-va. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 155 ; Ilflin. Ruip. p. 74. 



Gregarious. Food-plants : Euphorbia characias, nicoiccsis, and 

 chamnsi/ce. 



Genus PSEUDANTH(ECIA. 



Type. 



Pseudanthacia, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. See. x. p. 213 (1883) tuiuida. 



Proboscis fully {leveio)>ed ; pnlpi obIi(piely porrcct, the 2nd joint fringed 

 with lone Imir below, the 3rtl rather long ; frons buiooth with curved corneous 

 plnlc Ix'low ; eyes rather small; nntennaj of male almost simple; head and 

 tiiurax clothed with rough hair only and without distinct cresta ; abdomen with 



