APOROPHYLA. — CLOANTHA. 239 



Ab. 1. seileri. Fore wing uniform deep black. 



Hub. Britain, Scotland, Leech Coll., England (Barrett), Leech 

 Coll.; France, Sand Coll., Auvergne, Frey Coll.; Germany, Zeller 

 Coll.; Hungary; Switzkrland ; Italy, Capri (C. S. Browne)', 

 Dalmatia, Leech Coll. ; S. jS'orway; Asia Minor, Pontus; Palestine. 

 Exp. 42-48 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 58 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 278, pi. 166. f. 2. 



Green, yellow-brown, yellow or dull crimson, the thoracic somites 

 often suffused with red; dorsal and subdorsal lines usually darker, 

 often interrupted ; spiracular line pale yellowish ; spiracles white, 

 on somites 4-6 placed on black marks. Food-plants : Rumex, 

 riantago, Galium, &c. 10-5. 



*2388. Aporopliyla haasi. 



Aporophyla haasi, Staud. Iris, iv. p. 280 (1891) ; id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 178. 



Differs from A. nigra in the fore wing not being deep black, but 

 mixed with brown and with the markings more distinct. 



Hab. Spain, Castile. Exp. 36-41 millim. This species is 

 unknown to me. 



Genus CLOANTHA. 



Type. 



Cloantha, Griien. Ann. Soc. Fr. viii. p. 509(1839) so/idaffinis. 



Egira, Dup. Cat. Meth. p, 162 (1844) 'puUa. 



jScorJocAroste, Led. Noct. Eur. p. 155(1857) •pulla. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint fringed 

 with hair, the 3rd short ; frons rounded ; eyes large, rounded ; aiitennffi of 

 male minutely serrate and fasciculate; bead and thorax clothed chiefly with 

 scales, tbe pro- and metathorax with spreading crests ; abdomen clothed with 

 rough hair at base, with basal ci'est and lateral fringes of hair towards extremity. 

 Fore wing rather long and narrow, tiie apex somewhat produced, tbe termen 

 obliquely curved and slightly crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 

 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form tbe areole ; 11 

 from cell. Hind wing with the termen slightly excised at discal fold ; veins 

 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 

 shortly stalked ; 8 anastomosing with tbe cell near base. 



A. Fore wing with dentate black marks before middle of sub- 



terminal line solidaginis. 



B. Fore wing without dentate black marks before middle of 



subterminal line , fxilla. 



2389. Cloantha solidaginis. 



Eoctua solidaginis, Hiibn. Eur. Scbmetf., Noct. f. 256 (1827); Dup. L6p. 



Er. vii. p. 179, pi. 112. f. 1 ; Curt. Brit. Ent. pi. 683; Steph. 111. Bnt. 



Ent., Haust. iv. p. 390 ; Err. Neue Beitr. pi. 634 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. 



p. 211. 

 Calocampa cinerascens, Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 120 (1872). 

 Calocampa germana, Morr. Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 192(1874); 



Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 235. 

 Calocampa pallida, Tutt, Brit. Noct. iii. p. 110 (1892). 



Head and thorax whitish mixed with brown or rufous ; frons 



