cosMiA. 499 



Hab. Britain, Leech Coll. ; France; Denmark; Germany, Zeller, 

 Prej', and Leech Colls. ; Austria ; Hungary ; Switzerland ; N. & 

 Cente. Italy ; Corsica ; S. Sweden ; Finland. Exj^. 30-38 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 51 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. v. p. 371, pi. 232. 



Brownish ; dorsal, subdorsal, and siiiracular lines pale greyish 

 ochreous ; tubercular dots pale ; head ochreous. Food-plant, Beech. 

 5-6. 



*2722. Cosmia pallidago. 



Xanthia palUclago, Staucl. Iris, sii. p. 377 (1899) ; id. Cat. Lep. pal . 

 p. 208. 



(S . Head, thorax, and abdomen dirty sulphur-yellow. Fore wing 

 dirty sulphur-yellow, the lines indistinct, double ; subbasal line 

 from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line oblique, waved ; 

 claviform absent ; orbicular and reniform slightly defined by fus- 

 cous, the former round, the latter with pale fascous-edged spot in 

 lower part ; postmedial line strongly excurved beyond the cell and 

 with another obsolescent line just beyond it. Hind wing dirty 

 brownish white, darker towards termen ; cilia white ; the underside 

 with slight postmedial line. 



Hah. Asia Minor, Taurus, Zeitun. Exp. 34 millim. This 

 species is unknown to me. 



2723. Cosmia siplumciila, u. sp. (Plate CVII. fig. 12,) 



Head and thorax ochreous yellow, sides of palpi, thorax, and 

 patagia except outer edge suftused with rufous ; tibise and tarsi 

 tinged with rufous ; abdomen ochreous. Fore wing ochreous 

 yellow; subbasal line rufous, double, waved, from costa to sub- 

 median fold ; antemedial line double, Avaved, oblique, angled 

 inwards on median nervure ; claviform defined by rufous ; orbicular 

 and reniform moderate, defined by rufous, the former erect elliptical, 

 the latter Avith some rufous in upper part of cell and fuscous and 

 grey in lower part ; medial line rufous, angled inwards in cell 

 to orbicular, then outwards to below end of cell ; postmedial line 

 double, waved, excurved from costa to vein 4, then incurved ; sub- 

 terminal line represented by a triangular rufous patch from costa 

 with ochreous point on costa, then by a rufous line, angled outwards 

 at vein 7, excurved at middle and incurved at submedian inter- 

 space ; a fine red-brown terminal line ; cilia ochreous tinged with 

 rufous at base, fuscous at tips. Hind wing pale ochreous yellow, 

 the inner area slightly tinged with brown to postmedial line which 

 is obsolete towards costa and slightly excurved at median nervules ; 

 a diffused subterminal line except towards costa ; a fine brown 

 terminal line ; the underside with the costal and terminal areas 

 irrorated with rufous, a small discoidal spot, sinuous postmedial 

 line, and diffused subterminal line. 



Hah. Mongolia, Changai Mts. ; E. Siberia, Amurland, 1 § type, 

 Radde in Coll. Piingeler, TJssuri. Eccp. 40 millim. 



