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KOCXUIDiE. 



and black scales ; subbasal line double, black filled in -with gve}\ 

 waved, from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line double filled in 

 with greenish, waved, angled inwards in cell a,nd on vein 1 ; 

 claviform slight, faintly defined by a few dark scales ; orbicular 

 and reniform with red-brown centres and whitish annuli defined 

 by black,- the former somewhat elliptical, the latter with slight 

 pale lunule in centre ; a waved black medial line ; postmedial line 

 double filled in with grey, strongly bent outwards below costa, 

 then somewhat dentate, angled outwards at vein 6 and incurved 

 below vein 4, some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal 

 line whitish, defined on inner side by blackish, waved, forming a 

 slight tooth inwards below vein 4 and a strong white tooth below 

 vein 3, the area beyond it sap-green ; a terminal series of small 



Fig. 116. — Vale7'ia jaspidea, (^ . {. 



black lunules ; cilia red-brown with ochreous-white points at base 

 and waved line through them. Hind wing ochreous white ; a 

 slightly sinuous brown postmedial line ; the terminal area suffused 

 with red-brown ; a whitish subterminal line, almost obsolete except 

 towards tornus and with blackish point beyond it at extremity of 

 vein 2 ; cilia brown with fine pale waved line at base and pale 

 tips ; the underside whitish irrorated with brown, a black discoidal 

 lunule with brown mark from it to costa, postmedial line strong, 

 rather punctiform, angled outwards at discal fold, then oblique, the 

 apical area suff'used with brown, a terminal series of small black 

 lunules. 



Hah. France, Sand Coll. ; Gebmant, Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls. ; 

 Switzerland ; Spaik, Bilbao, Andalusia. Exp. 46 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 220 ; Hffm. Eaup. p. 95, pi. 27. f. 4. 



Pale brown : 1st somite orange in front followed by a series of 

 dark dots, thoracic somites with dark striae ; abdominal somites 

 marbled with brown, the warts rufous and dark brown, a diffused 

 whitish lateral stripe. Food-plant, Sloe. 



2527. Valeria pardaria. (Plate CIV. fig. 21.) 



Luperina pardaria, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 114, pi. iv. f. 12 (1882) ; Hinpsn. 



Moths lucl. ii. p. 220. 

 Luperina olivascens, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 114 (1882). 



2 . Head and thorax olive-yellow (? faded from green) ; palpi 



