436 XOCTUID.E. 



whitish on outer side, bent outwards below costa, incurved at discal 

 fold, incurved and minutely dentate below vein 4, some white 

 points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line with small yellowish 

 spot at costa, then very indistinct and slightly excurved below 

 vein 7 and at middle ; a terminal series of slight pale striae ; cilia 



Fig. 120. — Meso/rosfa signalis, rj. %. 



with a dark line at middle and whitish tips. Hind wing greyish 

 suffused and irrorated with brown; a fine dark terminal line ; cilia 

 with a brown line near base and whitish tips; tbe underside 

 whitish irrorated with brown ; a small brown discoidal spot and 

 indistinct curved minutely waved postmedial line. 



Hab. Austria, Zeller Coll. ; Hungart, Zeller, Frey, and Leech 

 Colls. ; Kttssia, Ural Mts. Exp. 20-24 millim. 



Larva. Hffm. Raup. p. 143. 



Head brown ; dorsal area flesh-colour with yellowish inter- 

 segmental rings ; dorsal line dark ; sides yellow ; ventral surface 

 whitish ; warts brown ; thoracic shield yellowish : all the prolegs 

 fully developed. 



Genus HiEMASSIA, 



nov. 



Type, H. renalis. 



Proboscis aborted, minute ; palpi obliquely porrect, extending about the 

 length of head and moderately scaled ; irons with large rounded prominence; 

 eyes large, round ; antennae of male bipectinate with moderate branches to 

 apex, of female with shorter branches ; thorax clothed chiefly with scales, the 

 pro- and metathorax with spreading crests ; tibiae moderately fringed with hair ; 

 abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the fermen evenly 

 curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper 

 angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. 

 Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from below middle 

 of discocellulars ; 6,7 from upper angle; S anastomosing with the cell near 

 base only. 



4132. Haemassia renalis. 



Pyralis renalis, Uubn, Eur. Schmett., Pyr. f. 157(1818); Geyer, Eur. 



Schmett., Noct. fl'. 864-5 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 233. 

 Hcsmerosia renigera, Dup. Lep. Fr., Suppl. iii. p. 570, pi. 47. f. 7 (1836). 

 Anthophilu renifera, Fr. Tseue Eeitr. vi. p. 103, pi. 545. f. 1 (1852;. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous whitish tinged with blood- 

 red, the pectus, leg?, and ventral surface of abdomen deeper red. 



