349 



jST. Italy ; Bulgaeia ; Ssria, Mardin. 



p. 55 ; Bari-ett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 330, pi. 174. f. 2 

 ochreous much marked with brown 



LAKD ; Spain, Castile ; 

 Exp. 44 miUim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. 



Somites 1-3 dila,ted ; 

 2nd somite ochreous-yellow in front with a series of fuscous dots ; 

 spiracular line ochreous-yellow on abdominal somites, head brown. 

 Food-plant, Blackthorn. 5-6. 



Sect. II. Antenna of male bipectinate with long branches, the apes serrate. 



2521. Valeria heterocampa. 



FacJicBtra heterocampa, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 115, pi. 4. f, 15 (1882); 

 Hmpsn. Moths lud. ii. p. 223. 



c5' . Head and tegulte ochreous white ; palpi and frous black at 

 ■sides, black streaks above eyes and at sides of teguloe ; antennas 

 brown ; front of thorax and patagia black, the patagia ochreous 

 white with black edges, the thorax oclireous white with the meta- 

 thoracic crest pure white ; pectus and legs black, the tibiae aad tarsi 

 ringed with white ; abdomen ochreous more or less strongly suf- 

 fused with black-brown except at base, the dorsal crests black. 

 Fore wing ochreous white suffused with rufous or olive-green, the 

 Teins with slight dark streaks ; subbasal line black defirjed by 

 white on outer side, waved, rather broken up into spots, from 



Pig. 113. — Valeria heterocampa, J. \. 



■costa to vein 1, a diffused black band beyond it from eosta to sub- 

 median fold, an oblique patch to vein 1 and an elongate patch 

 below vein 1 ; antemedial line black defined by white on inner 

 side, angled outwards below costa and on median nervure and 

 inwards on vein 1 ; the medial area mostly suffused with black 

 and purplish grey ; the stigmata large, whitish, tinged with rufous 

 or olive ; the orbicular with slight dark centre,, connected with a 

 bilobed ochreous mark below the cell and with a fascia from reni- 

 form emitted along median nervure ; the reniform very large, 

 extending to costal nervure and to below angle of cell, rather 

 quadrate and with some blackish in centre ; the terminal half of 

 costa with series of whitish and black patches ; postmedial line 

 black with slight whitish line on it, dentate, arising from vein 7, 

 excnrved to vein 4, then oblique ; subterminal line diffused white 

 defined by black suffusion on inner side except between veins 

 '6 and 4 and towards inner margin, strongly dentate at veins 7, 6, 



