oOG xocrriD.K. 



sides of frons brownish : tips of tegiilir, dorsum of thorax, and outer 

 i'(l<;e of patau:!;! r«'d-bro\vti or fuscous ; al)dameii j)ale ochreous. 

 Fore winj» yellow usually more or less tinged with orunffe ; sulibisal 

 line represented by two brown stritc from costa and one from cell ; 

 antemedial line oblicjue, waved, with another indistinct line beyond 

 it; orbicular yellow, figure-of-y-shapcd with two dark points on it ; 

 rt'nitbrm with its centre greyish defined by l)rown spots and with 

 yellow annulus constricted at middle ; medial line stroiip:, brown, 

 <3xcurvcd from costa to median nervure, tlien incurved ; postmedial 

 line indistinctly double, the outer line more prominent and dentate, 

 excurved to vein 4, then oblique and with series of dark spots 

 beyond it in the interspaces ; subterminal line represented by 

 a series of obscure dentate brown spots ; a terminal sex'ies of 

 blackish points ; cilia mixed with fuscous especially at tips. Hind 

 Avinp: very pale yellow, the terraen and cilia rather darker; the 

 underside with sliglit discoidal luuule and sinuous postmedial line 

 from costa to vein 4, the apical area slightly irrorated with brown. 



Ab. 1. iwwtata. Fore wing Avith the subbasal line obsolete, 

 the antemedial line ol)solete except towards inner margin, the 

 orbicular, reniform, and terminal points obsolete. — Sicily. 



Hah. Gerhanv, Zeller and Leech Colls. ; Attstria, Leech Coll. ; 

 HuxGARY, Leech Coll. ; ? Switzerlvxh ; X. Italy ; Sicily ; 

 S. Sweden ; Armenia. Exp. 32-3(3 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 188; Hffin. Raup. p. 118, pi. 32. 

 f. 3. 



Ashy grey with dorsal and subdorsal white lines with oblique 

 brown bars between them ; a broad lateral white stripe tinged with 

 reddish. Food-plant, Maple. ."). 



2731. Cosmia cypreago, n. sp. (Plate CVIL fig. 14.) 



2 . Head and thorax yellow suffused with red ; pectus Avhitish ; 

 abdomen white tinged with brown. Fore wing yellow sutfused 

 with tiery red, the veins rather paler: subbasal line represented by 

 a slight red striga from costa and point below the cell ; antemedial 

 line very ill-defined, double, waved, obli(|ue, red, with some 

 dark scales on it ; orbicular represented by a black point in cell ; 

 reniform sliglitly defined by red with some dark scales on it, narrow 

 and constricted at middle ; a curved red medial line Avith some dark 

 scales on it : ])ostmedial line double, reddish filled in with yellow, 

 excurved from costa to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line 

 slightly defined by brown on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 

 and excurved at middle; cilia brown at tips. Hind wing nearly 

 ])ure white, the cilia slightly tinged with yellowish ; the underside 

 with the costal area slightly tinged with ochreous and irrorated 

 with red. 



//'(fi. Cyprus, ^Mountains (Miss Bate), 1 $ type. E.iy. 30 

 millim. 



