ILEMA. 169 



yellow ; legs partlj' yellow ; abdomen yellowish towards extremity, 

 Tore wing with costal yellow fascia usually very narrow, sometimes 

 broader towards base ; costal edge black towards base; cilia often 

 yellow at tips. Hind wing yellowish grey, the termeu and cilia 

 yellow. 



Fore wing with veins 3, 4 rather shortly stalked ; 6 from below 

 angle of cell or stalked with 7, 8, 9 ; 10 free or stalked with 7, 8, 9, 

 or 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 anasto- 

 mosing with 12. 



Ab. 1. serva. Hind wing pale yellow. — Japan, Nepal, Borneo. 



Ab. 2. Jlava. Almost uniform pale ochreous. — England. 



Hah. Britain ; France ; Germany, ZeU. Coll. ; Switzerland, Frey 

 Coll. ; Italy ; Finland ; Ukals ; Altai ; Amur ; Japan (Pryer, 

 Jonas), types cegrota^ adaucta ; N. China {Fortune), 2 (^ , 2 § , type 

 vetusta; Tibet; 'N:epa-l (HardiuicJce), 1 (J" , 1 $ , type serva; Sikhim; 

 Maniptje, tjTpe f fuscicilia in Coll. Elwes ; Yunnan (Andei'son), 1 c? , 

 type lilacina ; Borneo, Sarawak ( Wallace), 1 J ; W. Africa, Ogove 

 R., 1 5 , co-type sulnanhraia, typefc? in Coll. Holland. Exp. 28- 

 38 millim. Type t lenta in Coll. Leech. 



Larva, Meyrick, Brit. Lep. p. 28; Barrett, Lep. Brit. ii. p. 226, pi. 67. f. 1. 



Blackish brown ; hairs dark brown ; dorsal line black; subdorsal 

 line orange-yellow, interrupted, enlarged, and partly confluent on 

 somites 1, 2, and 12, otherwise rather faint; head shining black. 

 Food-plants, Lichens and dead leaves ; 8-6. 



344. Ilema xanthocraspis, n. n. (Plate XXII. fig. 30.) 

 Lithosia nigripars, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 81, nee Wlk. 



Yellowish white ; abdomen fuscous, clothed with white hair, 

 the extremity orange. Fore wing with the costa and base of cilia 

 orange ; the underside suffused with fuscous. 



Fore wing with vein 6 from below angle of cell ; 7, 8, 9 stalked ; 

 10, 11 free. 



Hah. SiKHiM, (Pilcher) 1 S tjpe, (Lidderdale) 2 § . ^.r^>. 32 

 millim. 



345. Ilema caniola. 



Bombyx caniola, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett. ii. f. 220 (1827) ; Godt. & Dup. Lep. 



Fr. v. p. 18, & Suppl. iii. p. 22, pi. 2. f. 1 ; Boisd. Icoiies, ii. p. 99, pi. 57. 



f. 8 ; Earnb. Cat. Lep. And. p. 206 ; Stgr. Cat. p. 54 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 



p. 330. 

 Bombyx albeola, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett. ii. iF. 284, 285 (1827). 

 Lithosia lacteola, Boisd. Icones, ii. p. 100, pi. 58. f. 4 (1834) ; Dup. Lep. 



Fr. iii. p. 38, pi. 3. f. 3. _ 



Lithosia vitellina, Boisd. Icones, ii. p. 105, pi. 57. f. 10 (1834). 

 ? Lithosia uniola, Ramb. Cat. Lep. And. p. 209 (1866) ; Stgr. Cat. p. 54 ; 



Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 330. 

 Lithosia caniola, Tar. complanoides, Fuchs, JB. Nass. "Ver. xlv, p. 88 



(1891). 



Head and tegulse orange ; antennae fuscous ; thorax and abdomen 

 fuscous; legs tinged with orange; anal tuft orange. Fore wing 



