-100 



AKCT1AD.E, 



line ; the diffused antemedial line cxcurvcd from below costa to 

 submcdian fold ; a ditViised brownish patch in lower end of cell and 

 a discoidal point ; the ditfused post medial line obsolescent towards 



Fig. 346. — Lymantriopsis lacteata, (S . 5. 



costa, excurved beyond the cell, then oblique ; traces of a sub- 

 terminal line. Hind wing tinged with yellowish towards termen. 



Hah. W. Africa, Ogove lliver. Type f c? in Coll. Holland. 

 Exp. 10 millira. 



Genus PAIDIA. 



Type. 

 Patrf/a, Hubn. Verz. p. 159 (1827) murina. 



Proboscis absent ; palpi porrect to well beyond the frong, and roughly scaled ; 

 antennjE of male serrate ; tibia- witli spurs moderate ; wings sjiarsely clotbed 

 with hairlike scales. Fore wing rather broad, the costa arched, the apex 

 rounded ; the cell long ; vein 2 from middle of cell ; 3 from well before angle ; 

 b Irom above angle ; (i from upper angle ; 7, 8 stalked, 9 absent; 10, 11 from 

 cell. Ilind wing with the cell long ; vein 2 from middle ; 3, 4 stalked ; 5 from 

 well above angle ; (3, 7 stalked ; 8 from before middle of cell. 



997. Paidia murina. 



Bomhyx murina, Hiibn. Beitr. Schmett. ii. (3). p. 6fi, pi. 2, K (1792) ; Esp. 



Schmett. iii. Suppl. p. 49, pi. 88. f. 1 ; Godt. Lep. Fr. iv. p. 399, pi. 40. f. 8 ; 



Staud. Cat. p. .n2 : Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 3fil. 

 Bomhyx vestita, Iliibn. Eur. Schmett. ii. f. 62 (1800). 

 Bomhyx rica, Frey. Beitr. vii. p. 73. pi. 642. f. 3 (1848). 

 Niidoria cinerascen,% Herr.-Schiiff. Schmett. Eur. ii. p. 162, f. 143 (1855). 

 Kiidaria murina var. covjuncta, Staud. Deutseh. ent. Zeit., Lep. iv. p. 249 



(1891) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 916. 



Pale grey-brown ; fore and hind tibioe and tarsi fuscous above. 

 Fore wing with the costa blackish towards base ; a point at base of 

 cell ; an antemedial oblique line from costa to subcostal nervure, then 



represented by points on the 

 veins ; a point in middle of 

 cell just above median 

 nervure : two small discoidal 

 spots ; an oblique postmedial 

 line irom costa to vein (5, 

 then represented by a curved 

 scries of points on the veins. 

 Hind wing whitish. 



Fig. 347. — Paidia murina, (^ . 



Ab. 

 grey ; fore 

 points conjoined into lines. — Turkey; Armenia. 



cmernscens. Dull 

 with the 



wing 



