258 PANBMERIA; JANTHINEA; STBNOECIA; MICRIANTHA; STEMMAPHORA. By W. Waebex. 



16. Genus: Panemeria Hbn. 



Tongue present; frons smooth: palpi porrect, short, rough-scaled below; antennae of q filiform, 

 pubescent; head and thorax rough-haired, without crests; dorsum without crests: forcwings triangular, 

 with hairlike scales. The imago flies freely in sunlight. Larva with 16 legs; feeding in flowers and 

 seed capsules of Cerastium; pupation subterranean. Type Panemeria tenebrata Scop. 

 ienebrata. P. tenebrata .Scop. (= arbuti F.. heliaca Schiff., domestica Kitltn. policula Lang, fasciola Esp.) (50 g). 



Forewing dark fuscous, varied with redbrown and with a sprinkling of pale grey scales; inner and outer 

 lines indistinctly darker; a dentate, cloudy dark fuscous median shade; a darker shade precedes and de- 

 fines the subterminal hue; hindwing blackish, with a deep yellow outer fascia not reaching inner margin; 

 obscura. in the ab. obscura Spul. (50 g) the black borders of the hindwing are wider and the white band smaller. Larva 

 light green; dorsal line deep green; subdorsal lines whitish, edged with darker; spiracular line more yellow- 

 ish, edged with dark green above: head pale green: on Cerastium arvense, on the flowers and seeds. 

 Occurs throughout Europe except in the extreme North and in southern Spain. 



jocosa. P. jocosaZe?/. (= arbutoides Bell.) (50 g). Differs from tenebrata in having the hindwing deep orange 



with only the basal third black instead of the basal half, and the marginal dark border much narrower; 

 the orange of the central area reaches the costa broadly, and is separated from the inner margin by only 

 a narrow black area. Restricted to Sicily and the Balkan Mts. 



17. Genus: Janthinea Guen. 



Tongue present; frons produced below into a flat tridentate projection, the frons and vertex both 

 rough-haired: palpi long, porrect, rough-haired, the terminal as well as the second segment; pectus and 

 legs hairy; fore tarsi with the segments short and the ungues large; thorax and abdomen stout, the ab- 

 domen shaggy at sides: antennae quite simple; forewing without areole; veins 8, 9, 10 stalked. Type 

 J. frivaldszkyi Dap. 

 frivaldszkyi; J. frivaldszkyi Dup. (50 h). Forewing deep violet mixed with darker, fuscous, scales; an oblique 



white median band; pointed towards costa and not incurved, the violet deeper on each side of it; fringe 

 - grey brown, violet at base; hindwing with base and a broad terminal border black; fringe white, except 

 viola, at anal angle; — in the ab. viola Err. (50 h [2]) the white bands, especially that in hindwing, are wider; the band 

 restricta. of forewing pale yellow and incurved to costa; on the other hand in ab. restricta ab. nov. (50 h) the bands 

 remain narrow as in the type, but that of forewing is shaped as in viola, incurved to costa, and dull 

 greenish yellow: in the hindwing the white band is sometimes dusted heavily with dark scales. The species 

 occurs only in Syria, Asia Minor, Bithynia, and Armenia. 



divalis. J. divalis Stgr. (50 h). Like frivaldszkyi in the forewing, but the hindwing is bright orange with 



a black marginal border narrowing to the anal angle: fringe of hindwing pale violet. S. W. Kurdistan. 



IS. Genus: Steiioecia gen. nov. 

 Tongue present: frons as in Janthinea Guen. with which it agrees also in the palpi: antennae (2) 

 simple, thick, annulate: forewing elongate, three times as long as broad; the costa distinctly sinuate: 

 the apex bent upwards and subfalcate; termen very oblique and slightly sinuous, as long as inner margin; 

 the anal angle well marked; abdomen of $ conical, with long exserted ovipositor: hindwing broad; veins 3, 

 4, and 6, 7, shortly stalked: the cell broad. Type S. dos Frr. 



dos. S. dos Frr. (50 h). Forewing purplish fuscous, somewhat paler in the cell; hindwing black, with 



an internal white patch from vein to 1, the upper part beyond cell being twice as broad as the lower. 

 Lydia, Pontus, Asia Minor. 



19. Genus: ]JIicriantha Hmps. 

 Resembles Apaustis Hbn., but the palpi are upturned instead of porrect: the forewing is narrower, 

 with the costa somewhat insinuate beyond middle: the foretibia with shortened segments and lengthened 

 ungues; veins 8. 9. 10 of forewing stalked: no areole. Type Micrianfha decorata Friv. 

 decorata. M. decorata Erie. ( = violacea H. Sch.) (50 h). Forewing deep violet sprinkled with black scales; 



crossed by antemedian and postmedian dull olive yellow bands; fringe purplish black in basal half, 

 the tips white; hindwing orange yellow; the extreme base black; a purplish black terminal border, the 

 inner edge of which bears a sinus; fringe as in forewing. Found only in Bithynia, Lydia, Taurus, and Pontus. 



20. Genus: Stenimaphora Stgr. 

 Like Janthinea, but the fore tarsi are normally developed, and the forewings possess an areole, 

 7, 8 and 9, 10 being stalked and 8 anastomosing with 9. Type S. viola Stgr. 



