amiuli defined by red, the former erect elliptical, the latter 

 const ricted ;it middle and oxtendinir to l)elow the cell ; medial lino 

 dark, »)l)li(]U(' from costa to lower angle of cell, then inwardly 

 obli»|ue : a .slifjht dark streak on medial part of inner margin ; 

 postinedial line indistinct, defined Ity yellowish on onter side, bent 

 outwards below costa, then dentate and produced to Idack points on 

 the veins, oblicjue below vein 4; the veins of terminal area with 



Fig. loQ.—A'caifholeuca cvoccago, ^ . \. 



slight dark streaks ; subterminal line dark, slightly sinuous ; a fine 

 crenulate terminal line. Hind wing Avhite with a faint vellowish 

 tinge; the underside with the costal area sparsely irrorated with 

 black and rufous tow'ards apex, a slight discoidal lunule, faint traces 

 of a sinuous postmedial line and some dark points on apical 

 half of termen. 



Ab. 1. Corsica. Head, thorax, and fore wing pale flesh-pink, the 

 last with the markings less distinct. 



Ifah. Britaix, Leech Coll. ; France ; Gekmaxt, Zeller and Leech 

 Colls.; Atjstei A, Zeller and Leech Colls. ; Huxgaey; Swixzekland, 

 Frey and Leech Colls. ; Spaiij; Corsica; Italy: Algeria; S.Sweden; 

 Balkax States ; Kussia : Armenia ; Asia Minor, Pontus. £".17;. 

 36-:}8 millira. 



Larva. Meyr. Lep. Brit. p. 60 ; Barrett, Brit. Lep. vi. p. 3, pi. 235. f. 1. 



Pale orange-ochreous with darker freckles ; dorsal V-shaped 

 brown marks on somites 4-11 ; dorsal and subdorsal lines paler 

 with dark edges. Food-plant, Oak. 5-G. 



2649. Xautholeuca sericea. (Plate CVII. fig. 29.) 



Hoporina smcca, Butl. A.M.N.H. (0) i. p. 108 (1878); id. 111. Kct. B.M. 

 ii. p. 31, pi. 30. f. 10; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 208. 



Head and thorax yellow mixed with fiery red ; tegula? with the 

 tips whitish ; patagia with a few brown scales near ui)])er edge ; 

 abdomen yellowish white slightly tinged with red and irrorated 

 with a few dark scales, faint traces of darker dorsal bands. Fore 

 wing orange thickly irrorated with fiery red, a series of slight white 

 streaks on costa ; subbasal line indistinct, brownish slightly defined 

 by yellow on outer side, curved, from costa to submediau fold ; 

 antcmedial line indistinctly double, brownish filled in with orange, 

 obli(iue, waved and with slight dark points on outer line at median 

 nervure, submedian fold, and vein 1 ; orbicular and renif'orm with 

 orange aunuli slightly defined by red, their centres irrorated with 



