618 



NOCTUID^. 



NAviA ; EtrssiA, Livonia, Urals ; Armenia ; C. Asia, Kuldja, 1 c? ^ 

 1 2 ; Siberia ; Amue ; Japan, Oiwake (Pryer), 2 $ . FxjJ. 46-54 

 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 108; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 104, pi. 149. f. 1. 



Yiolet-brown, with double series of darker blotches above ; dorsal 

 line pale ; spiracular line pale, dark-edged above ; head pale 

 reddish brown, with dark markings. Pood-plants : Rumex, birch, 

 BlUbus, etc. 



1070. Enrols virens. 



Eurois virens, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) i. p. 194 (1878) ; id. 111. Het. iii. pi. 45. 

 f. 5 ; Hmpsn. Moths Incl. ii. p. 231 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 153. 



Head, tegulse, and patagia bright yellow-green ; palpi black at 

 sides, pale at tips ; antennae black, tegulse tipped with black and 

 white, patagia edged with black and white above ; thorax nifoiis, 

 the scales tipped with grey ; pectus and abdomen blue-grey ; legs 

 black, the fore tibiae rufous, the tarsi with pale riugs. Fore wing 

 slate-grey, the costal area and streaks in the interspaces bright 

 yelloAV-green, the terminal area with the streaks less developed or 

 absent ; a double black subbasal line filled in with green from costa 

 to submedian fold ; a similar antemedial line angled outwards below 

 costa and in submedian fold and more strongly above inner margin ; 

 orbicular and reniform large, with slate-coloured centres defined by 

 black and purple-red and pale annuli defined by black, the former 

 somewhat oblique, oblong ; the postmedial line double, dentate, 

 black filled in with green, bent outwards below costa and incurved 

 below vein 4 ; the subterminal line represented by a series of green 

 and black dentate marks, angled outwards at vein 7 and exeurved 

 at middle, with stronger dentate black marks on its inner side 

 below costa and above veins 5 and 4 ; a terminal series of small 

 black lunules. Hind wing black-brown, the basal two-thirds 

 suffused with blue-grey ; the cilia pure white. 



Hah. Amiteland, IJssuri ; Japan, Yezo {Pryer), 1 (5 , 1 2 , Hakodate 

 (Whitely), 1 d type; Cobea, Gensan {Leech)., 1 cj' ; W. China, 

 Chang-yang {Pratt), 1 (^ , 1 $ ; N.W. Himalayas, Thundiani 

 {Yerbury), 1 c^ , Simla {Harford), 1 (S , Dalhousie, 1 5 ? Dharmsala 

 {Hocking), 1 c? , 2 § . Eoep. 70 millim. 



Subsp. 1. onagnifica, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 127 (1882). 



Fore wing with the inner area and termen suffused with blood-red. 



Hah. SiKHiM {Pilcher), 1 d' , 2 $ , type. 



Genus N.ffiNIA. 



Type. 



Nania, Stepb. 111. Brit. Eiit., Haust. ii. p. 165 (1829) typica. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joiot fringed with hair 

 in front, produced to a long point at extremity, the 3rd long, naked ; frons with 

 tuft of hair ; eyes large, rounded ; antennas of male ciliated ; head and thorax 

 clothed with hair and scales, the pro- and metathorax with large spreading 

 crests; fore tibiae fringed with hair; mid and hind tibiae spined ; abdomen 

 dorsally flattened, clothed with rough hair at base of dorsum and with lateral 



