VAT.EEIA. 349 



LAND ; Spain", Castile ; X. Italy ; Bulgaria ; Syria, Mardin. 

 Exp. 44 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 55 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 330, pi. 174. f. 2. 



Somites 1-3 dilated ; ochreoiis much marked with brown ; 

 2nd somite ochreous-y allow in front with a series of fuscous dots ; 

 spiracular line ochreous-yellow on abdominal somites, head brown. 

 Pood-plant, Blackthorn. 5-6. 



Sect. II. Antemiaj of male bipectinate with long branches, the apex serrate. 



2521. Valeria heterocampa. 



Atk. p. 115, 



Pachatra hetcrocam'pa, Moore, Lep. 

 Hmpsn. Moths lud. ii. p. 223. 



pi. 4. f. 15 (1832); 



S . Head and tegulse ochreous white ; palpi and frons black at 

 sides, black streaks above eyes and at sides of tegulae ; antennae 

 brown ; front of thorax and patagia black, the patagia ochreous 

 white with black edges, the thorax oclireous white with the meta- 

 thoracic crest pure white ; pectus and legs black, the tibiae and tarsi 

 ringed with white ; abdomen ochreous more or less strongly suf- 

 fused with black-brown except at base, the dorsal crests black. 

 Eore wing ochreous white suffused with rufous or olive-green, the 

 veins with slight dai'k streaks ; subbasal line black defined by 

 white on outer side, waved, rather broken up into spots, from 



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'F\^. il'd).— Valeria heterocampa, J. \. 



costa to vein 1, a diffused black band beyond it from costa to sub- 

 median fold, an oblique patch to vein 1 and an elongate patch 

 below vein 1 ; antemedial line black defined by white on inner 

 side, angled outwards below costa and on median nervure and 

 inwards on vein 1 ; the medial area mostly suffused with black 

 and purplish grey ; the stigmata large, whitish, tinged with rufous 

 or olive ; the orbicular with slight dark centre, connected with a 

 bilobed ochreous mark below the cell and with a fascia from reni- 

 form emitted along median nervure ; the reniform very large, 

 extending to costal nervure and to below angle of cell, rather 

 quadrate and with some blackish in centre ; the terminal half of 

 costa with series of whitish and black patches ; postmedial line 

 black with slight whitish line on it, dentate, arising from vein 7, 

 excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; subterminal line diffused white 

 defined by black suffusion on inner side except between veins 

 6 and 4 and towards inner margin, strongly dentate at veins 7, 6, 



