503 



2726. Cosmia tunicata. (Plate CVII. fig. 13.) 



Xanthia timicata, Gvies. Berl. eut. Zeit. 1889, p. 259 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. 

 p. 207. 



S . Head and thorax j^ellow, the latter and patagia suffused with 

 rufous ; sides of palpi and frons rufous ; tegulas with slight rufous 

 medial line ; front of pectus tiuged with rufous ; abdomen pale 

 yellow slightly tinged with rufous. Pore wing yellow ; subbasal 

 line represented by two slight rufous striae from costa and a bar 

 from cell Avith a rufous patch beyond them on costa ; antemedial 

 line slight, rufous, angled outwards below costa, then excurved in 

 the interspaces and angled inwards on the veins, some slight rufous 

 suffusion before it on inner area ; claviform slightly defined by 

 rufous ; orbicular and reniform defined by rufous, the former 

 round, the latter constricted at middle and with fuscous and grey 

 spot in lower part ; medial line incurved in cell, excurved at median 

 nervure, then incurved, the ai'ea beyond it suffused with deep rufous 

 extending to the subterminal line except between vein 7 and sub- 

 median fold ; postmedial line double, rufous filled in with yellow, 

 slightly bent outwards below costa, then minutely dentate, incurved 

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

 line represented by an oblique brown bar from costa, then by small 

 brown spots and a sinuous line from vein 3 to inner margin, slightly 

 angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; small diffused 

 rufous spots before termen between veins 7 and 2 ; cilia pale rufous 

 with a series of brown spots. Hind wing uniform pale ochreous 

 yellow ; the underside with slight sinuous rufous postmedial line 

 and traces of a subterminal line from costa to vein 6. 



5 . Patagia and thorax slightly tinged with rufous ; abdomen 

 whitish ; fore wing without the rufous patch beyond subbasal 

 line. 



Hah. E. Siberia, Amurland, Sidemi, type f 5 in Coll. Piingeler; 

 Japan, Oiwake (Prjjer), 1 S • Exp. 38-42 millim. 



2727. Cosmia gilvago. 



Noctua gilvago, SchifF. Wien. Verz. p. 87 (1776) ; Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 176. 

 f. 2 (1791); Hiibn. Enr. Schmett., Noct. f. 443; Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. 

 p. 465, pi. 129. ff. 4, 5 ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 171 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. 

 pal. p. 208. 



Head and thorax fulvous yellow suffused with greyish fuscous 

 especially on thorax ; sides of palpi and frons brownish ; tegulse 

 with slight medial brown line ; abdomen ochreous dorsally suffused 

 with greyish fuscous. Fore wing fulvous yellow suffused with 

 greyish fuscous especially before the antemedial line, on outer part 

 of medial area, and just beyond the postmedial line ; a black point 

 at base of vein 1 ; subbasal line indistinct, double, curved, from 

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

 claviform faintly defined by brown at extremity ; orbicular and 



