222 XYLOMOU; CATAMECIA. By W. Warren. 



outcurved above and incurved below middle, outwardly edged with yellow; subterminal line indicated by 

 a brown angulated shade preceding it; the terminal line brown; orbicular stigma small, round, yellow in 

 a red ring; reniform a narrow oblique white lunule, with brown edges; subbasal and median shades and 

 the fringe orange-red; hindwing yellowish white, the fringe yellow. Yatong, Tibet. The <J only is known. 



pallida. H. pallida Leech (47 c). Forewing greyish white, flushed with violaceous, rather glossy; inner and 



outer lines pale, double, but indistinctly edged; the inner preceded at costa by a brown suffusion, below 

 which is a black streak from base below cell; the outer followed by a dark fascia the outer edge of which 

 defines the submarginal line; a terminal row of black lunules inwardly defined by whitish; orbicular stigma 

 large, oblique, a white bar with black edges; reniform pale, nearly vertical, with grey centre, inwardly 

 strongly defined by brown; median shade, blackish brown, strongly diffused basewards; hindwing whitish, 

 washed with pale brownish to subterminal shade, which, like the cellspot, is darker. 



Pu-tsu-fong, W. China. Described from <$<$ only. Judging from appearance only, the species does 

 not accord well with the other members of the genus. 



87. Genus: Xylomoia Stgr. 



Tongue developed; irons with a slightly roughened prominence; palpi short, porrect or oblique 

 upwards, roughly scaled; antennae of <$ ciliated; thorax clothed with hair and slightly crested; forewing 

 narrow, the termen slightly crenulate, more oblique towards tornus; neuration normal, but veins 6, 7 of 

 hindwing are short stalked. Type X. graminea Graes. 



graminea. X. graminea Graes. (= separata Stgr.) (47 c). Forewing pale ochreous; the inner margin below sub- 



median fold and terminal half of wing below vein 6 redbrown; the veins in terminal half dark between 

 fine pale lines; a dark streak from base below cell; inner and outer lines faint, filled in with whitish, the 

 inner from inner margin to submedian fold, the outer to vein 5; small black terminal lunules; orbicular a 

 small brown dot in upper part of cell; reniform consisting of two dots; fringe mottled brown and white; 

 hindwing white with faint brown tinge, a dark cellspot and outer line. Eecorded only from Ussuri, 

 E Siberia. 



88. Genus: Catainecia Stgr. 



Tongue well-developed ; irons with truncate conical prominence, with raised rim and a corneous 

 plate below it; palpi obliquely upturned, slender, the second segment well scaled below, the third short; an- 

 tennae of (J ciliated; slight crests on prothorax and metathorax, and on basal segment of abdomen. Type 

 Catamecia jordana Stgr. 



deceptrix. C. deceptrix Stgr. (47 d). Forewing grey brown, fuscous-tinged in basal and terminal areas; a black 



streak below base of cell; the veins finely black; inner and outer lines blackish, double, the former out- 

 wardly curved between the veins, the latter strongly lunulate-dentate; submarginal line obsolete, but 

 indicated by a slightly darker shade preceding it ; a row of black marginal lunules, emitting wedge-shaped 

 marks in the intervals; stigmata distinct, of the ground-colour, with darker centres and brownish outlines; 

 hindwing luteous white. Syria. 



minima. C. minima Swirih. (= bacheri Stgr.) (47 d). Forewing brownish ochreous, dusted with dark scales; 



the terminal area paler; inner line blackish, with the black claviform attached to it; outer and submarginal 

 lines indistinctly lunulate-dentate, the latter obsolete above vein 5; cell blackish; orbicular stigma a white 

 dot; reniform whitish, subquadrate; marginal spots black; hindwing whitish, w'ith dark marginal line. 

 Swinhoe's type from N. India; bacheri Stgr. from Palestine. 



jordana. C. jordana Stgr. Forewing whitish ochreous with much brown irroration: the terminal area whiter 



except at middle, where the subterminal waved line alone is visible, being edged on both sides by darker; 

 the other lines obsolete; a pale streak along submedian fold from base containing the narrow black-edged 

 claviform stigma; orbicular small, white, elongate, with black linear centre and black edge; reniform 

 oblique inwards, white with dark linear centre and black outline; hindwing brownish white, white at base; 

 maure- — aD _ mauretanica Stgr., from Algeria, is darker, the forewing uniformly dusted with fuscous, obscuring 

 the pale streak along submedian fold and the claviform stigma; the inner and outer lines partially visible 

 in some cases, obsolete towards costa, and conversely edged with paler. The type from Palestine. 



conlrila. C. contrita Christ. (= contrix Christ.) (47 a). Forewing pale ochreous irrorated with brown; inner and 



outer lines dark; the inner obscure, obliquely waved; the outer strongly bent outwards below costa, then 

 dentate, and very oblique below vein 4; subterminal line waved, pale, but indistinct; stigmata obscurely 

 edged with fuscous; the orbicular small, round; the reniform large and subquadrate; hindwing pale brownish 

 ochreous, darker along termen. — W. and E. Turkestan. 



