808 5opmi).i!. 



Al). n. atiatica. Foro wiiiR jialo greyisli brown ; liiixl wiii^ 

 whitish. — Asia Minor, Palcsfiiio, Amurlaiid. 



Iltih. Bkitaix, Kn^'hiul, lACch Coll., Irelancl, I>ocrh Coll. ; 

 France; Gkkmaxy, /dhr mid Leech Colls.; AnrraiA ; HrsoAUY ; 



SWITZKKLAND, FfOV Coll.; Si'AI.V: ItaLT ; SCANDISAVIA ; H' SSIA, 



Livonia, ZcUor Coll.: .Vumk.ma ; Asia Minoh, I'ontns ; Syria. 

 iJfirut, I^cech Coll., rulestinc ; E. Siberia, Ussuri. Kxp. 40-50 

 millim. 



Larxa. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. .">(j ; Barrett, L*p. Brit. iv. p. 32'). ul. 17-. f. 2. 



Fuscous with darker markings and pale dots; dorsal and suK- 

 dorsal lines indistinctly pale; 11th somite somewhat humped with 

 fnur small tubercles ; head brown. Food-plants : Hawthorn and 

 Ulacktliorn. 4-0. 



tsKCT. \\l. (IJcfogfirfa). Ant#nnir of male almost simple. 



A. Fore wing with blackish fascia in subiiiedian interspace from 



base to tcriiien exfensa. 



B. Fore wing wiliioiit blackish fascia in siibmcdian interspace. 



a. Fore wing with the ground-folour wliitisli. 



a'. Fore wing with the reniform not angled inwanls on 



median ncrrure bimaculosa. 



6'. Fore wing with the reniform angled inwards on median 



nervuro snhuloui. 



b. Fore wing with the ground-colour blackish funtsia. 



247;j. Meganephria extensa. (Plate CIII. fig. 21.) 



Bclosticia cxfeiisa. Biitl. A. M. N. U. (o) iv. p. S.')? (1879). 

 Miselia cinerca, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. IS^l, p. 184. 



2 . Head and thorax grey mixed with dark brown ; palpi 

 blackish at sides; frons with black bar; tegulffi with curved 

 black line defined by whitish behind ; patagia with black outer 

 edge ; abdomen grey irrorated with dark brown. Fore wing grey 

 suflFused with rufous and dark brown and irrorated with black ; 

 the veins with slight dark streaks, the subcostal and median 

 nervures and inner area irrorated with silvery green ; a strong 

 blackish fascia below base of cell defined by i)ale yellowish above 

 and extending to well beyond antemedial line : subbasal lino fine, 

 angled inwards in cell; antemedial line slightly angled outwards 

 below costa, below submedian fold excurved. indistinct, double 

 filled in with whitish ; claviforra conHuent with the black basal 

 fascia, defined by Itlack and acute at extremity : orbicular and 

 reniform large, with slight pale annuli incomi»letely defined by 

 black, the former rounded, the latter angled inwards on median 

 ner\'ure and with some greenish scales on its lower part ; traces 

 of an irregular difl'used medial line : postmedial line rather in- 

 distinct, double, strongly bent otit wards below costa, then waved, 

 obli(jue below vein 4, strong, incurved and with white lunule on it 

 in submedian interspace, where thero is a difTustMl Itlaek-brown 

 fascia beyond it extending to termcn ; subterminal line indistinct, 

 pale, waved and slightly defined by brown on inner side, with 

 dentate black mark before it below costa and black streaks from it 



