SOODTOMIMA; DYSOTA. By L. R. Prottt, 407 



dusted with fuscous almost throughout. Chiefly in the Pyrenees Orientales, Spain and Portugal. — dupon- duponcheli. 

 cheli noni. nov. (= perspersaria Dup. in err.) (23 1) is more unicolorous or spotted, with the lines entirely or 

 almost entirely obsolete. Prevalent in S. France and Piedmont, recorded also from Spain, the Southern Tyrol, 

 Dalmatia and N. Africa. — Larva smooth, regularly cylindrical, dorsal area violaceous with a brown dorsal 

 line and pale yellowish subdorsal; lateral stripe broad, white, with yellow spots; venter more flesh-coloured, 

 with 3 blackish lines. A rarer variety is green dorsally. On Genista and Ulex, producing the moth in August- 

 September. 



E. exustaria Stgr. (23 1) is on an average rather smaller, the postmedian line generally finer and sharper, exustaria. 

 the subterminal shade placed further from the distal margin, thus close to the postmedian line; distal area 

 conspicuously lighter than the rest of the wing. Cell-spots rather large and black. Underside mixed with brighter 

 brown. Antenna! pectinations shorter. Palestine, Tangier and Mogador. 



B. Porewingwith 1st — 2nd subcostal stalked, their stalk anastomosing or con- ^ 

 nected with costal. Fovea wanting. Middle offace with an oval prominence, 



the extremity of which is truncate and rugose {Paronychora Joan.). 



E. oberthiiri Vazquez (24 d). Ground-colour whitish, but almost entirely covered with dark irroration; oberihwi. 

 lines well expressed. Occurs in September. Madrid, Salamanca and Portugal (Serra da Guardunha). — in- imlaraia. 

 cl?rata Joan., from Madrid and Serra da Guardunha, has the whitish ground-colour predominant, the irrora- 

 tion being greatly reduced. — ab. perftisaria Joan, is unicolorous brownish grey, finely irrorated, the lines perfusaria. 

 wanting, thus parallel to miniosata duponcheli. Madrid and Salamanca. 



C. Forewingwith 2nd subcostal arising from stalk of 3rd — 5th. Fovea wanting 



(Onychora Meyr.). 

 E. agaritharia Dardoin (24 d). Larger than oberthiiri, the ^ with more ample hindwing. Easily agariiharia. 

 recognized by its almost uniform brown-grey colour, only at times a little more brown in the median area 

 or with the lines slightly indicated; scaling rather smooth and glossy, dark irroration fine, slight and inconspi- 

 cuous. 5 smaller and narrower than (J. Larva elongate, smooth, cylindrical, recalling Selidosema; grey, washed 

 with flesh-colour and vinous and with numerous very fine darker and lighter longitudinal lines. Only recorded 

 from S. France and Andalusia. — tnauretanicaria Stgr. is diagnosed as darker, more distinctly striated and maureiani- 

 dotted. According to Joannis probably a separate species, with still smoother scaling, the sexes alike in size. earm. 



N. Africa. 



D. Face nearly as in Section B. Forewing with 1st and 2nd subcostals ari- 



sing from cell, free. Fovea wanting (Scodionista Joan.). 



E. amoritaria Pilng. Size of exustaria, abdomen more slender, pectinations much longer. Reddish amoriiaria. 

 sand-colour, discal dots variable in size, lines not very distinct, consisting of small dashes on the veins con- ' 

 nected by a very fine line, pale subterminal line with some dark shading proximally. Palestine. 



158. Genus: SScodiomiiua Stgr. 



Characters of Dyseia, palpus of moderate length, with long projecting hairs beneath, hindwing with 

 2nd subcostal verj' shortly stalked with 1st radial. A perhaps unnecessary genus, created for the single spe- 

 cies here given. 



S. crocallaria Stgr. (24 d). Forewing very pale yellowish with indistinct brown irroration; discal spot crocallaria. 

 large, paler in the centre; antemedian and postmedian lines present. Hindwing more whitish, almost unmarked. 

 Underside pale and weakly marked. Transcaspia. 



159. Genus: Dyseia Hbn. 



Face more or less rough-scaled, but without tuft. Palpus generally short. Tongue rudimentary or 

 wanting. Antenna in ^ bipectinate. Pectus and femora hairy. Wings with distal margins smooth, costal 

 margin of forewiag almost straight or even faintly subconcave. No fovea. All veins present, 1st and 2nd sub- 

 costals usually free. $ with abdomen robust, wings sometimes reduced. — Larva with raised abdominal warts, 

 8th abdominal segment with thorn-like dorsal process, anal end with 2 strong points projecting backwards. — 

 A not very extensive genus, Palearctic and Aethiopian. The more robust species appear to sTiow some affinity 

 with Crocallis. 



A. A n t e n n a i n $ simple (Dyseia). 

 D. emucidaria Hbn. (24 d). Slenderly built, forewing greyish ochreous with rather sparse dark dusting, emncidaria. 

 sometimes with a slight rosy suffusion, hindwing white, towards distal margin becoming concolorous with 

 forewing; discal marks elongate, equally distinct on the underside; the postmedian dots are also usually indi- 

 cated beneath. The spots or blotches in distal area of forewing are variable. $ smaller, with stout abdomen. 

 Larva very variable in colour, clay-jellowish to purple-black, the lines wavy. On Artemisia campestris, hiber- 

 nating. Moth in June — July, only known from S. France. 



