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■with series of larg-e dorsal crests and lateral fringes of hair. Fore wing with 

 the term en crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from near angle; 6 from upper angle ^ 

 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing 

 with veins 3, 4 Iroin angle of cell, 5 obsolescent from just below middle of 

 discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base 

 only. 



Sect. I. ( Valeria). Antenna of male bipectinate with long branches to apex, 

 of female with short branches. 



2520. Valeria oleagina. 



Bombyx oleagina, Scln'ff. Wien. Verz. p. 59 (177G) ; Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. 

 p. 117 (1786) ; Esp. Schmett. iii. pi. 60. f. 4 ; Hiibn. Eur. Scbmett., Noct. 

 f. 33 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. vi. p. 370, pi. 95. f. 6 ; Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. 

 iii. p. 23 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 168. 



Head and thorax dark brown mixed with red-brown, grey, and 

 greenish scales ; antennae pale rufous ; tarsi black banded with 

 white ; abdomen dark reddish brown mixed with some grey. Pore 

 wing dark reddish brown mixed with some grey, the veins streaked 

 with sap-green and black scales ; subbasal line double, black filled 

 in with green, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line 

 black, oblique, sinuous, slightly angled inwards on vein 1 ; clavi- 

 form small, pale or whitish, defined bj^ black ; orbicular with white 

 annulus defined by black, round ; reniform large, white defined by 



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black; an indistinct waved medial line; postmedial line dark 

 defined by greenish grey on outer side, strongly bent outwards 

 below costa, then miniitely waved, incurved below vein 4, some 

 white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line waved, pale 

 defined by blackish lunules before it below middle, the area beyond 

 it sap-green ; a terminal series of small black lunales ; cilia 

 reddish brown, with ochreous-white points at base and waved line 

 through them. Hind wing ochreous white ; a rather punetiform, 

 sinuous postmedial line ; the terminal area suffused with red- 

 brown with a slightly waved whitish subterminal line ; cilia brown, 

 whitish at tips ; the underside with the basal half of costal area 

 and apical area suffused and irrorated with red-brown, a slight 

 black streak in cell, prominent black discoidal lunule, punetiform 

 jjostmedial line, and terminal series of small lunules. 



Hah. Britain, 8. Wales ; GERMANr, Zeller, Frey, and Leech 

 Colls. ; Austria, Zeller Coll. ; Hitngary, Leech Coll. ; Switzkr- 



