ACTINOTIA. 125 



a yellowish-white streak below the cell, with a black streak below 

 it to middle of wing ; a subbasal oblique black streak above inner 

 margin ; subbasal line indistinct, angled inwards on subcostal 

 nervure : antemedial line indistinct, angled inwards in cell and 

 outwards below cell and above inner margin ; claviform represented 

 by a short black streak ; orbicular and reniform small, with brown 

 centres and grey annuli defined by black, the former small, elliptical, 

 the latter constricted at middle, some black between them in cell ; 

 postmedial line indistinct, dentate, bent outwards below costa, 

 excurved to vein -i, then oblique, and angled inwards in submedian 

 fold ; the subterminal line arising from apex, angled inwards in discal 

 and submedian folds, defined by brown suffusion on its outer edges 

 and crossed by short black streaks in the interspaces ; cilia brown, 

 intersected with grey. Hind wing fuscous brown, paler towards 

 base ; cilia grey, with a brown line through them ; the underside 

 grey, irrorated with brown ; a slight discoidal lunula and curved 

 postmedial line. 



Hah. France; Germany, Zeller Coll. : Switzerland, Frey Coll.; 

 Spain : Italy ; Scandinavia (once) ; Balcan States ; Armenia ; 

 Asia Minor: Syria, Leech Coll., 1 c? ; Mesopotamia. Kr^?. 30-31 

 millim. 



Larva. Boisd. Chen. pi. 22. f. 5. 



Red-brown, dorsal and subdorsal lines yellowish, defined by dark 

 brown ; a broad lateral yellowish band with the black stigmata on 

 its upper edge. Food-plant, Hypericum rjerforatum. 6. 



*222. Actinotia conjimcta. (Plate LXIX. fig. 22.) 

 Chloantha ? coiijuncia, Piing, Iris, xii. p. 294, pi. 9. f. 15 (1899). 



Grey. Head and thorax clothed with rather woolly hair. Fore 

 wing irrorated with black : subbasal line represented by a striga 

 from costa; a black streak below the cell from base to the blackish 

 antemedial line, which is oblique, excurved below costa and angled 

 outwards below cell and above inner margin ; orbicular narrow, 

 elliptical, oblique, defined by black ; reniform narrow, w^hitish, its 

 lower part connected with orbicular by a curved white mark defined 

 by black below ; traces of a medial shade : postmedial line indistinct, 

 dentate, excurved from costa to vein 4, then oblique ; subterminal 

 line angled outwards at vein 7, dentate at veins 4 and 3, and 

 ending in an irregular w^hite patch above tornus, the area beyond 

 it darker, commencing obliquely below apex and leaving the costa 

 grey, and with a series of dark streaks in the interspaces ; cilia 

 chequered brown and grey. Hind wing whitish, suffused with 

 brown ; a slight dark discoidal lunule ; whitish patches on termen 

 at middle and tornus ; cilia whitish. 



Uah. Tibet, Ivuku ISToor, type t d , $ in Coll. Piingelev. 



