442 ^'0CT^IDJE. 



annuli defined by red, the former erect elliptical, the latter 

 constricted at middle and extending to below the cell ; medial line 

 dark, oblique from costa to lower angle of cell, then in-wardly 

 oblique : a slight dark streak on medial part of inner margin ; 

 postmedial line indistinct, defined by yellowish- on outer side, bent 

 outwards below costa, then dentate and produced to black points on 

 the veins, obUque below vein 4; the veins of terminal area with 



Fig. 156. — Xanflwleuca croceago, (^ . \. 



slight dark streaks : subterminal line dark, slightly sinuous ; a fine 

 crenulate terminal line. Hind wing white with a faint yellowish 

 tinge ; the underside with the costal area sparsely irrorated with 

 black and rufous towards apes, a slight discoidal lunule, faint traces 

 of a sinuous postmedial line and some dark points on apical 

 half of term en. 



Ah. 1. Corsica. Head, thorax, and fore wing pale flesh-pink, the 

 last with the markings less distinct. 



Hah. Beitaix, Leech Coll. ; Fea>'ce ; Gekmajty, Zeller and Leech 

 Colls. ; ArsiEiA, Zeller and Leech Colls. ; Htj^tgaet ; SwiizEELAifD, 

 Frey and Leech Colls.; Spaes"; Corsica; Italy; Algeeta; S.Sweden; 

 Baleax States; ErssiA: Ae^iexia; Asia Mixor, Pontus. Exjy. 

 36-38 millim. 



Larva. Mejr. Lep. Brit. p. 60; Barrett, Brit. Lep. ri. p. 3, pi. 233. f. 1. 



Pale orange-ochreous with darker freckles ; dorsal V-shaped 

 brown marks on somites 4-11 ; dorsal and subdorsal lines paler 

 with dark edges. Food-plant, Oak. 5-6. 



2649. Xantholeuca sericea. (Plate CYII. fig. 29.) 



Haporina sericea. Butl. A. M. K H. (5) i. p. 168 (1878) ; id. lU. Het. B. M. 

 ii. p. 31, pi. 30. f. 10: Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 208. 



Head and thorax yellow mixed with fiery red ; tegulee with the 

 tips whitish ; patagia with a few brown scales near upper edge ; 

 abdomen yellowish white slightly tinged with red and irrorated 

 with a few dark scales, faint traces of darker dorsal bands. Pore 

 wing orange thickly irrorated with fiery red, a series of slight white 

 streaks on'costa ; subbasal line indistinct, brownish slightly defined 

 by yellow on outer side, curved, from costa to submedian fold ; 

 antemedial line indistinctly double, brownish filled in with orange, 

 oblique, waved and with slight dark points on outer line at median 

 nervure, submedian foJd, and vein 1 ; orbicular and reniform with 

 orange annuli slightly defined by red, their centres irrorated with 



