58 N0CTUID-E. 



irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal spot and traces of post- 

 medial line excurved from costa to vein 4. 



Ab. 1. nigra. Blacker. 



Ab. 2. sundevalli. Fore wing more olive-brown without white on 

 postmedial and terminal areas. 



Hab. Britain, Scotland, Leech Coll., England, Leech Coll. ; France, 

 Sand Coll. ; Germany, Zeller, Frey, & Leech Colls.; Austria, Leech 

 Coll. ; Hungary ; Switzerland, Frey Coll. ; Italy; Greece ; Scandi- 

 navia ; Kussia, Esthonia, Frey Coll., Livonia, Zeller Coll., Sarepta; 

 Armenia ; E. SibERiA, Ussuri ; Japan, Oiwake. Exp. 34-44 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 142 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iii. p. 272, pi. 123. f. 2. 



Bale bluish green, ventrally yellowish green ; dorsal line whitish ; 

 lateral line pale yellow ; spiracles red ; warts black, bearing single 

 rather long black hairs ; head green. Food-plants: Ash and rarely 

 Brivet, Alder, &c. 7-9. 



3634. Craniophora obscura. (Blate CXXIV. fig. 7.) 



Craniophora obscura, Leech, Trans. Ent. Soe. 1900, p. 107. 



Head and thorax black mixed with some grey and white ; frons 

 with white bars at middle and between antnnae ; tegulae with the 

 basal half white irrorated with black ; patagia with whitish 

 patches ; tarsi black ringed with white ; abdomen grey-white 

 irrorated with black and dorsally tinged with brown at base, the 

 crests white tipped with black. Fore wing grey-white mostly 

 suffused with black-brown and thickly irrorated with black ; sub- 

 basal line double filled in with greyish, waved, from costa to vein 1 ; 

 antemedial line double filled in with greyish, oblique, waved, a slight 

 whitish mark beyond the position of claviform ; orbicular andreniform 

 irregularly defined by black, the former with diffused white annulus 

 except above, rounded, the latter with two grey strhe on inner 

 edge and two whitish points on outer side near upper extremity ; 

 two medial black striae from costa and a faint oblique waved line 

 from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line double 

 filled in with grey lunules, bent outwards below costa, then 

 minutely waved, incurved below vein 4, some whitish points 

 bevond it on costa ; subterminal line represented by a series of 

 indistinct whitish lunules ; a terminal series of small triangular 

 black spots, defined on inner side by whitish lunules ; cilia white and 

 black mixed and with series of blackish spots. Hind wing white 

 tinged with brown, the veins and terminal area from apex to vein 2 

 suffused with brown, in female wholly suffused with brown ; a sinuous 

 postmedial line ; the termen whitish with series of slight dark 

 lunules with blackish spots beyond them on the cilia ; the under- 

 side white irrorated with fuscous, a black discoidal spot, postmedial 

 line waved from costa to vein 4, then oblique, and a terminal series 

 of black striae. 



Hub. W. China, Ni-tou, 1 6 , 1 £ type, Kwei-chow, 1 £ , Bu- 

 tsu-fang, 1 $ . Exp. 42-48 millim. 



