296 HYLOPHILA. By W. Warren. 



without crests; the tibiae smooth; forewing with termen evenly curved; veins 7, 8, 9 stalked, 10, 11 from cell; 

 hind-wing with veins 4, 5 coincident, stalked with 3; costal anastomosing with subcostal for nearly half of cell; 

 retinaculum ha $ formed by a tuft of hair on median nervure. Larva living in a chamber formed of spun together 

 leaves; pupa in a silken boatshaped cocoon. Type E. chlorana L. 



chlorana. E. chlorana L. (= viride Retz.) (53 h). Forewing pale green; the costa white to beyond middle, the 



edge towards base brownish; hindwing white; the termen and fringe faintly greenish above vein 2; in the ab. 



jlavimargo. flavimargo de Joan., from Britany, the fringe is yellowish at base, brown in the middle, and white at the tips; 



hemixantha. — ab. hemixantha de Joan, has the terminal area, except at costa, suffused with orange yellow. Larva whitish 

 mottled with grey; the lines rusty grey, darker in places; pairs of somewhat pointed tubercles on segments 

 3, 4, 6, and 12; head pale green with black marks; spinning together the topmost leaves of shoots of Salix 

 viminalis, pupating in a boatshaped cocoon. Occurs in Britain, France, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Switzer- 

 land, Italy and Russia; in Asia Minor and Siberia. 



chlorophyl- E. chlorophyllana Stgr. (= turana Gr.) (53 h). Forewing yellowish green, the costal area yellowish 



lana. w hite ; cilia orange yellow at tips ; hindwing white, the termen and fringe slightly rufous above vein 2. Found 

 in Western Asia, Syria, Kurdistan, W. Turkestan. 



syriacana. E. syriacana Battel (53 h). Forewing yellow green thickly irrorated with white; the costa white; fringe 



green, the tips white; hindwing white; both wings on underside white tinged with green except on costa of fore- 

 wing. Recorded only from Beirut, Syria. 



vernana. E. vernana Hbn. (53 h). Forewing white with blue-green irroration, the terminal area suffused with 



green, the costal area whiter; a green median line, incurved in cell, and an outer line bent on vein 6, neither 

 reaching costa; fringe green at base, white at tips; hindwing white, the termen and fringe greenish above vein 2; 

 obliterata. in a form from Uralsk • — ab. obliterata ab. nov. (53 h) the lines are not marked. Larva on white poplar. Ger- 

 many, Austria, Hungary, Italy. 



roseifera. E. roseifera Btlr. (= erubescens Stgr.) (53 i). Forewing green with an olive tinge, with a patch of rosy 



suffusion in end of cell in the $, filling the cell and reaching below it to submedian fold in the $; fringe 

 dark brown with a dull orange line at base ; hindwing pale grey in the $, darker grey in the $, the fringe white ; 

 underside of forewing rosy grey except towards apex and termen. Siberia, Japan, China. _ 



pudicana. E. pudicana Stgr. (53 i). Forewing olive green; the costal edge white, becoming pink towards base; 



pupillana. the fringe redbrown with white tips; hindwing white; the ab. pupillana Stgr. (53 i) has a round brown discoidal 

 spot on forewing . Siberia, China, and Japan; also found in N. India. 



insirfana. E. insulana Bsd. (= smaragdinana Zell., siliquana H.-Sch., frondosana Walk., xanthophila Walk., 



simillima Walk., chlorion Rmb., gossypii Frauenf., tristrigosa Btlr.) (53 i). Forewing yellowish green; the costal 

 edge white to near apex; median, outer, and subterminal indistinct green lines, outwardly oblique above, in- 

 wardly oblique below middle; hindwing white, the termen and fringe brownish from apex to vein 2; — the ab. 

 anthophi- anthopliilana Snell. (53 i) has the forewing ochreous with the lines purplish green and more distinct; a dark 

 lana. di SC oidal point; ■ — in ab. ochreimargo ab. nov. (= ab. 2 Hmps.) (53 i) the costal and inner margins are ochreous 

 margo. mottled with purple; the fringe with purple tips; — in ab. semifascia ab. nov. (= ab. 3 and 4 Hmps.) (53 i) 

 semifascia. the space between median and outer lines below vein 6 is filled hi with purplish or rufous; — ab. dorsivitta 

 dorsiviita. gfg r ^ f rom Syria, has a longitudinal median grey stripe. Larva dark grey, dorsally paler; head and spiracles 

 black ; varies in intensity of colour, often wholly pale with front segments reddish ; feeding on Ceratonia siliqua 

 and Gossypium herbaceum, burrowing into the seed-pods and often causing much damage to the cotton crop. 

 A very widely spread tropical species, occurring throughout Africa, India, and the Malay islands; in the palae- 

 arctic region found in the Canaries, Spain, Egypt, Sicily, Cyprus, and Crete and in the form dorsivitta in Syria. 



cupreo- E. cupreoviridis Walk. (= chromataria Walk., fulvidana Wlngm., fervida Walk., limbana Snell.) (53 i). 



viridis. Forewing bright green washed with yellow ; a red brown dot at middle of cell and another larger at its end ; the 

 costal edge reddish to end of cell, and often the costal half fawn colour overlaid with crimson ; termen and fringe 

 dark purplish, the fringe tipped with white, the termen preceded by a sinuous orange yellow band, broadest 

 decolorata. at each end; hindwing white the apex tinged with brownish; — in the form decolorata subsp. nov. (53 i) from 

 Sambawa the whole forewing has lost its green, and is light fawn colour without any markings, but with the 

 costal edge, the termen, and fringe brownish; specimens from the Tenimber Islands agree or come close to 

 this form. The species, which occurs throughout Africa, India, and the Malay islands, is recorded from Japan, 

 Corea, and China. 



7. Genus: Hylophila Hb 



n. 



Tongue present; frons smooth; palpi obliquely upturned, the second segment slender, sparsely fringed 

 with hair beneath, the third smooth and slender; antennae of ^simple; thorax and abdomen smooth, without 



