METACHROSTtS. By W. Warreh. 19 



19. Genus: Metachrostis Hbn. 



The same distinctions as the subfamily. 



M. pineti Stgr. (4b). Forewing cinereous with a reddish tinge; a darker band across the middle; pineti. 

 a dull yellow spot at end of cell: hindwing dull cinereous. Found only in Andalusia and Castile. — Larva 

 on lichens growing on firtrees. 



M. albonotata Stgr. (4b). Forewing brownish cinereous; basal and inner lines oblique, thick and albonotata. 

 black: stigmata large, black-edged; 3 black streaks before outer margin below middle, and one on sub- 

 median fold in central area, followed by a square white spot; hindwing grey brown. -- Described from a 

 single 2 from Ussuri. A broad-winged species, and a doubtful Metachrostis. 



M. petraea Giieii. (4b). Forewing clouded with brownish green, grey and black; inner and outer petraea. 

 lines closer than usual, especially on inner margin, where they are united by a short black streak; basal 

 line twice angled, with a black blotch below it; orbicular stigma round and black; reniform large, pale; a 

 pale space beyond outer line on inner margin and two black spots before submarginal: hindwing fawn grey; 

 described from a single ? from Andalusia. 



M. contristans Led. Forewing dull cinereous, sometimes with a coppery tinge; the transverse contristans. 

 lines black: a small round stigma with dark edges. — A local species, occurring only in Greece and Syria, 

 and. teste Staudixgek. in W. Kurdistan. 



M. raptricula Hbn. (= pomula Bhh.) (4b). Forewing elongate, grey with darker clouds; the lines raptrkula. 

 obscure: inner outwardly oblique, twice curved: outer followed by a white crescent on submedian fold, 

 beyond which is a black streak deflected through the fringe ; stigmata inconspicuous , with dark edges ; 

 hindwing dull whitish, greyer towards margin. Found throughout the continent of Europe, in Asia Minor 

 and Armenia, and in the Altai Mts. and Ussuri. ■— The ab. carbonis Frr. (4b), as the name implies, is black. — carbonis. 

 ab. deceptricula Hbn. (4 c) has a pale brown horizontal streak from base of costa through cell to outer line deceptricula. 

 and beyond, sometimes broken up into patches, and the inner margin darker. — oxybiensis Mill. (4c) is oxybiensis. 

 more uniformly grey than the type, while ab. striata Stgr. is distinguished by a black central streak: — striata. 

 lastly, ab. eretina Calb. (4c), much resembling the ab. deceptricula, is said to have the palpi yellow and eretina. 

 porrect , a statement which suggests , at least , a distinct species. Milliere, who considered his oxybiensis 

 distinct, suspected its larva to feed on lichens growing on old olive-trees. — Larva blue grey, with two 

 yellow- and white-spotted stripes. Feeds on Sticta pulmonacea. 



M. protracta Christ. Forewing chalkwhite, faintly ilecked with ochraceous; the lines incomplete ; protmcta. 

 inner and outer fuscous, the former oblique and approaching outer on inner margin; a brown submarginal 

 streak, indistinct and interrupted; a cloudy broad streak above inner margin; hindwing whitish, the veins 

 and outer margin somewhat darkened. Described from a single o* from Turcomania. 



M. fraudatricula Hbn. (4c). Forewing browner grey than raptricula; the lines black, conversely frauda- 

 white-edged: the inner curved more vertically, connected with the outer by a thick black streak on sub- tricula. 

 median fold . followed by another beyond outer line ; stigmata slightly darker than the ground ; hindwing 

 dark grey. Widely spread throughout Europe. — The ab. simulatricula Guen., queried from Florence by simulatricula. 

 the author but referred by Staudixger to Castile and Aragon, is greyer, with the hindwing paler: the 

 description is considerably like that of andalusiae I)np. 



M. leprosa spec. nor. (4 c). Forewing with the lines and markings as in fraudatricula Hbn., but the leprosa. 

 apex blunter and the outer margin more vertical; the basal third, an anal blotch, and the costo-apical area 

 hoary grey; median and outer areas brown: orbicular stigma obsolete: reniform large, pale grey; outer 

 and marginal lines finely black, not dentate; hindwing brownish fuscous; fringes of both wings dark grey; 

 32 mm. 1 2 from Asamayama, Japan, taken in August. 



M. felina Ev. Forewing greyish white ; basal patch black : a curved black antemedian band , and felina. 

 a shorter one from costa beyond middle ; orbicular stigma grey, indistinct ; reniform whitish : hindwing 

 dark grey, paler at base: occurs in Armenia and Fergana. 



M. praecana Christ. Forewing grey: inner and outer lines fuscous edged with whitish, most plainly praecana. 

 on inner margin: median area darker: the stigmata grey; an obscure luteous submarginal line; hindwing 

 grey, darker externally and on the veins: forewing somewhat pointed; hindwing broad. Turcomania. 



