BRA8TBIA. 



length of head, the 2nd joint slightly scaled, the 3rd mod 

 \mi1i rounded prominence witb ridge al middle and corneous plate below it 

 eyee large, round ; antennas of mule minutely ciliated ; thorai clothed entireh 

 with scales and without crests; tibiae smoothly scaled ; abdomen with a mil 

 at base. Pore wing with the apex rounded, the ly curved 



not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; % from upper angl 

 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; II from cell. Hind 

 with veins 3, 1 from angle of cell or shortly stalked ; f> nearly fully deye oped 

 from well below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle; S anasto- 

 mosing with the cell to near middle. 



A. Fore wing black-brown, the basal and medial areas wiMi 



some pale green scales viridisq\ 



B. Fore wing with yellowish white markings, rarely wholly 



black. 



a. Fore wing with blackish or olive spots on costa. 



a 1 . Fore wing with black-brown fascia on inner margin, trabealis. 

 b x . Fore wing without blaek-brown fascia on inner 



margin dclcta . 



b. Fore wing reddish brown with yellowish costal fascia 



leaving a slight brown streak on costa fascicUis. 



5999. Erastria viridisquama. (Plate CLXVIII. fig. 26. ) 



Acontia viridisquama, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 219, pi. 10. f. 3 (1852 Stand. 

 Cat. Lep. pal. p. 225. 



J . Head and thorax black-brown mixed with some grey ; palpi 

 white at base; tegulae edged with white; pectus and legs with 

 a bite mixed, the tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen dark brown with 

 (light pule segmental lines, the genital tuft ochreous. fore w 



'lack-brown, the basal and medial areas clothed with long p 

 jreeii scales, rather yellower at base : subbasal, antemedial, and 

 bostmedial lines represented by white striae from costa; reniform 

 \ith indistinct white annulus, elliptical ; snbterminal line indis- 

 tinct, greenish, excurved at middle; some greenish scales on termen ; 



ilia black-brown with white patches below apex and at mid 

 pind wing black-brown with a cupreous tinge; cilia tipped with 

 vhite ; the underside with the basal half whitish, the terminal half 

 'lack-brow ii, a dark discoidal bar and curved postmedial lint 



ubtenninal whitish band from costa to vein 4, and patch m >ub- 



iedian interspace. 

 Al). 1. Fore wing nearly uniform black-brown with a few 1 



ellowish scales on basal and medial areas; cilia white-tipped 



pes and middle. 

 Bab. Fbance, E. Pyrenees; Spain, Aragon, Vale 



Chapman), 1 J, Castile, Madrid. Exp. 24 millim. 





