5IERISTIS. TKICHOCOSMIA. 



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brown. Hind wing whitish ochrcous suffiiscMl Avith brown except 

 on costal area; cilia whitish at ti])S : the undersi<lo with the costal 

 area irrorated with brown, a discoidal point, slight bar from middle 

 of costa, and subterminal line from costa to vein G. 



Fig. 46. — 3fcris/is /rig ram mica, (j". \. 



Ab. 1. hUiaea. Fore wang suffused with brown, the medial line 

 hardly traceable. 



Ab. 2. frinr/si. Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines 

 absent, tiie medial line present. 



IJah. Urttain, Leech Coll.: Frakce; IIolland, Zeller Coll.; 

 Gkrmany, Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls.; Adstkia, Frey Coll.; 

 HunctAry; Switzerland; Italy; Dalmatia, Leech Coll. ; Balkan 

 States; S.Scandinavia; IIussia, Livonia ; Armenia; Asia Minor, 

 Tontus. E.vp. 32-40 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lt-p. p. 1-2;! ; Banett, Ix-p. Brit. v. p. 297, pi. l-'22. f. 1 . 



Greyish ochreous, dull reddish brown or dark grey ; dorsal line 

 pale, ])lack-edged at excisions ; subdorsal line pale, interrupted, 

 sometimes edged with Idackish marks above; spiracular line 

 brown ; head brown. Food-plant : Plantar/o, subterranean in 

 habit. 7-4. 



Genua TRICH0C03MIA, 



Trichocosmia, Gi-ote, Can. Ent. xv. p. G (1883) 



Type. 



inoniafa. 



Proboscis Tully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint not 

 reaching middle of frons and moderately fringed with scales in I'ront, the old 

 short.; frons with slight rounded prominence with corneous plate below it , 

 eyes large, round ; antenna of male ciliated ; thorax clothed with hair and 

 scales mixed, the prothorax without crest, the metathorax with spreading 

 crest; tibite slightly fringed with hair; abdomen with dorsal crest at basa 

 only. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not 

 crenulate ; veins .'3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; fi from upper angle ; 9 from 

 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing witli 

 veins o, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discoeellulars ; 

 0, 7 shortly stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



44*J7. Trichocosmia inornata. 



TrirhocosiJiia ii/oriiafa, Grote, Can. Ent. xv. p. (1883); Smith, Cat. ^'ol•t. 

 N. Am. p. 210. 



Head and thorax white tinged with rufous; abdomen white, the 

 basal crest tipped with rufous. Fore wing white tinged with 

 rufous ; antemedial line indistinct, rufous, slightly dclined by 

 whitish on inner side, erect, waved, with minute black points on 



