466 



AECTIAD.E, 



line ; the diffused antemedial line excurved from below costa to 

 submedian fold ; a diffused brownish patch in lower end of cell and 

 a discoidal point ; the diffused postmedial line obsolescent towards 



Fig. 346. — Lymantriopsis lacteata, (^ . f. 



costa, excurved bej'ond the cell, then oblique ; traces of a sub- 

 terminal line. Hind wing tinged with yellowish towards termen. 



Bah. W, Africa, Ogove liiver. Type f c? in Coll. Holland. 

 Exj). 16 millira. 



Genus PAIDIA. 



Type. 



Faidia, Hiibn. Verz. p. 159 (1827) murina. 



Proboscis absent ; palpi porrect to well beyond the frons, and roughly scaled ; 

 antennse ot male serrate ; tibice with spurs moderate ; wings sparsely clothed 

 with hairlike scales. Fore wing rather broad, the costa arched, the apex 

 rounded ; tlie cell long ; vein 2 from middle otcell ; 3 from well before angle ; 

 6 Irom above angle ; 6 from upper angle ; 7, 8 stalked, 9 absent; 10, 11 from 

 cell. Hind wing with the cell long ; vein 2 from middle ; 3, 4 stalked ; 5 from 

 well above angle ; 6, 7 stalked ; 8 from before middle of cell. 



997. Paidia murina. 



Bomhyx murina, Hiibn. Beitr. Schmett. ii. (3), p. 66, pi. 2, K (1792); Esp. 



Schmett. iii. Suppl. p. 49, pi. 88. f. 1 ; Godt. Lep. Pr. iv. p. 399, pi. 40 f 8 "• 



Stand. Cat. p. 52 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 361. 

 Bomhyx vestita, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett. ii. f. 62 (1800). 

 Bomhyx rica, Frey. Beitr. vii. p. 73, pi. 642. f. 3 (1848). 

 Isudaria cinerascens, Herr.-Schaff. Schmett. Eur. ii. p. 162, f. 143 (1855). 

 Nudaria omirioia var. covjttncta, Staud. Deutsch. ent. Zeit., Lop. iv p 249 



(1891) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 916. 



Pale grey-brown ; fore and hind tibiae and tarsi fuscous above. 

 Fore wing with the costa blackish towards base ; a point at base of 

 cell ; an antemedial oblique line from costa to subcostal nervure, then 



represented by points on the 

 veins ; a point in middle of 

 cell just above median 

 nervure ; two small discoidal 

 spots ; an oblique postmedial 

 line from costa to vein 6, 

 then represented by a curved 

 series of points on the veins. 

 Hind wing whitish. 

 \. Ab. 1. cinerascens. Dull 



grey ; fore wing with the 

 Turkey; Armenia. 



Fig. 347. — Paidia murina, (^ . 

 points conjoined into lines.— 



