POLYPHiENIS. 669 



at base of inner margin ; subbasal line double, blackish, miniitelj- 

 waved, from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line double, minutely 

 waved, angled inwards above vein 1 and outwards above inner 

 margin ; elaviform large, defined by dark brown ; orbicular and 

 reniform defined by dark brown, the former small, round, the latter 

 large ; medial line oblique, dark from costa to lower angle of cell, 

 then indistinct and waved ; postmedial line double filled in with 

 whitish, bent outwards below costa, then strongly dentate and 

 produced to black points on the veins, excurved to vein 4, then 

 incurved, some pale points beyond it on costa, a diffused blackish 

 streak from it to termen in subinedian fold ; subterminal line grey 

 defined on inner side by blackish except towards costa where the 

 blackish is bent outwards to apex, dentate, a slight black streak 

 from it to termen below vein 4 ; a terminal series of small black 

 lunules ; cilia with a waved dark line through them. Hind wing 

 reddish orange ; a slight oblique brownish discoida] bar ; traces of 

 a minutely waved postmedial line ; a blackish terminal band broad 

 towards costa where it becomes brownish and is diffused inwards, 

 narrowing to tornus ; cilia white, tinged with yellow at base and 

 with series of brown lunules ; the underside with the costal area 

 irrorated with brown, the discoidal bar blackish, the postmedial 

 line rather more distinct. 



Ab. 1. projoinqua. Smaller, darker, and suffused with blackish. — 

 Taurus. 



Ab. 2. Fore wnng paler and suffused with olive-green instead of 

 brown, the lines filled in with white. 



Ab. 3. viridata. Fore wing bright green, the lines filled in with 

 white. — Sicily. 



ffab. France, Sand &Frey Colls. ; Germany, Zeller Coll ; AtrsTRiA ; 

 Hungary, Leech Coll.; Sjpain, Bilbao; Italy; Sicily; Balkan 

 States ; EtrssiA, St. Petersburg, 1 5 , Crimea ; Armenia ; Asia 

 Minor, Taurus ; Palestine. Eccp. 42-44 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 220 ; Hffm. Eaiip. p. 100, pi. 28. f. 7. 



Pale grey ; dorsal line pale edged with blackish ; ventral surface 

 dark brown. Food-plants : Honeysuckle, Privet. 10-5. 



Sect. III. Antennae of male serrate, and fasciculate. 



3565. Polyplisenis subsericata. 



Folyphfsnis subsericata, Heri-.-Schaff, ISfeue Schmett. p. 26, f. 124 (1856) ; 

 Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 184. 



S . Head and thorax white mixed with black and some olive- 

 brown ; pectus white ; tarsi black ringed with white ; abdomen 

 brown ringed with white, the ventral surface white slightly irrorated 

 with brown. Fore wing grey suffused with olive-brown and thickly 

 irrorated with black, the basal half of medial area paler ; subbasal 

 line represented by grey striae from costa and ceil ; antemedial line 

 defined by grey on inner side, oblique from costa tosubmedian fold, 

 then curved ; orbicular small, round, with olive centre defined by 



