cosMiA, 499 



Hah. Britain-, Leech Coll.; France; Denmark; Germany, Zeller, 

 Prey, and Leech Colls. ; Austria ; Hungary ; Switzerland ; jN". & 

 Centr. Italy; Corsica; S.Sweden; Finland. Exp. 30-38 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 51 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. v. p. 371, pi. 232. 



Brownish; dorsal, subdorsal, and spiracular lines pale greyish 

 ochreous ; tubercular dots pale ; head oehreous. Food-plant, Beech 

 b-Q. 



*2722. Cosmia pallidago. 



Xmithia palUdaqo, Staud. Iris, xii. p, 377 (1899); id. Cat. Lep. pal. 

 p. 208. 



S . Head, thorax, and abdomen dirty sulphur-yellow. Fore wing 

 dirty sulphur-yellow, the lines indistinct, double ; subbasal line 

 from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line oblique, waved ; 

 clavitbrm absent ; orbicular and reniform slightly defined by fus- 

 cous, the former round, the latter with pale fuscous-edged spot in 

 lower part ; postmedial line strongly excurved beyond the cell and 

 with another obsolescent line just beyond it. Hind wing dirty 

 brownish w^hite, darker towards termen ; cilia white ; the underside 

 with slight postmedial line. 



Hab. Asia Minor, Taurus, Zeitun. Ed-j). 34 millim. This 

 species is unknow^n to me. 



2723. Cosmia siplumcula, n. sp. (Plate CVII. fig. 12.) 



Head and thorax ochreous yellow, sides of palpi, thorax, and 

 patagia except outer edge suffused with rufous ; tibiae and tarsi 

 tinged with rufous ; abdomen ochreous. Pore wing ochreous 

 yellow ; subbasal line rufous, double, waved, from costa to sub- 

 median fold ; antemedial line double, waved, oblique, angled 

 inwards on median nervure ; claviform defined by rufous ; orbicular 

 and reniform moderate, defined by rufous, the former erect elliptical, 

 the latter with some rufous in upper part of cell and fuscous and 

 grey in lower part ; medial line rufous, angled inwards in cell 

 to orbicular, then outwards to below end of cell ; postmedial line 

 double, waved, excurved from costa to vein 4, then incurved ; sub- 

 terminal line represented by a triangular rufous patch from costa 

 with ochreous point on costa, then by a rufous line, angled outwards 

 at vein 7, excurved at middle and incurved at submedian inter- 

 space ; a fine red-brown terminal line ; cilia ochreous tinged with 

 rufous at base, fuscous at tips. Hind wing pale ochreous yellow, 

 the inner area slightl}' tinged with brown to postmedial line which 

 is obsolete towards costa and slightly excurved at median nervules ; 

 a diffused subterminal line except towards costa ; a fine brown 

 terminal line ; the underside with the costal and terminal areas 

 irrorated with rufous, a small discoidal spot, sinuous postmedial 

 line, and diffused subterminal line. 



Hab. Mongolia, Changai Mts. ; E. Siberia, Amurland, 1 $ type, 

 Eadde in Coll. Pungeler, Ussuri. Ea-j). 40 millim. 



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