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CARADRININA 



[NUDAUTA 



greyish subterminal line, connected with termen in middle. 

 Hindwings transparent, faintly ochreous-tinged 



Britain to the Clyde, Kincardine, N. and W. Ireland, rather 

 common; N. and C. Europe, Asia Minor; 7-8. Larva pale 

 grey-brown, dorsal area bright pale yellow, hairs rather dark 

 grey-brown ; dorsal line dark fuscous; subdorsal blackish-brown ; 

 a blackish dorsal spot on 8 ; head dark brown : on lichens ; 9-5. 



8. ROESELIA, ffb. 



Head with appressed scales, forming a short facial projection. 



Ocelli present. Antennae in <4 

 ciliated with fascicles, some- 

 times rising from very short 

 pectinations, basal joint densely 

 tufted in front. Palpi moder- 

 ately long, straight, porrected, 

 rough- scaled. Thorax smooth 

 beneath. Abdomen smooth- 

 scaled, with small dorsal crest. 

 Tibiae smooth-scaled. Forewings 

 with scale-tufts on surface ; 7 

 absent, 8 and 9 stalked, 10 

 absent. Hindwings : 4 absent, 

 5 parallel to 3, 6 and 7 stalked, 



Neuration of Roesdia confusalis. g from middle Q f ce H. 



A genus of some extent and rather general distribution, but 

 most numerous in Australia. Larva with tufts of hairs, with- 

 out prolegs on 7. 



Collar wholly white . . . .1. centonalis. 



,, with a fuscous band . . .2. confusalis. 



1. E. centonalis, Hb. 17-19 mm. Head and thorax white. 

 Forewings white, more or less partially sprinkled or suffused 

 with brown ; an irregular fuscous spot on base of costa ; first, 

 median, and second lines blackish, angulated near costa, space 

 between median and second brown, median line itself often 

 nearly obsolete ; subterminal white, anteriorly often blackish- 

 edged, margins suffused with brown. Hindwings light grey ; 

 sometimes a darker discal dot. 



Kent, I. of Wight, scarce ; C. Europe, WC. and N. Asia ; 7. 

 Larva dull pink or purplish-pink, hairs grey-brown ; dorsal line 

 ochreous-yellow, interrupting a series of black V-s'iaped marks; 

 a subdorsal series of black linear marks ; spiracular very faint, 

 yellowish ; head black-brown : on Trifolium, Lotus, etc. ; 9-5. 



