BOARMIA. By L. B. Peout. 373 



B. leechi Piltig. ( = nigrofasciaria Leech [nom praeocc.]) (21c) is characterized by the pale ground- leeehi. 

 colour and dark median band with very irregular proximal edge and strongly dentate distal edge. Palpus and 

 tongue rather short, antennal pectinations long, reaching to near the apex. W. China. Closely related to fuli- 

 ginea Hmps. from India. 



B. ningpoaria (Leech, MS.) sp. nov. (21 c). ^. Face flat, nearly smooth. Palpus short. Antennal pecti- ningpoaria. 

 nations short and slender. Porewmg with 1st subcostal arising free, sometimes anastomosing with costal; 

 browia with a yellower line or narrow band representing the postmedian, except at costa, where there are 

 one or two blackish spots; antemedian and median lines strong, approximated, the latter preceding (or curving 

 outwards so as to touch) the elongate black cell-mark; some dark dusting in basal and distal areas and 

 between the antemedian and median lines; subterminal line much interrupted, chiefly indicated as a whitish 

 dot behind the 3rd. Hindwing very weakly marked, the yellow Ime faint or obsolete. Underside of forewing 

 more weakly, of hindwing more strongly marked than above. China: Ningpo (type and cotype), April and June; 

 Hong-Kong (1 (J), March all 3 in coll. Brit. Mus. — reformatf subsp. nov. has the yellow shade suppressed, reformata. 

 a complete postmedian line of fuscous dots; hindwing above with both lines developed. Chungking, June, 

 1 (J in my collection. 



B. semiclarata Walk, is a variable species, but distinguished by its ochreous hindwing and under- semiclarata. 

 side, more reddish forewing above, with large cell-spot and strongly bent or angulated postmedian line. Very 

 commonly there is a large clear spot in the middle of the distal area and many examples show strong black 

 cloudmgs in the basal area and distally to the postmedian line. In the name-type the hindwing is only strigu- 

 lated with fuscous in the inner-marginal part and is often in part very light, whitish ochreous. N. W. Himalaj'as. — 

 — quadrifera Walk. (= subochrearia Leech) (21 c) has the entire hindwing strigulated, though generally blackest quadrifera. 

 at the inner margin. N. W. Himalayas and Omei-shan. 



B. punctimarginaria Leech (21 c) is perhaps not a Boarmia. Pace smooth and narrow, fovea very pimdimar- 

 strongly developed, neuration somewhat intermediate towards the following section, the 1st — 2nd subcostal ginana._ 

 being moderately stalked. A dark and weakly-marked species, but recognizable by the small, sharp white dots 

 which represent the subterminal hne. Kiukiang. 



B. bilinearia Leech (21 c). Systematic position, also doubtful. Face smooth, fovea slight, 2nd subcostal bilinearia. 

 of forewing long-stalked with 3rd — -Sth. Rather glossy, characterized by the position and shape of the black 

 lines. W. China: Mou-pin. 



D. Antenna of ^ bipectinate. Forewing with 1st- — 2nd subcostallong -stalked 



or coincident (Boarmia Tr.). 



B. atlanticaria Stgr. (21 c) accorduig to a single example before me somewhat resembles a narrow- atlanticaria. 

 winged solieraria (25 c), but has stronger tongue, shorter antennal pectinations, more crenulate-margined hmd- 

 wing and 1st — 2nd subcostal of foreAving coincident. The 2 principal lines (the latter white-edged distally) 

 are approximated at inner margin (with dark shading between them), but diverge abruptly about at the 

 2nd median and the postmedian becomes crenulate or dentate : both are more or less obsolete costally ; on the 

 hindwing the postmedian bends strongly about the 1st radial. Larva smooth, elongate, on Juniperus phoenicea 

 in February, producing moths April-May. Andalusia, — In holli Oh., from Algeria, the lines are more nearly holU. ' 

 parallel, the postmedian more crenulate throughout. 



B. tenuisaria Stgr. (24 b) is perhaps related to atlanticaria, but according to the figure and description tenuisaria. 

 resembles Apleroneura epione Prout (from S. Africa), though longer-winged. A rather small species, the palpus 

 short and slender, antennal pectinations long, reaching the apex, hindtibia not dilated, fovea scarcely developed, 

 systematic position doubtful. Light grey-brown (pale with strong broAvnish strigulation), the 2 lines of fore- 

 wing oblique, the antemedian somewhat curved anteriorly, postmedian running towards, but not quite reaching 

 apex, bent outwards about the 3rd radial. Hindwing with distal margin strongly waved or crenulate, postmedian 

 line bent near costa, otherwise fairly straight. Palestine: Jordan Valley. 



B. corearia Leech (= sidemiata Stgr.) (21 c) is rather robust, the rather short antenna bearing in the (J corearia. 

 very long pectinations which suddenly decrease and leave a moderate apical part sim.ple; thus rather related 

 to the subgenus Phthonosema. The pale median area, brown, blackish-spotted distal area, reduction of median 

 line of forewing to a costal spot, presence of discal mark (generally elongate) on hindwing only and other 

 characters render this an easily recognizable species. Both wings beneath with strong cell-spot and postmedian 

 line. Amm-land and Korea; ?Chang Yang (a local form or ally, too worn to describe). 



B. phantomaria Graes. (= moltrechti Oh.) (19 k). Pectinations also long. Similar to tendinosaria but pMntoma- 

 more unicolorous dark smoke-grey, the lines black, at hindmargin of forewing thick, a conspicuous white sub- '"'*'• 



terminal spot behind the 3rd radial. Underside smoky grey, without the postmedian line of tendinosaria. Amur 

 and Uasuri district. 



