Mii-'rciA. — AKUA. 425 



Fore wing olive-grey irrorated with dark brown ; a black point in 

 cell near base ; antemedial line pale, defined on inner side by 

 brown on costal half and on outer side by brown suffusion on inner 

 half, oblique and slightly sinuous ; a small black spot in middle of 

 cell ; reniform black, constricted at middle ; postmedial line pale 

 with a band of red-brown suffusion on its outer side, excurved to 

 vein 4, then oblique and slightly excurved towards inner margin ; 

 a rufous streak on inner margin; subterminal line red-brown, 

 waved, angled outwards below vein 7 and slightly below vein 4 ; 

 a, series of black points just before tei'men ; cilia pale rufous. 

 Hind Aving ochreous suffused with reddish brown, the terminal 

 half with fuscous brown; a narrow whitish medial band from 

 costa to submedian fold ; cilia brownish white. Underside brownish 

 white ; fore wing with fuscous discoidal lunule and faint fuscous 

 postmedial patch between vein 5 and submedian fold. 



Ab. 1. rufa. Fore wing nearly uniform deep rufous, the lines 



indistinct. 



Ab. 2. murina. Similar but fore wing leaden grey with hardly 



any red-brown tinge. 



Ab. 3. maura. Fore wing deep purple -brown, the lines 



distinct. 



Hah. Britain ; Feance, Sand Coll. ; Germany, Zeller Coll. ; 



Austria ; Hungary ; Switzerland, Frey Coll. ; Spain ; Italy ; 



Algeria [Mrs. NicJioll), 1 S ; Dalmatia, Leech Coll. ; Greece ; 



Armenia ; Asia Minor, Pontus, Bithynia, Lydia. Exp. 50-62 



millim. 



Larva. Mejr. Brit. Lep. p. 161 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. vi. p. 245 ; Hffu]. 



Eaiip. p. 147, pi. 37. f. 1. 



Brown ; dorsal line moniliform ; subdorsal line broad, black, 



enclosing pale spots ; three fine dark lateral lines ; spiracular line 



sometimes pale yellow; somites 4, 12, 13 with a pair of dorsal 



prominences ; head brown ; "all the prologs present. Food-plant : 



Oak. 7-8. 



Genus ANUA. 



Type. 



Anua, WIL xv. 1788 (1858) finifascia. 



Stenosis, Mab. C. R. Soc. Ent. Belg. xxiii. p. cvii (1880) reducta. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex 

 of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd rather long and oblique; frons smooth 

 with pointed tuft of hair above ; eyes large, round ; antennae of male ciliated ; 

 thorax clothed with hair only and without crests ; fore coxae, femora, and 

 tibise tufted with long hair, the mid and hind tibise slightly fringed with 

 hair, the fore tibiae not spined, the mid and hind tibia spined; abdomen with 

 dorsal ridges of hair on basal segments. Fore wing rather long and narrow, 

 the apex rounded, the termen crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 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 the cell about one-third length of wing; veins 

 3, 4 from angle; 5 fully developed from just above angle ; 6, 7 from upper 

 angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



