DERRIMA. 



241 



Leech Colls. ; 



Hab. Atjsiria ; Hungary, Zeller, Fray, and 

 ?1^. Italy; ? Russia, Urals. E^y. 34-42 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 185; Hffin. Raup. p. 115. 



Green with faj^cous dorsal stripes ; head brown. Food-plant 

 Fopiilics alba. 7-8. 



Genus DERRIMA. 



Type. 



Berrhna, Wlk. xii. 770 (1857) steUala. 



PhUomma, Grote, Proc. Eut. Soc. Phil. iii. p. 2 (1864) stellafa. 



Pi-oboscis fully developed; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint not 

 reaching middle of frons and moderately fringed with hair iu front, the 3rd 

 short; frons with slight rounded prouiineace with corneous plate below it; 

 CTCs large, round ; antennfe of male serrate ; thorax clothed with hair over- 

 lying scales and without crests ; tibiae moderately fringed with hair, the fore 

 tibia; with long curved claw on inner side and two claws on outer ; abdomen 

 without crests. Fore wing short and broad, the apex rounded, the teruien 

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

 upper angle ; f froLU 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. 

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

 discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base 

 only. 



4618. Derrima stellata. 



Derrima stellata, Wlk. xii. 770 (1857). 



FhUomma henrietta, Grote. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. iii. p. 3, pi. 2. f. 1 (1864) ; 

 Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 271. 



(henrietta). Head and thorax bright crimson-pink, the meta- 

 thorax yellowish, the antennae whitish tinged with crimson, the 

 pectus ochreous except in front, the legs crimson ; abdomen 

 ochreous tinged with crimson. Fore wing olive-yellow, the costal 

 and terminal areas broadly bright crimson -pink ; an antemedial 



Fig. 97. — Derrima stellata, (j". [. 



round silvery white spot below the cell defined by black and ringed 

 with crimson and a similar discoidal spot ; postraedial line repre- 

 sented by a series of white points on inner edge of the pink 

 terminal area, excurved from costa to vein 6, then oblique. Hind 

 ■wing ochreous yellow. Underside of fore wing with the disk 

 suffused with fuscous brown ; hind wing with the costa suflfused 

 with pink. 



A.b. 1. Fore wing with the ocellate spot below the cell centred 

 with grey. 



VOt. IX, R 



