TEACIIEA. 185 



antemedialline, which is double filled in with grey, angled outwards 

 before costa, oblique to submedian fold, then waved ; claviform 

 diffusedly defined by black and sometimes filled in with black ; 

 orbicular and reniform defined by black, the former with slight 

 pale annulus, oblique elliptical and somewhat irregular, the latter 

 with w^hite annulus on outer edge, some white in centre and 

 slightly angled inwards on median nervure ; a slight difl^used 

 medial shade, oblique from costa to median nervure; postmedial 

 line dajk defined by greyish on outer side, double at costa, bent 

 outwards below costa, then with black and white points beyond it 

 on the veins, angled inwards above vein 6, ex curved to vein 4, 

 then strongly incurved to below end of cell, some white points 

 beyond it on costa; subtermiual line pale, shghtly defined on inner 

 side by brown and with small dentate black marks before it at middle, 

 angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate at veins 4, 3, the area beyond 

 it rather darker ; a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia 

 fuscous intersected with greyish. Hind wing greyish tinged with 

 brown, the veins and terminal area suffused with fuscous brown ; a 

 dark discoidal spot; ciha ochreous with a dark line through them ; 

 the underside ochreous white irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal 

 spot, curved postmedial line with slight dark streaks on the veins, 

 and diffused subterminal band. 



Hah. Bkitaik, Leech Coll. ; Prance ; Germany, Zeller, Frey, and 

 Leech Colls. ; Austria; Hungary; Switzerland; Spajn, Aragon ; 

 N. Italy ; S. Sweden ; Eussia, Livonia, Urals ; E. Siberia, Amur- 

 land. Exp. 32-38 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Erit. Lep. p. 135 ; Barrett, Lep.Brit. iv. p. S89, pi. 184. f.2. 



Pale brown tinged with ochreous or greenish ; dorsal line 

 ochreous white, dark-edged ; subdorsal line pale, dark-edged ; spi- 

 racular line broad, pale ochreous, dark-edged above ; head and 

 thoracic plate brown. Food-plants, Grasses. 8-3. 



2948. Trachea fiimosa. (Plate CXII. fig. 22.) 



Haclena fumosa. G-rote, Bull. Geog. Geol. Surv. Terr. v. p. 205 (1879) ; 

 Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 143. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen pale fuscous broAvn mixed with grey ; 

 tegulse with slight dark medial line ; tarsi blackish ringed Avith 

 white ; abdomen with the dorsal crests blackish. Fore wing fuscous 

 brown irrorated Avith grey ; subbasal line double, waved, from costa 

 to submedian fold ; antemedial line double, waved, somewhat 

 oblique ; claviform large, defined by black ; orbicular and reniform 

 defined by black, the former round, the latter rather constricted at 

 middle ; postmedial line defined by grey on outer side, bent outwards 

 below costa, then minutely waved, oblique below vein 4, some pale 

 points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line pale, with faint dark 

 marks before it and streaks beyond it, angled outwards at vein 7 

 and excurved at middle; a pale punctiform line at base of cilia. 

 Hind wing pale nearly uniformly suffused with fuscous brown ; cilia 



