rt:ni.A.Mi j A. 415 



Acosmctia morrisii, Morris, Natural, ii. p. 88 (1837); Humphrey & West- 

 wood, Brit. Moths, i. p. 215, pi. 54. t. 12. 



<3 . Head and thorax rufous, mixed with whitish; palpi fuscous, 

 pale at tips ; auteunse fuscous; legs fuscous, t lie tarsi ringed with 

 whitish ; ahdomen pale rufous dorsally tinged with brown. Fore- 

 wing whitish suffused witli pale rufous, tho postmcdial area except 

 towards costa and the terminal area rather whiter ; antemedial line 

 indistinct, dark, waved, angled inwards to black points on the 

 veins; a slight dark point at lower angle of cell ; postmedial lino 

 very indistinct, dark, bent outwards below costa, then minutely 

 dentate and produced to dark points on the veins, excurved to vein 4, 



Fig. 109. — Petilampa minima, £ . \. 



then incurved ; a faint dark subterminal line, excurved below 

 vein 7 and at middle and incurved at submedian fold; a terminal 

 sei'ies of dark striae ; cilia with a dark line at middle. Hind wing 

 whitish, suffused with pale red-brown ; cilia white, yellowish at 

 base and with brown line at middle ; the underside with the costal 

 area tinged with rufous, a slight dark discoidal point, indistinct 

 curved postmedial line, and terminal series of stria?. 



2 . Fore wing with the medial area slightly sutlused with brown. 



Ab. 1. morrisi. Whiter. — Britain. 



Ab. 2. lutescens. Fore wing of male more suffused with rufous, 

 of female variegated with rufous. 



Hub. Britain, type lutescens, Leech Coll. ; France ; Denmark, 

 Leech Coll.; Germany, Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls. ; Austria ; 

 Switzerland. Exp. tf 22-34, 2 20-24 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit, Lep. p. 121 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit, v. p. 270, pi. 219. f. 4. 



Whitish ochreous, sometimes tinged with pink, with transverse 

 darker or brownish bars ; dorsal and subdorsal lines paler ; head 

 brown ; thoracic plate pale brown. Food-plant: the base of stems 

 of Aira ccespitosa. 4-5. 



4096. Petilampa palustris. 



Xoctua palustris, Hiibn. Eur. Schniett., Nock f. 367 (1808) ; Pup. Lep. Fr., 

 Suppl. iii. p. 578, pi. 48. ff. 4 a, b; Frr. Neue Beitr. pi. 683 ; Herr.- 

 Scliaff. Eur. Schuietk, Nock f. 292 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 198. 



Caradrina. lutea, Frr. Neue Beitr. v. p. 121 (1845). 



Caradrina luteola, Frr. Neue Beitr. pi. 455. i'. 3 (1815). 



Caradrina exilis, Ev. Bull. Mosc. 1842, p. 518. 



Hydrilla aboleta, Guen. Nock i. p. 238 (1852). 



Hydrilla melanocliroa, Stand. Boiu. Mem. vi. p. 48S (1892). 



c? . Head and thorax brownish ochreous tinged with grey: 



