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Ab. 2. suhcceruha. Fore wing dark bluish grey. — N.E. Amui'- 

 land. 



Hah. Beitain, Leech Coll. ; Fkance ; Germany, Zeller, Frey, and 

 Leech Colls. ; SwitzePvLand ; Spain, Castile ; Italy; Sicily; Lapland, 

 Leech Coll ; Eussia, Livonia, Zeller Coll. ; Aemenia ; W. Sibekia, 

 Altai; E. Siberia, N.E. Amurland. E^y. 38-40 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit, Lep. p. 54; Barrett, Lep. Brit. ir. p. 305, pi. 170. 



Pale green ; dorsal and subdorsal liiies whitish ; spiracular line 

 broad, white, edged above by diffused dark green. Food-plants : 

 Hawthorn, Eumex, Sonchns, &o. 4-5. 



Genus RHIZOTYPE, nov. 



Type, B.flammea. 



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

 long hair below, the 3rd porrect ; frons smooth ; eyes large, rounded; antennte 

 of male minutely serrate and fasciculate ; head and thorax clothed with hair 

 and hair-like scales, vertex of head with crest ; prothorax with large divided 

 crest, metathorax with spreading crest ; pectus clothed with long hair ; 

 abdomen with dorsal series of crests. Fore wing with the termeu crenulate, 

 veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anasto- 

 mosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 

 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from just below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 

 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with cell near base only. 



A. Fore wing with the postmedial line angled outwards at 

 vein 5. 

 a. Fore wing with the reniform and fascia on inner margin 



white jlammea. 



h. Fore wing with the reniform and fascia on inner margin 



tinged with purple or br( )wn jodea. 



E. Fore wing with the postmedial line excui-ved from below 

 costa to vein 4. 



a. Fore wing with black streak from claviform to post- 



medial line remota. 



b. Fore wing without black streak irom claviform to post- 



medial line. 

 a}. Fore wing with the claviform present. 



a?. Fore wing with the ground-colour bluish grey. 

 a^. Fore wing strongly irrorated with black, the 



reniform la rge ■poliorh iza. 



h'\ Fore wing slightly irrorated with black, the 



reniform small mongoUca. 



h-. Fore wing with the ground-colour brownish grey, auhdetersa. 

 h^. Fore wing with the claviform absent ciirva. 



2551. Rliizotype flammea. 



Bomhyx flammea, Esp. Schmett. iii. pi. 53. f. 3 (1785) ; Staud. Cat. Lep. 



pal. p. 184. 

 Isoctua empyrca, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 63, 646 (1827) ; Dup. 



Lep. Fr. vi. p. 345, pi. 94. f. 4. 



Head and thorax rufous mixed with some ochreous-white ; sides 

 of palpi and frons with some dark brown; antennae brown; tegulfo 

 with black medial line and purplish-grey tips ; patagia purplish 

 grey with black line near upper edge which is rufous ; dorsal crest 



