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black teeth, that on submedian fold large, commencing as a black oblique bar from costa; marginal lunules 

 black, that below vein 2 enlarged; hindwing brownish grey, towards termen dark fuscous; cell spot and outer 

 line darker. Described from a single <J from Japan. Superficially much resembling A. aprilina, but the whole 

 dorsum is black. 



43. Genus: Valeria Stph. 



Tongue well-developed; palpi with 2nd segment upturned, hairy, third porrect, smooth; frons and 

 vertex tufted; thorax rough-scaled; pectus and femora hairy; abdomen crested towards base and with lateral 

 fringes of hair: forewing broad at termen, the costa straight, the inner margin sinuate. Larva slender, bearing 

 bristly tubercles, and with two blunt points on the penultimate and antepenultimate segments; feeding on 

 Prunus and Crataegus, especially on old bushes covered with lichen to which its coloration corresponds, in 

 summer; the imago appears in early spring. Type Valeria oleagina F. 



Sect. I. Antennae in both sexes pectinated, more strongly in <$. 



V. oleagina F. (33 a, b). Forewing purple; the veins,, especially at termen, broadly green; lines oleagina. 

 blackish, indistinct; claviform small, obscure; orbicular round, green with a white ring; reniform large, white, 

 with a dark speck at each end; submarginal line whitish, lunulate, preceded by purple brown contiguous lunules; 

 fringe irongrey cut by white pencils ; hindwing white, with fuscous cellspot, outer line, submarginal band, and 

 fringes; marginal line wavy, black. A local species, found in Germany, Austria, Hungary, Switzerland, 

 Spain, N. Italy, Bulgaria, and Syria; recorded once, many years ago, from Great Britain. Larva brownish- 

 grey, paler in front; the hind segments laterally with oblique pale streaks; a pair of blunt points on the 11 th an d 

 12th segments; spiracles black between two yellow lateral lines; head black with an orange yellow corslet; 

 on sloe and blackthorn. 



Sect. II. Antennae almost simple in both sexes. 



V. jaspidea Vill. (33 b). Differs from oleagina in the ground colour being rather paler purple; the jaspidea. 

 orbicular stigma subquadrate, the reniform filled up with purplish, with only the central line and the annulus 

 white; hindwing with the terminal area more broadly fuscous. Less widely distributed than oleagina, being 

 found only in France, Germany, Switzerland, and Spain. Larva grey brown, the thoracic segments darker, 

 with a grey streak on each side; segments 4 to 10 with reddish brown tubercles with white centres, each bearing 

 a single hair; the 11th segment, rather humped, with a black, white-edged anvil-shaped marking; lateral line 

 dull whitish; head grey brown with reddish corslet ; on Sloe. 



44. Genus: Antitype Hbn. 



Differs from Valeria in the vestiture being hairy with few scales intermixed; palpi obliquely porrect, 

 the second segment hairy, the third short and simple; antennae in $ subserrate with sessile fascicles of cilia, 

 except in the first two species, which have tuberculate fascicles; a slight spreading tuft of hair from their base; 

 thorax and dorsum only slightly tufted. Larva plump, cylindrical; feeding up in spring and summer on low 

 plants; the imago emerges in autumn. Type Antitype chi L. 



Sect. I. Antennae of £ with tuberculate fascicles of cilia. 



A. serpentina Tr. (33 b). Forewing blackish fuscous, with a faint tinge of dark green, dusted sparsely serpentina. 

 with whitish scales; a slight tinge of olive brown along the folds; lines black, obscure, the outer sharply dentate; 

 reniform stigma with outer 2 /3 snowwhite with a curved line in it ; orbicular roundish, very indistinct ; submarginal 

 line pale, very faint, preceded by black lunules; hindwing of <$ white with black marginal line; of $ greyish 

 white, darker along termen, with the cellspot and outer line dark. Confined to the mediterranean area whence 

 it is recorded from Carniola, Italy, Dalmatia and Greece; also Syria and Asia Minor. Larva flesh coloured; 

 the segmental incisions darker; dorsal line dark brown; spiracular brown; spiracles black; venter and feet 

 yellowish; on low plants. 



A. rebecca Stgr. (33 c). Forewing pale yellow with an orange flush, especially on the folds, dusted rebecca. 

 slightly with fuscous; the median area darker fuscous, also the costa before inner line; lines black, conversely 

 edged with yellowish, the inner waved, the outer dentate; upper stigmata pale yellow, the orbicular small, 

 round, with a dark centre, the reniform large but ill-defined; a dark median shade; submarginal line faint, 

 indicated only by dark scales preceding it; hindwing in £ yellowish white, slightly dusted; a sinuate dark post- 

 median line; in § wholly suffused with brown and with a diffuse submarginal band. Recorded from 

 Palestine only. 



Sect. II. Antennae of (J serrate with sessile fascicles of ciha. 



A. polymita L. (= seladonia F., ridens Hbn.) (33 c). Forewing olive-green; all the lines and edges of polymita. 

 the stigmata black edged with white, sometimes (? in $ only) bluish white; white scaling along basal half of 



