MINOA; AMYGDALOPTERA. By I.. I!. Phout. 167 



what darkened, suggesting a central band; I'orewing coslally also with a bluish-white subleruiiiial line, whieli 



disappears about at the 3'''' radial. I have not seen the Palaearctic form, which was taken in Ainurland in 



July. The Indian I'epresentative is — caertileolineata Moore, possibly, as Staudinoer suggests, a separate taerw/eo- 



species, bat I hardly think so. Except that the distal margins seen moore deeply excised no difference is 



mentioned. The median band is not appreciably darkened. 1 introduce it here because Wilema.x lias recorded 



it from Japan, but I suspect his specimen will prove to be subfalcaria. 



H. azela Btlr. (Vol. 2, pi. 48 i). Rather larger than subfa/carin, the distal margin of the foi-ewing some- azcla. 

 what less deeply excised. Entirely different in coloration, the dark brown ground-colour being less uniform 

 and much more restricted, an extended apical area on the forewing and marginal band on the hindwing being 

 white, while the posterior part of the median area of the forewing and nearly the proximal half of the hindwing 

 are light buff-colour; the dark areas are traversed by some vague bluish-silvery lines and the forewing shows 

 also 2 or 3 undultite rust-coloured lines; the white apical patch of the forewing is continued narrowly to the 

 hinder angle, herein differing from the nearly allied Indian species gemmifera Moore. Only known from Japan. 



10. Genus: Miiioa Tr. 



Face smooth. Palpus short, lessely scaled. Antenna in cf shortly ciliated. Les-strueture normal. 

 Wings glossy, smooth-margined. Forewing with areole double, P* subcostal arising from anterior margin of 

 outer areole, or exceptionally from its apex Hindwing with discocellulars oblique, not biangulate. 



Only a single species is known. Like the preceding genus, it probably belongs in the vicinity of 

 Asthena, to which Me^-rick h.is sunk it. It differs in the point of origin of the 1^' subcostal vein of the forewing 

 as well as in facies. 



M. tnurinata Sc. {■= sordiata L. = fuscata Hufn. = euphorbiata Schiff. =^ unicolorata Hbn) (6 c). Very murinata. 

 variable in colour, in almost all the forms entirely without markings, but easily recognized by its shape and 

 by the structural characters; in size it varies comparatively little. The typical form (at least in the cf ) is, as 

 the name implies, mouse-coloured or inclining to fuscous; the ?, however, is almost always more yellowish- 

 tinged than in the corresponding cf form. — ab. italicata Mill, is a rare aberration, of typical ? coloration, Ualicata. 

 in which 2 or 3 faintly darker lines are visible in the distal half of the forewing or of both wings, faintly 

 crenulate and parallel wilh the distal margin, slightly recalling certain Euchoeca ohliterata. Described from a 

 single ? from Italy, but the only specimen before me is a cf from the Zeller collection, probably from Silesia. — 

 amylaria Lah. (= cinerearia Stgr.) is a whitish-ashy form which occurs chiefly in mountain localities and may amylaria. 

 be regarded as the prevailing race in some parts of the Alps. My own must extreme examples are from Fusio. 

 Staudinger also records it from Saxony and the mountains of Central Italy. — cyparissaria Mann (6 c) is the cyparis- 

 antithesis of the preceding, the colour being deep leaden grey, almost black. It occurs in several localities in '***' 

 the Soulh of Europe and about Sarep la, sometimes as an aberration, sometimes as a local race; and the only 

 two specimens which I have seen from Japan belong to this form. — monochroaria H.-Sch. is a bright ochreous monochro- 

 form (sometimes, indeed, as brightly coloured as Cleogene lutearia, and feuds to replace the type in parts of *""• 

 Eastern Europe, Asia Minor, Central Asia and E. Siberia,. Perhaps chiefly a summer form. — The larva is 

 short and thick, rugose dorsally, the head small; probably variable in colour and markings, as the accounts 

 differ; according to Buckler red-brown dorsally, with oblique black bars running from a fine white mediodorsal 

 line to a black spiracular one, beneath which runs a broad reddish-yellow stripe. Feeds exclusively on species 

 of Euphorbia. The pupa is shoi't and thick, brown in colour, enclosed in a cocoon on the surface of the 

 ground and hibernating. The moth appears in Viay and June and again — especially in southern localities — 

 about August. It flies in the siuishine in wood-clearings often at a good height above the ground. 



11. Genus: Aiiiygdaloptera Gmphg. 



Face prominent, somewhat ronghened. Palpus moderate, rongh-scaled. Antenna in cf unipectinate. 

 Leg-structure normal. Forewing amygdaloid; areole double. Hindwing with distal margin entire; costal vein 

 not anastomosing with the cell, but connected by a bar near its apex; discocellulars oblique, not biangulate; 

 inner-marginal area in the cf modified so as to form a small pocket on the under surface near the base. 



The sole .species is confined to North Africa. It differs from all other Palearctic Larentiids in the 

 umiseriate pectinations of the & antenna, an extremely rare occurrence in this subfamily, though found also 

 in a few American genera (Monotaxis, Nomenia, Cophocerotis). The structure of the hindwing associates Amyg- 

 daloptera unmistakably with the Chesias group. 



