LYCOPHOTlA. ADITA. 



579 



Ab. 1. flavomaculata. Fore wing bluish green ; hind wing much 

 darker. — Mongolia ; Amiirland ; Japan. 



Hah. Britai:^, Leech Coll. ; France ; Germaijy, Zeller Coll. ; 

 Switzerland, Frey Coll. ; Scandinavia ; Eussia, Livonia ; Mongolia, 

 Changai Mts. ; Amiirland ; Japan, Oiwake (Pryer), 1 Si^^ $• 

 Exp. 40-48 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Erit. Lep. p. 93 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iii. p. 367, pi. 132. f. 3. 



Pale brown to ferruginous ochreous, sides greenish or pale grey ; 

 dorsal line grey-white, developed into a series of confluent spots 

 edged with dark spots : subdorsal line whitish, dark-edged ; 

 spiracular line Avhitish ; head pale brownish, with indistinct dark 

 markings. Food-plants : Salix, Artemisia, grasses, &c. 5-6. 



Genus ADITA. 

 Adita, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 63 (1874). 



Type 



chionanthi. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi short, upturned, the 2iid joint roughly 

 scaled; eyes large, round, smooth, not ciliated; frons and vertex of head with 

 ridges of scales ; anteunte of male bipectinate to apex, with moderate branches 

 dilated at extremity ; thorax quadrately scaled, the tegulffi with slight dorsal 

 ridge ; fore tibios with long curved claw on inner side ; mid and hind tibite 

 spined. Fore wing with veins 3 and 5 from close to angle of cell ; 6 from 

 upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. 

 Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of 

 discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle. 



1012. Adita cliionaiitlii. 



Phcdwna chionanthi. Abbot & Smith, Ins. Georgia, ii. p. 19-5, pi. 98 (1797) ; 

 Smith, Oat. Noct. N. Am. p. 158. 



6 . Head and thorax grey-white mixed with blackish scales, the 

 tegulse in front and behind and patagia banded with black: abdomen 

 grey irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing grey suffused with fuscous ; 

 a subbasal black line from costa to vein 1 ; an antemedial black 



Fig. 93. — AdU a chionanthi, (^ . \. 



line oblique from costa to median nervure, then erect, and with the 

 small black-edged claviform on its outer edge ; the orbicular ^ and 

 reniform with brownish centres, white annuli, and black outlines, 

 the former round, the latter large, and with black strigae from 

 costa above each ; the postmedial black line oblique from costa to 

 vein 6, slightly angled inwards at discal fold, at vein 4 recurved to 

 near orisrin of vein 2, then sinuous : the subterminal line irregularly 



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