680 



KocTurn.^. 



angle of cell, then waved ; postmedial line double filled in witli 

 white, bent outwards below costa, then waved, excurved to vein 4, 

 then incurved, some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal 

 line whitish, defined on inner side at middle by wedge-shaped black 

 streaks, angled outwards at vein 7, excurved and waved at middle 



Fig 17(.> — Thalpcrphila matiira, J. 



and angled inwards in submedian fold ; a waved black terminal line 

 slightly defined by whitish on inner side. Hind wing very pale 

 yellow with brown terminal band, broad at apex, narrowing to a 

 poiut at tornus ; cilia white, pale brown at base from apex to vein 2 ; 

 the underside with the costal area suffused with red-brown, a slight 

 discoidal point and traces of a postmedial line on costal area. 



Hah. Bkitain, Leech Coll. ; Fkance, Sand Coll. ; Germany, Zeller 

 &Frey Colls.; Austria; Hungary; Switzerland; Italy; Dalmatia, 

 Leech Coll.; Scandinavia; S. Eussia ; Armenia; Asia Minor, Pontus. 

 Exp. 38-48 millim. 



J.arvci. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 124; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 342, pi. 174. f. ,3. 



Pale brownish ochreous or brownish ; a dorsal series of paired 

 dark fuscous longitudinal marks, subdorsal and lateral lines edged 

 with brown; subspiracular line paler or whitish ochreous edged 

 with brown above ; head pale ochreous or brownish. Pood-plants : 

 tirasses 9-4. 



357 8. Thalpophila vitalha. 



Koctua vitalba, Fit. Neue Beitr. pi. 124. ff. 3, 4 (1834) ; Staud. Cat. Lep. 



pal. p. 169. 

 Hadena vittalha, Treit. Schmett. Eur. Suppl. x. 2. p. 40 (1835) ; Boisd. 



Icones, pi. 73. ff. 4-R ; Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Sehniett., Noct. fif. 34-6. 

 Ccrigo amathu&ia, Rmbr. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1871, p. 319 ; Mab. Ann. Soc. 



E,.t. Fr. 1872, pi. 15. f. 8. 



S ■ Head and thorax pale red-brown mixed with some white and 

 black ; iind joint of palpi fuscous ; antennae with the shaft white 

 at base ; tegulse with some blackish near tips which are white ; 

 patagia with black streaks near edges ; fore and mid tibise and tarsi 

 suffused with fuscous in Jront ; abdomen greyish white with slight 

 ochreous rings. Pore wing greyish suffused with pale red-brown, 

 the veins streaked with white ; a black streak below base of cell ; 

 antemedial line oDsoiete on costal half, angled outwards in sub- 

 median interspace and foi'ming a wedge-shaped blackish mark 

 above inner margin ; claviform very large, defined by black and 

 exlcndijig almost to postmedial line; orbicular and reiiiform with 



