PAIWA. — APAIDIA. 467 



Ab. 2. conjuncta. Fore wing with the antemedial line stronger ; 

 the point in middle of cell sometimes absent. — Mesopotamia. 



Hah. Prance ; Germany, Zell. and Frey Colls. ; Bpaix ; Italy ; 

 Hungary; Greece; Turkey; Armenia; Syria; Mesopotamia, 

 type t conjuncta in Coll. Staudinger. Exp.^ S 28, $ 30 millim. 



Larva. Xirby, Eur. Butt. & Moths, p. 95. 



Pale grey, with two subdorsal series of sulphur-yellow spots ; 

 warts yellowish grey. Food-plant, Lichens. 



Subsp. 1. rt/iesce?is, Staud. Deutsch. ent.Zeit.,Lep. iv. p. 249 (1891); Kirby, 

 Cat. Ilet. p. 916. 



Ground-colour dull white, sometimes very slightly tinged with 

 brown. 



Hab. Syria, Antioch, 1 c? , 1 $ • Type in Coll. Staudinger. 



Genus APAIDIA, n. nov. ^ 



Type. 



Paidia. Herr.-Sclmff. Samml. Eur. Schmett. ii. p. 156 (1847), 



nee Hiibn. 1827 mesogona. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, reaching vertex of head ; antennje 

 of male with bristles and cilia; tibia? with the spurs moderate. Fore wing 

 with vein 2 from middle of cell ; 3, 4 stalked ; 5 from above angle ; 6 from 

 upper angle; 7, 8, 9 stalked ; 10 free ; 11 anastomosing with 12. Hind wing 

 with vein 2 from towards end of cell ; 3, 4 stalked ; 5 absent ; 6, 7 stalked ; 

 8 from middle of cell. 



A. Ground-colour fuscous brown mesogona. 



B. Ground-colour pale brownish grey rufeola. 



998. Apaidia mesogona. 



Callimorpha mesogona, Godt. Lep. 

 Fr. iv. p. 396, pi. 40. f. 6 (1822) ; 

 Herr.-Schaff'. Samml. Eur. Schmett. 

 ii. p. 1.".6. f. GO ; Staud. Cat. p. 52 ; 

 Kirbj, Cat. Het. p. 363. 



Fuscous brown ; hind legs and 

 ventral surface of abdomen yel- 

 lowish. Fore wing with indis- 

 Fig. S-iS.—AiJaidia mesogofia, (^ . f. tinct dark medial line, obli(iiie 



from below costa to vein 5 and 

 at vein 3 retracted to origin of vein 2. 



Hub. Central France, 3 c? , 1 $ , Zell. Coll. Exj>. 24 millim. 



*999. Apaidia rufeola. 



Lithosia rufeola, Kamb. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. i. p. 271, pi. 8. f. 12 (1832) ; 

 Boisd. Icones, ii. p. 109, pi. .58. f. 6; Dup. Lep. Fr. Suppl. iii. p. 36, 

 pi. 3. ff. 1, 2 ; Kirby, Cat. Ilet. p. 363. 



Pale brownish grey ; head and thorax suffused with brown. 

 Fore wing strongly irrorated with brown ; the costal edge blackish 

 towards base ; an oblique brown striga below tlic cell just before 

 middle, a short streak on vein 1, and a slight spot on inner margin; 



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