862 XOCTLID.E. 



reJdisli ])i'()\vn, tlie civsts darker, tlie ventral surface grey. Fore 

 A\ iiig grey irroi-ated with red-brown, the basal half strongly suffused 

 with red-brown, the terminal area tinged with red-brown ; some 

 blackish irroration below the cell before the blackish antemedial 

 line, which is angled outwards below the costa and at submedian 

 fold and inwards at median nervure and vein 1, connected by tine 

 blackish streaks above and below submediiin fold with the rather 

 diffused blackish brown medial line which is incurved at submedian 

 fold ; orbicular a small round black annulus with some bkckish in 

 centre ; reniform a very narrow lunule defined by black, strongly 

 on inner side ; ])ostmedial line blackish, excurved, slightly sinuous 

 and red-brown from below costa to vein 4, tlien incurved, some 

 minute dark streaks beyond it on costii ; subterminal line whitish 

 defined on inner side bv red-brown, slitjhtlv waved, angled outwards 

 below veins 7 and 6 and excm-ved at middle ; a terminal series of 

 brown striae faintlv defined on inner side bv grey ; cilia red-brown 

 intersected with whitish. Hind wing grey tinged with red-browni, 

 the terminal area pale red-brown ; a slight brown discoidal lunule 

 and faint cm-ved ^^ostmedial line ; cilia chequered red-brown and 

 Avhitish ; the underside paler with reddish brown patch at middle of 

 costa, small discoidal spot, postmedial line excurved beyond the 

 cell, cui'ved subterminal line and fine dark terminal line. 



Ab. 1. melanotica. Uniform fuscous black. 



Hah. Britatx, Leech Coll. ; France, Sand Coll. ; Geemaxt, 

 ZcUer, Frey, and Leech Colls.; Austria; Hungary; Switzer- 

 land, Frey Coll. ; X. Italy ; S. Kussia, Sarepta, Leech Coll. ; 

 Armenia ; Asia Minor, Pontus. JExjj. 28-40 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 17.3; Barrett, Lep. Brit. ii. p. 324, pi. 82. 

 ff. 2 a-d. 



Greyish or pinkish ochreous, the hairs pale grcy ; dorsal line 

 sometimes black ; spiracular line sometimes ]«Ie ; tufts of hair on 

 4th and 5th somites brown or reddish ; hair-pencils on 1st and 11th 

 somites black or brown ; head sometimes black. Food-plants : 

 Beech, Hazel, etc. 7-9. 



8174. Calocasia flavicornis. (Plate CCXXXIY. fig. 3.) 



Bemas flavicornis. Smith, Bull. Brooklyn Eiit. Soc. vii. p. 3 (1S84); id. 

 Cat. Lep. ^^ Am. p. 32. 



5 . Head and teguke white slightly mixed Avith brown, the 

 thorax white strongly mixed with brown ; ]iatagia with three 

 oblique brown bars ; pectus and legs white with a slight ochreous 

 tinge, the tibiiB and tarsi rhiged with bro\\n ; abdomen white 

 strongly mixed with red-brown, the ventral surface ochreous white. 

 Fore wing white slightly iiTorated with red-brown, the terminal 

 area tinged with pale red-brown, the area below submedian fold 

 from near base to the ])ostmedial line tinged witli red-brown and 

 irroratcd with rougli black scales ; subliasal line brownish, oblique, 

 from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line brownish, incurved 



