ACOSMETIA. 



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median nervures, then oblique ; orbicular and reniform absent ; 

 postraedial line indistinctly double filled in with grey, slightly bent 

 out-wards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; subterminal 

 Jinc indistinct, grey defined on inner side by dark suffusion, slightly 

 Gxcurved below 7 and oblique below vein 3 ; a terminal series of 

 dark stiiaj. Hind wing purplish grey tinged with brown ; tho 

 underside irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal spot. 

 Ilah. FoEMosA, 1 (S type. Exp. 20 millim. 



4093. Acosmetia caliginosa. 



Nociua caliginosa, Hiibn. Eur. Sehmett , Noct. f. 474 (1818) ; Dup. Lep. Fr., 

 Siippl iii. p. 341, pi. 31. t. 4 ; Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. iii. p. 122 ; 

 Herr.-Sehaff, Eur. Sehmett., Noct. f. 435; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 199. 



AntJwphila litorea, Frr. Neue Beitr. v. p. 1(J3, pi. 479. ff. 1, 2 (1845). 



Caradrina utagnicolor, Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. p. Ill, pi. 107, f. 6 (nee Ochs.). 



Acosmetia aquatilis, Guen. Noct. i. p. 240, pi. 5. f. 2 (1862). 



Acosmetia tristis, Teich, Stett. ent. Zeit. 1898, p. 29. 



Head and thorax purplish brown tinged with greyish ; the palpi, 

 frons, and fore legs tinged with fuscous ; abdomen grey irrorated 

 with brown. Fore win.-^ silky purplish brown thickly irrorated 

 with grey ; antemedial lino indistinct, brown, strongly waved and 

 angled inwards on vein 1 ; stigmata absent ; postmedial line 

 indistinct, brown, interrupted, bent outwards below costa, then 

 with short dark streaks beyond it on the veins, slightly incurved at 



Fig. 10S.—Acos7?iciia caliginosa, .(^ }. 



discal fold and incurved below vein 4 ; traces of a pale subterminal 

 line slightly defined by brown on inner side, angled outwards at 

 vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of slight dark 

 striae ; cilia with a fine dark line near base. Hind wing silky grey 

 suffused with pale red-broAvn ; cilia rather paler with a slight 

 brown line near base ; the underside whitish thickly irrorated with 

 pale red-brown. 



Ab. 1. aquatilis. Paler ; fore wing yellowish grey. — Frals, 

 Armenia, Altai, Ala Tau. 



Ilab. Britain, Leech Coll. ; France ; Germahy, Zeller, Frey, & 

 Leech Colls. ; Austria ; Hungary, Leech Coll. ; Switzerland ; 

 ? Spain, Catalonia ; JST. Italy ; ? Sweden ; Balcaw States ; Eussia, 

 Urals, Zeller Coll. ; W. TxrRJiESTAN, Ala Tau ; W. Siberia, Altai, 

 Exp. 28-34 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Lep. Brit. p. 114 ; Barrett, Brit. Lep. v. p. 263, pi. 219. f. 2. 



Sap-green with yellow segmental incisions, the lines fine, white. 

 Food-plants : Serrahda iinctoria, Savr/nisorha, liumex. 



