3GG ■KOCTVTDJE. 



8179. Diphthera coenobita. 



Bnmhy.v cce.nohUa, Esp. St-limett. iii. p. 196, pi. .S7. f. 7 & pi. S2. f. 2 

 (1785); Hiibn. Eur. Schniett., 13oinb. ff. 72, 7-3 & Noct. f. 508; ])iip. 

 Lep. Fr. yii, pi. 116. f . 4 ; Frej, Beitr. pi. 17; Staud. Oat. Lep. pal. 

 p. 130. 



Head and thorax ochreous white ; antennae black with the 

 branches brown ; palpi and sides of frons black ; tegulas black at 

 base and with black dorsal streak ; patagia with black patches at 

 base, middle, and tips ; pro-, meso-, and metathorax with large 

 ]3aired black spots ; pectus brownish white, blackish in front ; 

 tibiae and tarsi banded with black ; abdomen black, the anal tuft 

 and ventral surface white, lateral and sublateral series of black 

 spots. Fore wing creamy white ; a small black spot below base of 

 cell ; two subbasal black-brown marks on costa, a patch below the 

 cell and spot above inner margin ; a small round black spot in 

 middle of cell ; reniform white defined by black except above and 

 with white spot before it on the black-brown medial band which is 



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Fig. 95. — Di'pldhera cxnohita, (^ . i. 



waved to lower angle of cell, then the whole medial area black- 

 broM^i ; postmedial line black-brown, dentate, indvirved at discal 

 fold and below vein 4, defined on inner side by some whitish on the 

 dark medial area ; a black-brown subterminal band with dentate 

 edges, strong towards costa, at middle, and towards inner margin, 

 somewhat incurved at discal fold and below vein 3 ; some dentate 

 black-brown marks before termen with a large patch between 

 veins 6 and 4 ; a terminal series of black-brown bars ; cilia 

 chequered black-brown and white. Hind wing whitish suffused 

 with brown, the interspaces rather paler ; traces of a diffused 

 sinvious dark subterminal band ending on termen at vein 1 ; a dark 

 terminal line ; cilia chequered brown and white ; the underside 

 white, an antemedial black-brown band from costa to median 

 nerviire, a postmedial band with waved edges, incurved at discal 

 fold and below vein 3, a bar from costa before apex and oblique 

 bar from vein 2 to termen at vein 1 ; the veins of terminal area 

 with dark streaks. 



Hab. Gekmais'Y, Zeller, Trey, and Leech Colls. ; Afsteia, 

 Leech Coll. ; Hukgaet ; N. Italy, Zeller Coll. ; Balkak States; 



