CLOANTHA. EUSCOTIA. 241 



"With black medial line with slight line before it ; tibia? streaked 

 with black ; pectus and ventral surface of abdomen with some 

 ochreous hair. Fore wing grey tinged in parts with ochreous and 

 mostly suffused and irrorated with fuscous ; the veins streaked 

 with black ; a fine black streak below base of cell ; subbasal line 

 only defined by a patch of blackish suftusion beyond it ; antemedial 

 line dentate outwards in the interspaces and inwards on the veins, 

 strongly on inner half ; claviform absent ; orbicular represented by 

 a minute obscure pale annulus with blackish streaks beyond it ; the 

 extremity of median ner^ure with blackish streaks above and below 



Fig. 78. — Cloantha 'pulla, c?, \. 



it ; reniform a faint pale patch ; a blackish patch on middle of 

 costa ; postmedial line indistinct, blackish defined by whitish on 

 outer side, strongly bent outwards below costa, then highly dentate, 

 oblique below vein 4 and angled inwards in submedian fold to 

 antemedial line ; subterminal line pale brownish, hardly defined 

 except by the area beyond it being slightly darker, strongly 

 angled inwards in discal and submedian folds. Hind wing white, 

 the veins brown ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with 

 brown. 



Hah. S. France, Leech Coll. ; Aitstria, Zeller, Frey, and Leech 

 Colls. ; Hungary, Leech Coll. jST. Italy ; ? Sicily ; S. Eijssia ; 

 ? Crete. Exp. 40-50 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths, Eur. p. 251. 



Green marbled with white and with white lateral stripes. Food- 

 plants : various low-growing plants. 4-5. 



Genus EUSCOTIA. 



Type. 

 E'uscotia, Butl. 111. Het. B.M. vii. p. 47 (1889) inextricata. 



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

 with long hair iu front, the 3rd rather long, porrect and dilated at extremity ; 

 frons rounded ; eyes lai'ge, rounded ; antennae of male with slight fascicles of 

 cilia ; head and tliorax clothed chiefly witli scales, the tegulce dorsally produced 

 to a slight ridge, the thorax with divided ridge-liiie crest ; tibice fringed with hair ; 

 abdomen with dorsal series of crests. Fore wing rather long and narrow, the 

 apex somewhat produced, the teriuen obliquely curved and ci'enulate ; veins 3 

 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing 

 with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the ternien slightly 

 crenulate ; veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from just below middle 

 of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near 

 base only. 



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