308 NOCITTID^. 



Ab. 3. asiatica. Fore wing pale greyish brown ; hind wing 

 whitish. — Asia Minor, Palestine, Amurlaud. 



Rab. Beitaust, England, Leech Coll., Ireland, Leech Coll. ; 

 Fkance ; GERMANr, Zeller and Leech Colls. ; Austkia ; Hungary ; 

 SwiTZEKXAND, Frey Coll. ; Spain ; Italy ; Scandtnayia ; Ettssia, 

 Livonia, Zeller Coll. ; Armenia ; Asia Minor, Pontus ; Syria, 

 Beirut, Leech Coll., Palestine ; E. Sibekia, Ussuri, Enj). 40-50 

 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 56 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 325, pi. 172. f. 2. 



Fuscous with darker markings and pale dots ; dorsal and sub- 

 dorsal lines indistinctly pale ; 11th somite somewhat humped with 

 four small tubercles ; head brown. Food-plants : Hawthorn and 

 Blackthorn. 4-6. 



Sect. III. (Selosticta). Antenniie of male almost simple. 



A. Fore wing with blackish fascia in submedian interspace from 



base to term en extensa. 



B. Fore wing without blackish fascia in submedian interspace. 

 a. Fore wing with the ground-colour whitish. 



a^. Fore wing with the reniform not angled inwards on 



median nervure bimaculosa. 



h^ . Fore wing with the reniform angled inwards on median 



nervure sahulosa. 



h. Fore wing with the ground-colour blackish funesta. 



2475. Meganephria extensa. (Plate CIII. fig. 21.) 



Bdosticta extensa, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) iv. p. 357 (1879). 

 Miselia cinerea, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, p. 184. 



5 . Head and thorax grey mixed with dark brown ; palpi 

 blackish at sides ; frons with black bar ; tegulse with curved 

 black line defined by whitish behind ; patagia with black outer 

 edge ; abdomen grey irrorated with dark brown. Fore wing grey 

 suffused with rufous and dark brown and irrorated with black ; 

 the veins with slight dark streaks, the subcostal and median 

 nervures and inner area irrorated with silvery green ; a strong 

 blackish fascia below base of cell defined by pale yellowish above 

 and extending to well beyond antemedial line ; subbasal line fine, 

 angled inwards in cell ; antemedial line slightly angled outwards 

 below costa, below submedian fold excurved, indistinct, double 

 filled in with whitish ; claviform confluent with the black basal 

 fascia, defined by black and acute at extremity ; orbicular and 

 reniform large, with slight pale annuli incompletely defined by 

 black, the former rounded, the latter angled inwards on median 

 nervure and with some greenish scales on its lower part ; traces 

 of an irregular diffused medial line ; postmedial line rather in- 

 distinct, double, strongly bent outwards below costa, then waved, 

 oblique below vein 4, strong, incurved and with white lunule on it 

 in submedian interspace, where there is a diffused black-brown 

 fascia beyond it extending to termen ; subtcrminal line indistinct, 

 pale, waved and slightly defined by brown on inner side, with 

 dcr^tate black mark before it below costa and black streaks from it 



