508 NOfTDIDJE. 



27'M. Cosmia citrago. 



Noctiia cifrai/o, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. x. )). .MS (1758); Esp. Schmett. iv. 



pi. 17o. fi". o, (> ; Sopp. Ins. iii. pi. 48 : Iliibn. Eur. Scliinctt., Noct. 



f. 188; Dnp. L.'p. Fr. vii. p. -IM). pi. 128. ff. L>, 3; Frr. Eeitr. iv. 



pi. .'JTd; 8(mi(l. Cat. Lop. piil. p. "JOT. 

 Nijcliia dchraijo, E.^p. Sclinictt. iv. pi. 177. f. 1 (1701). 

 Xauthiii >'iilijlava, Ev. Bull. Mo.sc. 1848, iii. [p. L'lO, 1855, iv. p. 371, & 



185(;, ii. pi. 1. f. 3. 



Head and thorax orange-yellow mixed with red ; abdomen 

 ochreoiis witli dorsal red-brown spots on first three segments. 

 Fore wing orange-yellow irrorated with red, the veins rufous ; 

 a enrved rufous subbasal line from costa to subracdian fold ; aute- 

 medial line rufous, angled outwards below costa and iuAvards in 

 submediaii fold, then bent outwards to inner margin ; orbicular 

 and reniform detiued by rufous and with some rufous in centres, 

 the former round, the latter constricted at middle ; an oblique 

 rufous medial line slightly excurved in cell and meeting the ante- 

 medial line at inner margin ; an obliquely curved postmedial line, 

 very slightly incurved at vein 2 ; an indistinct somewhat dentate 

 subterminal line slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved 

 at middle ; a fine waved terminal line. Hind wing very pale 

 yellow ; the underside with slight discoidal spot and sinuous 

 postmedial line. 



Ab. J . suhflava. Fore wing with the antemedial, postmedial, 

 and terminal areas suffused with deej) rufous; hind wing with 

 indistinct rufous subterminal band and the cilia tinged with rufous 

 or wholly suffused with brown. 



llah. Erit.\ix, Leech Coll.; Fr.\xce ; Dexm.xrk (Dohhnann), 

 Leech Coll. ; Gi:um.\xy, Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls. ; Ausxkia, 

 Leech Coll. : Hungary ; Switzerlaxd ; Italy ; S. Sweden ; 

 S.E. Russia, Urals ; Asia Minor, Pontus. Evj). 32-40 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Erit. Lop. p. nO ; Bai-rott, Lop. Brit. v. p. 301, pi. 2;!0. f. 1. 



lirownish grey or ]iinkish brown ; dorsal and subdorsal lines pale, 

 the latter edged above with blackish marks ; spiracular area 

 greyish white edged above by black marks. Food-plant, Tilia. 5-G. 



2735. Cosmia ledereri. (Plate CVII. fig. 17.) 



Xavthia ledereri. Stand, Iris, ix. p. 370, pi. iv. f. 12 (1890) ; id. Cat. Lep. 

 pal. p. 207. 



S • Head and thorax ochreous slightly mixed with rufous, the 

 palfii, frons. and front of pectus more rufous ; abdomen yellowish 

 slightly irrorated with rufous, whitish at base. Fore Aving briglit 

 yellow irrorated with rufous, the veins rufous ; a slightly curved 

 rufous subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line 

 rufous, oblique from costa to submedian fold, then obliquely in- 

 curved ; claviform small, defined by rufous; orbicular and reniform 

 moderate, defined by rufous, the former round, the latter narrowing 

 below aiul with some black at its lower extremity ; a diffused 

 rufous medial line obliijue from costa to lower angle of coll, then 



