130 PTYCHOPODA. By L. B. Prout. 



joints slightly projecting, ciliation moderate; hindleg slender, tarsus fully developed. Kashmir (Chamba, etc.) 

 and the Punjab ; thus perhaps belonging to the Indo-Australian fauna more than to Palearctie. Easily 

 distinguished by the bright golden-yellow colouring, at least at the margins. 



filicata. Pt. filicata Hbn. (4f). Yellowish white, with purplish fuscous markings, Forewing with the median 



line preceding, or at most crossing the discal dot, becoming oblique inwards and with a rather marked 

 indentation posteriorly; the entire area basally to this line more or less completely filled up with the dark 

 colour, but usually with a pale line traceable proximally to the (scarcely visible) antemedian; postmedian 

 usually obsolete, occasionally faintly discernible, but always marked by a conspicuous dart costal spot and 

 often with another at the posterior margin; a cloudy, more or less interrupted dark shade proximally to the 

 subterminal. Hindwing with the median line proximal (usually far proximal) to the discal dot, the space 

 between this line and the base infuscated, but sometimes less strongly than on the forewing; postmedian line 

 •usually present, at least as a series of dots on the veins, placed near the discal dot; subterminal line usually 

 followed as well as preceded by dark shading, hence more conspicuous than on forewing, broad. Under 

 surface similarly but less darkly marked, cf antennal joints slightly projecting, ciliation short; hindtibia broadened 

 and flattened, tarsus strongly broadened and flattened. Areole occasionally open at its extremity as in Cleta, the first 

 subcostal failing to anastomose with the others. Larva rather thick, tapering anteriorly, the skin with strong trans- 

 verse folds, rugose and granulated, but not so strongly as in rusticata; head light brown; body dirty greenish with 

 indistinct, interrupted brownish dorsal and subdorsal line; lateral line more distinct, yellowish, broadening 

 somewhat in the middle of the last segments; ventral surface without markings. Raid to feed on flowers of 

 Dianthus, Veronica and other low plants. The moth appears in June and again in September; it is distributed 

 throughout the greater part of Southern Europe, Moravia, Hungary, Asia Minor and Syria. 



bucepha- p^_ bucephalaria Chret, described from a single cf, is said to resemble a small discoloured or aberrant 



filicata but to differ markedly, apart from other characters, in the large size of the head. Forewing narrow, 

 prolonged at the apex, distal margin very oblique; yellowish white or very pale ochraceous, with scattered 

 brown atoms, which only become condensed in the basal area; first line broad, sinuous and dentate, nearly 

 direct, brown ; postmedian very fine, pmictiform, scarcely indicated, subparallel to the distal margin, discal 

 mark small but strigiform, black, very near the postmedian, subterminal indistinct, fringes concolorous. 

 Hindwing rounded, not emarginate ; concolorous with forewing, basal area entirely covered with brown scales ; 

 discal dot very distinct. Under surface yellowish white, with the discal dots very small, black. Head large, 

 blackish brown, vertex yellowish ochreous ; antenna yellowish brown; body and legs yellowish ochreous; 

 hindtibia without spurs, not more exactly described. Algeria: Biskra, end of May. 



figuraria. Pt. figuraria Bang-Haas is another recently described species with which I am still unacquainted. 



According to its author it has quite a distinct facies but is best referred to the filicata-rusticata group; the 

 figure which he gives certainly suggests a near relative of these species. There are two colour-foi-ms, one 

 brown mixed with reddish, the other light grey-brown; the median area of the forewing forms a dark band, 

 at its edges black-brown, in the middle lighter, bounded proximally by a wavy antemedian line, distally by 

 the median, which is very strongly outcurved in its anterior half, so that the band is much narrower 

 posteriorly than anteriorly; discal dot large and black, placed in this median area; postmedian line dentate, 

 followed, as in filicata, by dark, broken band; distal marginal line black, interrupted; fringe spotted in places 

 with brown. Base of hindwing darkened as far as the discal dot; postmedian line well expressed, strongly 

 dentate; distal area somewhat darkened, though not so strongly as the basal. Under surface similarly but 

 more weakly marked. Described from 3 ?? from S. Oran. The shape will perhaps help to distinguish it from 

 its allies; the apex of the forewing is i-ather sharp, the distal margin of both wings is said to be bent or 

 slightly angled about the 3''<' radial and P' median, but the photographic figure does not show this appreciably 

 on the fore -wing, and possibly Bang-Haas scarcely intends to indicate more than the weakly flexuous 

 margins which are shown by rusticata. 



intermedia. Pt. intermedia Stgr. (3i) suggests a weakly marked filicata but is structurally like rusticata. Wings 



shaped almost as in the latter, the distal margin of the hindwing between the radials and of both wings 

 (especially the hind) between the first median and the anal angle being perceptibly, though only very slightly 

 emarginate. Ground-colour slightly less white (more brownish or yellowish). Forewing with the dark band 

 terminating at, or almost before the discal dot; its proximal edge (the antemedian line) not very conspicuous, 

 as there is some dark basal shading, though not on an average so strong as in completa; postmedian line 

 faint, starting from a dark costal spot; dark clouding between this line and the subterminal almost entirely 

 obsolete; some minute dark dots, as in rusticata, stand at the base of the fringe. On the hindwing the basal 

 dark shading is strong, the postmedian line weak or obsolete, subterminal dark shading obsolete. Under 

 surface more weakly marked than in filicata and rusticata, especially in the subterminal region, cf antennal 



