362 KOC'TL'ID.^, 



reddish brown, the crests darker, the ventral surface grey. Fore 

 wing grey irrorated with red-brown, the basal half strongly suffused 

 with red-brown, the tei'minal area tinged with red-brown ; some 

 blackish irroi'ation below the cell before the blackish antemedial 

 line, which is angled outwards below the costa and at submedian 

 fold and inwards at median nervure and vein 1, connected by fine 

 blackish streaks above and below submedian fold with the rather 

 diffused blackish brown medial line which is incurved at submedian 

 fold ; orbicular a small round black annulus with some blackish in 

 centre ; reniform a very narrow lunule defined by black, strongly 

 on inner side ; postmedial line blackish, excurved, slightly sinuous 

 and red-brown from below costa to vein 4, then incurved, some 

 minute dark streaks beyond it on costa ; subterminal line whitish 

 defined on inner side by red-brown, slightly Avaved, angled outwards 

 below veins 7 and 6 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of 

 brown striae faintly defined on inner side by grey ; cilia red-brown 

 intersected Avith Avhitish, Hind wing grey tinged with red-brown, 

 the terminal area pale red-brown ; a slight brown discoidal lunule 

 and faint curved postmedial line ; cilia chequered red-brown and 

 whitish ; the underside j^aler with reddish brown patch at middle of 

 costa, small discoidal spot, postmedial line excurved beyond the 

 cell, curved subterminal line and fine dark terminal line. 



Ab. 1. melanotica. Uniform fuscous black. 



Hah. Britain, Leech Coll. ; Feance, Sand Coll. ; Geemant, 

 Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls. ; Austeia ; Hungary ; Switzer- 

 land, Frey Coll. ; N. Italy ; S. Russia, Sarepta, Leech Coll. ; 

 Armenia ; Asia Minor, Pontus. Exp. 28-40 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 173 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. ii. p. 324, pi. 82. 



Greyish or pinkish ochreous, the hairs pale grey ; dorsal line 

 sometimes black ; spiracular line sometimes pale ; tufts of hair on 

 4th and 5th somites brown or reddish ; hair-pencils on 1st and 11th 

 somites black or brown ; head sometimes black. Food-plants : 

 Beech, Hazel, etc. 7-9. 



8174. Calocasia flavicornis. (Plate CCXXXIV. fig. 3.) 



Dcmas flavicornis, Smitli, Bull. Brooklyn Eiit. Soc. vii. p. 3 (1884); id. 

 Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 32. 



2 . Head and tegulse white slightly mixed with brown, the 

 thorax white strongly mixed with brown ; patagia with three 

 oblique brown bars ; pectus and legs white with a slight ochreous 

 tinge, the tibise and tarsi ringed with brown ; abdomen Avhite 

 strongly mixed with red-brown, the ventral surface ochreous white. 

 Fore wing white slightly irrorated with red-brown, the terminal 

 area tinged Avith pale red-brown, the area below submedian fold 

 from near base to the postmedial line tinged with red-broAvn and 

 irrorated Avith rough black scales ; subbasal line broAvnish, oblique, 

 from costa to submedian fold : antemedial line broAvnish, incurved 



