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prominent above and below vein 5 and above submedian fold, 

 slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, slight 

 streaks beyond it above veins 6 and 5 and below 2 ; a terminal 

 series of small spots ; cilia intersected by brown. Hind wing pale, 

 almost uniformly suffused with reddish brown; the underside 

 whitish irrorated with brown, a small discoidal spot and indistinct 

 waved postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. sabince. Head, thorax, and fore wing blue-grey without 

 the brown tinge, the last with the markings more distinct. — 

 Yalais. 



Ab. 2. cupressivora. Head, thorax, and fore wing browner, the 

 last more uniform in colour and with the lines less distinct. 



Hah. S. France, Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls; Switzerland, 

 Valais, Prey and Leech Colls. ; Spain, Catalonia, Castile ; Italy ; 

 Balcans ; Crete, Leech Coll. ; W. Turkestan, Perghana. Exp. 

 40-48 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths, Eur. p. 250. 



Green with the lines white. .Food-plants : Cypress, Juniper ; 

 forming a fine silken cocoon on the surface of ground under moss. 



2429. Graptolitha longior. (Plate CII. fig. 28.) 



Xylina longior, Smith, J. N.Y. Eiit. Soc. vii. p. 230 (1899) ; Dyar, Cat. 

 'Lep. N. Am. p. 170. 



2 . Head and thorax bluish white slightly mixed with fuscous ; 

 palpi streaked with black at sides ; frons with black bar ; tegulas 

 with strong black medial line defined by rufous in front and white 

 behind and with blackish tips ; patagia with black outer edge ; 

 tibiae streaked with black ; abdomen brown tinged with grey. 

 Pore wing bluish white slightly irrorated and suffused with fuscous 

 brown; a black streak below base of cell with some brown suffusion 

 above it ; subbasal line represented by a very oblique striga from 

 costa ; antemedial line rather indistinct, defined by whitish on 

 inner side, dentate, oblique from costa to submedian fold, then 

 with strong oblique black streak to vein 1, where it terminates, 

 connected by a short black streak in submedian fold with post- 

 medial line ; orbicular and reniform large, indistinct, whitish, the 

 former elongate elliptical, the latter constricted at middle; a black 

 streak in lower end of cell with some rufous above it and a black 

 streak below end of median nervure produced to short streaks on 

 veins 3, 4 ; a slight oblique shade from middle of costa to cell ; 

 postmedial line very indistinct, defined by whitish on outer side, 

 bent outwards below costa, then dentate, angled inwards in discal 

 fold and oblique below vein 4 ; a black streak above middle of 

 vein 4, with an oblique fuscous shade from it to termen below apex ; 

 subterminal line represented by some small dentate brownish marks 

 near middle ; the veins of terminal area slightly streaked with 

 black. Hind wing greyish brown, the cilia tipped with white; the 

 underside whitish irrorated with brown, a small discoidal lunule. 



