ILEMA. 1G9 



yellow ; legs partly yellow ; abdomen yellowish towards extremity. 

 Fore wing with costal yellow fascia usually very narrow, sometimes 

 broader towards base ; costal edge black towards base; cilia often 

 yellow at tips. Hind wing yellowish grey, the termeu and cilia 

 yellow. 



Fore wing with veins 3, 4 rather shortly stalked ; 6 from below 

 angle of cell or stalked with 7, S, 9 ; 10 free or stalked with 7, 8, 9, 

 or 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 anasto- 

 mosing with 1;2. 



Ab. 1. serva. Hind wing pale yellow. — Japan, Nepal, Borneo. 



Ab. 2. fava. Almost uniform pale ochreous.— England. 



Hah. Bkitain ; France; Germany, Zell. Coll.; Swiizehland, Frey 

 Coll.; Italy; Finland; Ueals ; Altai; Amue; Japan {Pryer, 

 Jonas), types cfgrota^ adavcia ; N. China {Fortune), 2 c5" , 2 2 , tjpe 

 vdusta; Tibet; 'Nepa'l (Baidwicke), 1 J, 1 5 , type serva; Sixhiji ; 

 Manipuk, type t fuscicilia in Coll. Elwes ; Yunnan (Anderson), 1 c? , 

 iy^e niacin a; Borneo, Sarawak ( lFrt?/rtO^'), 1 c? ; W. Africa, Ogove 

 K., 1 2 1 co-type suhwnbraia, type t c? in Coll. Holland. Exp. 28- 

 38 niillim. Type t lenta in Coll. Leech. 



Larva, Meyrick, Brit. Lep. p. 28; Barrett, Lep. Brit. ii. p. 226, pi. 67. f. 1. 



Blackish brown ; hairs dark brown ; dorsal line black ; subdorsal 

 line orange-yellow, interrupted, enlarged, and partly eouflueut on 

 somites 1, 2, and 12, otherwise rather faint; head shining black. 

 Food-plants, Lichens and dead leaves ; 8-6. 



344. Ilema xanthocraspis, n. n. (Plate XXII. fig. 30.) 

 Lithosia nigri^pars, Hmpsn. Mollis Iiid. ii. jd. 81, nee Wlk. 



Yellowish white ; abdomen fuscous, clothed with white hair, 

 the extremity orange. Fore wing with the costa and base of cilia 

 orange ; the underside sutiused with fuscous. 



Fore wing with vein 6 from below angle of cell ; 7, 8, 9 stalked ; 

 10, 11 free. 



11 ah. SiKHiM, (Pilcher) 1 c? tjpe, (Lidderdale) 2 § . Exj^). 32 

 niillim. 



345. Ilema caniola. 



Bomhyx caniola, Hiibn. Eur. Sduiiett. ii. f. 220 (1827) ; Godt. & Dup. Lep. 



Fr. V. p. 18, & Siippl. iii. p. 22, pi. 2. f. 1 ; Boisd. Icones, ii p. 99, pi. 67. 



f. 8 ; Ramb. Cat. Lep. Aud. p. 2U6 ; Stgr. Cat. p. 54 ; Ku-by, Cat. Het. 



p. 330. 

 Bomhyx alheola, Hiibn. Eur. Schniett. ii. ff. 284, 285 (1827). 

 Lithosia lacteola, Boisd. Icones, ii. p. 100, pi. 58. f. 4 (18o4); Dup. Lep. 



Fr. iii. p. 38, pi. 3. f. 3. 

 Lithosia viiellina, Boisd. Icones, ii. p. 105, pi. 57. f. 10 (1834"). 

 '{Lithosia itniola, Ramb. Cat. Lep. And. p. 209 (1866) ; Stgr. Cat. p. 54 ; 



Kirbj, Cat. Het. p. 330. 

 Lithosia caniola, var. complanoides, Fuchs, JB. Nass. "Ver. xlv, p. 88 



(1891). 



Head and tegulsie orange ; antenna; fuscous ; thorax and abdomen 

 fuscous; legs tinged with orange; anal tul't orange. Fore wing 



