EEASTEIA. 659 



length of head, the 2nd joint slightly scaled, the 3rd moderate, porrect ; frons 

 with rounded prominence with ridge at middle and corneous plate below it ; 

 eyes large, round ; antennae of mule minutely ciliated ; thorax clothed entirely 

 with scales and without crests ; tibiae smoothly scaled ; abdomen with a minute 

 crest at base. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and 

 not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 

 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the ai-eole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing 

 with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell or shortly stalked ; 6 nearly fully developed 

 from well below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anasto- 

 moaing with the cell to near middle. 



A. Fore wing black-brown, the basal and medial areas with 



some pale green scales „ viridisquama. 



B. Fore wing with yellowish white markings, rarely wholly 



black. 



a. Pore wing with blackish or olive spots on costa. 



a^. Fore wing with black-brown fascia on inner margin, trabealis. 

 b^. Fore wing without black-brown fascia on inner 



margin deleta. 



b. Fore wing reddish brown with yellowish costal fascia 



leaving a slight brown streak on costa fascicdis. 



5999. Erastria viridisquama. (Plate CLXVIII. fig. 26.) 



Acontia vh-idisquama, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 219, pi. 10. f. 3 (1852); Staud. 

 Cat. Lep. pal. p. 225. 



cJ . Head and thorax black-brown mixed with some grey ; palpi 

 white at base ; tegulse edged with white ; pectus and legs with 

 white mixed, the tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen dark brown with 

 slight pale segmental lines, the genital tuft ochreous. Fore wing 

 black-brown, the basal and medial areas clothed with long pale 

 green scales, rather yellower at base ;. subbasal, antemedial, and 

 postmedial lines represented by white strise from costa ; reuiform 

 with indistinct white annulus, elliptical ; subterminal line indis- 

 tinct, greenish, excurved at middle; some greenish scales on termen; 

 cilia black-brown with white patches below apex and at middle. 

 Hind wing black-brown with a cupreous tinge ; cilia tipped with 

 white ; the underside with the basal half whitish, the terminal half 

 black-brown, a dark discoidal bar and curved postmedial line, a 

 subterminal whitish band from costa to vein 4, and patch m sub- 

 median interspace. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing nearly uniform black-brown with a few long 

 yellowish scales on basal and medial areas ; cilia white-tipped ait 

 apex and middle. 



Bab. France, E. Pyrenees ; Spain, Aragon, Valencia, Canales- 

 (Chapman), 1 J, Castile, Madrid. Eoap. 24 millim. 



2Tr2 



