lo2 K0CTL'1D.E. 



lino nt midille. Hind wing grey suffused with reddish brown ; a 

 f.iint discoidal lunule ; cilia white tinged with ochreous at base ; 

 the unilersido white, the costal area irrorated with brown ; a brown 

 discoidal lunule tilled in with white, curved postmedial line and 

 Hulitcrniinal brown spot below vein 2. 



Ilah. JSuiTAiN, Leech Coll.; Frvxce, Sand Coll. ; Germany, Zcller, 

 Frey,and Leech Colls.; Austria, Leech Coll.; ]Iungaky; Switzkr- 

 LANU ; X. Italy ; Eussia, Livonia, ZcUer Coll., Sarepta; Armenia ; 

 W. SinERiA, Altai ; E. Siberia, Ussuri. E.vp. 34-38 millim. 



Larva. :Moyr. Brit. Lep. p. US ; Barrett, Lpji. Brit. v. p. 32S, pi. 22ri. f. 3. 



I'ale yellowish green ; rather broad dorsal and narrow subdorsal 

 pale yellow or whitish lines ; spiracular line pale yellow ; head 

 yellow marked with black. Food-plants : Poplar and Aspen, 

 ijetwecn leaves spun together. 4-5. 



Genus MERISTIS. 



Type. 



Meristis, lliibn. Verz, p. 239 (1827) irigrammca. 



Orammesia, Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 151 (1829) tngraminka . 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to 

 middle of froiis and broadly scaled, the 3rd short, upturned ; frons smooth ; 

 eyes large, round ; antennje of male serrate; thorax clothed with hair and hair- 

 like scales, the pro- and metatliorax with spreading crests ; tibiaj moderately 

 fringed with hair; abilonien with some rough hair at base and lateral fringes 

 of hair but without crests. Fore wing rather broad, the apex rectangular, tlie 

 termen evenly curved and hardly crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of 

 cell , ('» from upjicr angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areola ; 

 11 from cell, llind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; u obsolescent 

 from middle of discocelluiars ; 6,7 from upper an^le ; 8 anastomosing with 

 the cell near base only. 



449G. Meristis trigrammica. 



Kodiia trigrammica, Hiifn. Berl. Mag. iii. p. 408 (1767); Esp. Scl.mett. 



iv. pi. 123. f. 6; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 19o. 

 Nociua trilinea, SchifF. Wien. Verz. p. 84(1776); Hiibn. Eur. Sclnnett., 



Noct. f. 216; Dup. Lep. ¥r. vii. p. 103, pi. 107. f. 2; Steph. 111. Brit. 



Ent., Haust. ii. p. 152. 

 Koctua qucrcus, Fabr. Spec. Ins. ii. p. 214 (1781). 

 I\'oc(ua nofacula, Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. p. 138 (1787). 

 Thalana qucrcicola. Gmel. Ed. Syst. Aat. 1, 5, p. 2535 (1788). 

 Koctua bilineu, Hiibn. Eur. Schm'ett., Noct. f. 217 (1802) ; Steph. 111. Brit. 



Ent., Haust. ii. p. 1.52; Ilerr.-Schiifr. iun-. Schmett., JNoct. f. 398. 

 Grammesia ohscura, Tutt. Brit. IN'oct. i. p. 142 (1891). 

 Grammesia frmgsii, Schultz, Soc. Ent. xiii. p. 153 (1899). 



Head and thorax ochreous white mixed with rufous ; palpi brown 

 at sides ; abdomen whitish ochreous. Fore wing whitish ochreous 

 irrorated with rufous; subbasal line brown, slightly waved, from 

 costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line fine, brown, slightly bent inwards 

 to co.sta and incurved above vein 1 ; medial line stronger, slightly 

 angled outwards below costa and oblique below vein 1 ; postmedial 

 line line, brown, slightly angled outwards below costa and incurved 

 below vein 4 ; a fine waved brown terminal line ; cilia reddish 



