OEIA. — XTLOSTOLA . 



335 



marks, smaller above. Hind wing white, the veins tinged with 

 ochreous. 



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Fig. ]50. — Oria viuK'ulosa, (^ . \. 



I lab. Eeitaix, Leech Coll. ; Feakct:, Sand Coll. ; Denmakk ; 

 (JERMANY,Zellerand Leech ColLs,; Avstrta; Hungatiy; Swiizerlanj); 

 Spain ; Lxaly, Capri ( C. 8. Browne) ; Sicily, Zeller Coll, ; Dalwatia ; 

 Ceeece ; AiGERiA ; Canaries: Cyprus (iiyfv^ 5o<e), 3 J ; Armenia; 

 Asia ^Minor; Syria, 2 J; Persia, Sluihkuh {Cliristojjh), ] 5- 

 Kap. 28-38 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt k !\[otIis Eur. p. ](U. 



Pale greenish with four dark lines becoming blacki.sh dots at 



Food-i)lant, in stalks of Pye. 



hinder extremity of each segment 



4772. Oria flavescens. (Plate CXLIY. fig. 27.) 



Sesamia flavescens, Hiiipsn. Ann. S. Afr. Miis. ii. p. :.98 (1902). 



2 . Head and thorax white tinged with ochreous. the patagia 

 slightly w'ith pink; paljii and leps more ochreous ; abdomen white 

 tinged with lirownish ochreous. Lore wing pale ^ello\v, tlie costal 

 aiea faintly tinged with pink, the costal edge white; the median 

 nervure, base of veins arising fiom it and medial part of vein 1 

 streaked with whitish and irrorated with a few dark scales ; traces 

 of an oblicjuely curved postmedial series of dark points on veins (J 

 to ] ; cilia whitish. Hind wing white faintly tinged with broA\ ii 

 and the terminal area with yellow ; the underside pale yellow with 

 slight bi'own irroration. 



Hah. C. Colony, Annshaw {Mi>s F. Barrett), 1 $ type. Rrp. 

 20) millim. 



Genus XYLOSTOLA, nov. 



Type, X. iiidi^iuicia. 



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

 vertex of head and broadly fringed with scales in front, the 3i'd long: frons 

 with small rounded prominence covered by a tuft of hair; eyes large, round; 

 antenna' c.f male ciliated ; thorax clothed with hair and hair-like s^calos, and 

 without crest .s ; tibia; iringedwith rather long hair; abdomen with some rough 

 hair at base but without crests. Fore wing with tiie apex rather jtroduced and 

 acute, the termen evenly curved and hardly cnnulate; veins 3 and 5 from near 

 angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing witli 8 to form the 

 areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from ai^gie of cell ; 5 obso- 

 lescent from just below middle of di^cocollulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 

 8 anasl-oniosing with the cell near base onlv. 



