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on costa, angled outwards below vein 7 and at veins 4, 3, bent 

 outwards to tornus ; the terminal area greyish ochreous at apex 

 and middle, and suffused with fuscous above middle and towards 

 tornus ; a waved black terminal line ; cilia fuscous, tinged with 

 ochreous at apex and with ochreous line at base. Hind wing 

 fuscous brown with terminal pinkish ochreous band, with diffused 

 fuscous spots on it between veins 6 and 2 ; a narrow pinkish 

 ochreous band just beyond middle, obsolescent on costal area and 

 slightly excurved below vein 2 ; a fine waved blackish terminal 

 line; cilia pinkish ochreous with slight waved fuscous medial line 

 from vein 4 to tornus. Underside of fore wing fuscous brown, 

 the costal area irrorated with grey, a slight greyish discoidal bar, 

 postmedial line grey, a terminal pinkish ochreous band ; hind wing 

 fuscous brown irrorated with grey, a blackish discoidal bar, post- 

 medial line whitish defined by fuscous on inner side, slightly 

 curved and minutely waved, a terminal pinkish ochreous band. 



Hah. Britain, Leech Coll. ; Frai^ce ; Germany, Zeller & Leech 

 Colls. ; Austria ; Hcjngary ; Switzerland, Prey Coll. ; Spain ; 

 Italy; Greece, Merlin Coll.; Balkan States ; Russia; Armenia; 

 Asia Minor, Pontus ; Palestine ; W. Turkestan, Turcomania. 

 Exp. 70-80 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 129; Barrett. Lep. Brit. t. p. 242, pi. 216. f. 2. 



Pale ochreous suffused and irrorated with dark brown ; pale 

 oblique subdorsal streaks; dorsal and subdorsal lines indistinct, 

 pale, interrupted ; 11th somite with a transverse black mark, pale- 

 edged behind ; head pale ochreous speckled with brown. Food- 

 })lants : Salix, Ruhus, Primula, &g. 9-15. 



2786. Mania muscivirens. 



Monno nmscivirens, Butl. A. M. X. H. (5) i. p. 239 (1S78) ; id. 111. Het. 

 B. M. ii. p. 37, pi. 32. f. 5. 



Head and thorax dark red-brown slightly irrorated with greyish, 

 the tegulse with slight pale tips ; tarsi and spurs ringed with 

 ochreous ; abdomen dark red-brown, the crests and ventral surface 

 slightly irrorated with greyish. Fore wing fuscous brown strongh^ 

 suffused with grey, the medial area black-brown except towards 

 costa, the veins with slight grey streaks ; a slight rufous and 

 ochreous streak on inner margin except at base ; subbasal line 

 represented by grey striae from costa and cell on diffused black 

 patches, followed by a slight oblique grey line from subcostal 

 nervure to vein 1, with some black irroration beyond it; ante- 

 medial line with two widely separated blackish bars from costa, 

 then grey defined on each side at middle by some black scales and 

 with diffused black patch before it on inner area, excurved below 

 the cell and strongly bent inwards to inner margin ; claviform 

 large, dark brown slightly defined by black and extending to cell : 

 orbicular defined by grey at sides, open above and below and 

 constricted at middle ; reniform angled inwards on median nervure. 



