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PEOMETOPUS; ACOSMETIA. By W. Warren-. 



area, and termen tinged with pale brown. A local species, occurring in the Alps of France and the Tyrol, 

 in the Engadine, Switzerland, and in Spain. 



fixseni. A. fixseni Christ. (48 d). Forewing pale yellow; inner and outer lines redbrown, starting from small black 



costal spots; reniform stigma only present, small, defined by black, with a dark point at centre; sub- 

 marginal line with dark suffusion on inner side, more prominent at costa where there is a pale point 

 on it; a row of black dots along termen; hindwing yellowish white, the terminal area reddish brown; 

 the fringe white; in the $ the inner and outer lines are stronger; the reniform is a dark lunule, beyond 

 a diffuse reddish median shade starting from a black spot on costa. Armenia, Palestine, W. Turkestan. 



casearia. A. casearia Stgr. Forewing yellowish white; the lines and markings subobsolete; the inner lines 



quite absent; the outer verjr indistinct, rufous; subterminal .line marked by diffused brown scales; a 

 terminal row of black points; orbicular and reniform stigmata represented by a small round rufous spot 

 and a slight rufous lunule respectively; hindwing pure white. Palestine. 



melannrina. A. melanurina Stgr. (45 g). Forewing ochreous white; the costal edge at base fuscous; inner and 



outer lines both indistinct; the inner minutely waved, with a black spot at costa; the outer irregularly 

 waved, also from a black costal spot; terminal area blackish, with a fine white line at base of fringe; 

 hindwing white, the terminal area fuscous except at apex and tornus; fringe fuscous with white basal line. 

 Palestine. 



flavicollis. 



72. Genus: Prometopus Guen. 



Tongue developed; palpi obliquely porrect, the third segment horizontal; frons with short truncate 

 conical prominence, with raised rim and corneous plate below it; antennae of <$ lamellate and pubescent; 

 thorax with slight crests; abdomen without crests; forewing narrow, the apex rectangular, the termen 

 slightly insinuate below it and excurved below middle; forewing without areole, veins 7, 8, 9, 10 being 

 stalked; 6 from below upper angle; in the hindwing both 3, 4 and 6, 7 are shortly stalked. Type Pro- 

 metopus inassueta Guen. from Australia. 



P. flavicollis Leech. (48 d). Forewing olive yellow dusted and suffused with black brown, the inner area 

 below submedian fold reddish brown; a thin black streak from base below cell; inner and outer lines 

 double, filled in with yellowish, fading out before inner margin; subterminal line oblique and whitish 

 towards costa, then becoming indistinct, with black suffusion on each side, obsolescent towards inner 

 margin; a blackish line along termen with white scaling before it; the reniform stigma alone present as 

 a white patch extending to costa, defined on the sides by black above, excised at middle, and with a 

 dark mark on lower edge; hindwing brownish grey. Japan. 



73. Genus: Acosmetia Stph. 



Build slender; the wings weak; tongue developed; palpi shortly upcurved, smoothly scaled; frons 

 with a slight rounded prominence; antennae of $ with short ciliations; thorax and abdomen without 

 crests; wings broad, the termen evenly curved. Larva of the type species feeding on low plants. Type 

 Acosmetia caliginosa Him. 



caliginosa. A. caliginosa Hbn. (= litorea Frr., stagnicolor Dwp., tristis Teich.) (45 g, h). Forewing brownish grey 



frosted with paler dusting; the inner and outer lines dark, the inner outwardly curved; the outer waved 

 and dentate, indented above and below middle, the teeth forming a second line beyond the first ; stigmata 

 pale, very obscure; a pale waved submarginal line inwardly shaded with brown; hindwing silky grey, 

 aqualilis. darker towards termen; — the form aquatilis Guen., from Asia, is paler, the forewing yellowish grey. 

 A very local species, found in Britain, France, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Switzerland, N. Italy, the 

 Balkans and Bussia, Spain and Scandinavia; in Asia recorded from the Ural Mts., Ala Tau, W. Turkestan 

 and the Altai Mts., W. Siberia. Larva sap green with the segmental incisions ^yellow; the lines white, 

 slender; feeding on low plants, in autumn, the imago emerging in June. 



arida. A. arida de Joann. (48 d). Forewing ochreous with redbrown irroration; inner and outer lines black, the 



inner excurved, the outer oblique to vein 6, then inwardly oblique; the median area irrorated with black 

 scales, especially in cell and with traces of a median shade; submarginal line very obscure, ochreous; fringe 

 white; hindwing and fringe pure white. Mokattam, Egypt. Much smaller than the type species. 



