EUSCOXIA. — LITHOPHANE. 243 



Larva. BroAvnish ochreous with faint brown mottling ; warts 

 small, whitish edged with brown ; dorsal line slight, finely edged 

 on each side with brown ; subdorsal line almost obsolete ; stigmatal 

 line yellowish edged above by brown developed into slight medial 

 patches on the somites ; stigmata ringed with whitish ; 1 1th somite 

 with dorsal brown bar ; head with the hemispheres chocolate- 

 brown. Food-plant, Berhens. 6. 



2392. Euscotia saga. 



lAthophane saga, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) i. p. 198 (1878); id. 111. Het.B. M. 



ill. p. 18, pi. 95. f. 9 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 183. 

 Rhizograiiima aurileguld, Oberth. Et. Ent. v. p. 71, pi. iii. f. 16 (1880). 

 Xylophaila, incognita, Butl. Cist. Ent. iii. p. 132 (1885). 



Head and thorax grey mixed with brown ; tegulae with black 

 medial line and slight lines near base and before the tips, which are 

 brown ; patagia with black line near upper edge, which is brown ; 

 tibiae with black streaks ; abdomen grey dorsally suffused with 

 brown. Fore wing grey irrorated and suffused with brown ; the 

 veins with slight dark streaks ; a dark streak below base of cell ; 

 subbasal line represented by double oblique striae from costa ; ante- 

 medial line indistinct, double, angled outwards in the interspaces 

 and inwai'ds on the veins, very strongly angled outwards in sub- 

 median fold and above inner margin ; a slight dark streak above 

 middle of inner margin ; claviform absent ; orbicular and renit'orm 

 indistinct and incompletely defined by brown, the former elongate, 

 its lower part produced as a streak and confluent with the latter ; 

 postmedial line indistinctly double, dentate, bent outwards below 

 costa and oblique below vein 4, in submedian fold angled inwards 

 to the antemedial line and forming a somewhat bidentate whitish 

 mark, diffused oblique brown fascioe from it to termen below apex 

 and below veins 4 and 3 ; a terminal series of dark points. Hind 

 wing whitish tinged with brown, the veins and terminal area 

 suffused with brown, very strongly in female. 



Hah. E. Siberia, Ussuri ; Japax, Yezo {Fryer), 1 ^ type in- 

 cognita, Yokohama (Jonas, Fryer, 2Ianley), 1 J , o 5 type ; Coeea. 

 Exp. 52-58 millim. 



Genus LITHOPHANE. 



iype. 



Lithophanc, Hlibn. Yerz. p. 242 (1827) socia. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi with the 2nd joint oblique and fringed 

 with hair, the 3rd moderate, porrect ; frons rounded ; eyes large, rounded ; 

 antennte of male ciliated ; head and thorax clothed with hair and scales, 

 the frons and vertex of head with tufts of hair, the tegulse produced to a 

 slight dorsal ridge, the prothorax with large divided crest, the metathoi'ax 

 with spreading crest ; abdomen triangular, with dorsal .series of large crests. 

 Fore wing rather narrow, the apex somewhat produced, tJie teruien obliquely 

 rounded and crenulate ; 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. 



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