2-1 <> noctcidj:. 



•23l>r). Lithophanc ledereri. (Plate CII. fig. 3.) 

 Xi/liiia Ifderen, Stniul. Iris, iv. p. WM (1801); id. Cot. Lcp. pnl. p. 210. 



Heiul and thorax deep rufous mixed with some ochreous and dark 

 brown: jialpi with blackish streak at sides; frons and vertex 

 of bead with dark bars ; tcpuhe witli sinuous Idack line near base 

 and black i.sh tips ; pataj^ia with bla(ki>ii edges; vertex of thorax 

 with blackish la.scia : pectus and legs yellowish white and rufous, 

 the tiliiie with slight black streaks ; abdomen ])ale rufous, the dorsal 

 erests large, black-brown. P'ore wing pale greyish tinged and 

 irrorated with rufous, the inner margin suflFused with deep rufous 

 except towards base ; subbasal line represented by double oblique 

 red-brown stria; from costa : antcmedial line rather indistinct, 

 double, red-brown, rather obliijue towards costa, twice angled out- 

 wards in submedian interspace and once above inner margin, angled 

 inwards in su])median fold and above vein 1 ; orbi( ular and reniform 

 slight Iv and incompletely dclincd by red-brown, the former rounded, 

 the latter tinged with ochreous and rufous on inner side; medial 

 shade strong, diffused, red-brown and oblicjue from costa to lower 

 angle of cell, then slight and inwardly oblique ; ])ostmedial line 

 indistinct, double at costa, bent outwards l)elow costa, then dentate 

 and produced to a double series of dark points on the veins, excurved 

 to vein 4, then incurved and with slight pale luiiulo on its outer 

 edge in submedian interspace; subterminal line indistinct, i)ale 

 detined on inner side by somewhat dentate rufous marks except 

 towards costa and by aldackish bar in submedian intersjiace, angled 

 outwards at veins 7, 4. 3, with diH'used deep rufous patches beyond it 

 below apex and on inner area, the veins of terminal area streaked 

 with black ; eilia deep rufous intersected with greyish and with tine 

 greyish line at base. Hind wing ocbretius whitish tinged Mith 

 brown, the veins and terminal area rather darker ; cilia yellowish 

 white tinged with rufous : the underside yellowish white slightly 

 tinged with rufous, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with 

 rufous, a dark discoidal spot and indistinct curved postmedial line 

 with minute dark streaks on the veins. 



llah. liiioDEs; Asia Minor, Pontus in Coll. Piingeler, Amasia. 

 Exp. 46 millira. 



Genus GRAPTOLITHA. ^ 



GrapfolUha, Hiibn. Vcrz. p. 242 (1827> /iii-ri/enr. 



lihizolitha, Curt. Entoiu. Mag. i. p. 189 (ISSli) lamlMla. 



Probosris fully dovclojicd ; palpi with the 2n(l joint oblique and frinped 

 with loiip liair, the.Srd niodcrate. porrert : frons rnuiided ; eyeslarpo. rouiided ; 

 luilenna' of male cilinli-d ; hmd and lliorax elollied with Imir and liair-like 

 schIcs, the frouii and vertex of head with tufts of hair; teguhe i>roduoed to ii 

 sliRht dorsal ridge, the prothorax with divided crest, the nietathonix with 

 spreadinp crest; pectus clothed with lonp hair; abdomen dorsally (lalteiied. 

 with dorsal crests on liasnl segments and lateral fringes of hair. Fore wing 



