124 CHLOANTHA; EUSCOTIA; LITHOPHANE. By W. Warren. 



form from a small round to a long elliptical mark becoming confluent with the reniform. — Larva yellowish 

 green, dorsally suffused with reddish; dorsal line pale red, between V-shaped black marks; a subdorsal series 

 of black marks; spiracular line pale yellow; feeding on various low plants. 



nigra. A. nigra Haw. (= aethiops ()., nigricans Hbn. nee L.) (30 d). Porewing deep black, the outer area 



beyond onter line often appearing brown; the inner and outer lines and the edges of stigmata deeper black; 

 outer edge of reniform marked with yellowish spots; subterminal line rarely visible; hindwing in $ white, 

 sometimes with veins and termen clouded with fuscous, in $ smoky grey-brown, more whitish towards base; 

 seilcri. — ab. seileri Fuchs (30 e) includes the intenser black forms without any trace of brown. — Larva yellow 

 green, with 3 well-marked red dorsal lines and a similar coloured lateral line; spiracles white; or green with 

 the dorsal lines confluent, brownred, divided finely by white ; the brownred subdorsal and spiracular lines 

 confluent into a broad band, with a yellow red-edged streak below it; polyphagous on low plants. Found 

 in Britain, Fiance. Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Dalmatia, Hungary, S. Norway (once); also in Palestine and 

 Asia Minor. 



28. Genus: Chloantha Guen. 



Tongue present; irons rounded; palpi obliquely porrect, hairy beneath, 3 rd segment short; antennae 

 of (J minutely serrate with short sessile fascicles of cilia; head and thorax clothed mainly with scales; fore- 

 wing elongate, the costa curved. Type Chloantha solidaginis Hbn. 



solidaginis. C. solidaginis Hbn. (30 e). Forewing pale bluish grey, with dark grey or blackish shadings and suf- 



fusion; veins finely black; a slender black line in and below base of cell; inner and outer lines double, den- 

 tate; submarginal line whitish, waved and dentate, preceded by a blackish shade containing black dentate marks; 

 orbicular stigma double, formed of 2 round grey spots placed obliquely, the inner one often absent; reniform 



cinerascens. large, white and black; hindwing dirty grey, darker along termen; a dark grey cell spot; ab. cinerascens Stgr. 



pallida. (30 e) is more uniformly grey, the markings not bright and conspicuous; ab. pallida Tutt is a very pale form 



obsaura. from Cannock Chase, Britain; ab. obscura Lutzau is suffused with dark. — Larva purplish brown; dorsal 



line blue grey, with darker edges; spiracular line broad, pale yellow, with fine black upper edge; feeds on Vac- 



cinium. Found in Britain, France, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Switzerland and Bussia; in the Altai Mts., 



W. Siberia and in Amurland. 



pulla. C. pulla Hbn. (= felixii Frr.) (30 f). Forewing grey, suffused with blackish grey along costa and 



outer margin and along the course of the inner line and median shade; veins blackish; lines black, dentate; 

 the inner thickened, connected by a black blotch on submedian fold with outer line; stigmata pale grey, 

 undefined; median shade thick, often intensified by black lines; fringe chequered light and dark grey; hind- 

 wing white with dark veins. Occurs in S. France, N. Italy, Sicily, Austria, Hungary, S. Bussia, and Crete. 

 — Larva green, marbled with white, with white lateral stripes; on numerous low growing plants. 



29. Genus; Euscotia Bllr. 



Differs from Chloantha in having the costa of forewing straight and the apex produced; 3>'d segment 

 of palpi thrown forward, long and spatulate; the thorax and abdomen strongly crested; the patagia well 

 developed. Larva on Berberis. Type Euscotia inextricata Moore. 



inextricata. E. inextricata Moore (30 f). Forewing brownish grey, grey only along inner margin; lines strongly 



dentate, both thickened and stronger below middle, the outer preceded by a bidentate whitish mark on sub- 

 median fold; a diffused dark brown shade from it to termen just below apex and shorter ones below veins 

 4 and 3; orbicular and reniform pale, outlined with brown, the orbicular brown at centre, elongate, produced 

 below and confluent with the reniform; hindwing white, with veins and termen brownish. A North Indian 

 species, occurring in Kashmir. Larva dark ochreous mottled with brown; tubercles pale with dark edges; 

 dorsal line fine, edged with brown; subdorsal lines obsolete; spiracular yellow edged above by brown, forming 

 lateral patches on each segment; a brown bar across segment 11; head chocolate brown; on Berberis. 



saga. E. saga Btlr. (= aurilegula Oberth., incognita Btlr.) (30 f, g). Forewing like that of inextricata, 



but rather broader; hindwing dirty grey, the veins darker, the terminal half of wing diffusely blackish fuscous. 

 Japan, Corea, E. Siberia, Amurland. 



30. Genus: lathophaiie Hbn. 



Tongue developed ; palpi with second segment hairy beneath, the third long, porrect, somewhat spatu- 

 late: frons rounded; antennae of <$ ciliated, with porrect tufts of hair from their base; a double erect crest on 

 prothorax: dorsum strongly crested; the abdomen flattened; forewing long and narrow, with longitudinal 



