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40. Genus: Lamprosticta Hbn. 



Tongue developed; palpi porrect, the second segment hairy beneath, the third blunt; head and thorax 

 clothed with broad spatulate scales; antennae lamellate, simple, with a tuft of hair from basal segment; basal 

 half of dorsum with crests. Larva stout, thickened in front; on moss growing on stems of trees, such as 

 Crataegus, Prunus, Pyrus, etc., especially in gardens, hiding by day among moss and lichen; feeds up in autumn, 

 hybernating as pupa; the imago appears in the following summer. Type Lamprosticta viridana Walch. 



L. viridana Walch. (— culta Hbn., adjuncta Walk.) (32 f). Forewing olive brown; the veins marked viridana. 

 with black and white scales; inner and outer lines black edged with white; costa spotted black and white; 

 the 3 stigmata white with blackish centres and outlined with black; median shade black and prominent; 

 submarginal line finely black; marginal lunules black and white; fringe white doubly chequered with black; 

 hindwing white, in <J with some black spots only on vein 2, in $ clouded with brown along termen, with the 

 outer line and veins dark. Generall} r distributed in South Europe, except Spain, also recorded from Syria. 

 Larva browoiish green, the thoracic segments with black hook-shaped markings on dorsum and at the sides; 

 the subdorsal region tinged with flesh-colour and dotted with white; the 11th segment humped; head green, 

 black-spotted; on Mosses on trunks of trees in autumn. 



41. Genus: Crypsedra gen. nov. 



Differs from Lamprosticta in the antennae of the <$ bearing short sessile fascicles of cilia, without any tuft 

 of hair at base; the head and thorax more finely scaled; the larva feeds on grasses in spring, forming a shelter of 

 grass stems and frass spun together, in which it lives and finally pupates; the imago appears towards the end of 

 summer. Type Crypsedra gemmea Tr. 



C. gemmea Tr. (32 f). Superficially resembling L. viridana, the ground colour being the same olive- gemmea. 

 brown and the markings black and white; the orbicular stigma, however, is always round, not irregular in 

 shape; the claviform of the ground colour, black-edged, sometimes with a few whitish scales in it, and of the 

 ordinary shape, not triangular; the costal area is sprinkled with white scales; submarginal line white, preceded 

 by black dentate marks; fringe brown with fine white chequering; hindwing in both sexes brownish grey, paler 

 towards base, with cellspot and veins dark. Found in Germany, Austria, Denmark, Switzerland, and Corsica. — 

 Larva gloss y bluish or greenish grey; tubercles black carrying a single pale hair; head, thoracic, and anal plates 

 black brown: on grasses. ■ 



C. niphopasta Oberth. (32 g). Forewing white, dusted with darker and suffused in median and terminal niphopasta. 

 areas with pale brown; a black streak from base below cell and a black semicircular mark on costa near base; 

 lines double, black, filled in with white; stigmata all white, with black centres and outlines; median shade 

 black; submarginal line lunulate, white, preceded and followed by black lunules; fringe mottled white and 

 black; hindwing and fringe white. Described from a single <J from Akbes, Syria. 



C. munda Leech (32 g). Forewing pale olive ochreous, more or less hidden by purplish grey suffusion mnnda. 

 and dark lines; lines double, black, filled in with pale; claviform stigma outlined in black followed by a patch 

 of pale ground colour; upper stigmata olive ochreous, subquadrate, edged with black; subterminal line lunulate, 

 black, traversing a series of olive ochreous marginal spaces; hindwing uniform brownish fuscous. Described 

 from a single $ from Ta-chien-lu, West China. 



C. viridula Stgr. (32 g). Forewing dirty olive green; the lines paler, waved; the median area darker, viridula. 

 containing the pale green, rather large, upper stigmata which are partially white-edged ; inner and outer lines 

 double, waved, filled in with pale olive; submarginal line sharply white, black-edged; in the paler space bet- 

 ween it and the outer line are some white black-marked points on the veins; hindwing blackish grey, paler towards 

 base, with a dark curved outer line; the fringe white; at end of vein 2 a dark white-edged spot. Amdo, Tibet 



42. Genus: Dryobotodes gen. 



nov. 



Like Agriopis, but the fore femora are not dilated; antennae of <$ subserrate, clothed with short sessile 

 fascicles of cilia ; abdomen crested on basal segments and with lateral fringes of hair. — Larva on oak in spring 

 and early summer; the imago comes out in late autumn. Type Dryobotodes protea Bkh. 



D. accipitrina Esp. (= tenebrosa Esp., saportae Dup., ilicis Frr.) (32 g). Forewing redbrown, with accipiirina. 

 fuscous shading and suffusion; the median area darker, especially along the folds; inner and outer lines dark; 

 edged with reddish grey; a black streak below submedian fold from inner to outer line; claviform stigma dark, 

 black-edged, followed by an oblique rufous patch; upper stigmata rufous grey, with partial white annuli; the 

 reniform followed by a rufous smear; submarginal line rufous, indistinct, the margin beyond it blackish above 

 vein 4; hindwing whitish in both sexes, the cellspot, and veins, outer line, and terminal border fuscous, the 



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