STTfTOMOPCS. 



oblique below vein 4 and strongly angled outwards on vein 1, some 

 pale points beyond it on costa with slight dark streaks between 

 them ; subterminal line very indistinct, pale, defined on inner side 

 by a dark patch at costa, slight streaks above veins 7, 5, 4, and a 

 dentate dark mark in submedian fold ; a terminal series of small 

 black spots ; cilia ochreous mixed with rufous. Hind wing pale 

 ochreous slightly tinged wdth red-brown, a very faint curved post- 

 medial line and slight terminal shade from apex to submedian fold. 



Ab. 1. sciaphila. Much paler, with the markings obsolescent. 



Hah. France, Leech Coll. ; Germany, Zeller and Leech Colls. ; 

 Spain, Catalonia ; Corsica ; PrALY, Frey Coll. ; Sicily ; Dalmatia, 

 Leech Coll. ; Greece; Algeria ; Syria. E:vp. 44-54 millim. 



Larva. Kirbj, Eur. Butt. & Moths, p. 192 ; Hffm. Raup. p. Ill, pi. 30. 

 f. 15. 



Green with red and white dorsal and lateral lines. Food-jjlants : 

 Low-growing herbs — Oi/t sus, Oistus, Lavatera. &c. 7. 



Genus PERIPYRA, nov. 



Type, P. sangulnvpitncta. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint reaching 

 about to middle of frons and rather broadly fringed with hair in front, the 3rd 

 moderate ; frons smooth ; eyes large, round ; antennas of male ciliated ; thorax 

 clothed with hair and hair-like scales and without crests ; tibiffi fringed with 

 long hair, the fore femora and tibiae of male with immense tufrs of hair ; 

 abdomen dorsally flattened, with lateral fringes of hair but without crests. 

 Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and slightly 

 crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 

 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with 

 veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars , 6, 7 

 froui upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



2754. Peripyra sanguinipuncta. 



Amphipyra favguijiipuncta, Gruen. Noct. ii. p. 4r2, pi. 18. f. 2 ('18.'i2). 

 Mamesira trilineata, Wlk. xxxii. 669 (1865). 



Head and thorax iulvous; palpi with black patch at side of 

 2nd joint and whitish tips ; upper part of frons and vertex of head 



Fig. 5. — Peripyra sanguivipuncta, (^ . |. 



black ; tegulae with black patches ; mesothorax with paired black 

 patches, the metathorax with single patch ; pectus and legs greyish 

 ochreous, the tarsi ochreous white, the tufts on fore legs of male 



