348 



NocrriD^. 



with scries of Inrpe dorsal crests nnd lateral fringes of bair. Fore wiiip with 

 the tcrnion crcmilatc; veins 8 and f) from near angle; ('» from upper angle; 

 ?t from 1(1 anustomusiiig «itli 8 to form tlie arenle ; 11 from cell. Ifind wing 

 with veinn .'», 4 I'rKin angle of cell, f) obsolescent from ju*t below middle of 

 discocellidars ; (>, 7 from upjK-r angle; ^ anaMtoinosing with the cell near base 

 Old J. 



Sect. I. (J'a/cria). Antennte of male bipectiuate with long branches to apex, 

 of female with short branches. 



2520. Valeria oleagina. 



Hoiithyx oleagina, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 59 (1770) ; Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. 

 p. 117 (178(>) ; Esp. Schmett. iii. pi. 6U. f. 4 ; Iliibn. Eur. Sclimett., Noct. 

 f. '6'i ; ])up. Lep. Fr. vi. p. 370. pi. Oa. f. 6 ; Stepli. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. 

 iii. p. 23; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 168. 



Head and thorax dark brown mixed -vvitli red-brown, grey, and 

 greenish scales ; antennae pale rufous ; tarsi black banded with 

 white; abdomen dark reddish brown mixed with some grey. Fore 

 wing dark reddish brown mixed with some grey, the veins streaked 

 with sap-green and black scales ; subbasal line double, black filled 

 in with green, from costa to submediau fold ; antemedial line 

 black, oblique, sinuous, slightlj' angled inwards on vein 1 : clavi- 

 form small, ])ale or Avhitish, defined by black ; orbicular with white 

 annulus defined by black, round ; rcuiform large, white defined by 



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Fig. \V2.— ]'ulcria oleagina, S . 



black : an indistinct waved medial line ; postmedial line dark 

 defined by greenish grey on outer side, strongly bent outwards 

 below costa, then minutely waved, incurved below vein 4. some 

 white points beyond it on cosla ; subterminal line Mavod, pale 

 defined by blackish lunules before it below middle, the area beyond 

 it sap-green; a terminal series of small black lunules; cilia 

 reddish brown, with ochreous-white points at base and waved line 

 through them. Hiud wing ochreous white ; a rather punctiforra, 

 sinuous postmedial line ; the terminal area suffused Avith red- 

 brown with a slightly waved whitish subterminal line; cilia brown, 

 whitish at tips ; the underside with the basal half of costal area 

 and apical area suffused and irrorated with red-brown, a slight 

 black streak in cell, jtromincnt black discoidal lunule, punctiform 

 postmedial line, and terminal series of small lunules. 



Hah. Bkit.mn, 8. Wales; Gkkm.\nv, Zeller, Frey, and Leech 

 Colls.; AisTRiA, Zeller Coll.; ]IrNG.\Kr, Leech Coll.; Switzer- 



