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arctiadj:. 



Jlah. Italy, type in Coll. Staudinger ; Amur, 1 S , and ab. an- 

 austa 1 c?; Jai'An, Tokio (Fenton, Fri/er), 2 J, type noctis, Kuriga- 

 hara (Letvis), 1 c? . Exp. 20-2S millim., amjusta 18 millim. 

 Types t sutschana, obtriia, amjusUi in Coll. Staudiiiger. 



Sect. II. Probo.scis well dercloped ; fore wing with reins 3, 4 modcriitcly 

 stalked. 



A. {relosia). Fore wing with vein 6 stalked with 7, 8. 



1G5. Pelosia inuscerda, 



Vhal(ena inuscerda, Hiifn. Berl. Mag. iii. (4) p. 400 (1767): Iliibn. Eur. 



Scim:ett. ii. Bomb. f. 103 ; Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 97 ; Dup. 



Lep. Fr., Sii])pl. iii. p. 32, pi. 1. f. 0; Boi.<;d. Icones, ii. p. 108, pi. 58. 



f. 5; Stand. Cat. p. 53 : Kirbv, Cat. Ilet. p. .'^21. 

 Nocfua ciiicriiia, Esp. Scl)njett. ir. 2 (2) p. (57 (178(5). 

 jS'ocftta pvdori7>a, Esp. Scinnett. iv. 2 (2) p. 67, pi. 1%. ff. -1, 5 (178G). 

 Tinea perlcUa, Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. p. 241 (1787). 



Brownish grey. Fore -wing with the costal area pale to beyond 

 middle, the edge of costa black towards base; oblitjuoly placed 



Fig. 27. — Pelosia viuscer da, cJ. \. 



black medial spo1s in submedian fold and on vein 1 ; an oblique 

 series of four black spots from costa beyond middle to beyond lower 

 angle of cell. Hind wing pale towards base. 



Ifab. Britain, E. Counties; France; Germany, Zell. and Frey 

 Colls. ; Livonia ; Daoiatia; Japan, Yesso, 1 cJ , Yokohama {Fri/er), 

 1 2 . Exj). 30-34 millim. 



Larva. Meyrick, Brit. Lep. p. 28 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. ii. p. 210, pi. 6G. f. G. 



Blackish brown mixed with reddish grey ; hairs dark brown ; 

 dorsal and subdorsal lines black; subspiracular line reddish grey, 

 interrupted ; two dcop-rcd s])ots on somite 1 and one on somite 12 ; 

 head black. Food-plant, lichens and dead leaves; 8-6. 



B. {Paidina). Fore wing with vein G from angle of cell. 



a. Fore wing with four black points tetrasticta. 



b. Fore wing without black points ramttloxa. 



1G6. Pelosia tetrasticta, n. sp. 

 J . Very pale brownish grey. Fore wing with t^ o obliquely- 



