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NEROMIA; mCROLOXIA. By L. B. Prout. 



local conditions it is difficult to disentangle it. The tj'^jical form has a Mide range from Transcaucasia to North- 

 Avest India, and Wilemax has recorded a single specimen fromYoshino, Yamato, Japan. The form gigantaria 

 occurs in a part of Ferghana, in Kulu, Goorais Valley, Scind Valley, about Dalhousie, and I have seen one 

 example from Huang-mu-chang. 



plana. C. plana Wilem., of which only a single $ is known, and which is somewhat doubtfully referable to this 



genus, is of about the size and shape of viridata, of a rather opaque, uniform green, without a trace of lines. 

 Fringes pale. Underside similar. Antenna thick and serrate, palpus probably too short for a Chlorissa. Japan: 

 Odai-San, Yamato, July, 1894. 



25. Genus : X eromia Stgr. 



Palpus A^ith third joint short, nearly alike in both sexes. Antenna evenly ciliated. Hindtibia with 

 only one pair of spurs, tarsus not abbreviated. Abdomen not crested. Hindwing Avith distal margin rounded. 

 Neuration as in Hemithea and Chlorissa. Evidentty related to the genera just named, but differing in the palpus 

 (at least of the 2) and in the leg structure. Only the type species, pulvereisparsa, clearly belongs to the genus, 

 but one Indian and a few African species with stiU shorter palpus can be provisionally referred to it. 



pulverei- N. pulvereisparsa fl^mpsn. (= iodisata (Sig'r.). (3 a) Light ochreous grey or greyish ochreous, more or less 



»parsa. fiei^gely dark-dusted. Lines lunulate-dentate, whitish, quite weak or almost obsolete, sometimes made more 

 prominent hj a shght darkening of the central area of the wing. Discal marks feebly incUcated. Under 

 surface paler, unmarked. Aden and Palestine. Hasipson's type, from the former locahty, is much darker- 

 dusted than the Palestine specimens (iodisata) which I have seen, and the specific identity not quite cer- 

 tain,^ aU being in bad "condition. 



camifrons. N. carnifrons Btlr. (= indecretata Hmpsn. nee Walk.) (2i). Palpus minute, o antenna dentate, -snth 



fascicles of ciha. Wings somewhat ampler than in ■pulvereisparsa. DeKcate sea-green, costal edge yellowish 

 white, both wings with a nearly straight, moderately thick white postmedian Une. Underside shghtly paler, 

 otherAvise quite similar. Distributed through India from the Nilgiris to the Himalayas. The specimen figured, 

 redilinearia. hom Kulu, is in the Bastelbeeger collection. — rectilinearia Leech, from Huang-mu-chang, scarcely differs, 

 but has a weak, curved antemedian hne on forewing of wliich there is not or hardly a trace in carnifrons. 



herbaria. 



advolata. 



26. Genus : Mlcroloxia Warr. 



Palpus moderate to long, third jomt in 5 elongate. Antenna in ^ pectinate. Hindleg in both sexes 

 with onlj' one pair of spurs. Abdomen not crested. ForcAring Avith first subcostal anastomosing with, or 

 running into costal, second subcostal sometimes running into costal, sometimes anastomosing Avith first sub- 

 costal, first median sometimes stalked. HindA\'ing with'^distal margin rounded, second subcostal and first 

 median both stalked. Larva more or less slender, tapering anteriorly, head small, the lobes produced to points, 

 body rugose, granulated, lateral flange developed. 



A small genus inhabiting southern Europe, India and Africa. Perhaps it Avill need further subdivision. 

 The species are not all uniform in shape and facies, AA'hile CA^en in stnicture there are some shght variations. 

 The species of the tj'pical section are of very small size, but relatively strongly built. 



M. herbaria Hhn. (= graminaria Z. = bniandaria Mill.) (2 e) is the name-t3rpe of the genus, and the 

 best-knoAvn species. The green ground-colour is never very bright, and easily fades to a dirty ohvaceous shade. 

 The hnes are slender, rather straight, almost Avanting on the underside. The fringes are long, distally pale. 

 — In the form advolata Ev. (2 e), Avhich seems inclined in some locahties to form a local race, but in others 

 is a mere aberration, the hnes are broader and clearer, hence much more conspicuous, and are perceptible 

 also beneath. — The larva is pale green, sometimes AA-ith an ohve-green or red-broAA^n dorsal hne. Feeds on 

 Teucrium and produces tAAO or more generations in the year. The species occurs in southern Europe, Syria 

 and Asia Minor and eastAvards to Turkestan. 



halimaria. M. halimaria Chref. (2 e) apparently replaces herbaria in Algeria. It is very closely related to that 



species, but bluer green, the lines very fine, indistinct, shaded AA'ith dark green, sometimes almost obsolete. 

 Egg greenish AA'liite, an irregular ellipsoid, truncate at one end, a large central depression, reticulation po- 

 lygonal. Larva more robust than herbaria, granulation more regular, ground-colour more AA'hitish, dorsal 

 pattern different. On Atriplex halimus, in a succession of broods. 



