506 NOCTTJIDJE. 



sides of frons brownish ; tips of tegulte, dorsum of thorax, and outer 

 edge of patagia red-brown or fuscous ; abdomen pale ochreous. 

 Fore wing yellow usually more or less tinged with orange ; subbasal 

 line represented by two brown striae from costa and one from cell ; 

 antemedial line oblique, waved, with another indistinct line beyond 

 it; orbicular yellow, figure-of-S-shaped with two dark points on it ; 

 reniform with its centre greyish defined by brown spots and with 

 j-ellow annulus constricted at middle ; medial line strong, brown, 

 excurved from costa to median nervure, then incurved ; postmedial 

 line indistinctly double, the outer line more prominent and dentate, 

 ■excurved to vein 4, then oblique and with series of dark spots 

 beyond it in the interspaces ; subtermiual line represented by 

 a series of obscure dentate brown spots ; a terminal series of 

 blackish points ; cilia mixed with fuscous especially at tips. Hind 

 wing very pale yellow, the termen and cilia rather darker ; the 

 underside with slight discoidal lunule and sinuous postmedial line 

 from costa to vein 4, the apical area slight!}^ irrorated with brown, 



Ab. 1. invotata. Fore wing with the subbasal line obsolete, 

 the antemedial line obsolete except towards inner margin, the 

 orbicular, reniform, and terminal points obsolete. — Sicily. 



Hab. Gekkany, Zeller and Leech Colls. ; Austria, Leech Coll. ; 

 HuNGAET, Leech Coll. ; ? Switzerland ; N. Italy ; Sicily ; 

 S. Sweden; Armenia. Exp. 32-36 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 188; Hffin. Raup. p. 118, pi. 32. 

 f. 3. 



Ashy grey with dorsal and subdorsal white lines with oblique 

 brown bars between them ; a broad lateral white stripe tinged with 

 reddish. Food-plant, Maple. 5, 



2731, Cosmia cypreago, n. sp. (Plate CVII. fig. 14.) 



2 . Head and thorax yellow suffused with red ; pectus whitish ; 

 abdomen white tinged with brown. Fore wing yellow suffused 

 with fiery red, the veins rather paler ; subbasal line represented by 

 a slight red striga from costa and point below the cell ; antemedial 

 line very ill-defined, double, waved, oblique, red, with some 

 dark scales on it ; orbicular represented by a black point in cell ; 

 reniform slightly defined by red with some dark scales on it, narrow 

 and constricted at middle ; a curved red medial line with some dark 

 scales on it ; postmedial line double, reddish filled in with yellow, 

 excurved from costa to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line 

 slightly defined by brown on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 

 and excurved at middle ; cilia brown at tips. Hind wing nearly 

 pure white, the cilia slightly tinged with yellowish ; the underside 

 with the costal area slightly tinged with ochreous and irrorated 

 with red, 



IJab. Cyprtts, Mountains (Miss Bate), 1 2 type. Eajj. 30 

 millim. 



