ILEMA. 167 



Hah. SoEOTRA, Adho Dimelliis, 3500 feet ( W. R. 0. Grant), 3 $ , 

 tj'pe. Exp. 30 millim. 



338. Ilema lurideola. 



Lithosia lurideola, Zink. AUgem. Literaturzeitnng;, 1817, p. 68 ; Fisch. 



Eossl. Abh. Schmett. p. 106, pi. 42. ff.2a-o; Hiibn. Beitr. Schmett. i. 



(3) p. 12, pi- 1. F (complana) ; Esp. Schmett. iv. (1) p. 95, pi. 92. f. 7 ; 



FJtaud. Cat. p. 54; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 323. 

 Lithosia complanula, Boisd. Icones Lep. ii. p. 97 ; Dap. Lep. Fr., Suppl. 



iii. p. 15, pi. 1. f. 4. 

 Lithosia plumbeola, Herr.-Scliaff. Schmett. Eur. ii. p. 1.58(1847). 



Cinereous grey ; head and tegulae in front 3'ellow ; palpi fuscous 

 at tips ; antennfe fuscous ; legs striped with grey ; anal tuft orange- 

 yellow. Pore wing with costal orange fascia becoming whitish 

 towards cell and suddenly narrowing to a point just before apex ; 

 the costal edge blackish towards base ; cilia yellowish. Hind wing- 

 pale yellow. Underside of fore wing with broad orange terminal 

 band. 



Fore wing with vein 6 from angle of cell or shortly stalked with 

 7, 8, 9 ; 9 often arising from cell or vein 10 and anastomosing with 

 8 to form a small areole. 



Hah. Britain; Fr\wce: Germany, Zell. Coll.; Switzerland, 

 Frey Coll. ; N. Italy ; Livonia ; Bixhynia ; Armenia. Exii. 32- 

 40 millim. 



Larva, Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 26 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. ii. p. 224, pi. 67. f. 6. 



Yery dark grey ; hairs black and yellowish ; dorsal and subdorsal 

 lines black ; spiracular line orange ; head black. Food-plants, 

 Quercus, JRhamnus, &c. ; 8-fi. 



339. Ilema harpophora. (Plate XXII. fig. 27.) 



Brunia harpophora, Meyr. P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. (2) i. p. 701 (1886) ; 



Kirby, Cat Het. p. 332. 

 Tigrioides xanthopleura, Turner, Trans. R. Soc. S. Austr. 1899, p. 10. 



5 . Head, base of tegulae, and shoulders orange-yellow; antennae 

 and a patch on vertex of head fuscous ; thorax fuscous ; legs 

 yellow, the fore and mid tibise and tarsi fuscous above : abdomen 

 fuscous, orange-yellow at sides and below. Fore wing fuscous grey; 

 a rather narrow orange-yellow costal fascia attenuated to a point 

 just before apex ; a short streak at base of inner margin ; cilia, hind 

 wing, and the terminal area of fore wing on underside yellow. 



Hah. Queensland, Brisbane {Lucas), type f 5 in Coll. Meyrick, 

 ( Tamer) 1 $ . Exp. 34 millim. Type f xanthopleura in Coll. 

 Turner. 



*340. Ilema stevensi. (Plate XXII. fig. 28.) 



Sozusa stevensi, HoU. Ent. xxv. Suppl. p. 91 (1892) ; id. P. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus. viii. p. 248, pi. vii. f. 14. 



(J . Ochreous white ; frons and antennae black. Fore wing with 



