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wing less variegated, with the line more crenulate, white spots at apex and hinder angle and a dot in the middle. 

 A white band at back of thorax. W. China: Pu-tsu-fang; only the ^ known. 



H. nycthemeraria Hbn. (20 b). Testaceous with a rosy tinge, the markings dark brown; costal area nycihenwra- 

 of forewing pale; postmedian^ine of hindwing almost straight. Underside violet grey, postmedian line with '"'■"• 



strong black dots (minute teeth) on the veins. Antenna of ^ bipectinate to apex. — Larva on Genista, C3rtisus 

 and Juniperus in March and April ; grey, with stronger warts and swellings than that of abrupiaria. Pupa elon- 

 gate, dark red, with browner wings; in a slight cocoon. Moth May^ — August, only known from Valais, 8. France 

 and Portugal. 



H. serraria Costa was scarcely known until recently, when Dannehl rediscovered it and Count Tueati serraria. 

 has published much on it. I have not seen it. Rather large and ample-winged, perhaps as dejeani though with 

 more strongly dentate hindwing. Colouring about as in average specimens of dejemii, antemedian line more 

 bent outwards, approaching the postmedian, which is strongly bent outwards in middle, then inwards. Post- 

 median line of hindwing rather near the discal dot. Larva less slender and more uniformly cylinderical than 

 in typical Hemerophila, purple-brown with fine yellow lateral lines, anteriorly and on last few segments with 

 dark dorsal stripe. Italy: Genzano (S. of Rome) and Calabria. 



H. grummi Alph. (Hi b). Also large, still broader winged, hindwing only weakly crenulate. Perhaps grunmd. 

 brighter brown than most dejeani, first line weak and incomplete, postmedian still staighter than in dejeani, 

 not reaching costal margin, on both wings accompanied distally by a more reddish brown band. S. Ferghana 

 and Issyk-kul. L^^nknown to me. 



H. maderae B. Baker (25 d). Aberrant in that the (J antennal pectinations are very long and con- maderae. 

 tinue to the apex, distal margin of fore- as well as of hindwing definitely crenulate. Otherwise it resembles 

 a rather large, long-winged, brightly coloured abruptaria ab. brunnea. I have only before me one damaged 

 example and it is said to be variable; the antemedian line seems to curve strongly in th"? middle and 

 reach the costa nearer the base than in abruptaria, but becomes nearly'' obsolete. Madeira. 



H. amphidasyaria Ob. (20 c). Aberrant in the same respects as the preceding, though the ^ anten- amphidasy- 

 nal pectinations are less extremely long. A large and robust species, probably variable, as the only example ^^^"" 



before me (a <^ from Yokohama) has the ground-colour entirely brown, the dark cloudings more restricted, 

 the postmedian line of the hindwing more proximally placed. Ussuri district and Japan. 



H. (?) scalaria Chr. is only knoAvn to me from the diagnosis. Forewing elongate, subacute, grey- scalaria. 

 yellowish, with sparse, reddish-grey strigulae, the 2 lines black, obliquely placed, the first dentate on the sub- 

 median vein, the outer suberect, obtusely dentate, discal dot and an undulate line fuscous, hindwing paler, 

 with a dot in the middle and a slightly bent postmedian line, a waved fuscous subterminal shade, all the 

 fringes yellowish. Length of a forewing 20 mm. Helenendorf (Transcaucasia). 



H. strictaria Led. (20 c) is referred by Staudingee to Synopsia but the tongue, though not very siridaria. 

 long, is perfect and the 1st and 2nd subcostals of the forewing are separate. Antenna in cJ bipectinate to 

 the apex. Easily known by the relatively long hindwing and pointed apex of forewing. Otherwise the 

 approximated lines and the form of the postmedian recall the quite differently shaped B. solieraria and one 

 or two other species. — ab. confluens Stgr. has the lines confluent except at inner-margin, forming a narrow, confluens. 

 forked band. — The Ural, the mountains of Central Asia and the Amur-Ussusi district. 



H. dolosaria Leech (= oberthiiri Th.-Mieg) (20 e). This and the following species will perhaps prove dolosaria. 

 to belong to Gnophos, but their structure is somewhat intermediate and the early stages unknown. Both 

 are distinguished by the large, more or less ocellated cell-spot and the less oblique lines than in most Hemero- 

 phila. Except in the cell-spot and darker coloiu-, dolosaria resembles the Indian Hirasa contubernalis Moore, 

 but the lines of the forewing are differently shaped, the postmedian rather more dentate. CUiang Yang. 

 Also in Yunnan. 



"^ [* H. punctilinearia Leech (20 c). Smaller and rather more brownish-tinged, distal margin more oblique, punctilinea- 

 lines more highly crenulate, etc. W. China: Huang-mu-Chang ; Kulu. ^^'^' 



B. Antenna of 5 bipectinate (Phthonandria Warr.) 



H. atrilineata Btlr. ( = brunnearia Herz) (20 c). Except in its large size and pectinate $ antenna airilineata. 

 this species much resembles nycthemeraria. The ground-colour, however, is deeper brown and the antemedian 

 line is acutely angled inwards on the cell-fold. The eggs are scattered on the back of a leaf of Morus alba, 

 on which the larva feeds. Larva twiglike, head rounded, slightly bilobed, brown. True legs large, black 

 lined. Body robust, 5th abdominal segment with a dorsal collar; tubercles of 1st and 5th abdominals ele- 

 vated, white. Mottled red-brown, blackish and white without definite pattern. An irregular pale dorsal and 



