COSMIA. OU, 



2732. Cosmia viilpecula. (Plate CVII. fig. 15.) 



Xantkia vulpccula, Led. Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1853, p. 374, pi. 3. 



f. 3 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 208. 

 Xanthia vulpina, Ev. Eull. Mosc. 1855, iv. p. 374. 



c5' . Head, thorax, and abdomen greyish ochreous suffused with 

 rafous. Fore wing ochreous suffused with rufous and slightly irro- 

 rated with fuscous, the veins brown ; subbasal line indistinct, waved, 

 from costa to submedian fold, a dark patch beyond it on costa ex- 

 tending to the antemedial line which is indistinctly double, the inner 

 line more prominent, slightly angled outwards below costa, oblique 

 to submedian fold and bent inwards to inner margin ; orbicular and 

 reniform moderate, defined by brown, the former round; medial 

 shade diftused outwardly, excurved to median nervure, then in- 

 curved ; costal area suffused with fuscous from middle to subterminal 

 line ; postraedial line double, evenly curved ; subterminal line with 

 oblique fuscous bar from costa, then indistinct, angled outwards at 

 vein 7, excurved and slightly waved at middle; a fine waved 

 terminal line : cilia brown, pale at base. Hind wing pale ochreous 

 suff'used with fuscous from discal fold to inner margin except terminal 

 area ; diffused postmedial and subterminal lines except on costal 

 area; cilia tinged with reddish; the underside with the costal area 

 irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal spot, curved postmedial 

 line, and traces of subterminal line. 



Hah. W. Siberia, Altai, 1 S , Sajan Mts. ; E, Siberia, Amur- 

 land, Ussuri. Exp. 38 millim. 



2733. Cosmia rectilineata. (Plate CVII. fig. 16.) 

 Xanthia rectilineata, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 171 (1894). 



Head and thorax whitish tinged with rufous ; abdomen whitish 

 suftused with fuscous brown, the anal tuft tinged with rufous. 

 Fore wing ochreous tinged with rufous and irrorated and suffused 

 with fuscous brown, especially before the antemedial line, beyond 

 the postmedial line, and on terminal area ; traces of a pale waved 

 subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line double 

 filled in with ochreous, slightly excurved from costa to submedian 

 fold, then slightly incurved ; orbicular pale : reniform fuscous 

 brown, strongly constricted at middle; medial shade incurved 

 from costa to median nervure, then oblique, almost confluent with 

 the reniform ; postmedial line double filled in with ochreous, 

 slightly excurved below costa and oblique below vein 4- ; sub- 

 terminal line onljr defined by the area beyond it being dark, 

 somewhat excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; cilia fuscous with 

 a whitish line at base. Hind wing yellowish Avhite suffused with 

 brown especially on inner area ; the underside with slight discoidal 

 lunule and traces of curved postmedial line. 



Hob. Punjab, Kulu, Sultanpur {G. Young), 2 c5' , (HocJilng), 

 1 2 fype. Exjj. 36 millim. 



