360 NYCHIODES; ANTICYPELLA. By L. B. Prout. 



wanting, cj antsnnal structure much more variable, its apex always simple. Chiefly belongs to the Indian 

 Region, but reaches the Palearctic and Aethiopian. 



A. Antenna of (J u n i p e c t i n a t e {Amraica Moore). 



auperans. B. superans Btlr. (= recursaria Leech) (24a). Recognizable at a glance by its large size, strong build, 



long uniseriate (^ pectinations and grey wings, the forewing with brown subapical patch and (except m a few 

 ( $9) brown basal area. Larva undescribed, except that it is wonderfully stick-like. Has been bred by Dr. Culpin 

 at Shanghai. Distributed throughout China and Japan. Perhaps a greyer race of the Indian recursaria Walk, 

 con.fusn. — confusa Sfgr. is smaller and (especially on the underside) lighter; in my sole example the antemedian line 

 Ls much more regularly curved and the forewing beneath lacks a dark subapical spot which is always present 

 in superans. Koslofska (Ussuri district). 



B. Antenna of (^ bipectinate [Buzura). 



snppressa- B. suppressaria Cfuen. (= multipunctaria Walk.) (19 i). AA'hite, Lrrorated almost throughout with 



''^" brown and black and with 3 (on the hindwing 2) irregular yellow bands. The ^ also usually with traces of 

 black antemedian and postmedian lines. India and Burma; 1 $ labelled ,, Japan", ? in error. Has been bred 

 at Dharmsala from larvae on Dalbergia sissoo; stick-like, nearly cylindrical, face flat, crown bifid, prothorax 

 with 2 slight dorsal points, penultimate segment slightly raised; brown with indefinite dark dots and spots, 

 showing a tendency to form transverse belts, the eminences and the anterior claspers also darkened. — bene- 



benescripifi . scripta subsp. nov. from W. China has the black lines present in both sexes, fine, in the ^ often quite sharp; 

 median yellow band wanting, irroration in the (J sometimes comparatively slight. Type (a (J from Chung- 

 king) in coll. Brit. Mus. 



C. Antenna of (J subpectinate or serrata, with fas"cicles of cilia (Blepharo- 



ctenia Warr.). 



fhihetarux. B. thibetaria Oh. (19 h). A very distinct species and not variable. The thick black Imes and light 



brown bands on the white ground, the large, pale-centred ceU-mark of the hindwing, the black-belted abdo- 

 men and yellow anal tuft are unmistakable. ^ antenna serrate. Central and W. China. 



117. Genus: ISTychiodes Led- 



Palpus short, rough-scaled. Tongue rudimentary. Antenna in the ^ strongly bipectinate, in the $ 

 shortly so. Femora somewhat hairy. Both wings (especially hindwing) with distal margin crenulate. Fore- 

 wing with 1st — 2rd subcostal stallied. Only 2 or 3 species known. Palearctic. 



ohacurarm. N. obscuraria Vill. (= lividaria Hbti.) (19 i). Very variable geographically, best recognized by the 



structural characters, though there are but tew other species in which the lines are sinularly approximated 

 and of like form. The name-type is iron-grey, mixed in places with brown and usually with som.e narrow 

 pale shading distally to the po.stmedian line. Spain and North Africa to Transcaucasia. — andaltisiaria 

 Mill, is smaller, whitish, dusted and .strigulated with black. Mountains of CastUe. — ragusaria Mill. (= bel- 

 dalmatina. lieraria Eagusa) is fuscous, the lines weak or obsolete. Sicily. — daltnatina F. Wagner (19 i) is in general 

 more uniform iron-grey, postmedian line of both wings sharply angulated, underside lighter, without discal 

 phasidaria. marks. Dalmatia. — phasidaria Rghjr., from the Caucasus, is said to be dingy cinereous, with antemarginal 

 antiqiiaria band very faintly brownish. — antiquaria Stgr. is almost unicolorous grey, mixed with yellowish, an outer 

 divergaria. band pale, the forewing without the 1st line. Zerafshan to the Hi district. — divergaria Stgr. is generally smaller, 

 the distal margins less deeply crenulate, ground-colour more mixed with^pale scales, presenting altogether 

 a very powdery appearance, lines obsolescent, underside paler with larger, more conspicuous cell-dots. Meso- 

 potamia, N. W. Kurdistan and the Southern Taurus. I suspect a separate species. — Larva short and com- 

 pact, with .small head and with dorsal points on the 3rd and 8th abdominals; brown with bright orange-red 

 collar and indistinct dark dorsal lozenges. On Prunus, Erica arborescens, etc.. hibernating. Moth in June^ — 

 July and again in September. 



amyqdalaria. N. amygdalaria H.-Sch. (19 i) closely resembles obscuraria but appears rougher-scaled (probably on 



account of the coarse black irroration), the antemedian line is stiU more strongly curved, the postmedian (at 

 least of the forewing) angulated almost as in obscuraria dalmatina, on the hindwing placed nearer the distal 

 margin. Hindwing with median line present. Abdomen narrowly white at the incisions. S. E. Europe to 

 Mesopotamia and Palestine. 



ragusaria. 



118. Genus: Auticypella Mey. 



r. 



According to Meyeick differs from Hemerophila in that the hindwing beneath has a basal fov6a. I 

 cannot find this in the examples before me, but mamtain the genus as it is certainly no Nychiodes. Tongue 

 developed. Forewing with 1st — 2rd subcostal stalked, their stalk connected by a short bar with costal. 



