438 KOCTUID^. 



whitish on outer side, bent outwards below costa, incurved at discal 

 fold, incurved and minutely dentate below vein 4, some white 

 points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line with small yellowish 

 spot at costa, then very indistinct and slightly escurved below 

 vein 7 and at middle ; a terminal series of slight pale striee ; cilia 



Fig. 120. — Mesotrosta signalis, S ■ f • 



•with a dark line at middle and whitish tips. Hind wing greyish 

 suiFused and irrorated with brown; a fine dark terminal line ; cilia 

 with a brown line near base and whitish tips ; the underside 

 whitish irrorated with brown ; a small brown discoidal spot and 

 indistinct curved minutely waved postmedial line. 



Hab. Attstkia, Zeller Coll. ; Hfngakt, Zeller, Frey, and Leech 

 Colls. ; EussiA, Ural Mts. Exj). 20-24 millim. 



Larva. Hffiii. Eaup. p. 143. 



Head brown ; dorsal area flesh-colour with yellowish inter- 

 segmental rings ; dorsal line dark ; sides yellow ; ventral surface 

 whitish ; warts brown ; thoracic shield yelloAvish ; all the prolegs 

 fully developed. 



Genus H-SIMASSIA, nov. 



Type, H. renalis. 



Proboscis aborted, minute ; palpi obliquely porrect, extending about the 

 length of head and moderately scaled ; frons with large rounded prominence ; 

 eyes large, round ; antennae of male bipectinate with moderate branches to 

 apex, of female with shorter branches ; thorax clothed chieily with scales, the 

 pro- and nietathoraxwith spreading crests ; tibia; moderately fringed with hair ; 

 abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly 

 curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 6 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper 

 angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. 

 Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from below middle 

 of discocellulars ; 6,7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near 

 base only. 



4132. Hsemassia renalis. 



Pi/ralis renalis, Hubn, Eur. Schmett., Pyr. f. 157(1818); Geyer, Eur. 



Schmett., Noct. S. 864-5 ; Stand. Oat. Lep. pal. p. 233. 

 Hmmerosia o'enigera, Dup. Lep. Fr., Suppl. iii. p. 570, pi. 47. f. 7 (1836). 

 Anthophiia venifera, Fr. Neue Beitr. vi. p. 103, pi. 545. f. 1 (1852). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous whitish tinged with blood- 

 red, the pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen deeper red. 



