246 KOCTUIDiE. 



*2395. Litliophaiie ledereri. (Plate CII. fig. 3.) 

 Xylina ledereri, Staud. Iris, iv. p. 304 (189i) ; id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 210. 



Head and thorax deep rufous mixed with some ochreous and dark 

 brown : palpi with blackish streak at sides ; frons and vertex 

 of head with dark bars ; tegulee with sinuous black line near base 

 and blackish tips ; patagia with blackish edges ; vertex of thorax 

 with blackish fascia : pectus and legs yellowish white and rufous, 

 the tibia3 with slight black streaks ; abdomen pale rufous, the dorsal 

 crests large, black-brown. Fore wing pale greyish tinged and 

 irrorated with rufous, the inner margin suffused with deep rufous 

 except towards base ; subbasal line represented by double oblique 

 red-brown striae from costa ; antcmedial line rather indistinct, 

 double, red-brown, rather oblique towards costa, twice angled out- 

 wards in submediau interspace and once above inner margin, angled 

 inwards in submedian fold and above vein 1 ; orbicular and reniform 

 slightly and incompletely defined by red-brown, the former rounded, 

 the latter tinged with ochreous and rufous on inner side ; medial 

 shade strong, diffused, red-brown and oblique from costa to lower 

 angle of cell, then slight and inwardly oblique ; postmedial line 

 indistinct, double at costa, bent outwards below costa, then dentate 

 and produced to a double series of dark points on the veins, escurved 

 to vein 4, then incurved and with slight pale lunule on its outer 

 edge in sxibmedian interspace ; subtermiual line indistinct, pale 

 defined on inner side by somewhat dentate rufous marks except 

 towards costa and by a blackish bar in submedian interspace, angled 

 outwards at veins 7, 4, 3, with difirised deep rufous patches beyond it 

 below apex and on inner area, the veins of terminal area streaked 

 with black ; cilia deep rufous intersected with greyish and with fine 

 greyish line at base. Hind wing ochreous whitish tinged with 

 brown, the veins and terminal area rather darker ; cilia yellowish 

 white tinged with rufous : the underside j^ellowish white slightly 

 tinged with rufous, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with 

 rufous, a dark discoidal spot and indistinct curved postmedial line 

 with minute dark streaks on the veins. 



Hah. Ehodes ; Asia Minok, Pontus in Coll. Piingeler, Amasia. 

 Exp. 46 millim. 



Genus GRAPTOLITHA. ^ 



Type. 



Graptolitlia, Hiibn. Verz. p. 242 (1827) furcifera. 



Bhizolitha, Curt. Entom. Mag. i. p. 189 (1833) lambda. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi with the 2nd joint oblique and iVinged 

 with long hair, the 3rd moderate, porrect ; frons rounded ; eyes large, rounded ; 

 antennae of male ciliated ; head and thorax clothed with hair and hair-like 

 scales, the frons and vertex of head with tufts of hair; tegulas produced to a 

 slight dorsal ridge, the prothorax with divided crest, the metathorax with 

 spreading crest; pectus clothed with long hair; abdomen dorsally flattened, 

 with dorsal crests on basal segments and lateral fringes of hair. Fore wing 



