58 NOCTTJIT)^. 



irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal spot and traces of post- 

 medial line excurved from costa to vein 4. 



Ab. 1. nigra. Blacker. 



Ab. 2. sundevalli. Fore wing more olive-brown without white on 

 postmedial and terminal areas. 



Hah. Britain, Scotland, Leech Coll., England, Leech Coll. ; France, 

 Sand Coll. ; Geumany, Zeller, Frey, & Leech Colls.; Austria, Leech 

 Coll. ; HuNGAES^ ; Switzerland, Frey Coll. ; Italy; Greece ; Scandi- 

 navia ; Russia, Esthonia, Frey Coll., Livonia, Zeller Coll., Sarepta; 

 Armenia ; E. Siberia, Ussuri ; Japan, Oiwake. E.vp. 34-44 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 142 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iii. p. 272, pi. 123. f. 2. 



Bale bluish green, veutrally yellowish green ; dorsal line whitish ; 

 lateral line pale yellow ; spiracles red ; warts black, bearing single 

 rather loDg black hairs ; head green. Food-plants : Ash and rarely 

 Brivet, Alder, &c. 7-9. 



3634. Craniophora obscura. (Blate CXXIV. fig. T.) 



Craniophora obscura, Leech, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1900, p. 107. 



Head and thorax black mixed with some grey and white ; frons 

 with white bars at middle and between antnnae ; tegnhe with the 

 basal half white irrorated with black ; patagia with wbitish 

 patches ; tarsi black ringed with white ; abdomen grey-white 

 irrorated with black and dorsally tinged with brown at base, the 

 crests white tipped with black. Fore wing grey-white mostly 

 suffused with black-brown and thickly irrorated Avith black ; sub- 

 basal line double filled in with greyish, waved, from costa to vein 1 ; 

 antcmedial line double filled in with greyish, oblique, waved, a slight 

 whitish mark beyond the position of claviform ; orbicular andreniform 

 irregularly defined by black, the former with diffused white annulus 

 except above, rounded, the latter with two grey stri;e on inner 

 edge and two whitish points on outer side near upper extremity ; 

 two medial black striae from costa and a faint oblique waved line 

 from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line double 

 filled in with grey lunules, bent outwards below costa, then 

 minutely waved, incurved below vein 4, some whitish points 

 beyond it on costa ; subterminal line represented by a series of 

 indistinct whitish lunules ; a terminal series of small triangular 

 black spots, defined on inner side by whitish lunules ; cilia white and 

 black mixed and with series of blackish spots. Hind wing white 

 tinged with brown, the veins and terminal area from apex to vein 2 

 suffused with brown, in female wholly suffused with brown ; a sinuous 

 postmedial line ; the termen whitish with series of slight dark 

 lunules with blackish spots beyond them on the cilia ; the under- 

 side white irrorated with fuscous, a black discoidal spot, postmedial 

 Hue waved from costa to vein 4, then oblique, and a terminal series 

 of black strise. 



Hab. W. China, Ni-tou, 1 J , 1 $ type, Kwei-chow, 1 $ , Bu- 

 tsu-fang, 1 $ . Exj). 42-48 millim. 



