COjSTISTEA. 



459 



2668. Conistra staiidingeri. 



Dasycampa stwuclingcri, Gri-asl. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1863, p. 314, pi. 8. 



ff. 4-5, Kmbi-. Cat. Lep. S. And. pi. 18. f. 7 ; Stand. Oat. Lep. pal. 



p. 210. 

 Orrhodia scortina. Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 209 (1901). 

 Orrhodia uniformis. Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 209 (1901). 

 Orrhodia, livina, Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 209 (1901). 

 Orrliodia graslini, Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 210 (1901). 



Head and tegulte fulvous yellow, the latter with slight dark 

 medial line and sometimes brown tips ; sides of palpi and frons 

 black : thorax brown ; pectus and legs yellow, the tibiae and tarsi 

 marked with fuscous ; abdomen ochreous white irrorated with black, 

 the anal tuft yellow. Fore wing grey-white with an ochreous 

 tinge on basal inner area and sometimes on medial area ; subbasal 

 line double, w^aved, from costa to submedian fold, a black point 

 beyond it iu cell ; antemedial line double, waved, oblique, angled 

 inwards and with black points before it on median nervure and vein 1 ; 

 orbicular and reniform more or less indistinctly defined by brown, the 

 former round with fuscous spot in centre, the latter narrow, con- 

 stricted at middle, its lower part filled in with fuscous ; a brown medial 

 line oblique from costa to lower angle of cell, then slightly waved ; 

 postmedial line indistinct, double, bent outwards below costa, then 

 dentate and produced to a double series of black points on the veins, 

 slightly incurved at discal fold and strongly below vein 4; subterminal 

 line hardly traceable, defined on inner side by slight dark suffusion 

 on costa, then by a series of small dark spots, somewhat angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of 

 small black spots ; cilia ochreous with series of fuscous lunules. 

 Hind wing grey uniformly suffused with fuscous brown ; cilia 

 ochreous yellow; the underside whitish irrorated with fuscous and 

 slightly tinged with purplish pink, a dark di^coidal lunuie and 

 sinuous postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. graslini. Fore wing paler tinged with brown or chestnut 

 and marked with whitish or yellowish. 



Ab. 2. scortina. Ground-colour of thorax and fore wing brownish 

 ochreous. 



Ab. 3. uniformis. Similar but fore wing with the markings 

 almost obsolete. 



Ab. 4. livina. Head dark rufous ; thorax and fore wing grey 

 almost wholly suffused with deep fuscous ; hind wdng with the 

 cilia brown. 



Rab. S. Fraijce, 3 cJ , 3 $ , Digne, E. Pyrenees ; Switzerland, 

 Valais ; Spain, Andalusia, Granada. Exp. 34 millim. 



Larva. Lucas, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. Isxii. p. 403, pi. v. ff. 3-4 (1903). 



Eed-brown, dorsally somewhat darker, with golden yellow hair 

 dorsal, subdorsal, and substigmatal lines grey ; stigmata black 

 rectangular black subdorsal patches on each somite except the 1st 

 head brown with a black V-shaped mark. Food-plant, 'faraxacum 



