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100. Genus: Hcriniiiia Lair. 



Tongue present; frons smooth, with slight tuft of hairs; palpi obliquely upbent, rough scaled, the 

 second segment very long, straight, the third short, pointed; antennao of <J with fine pectinations or ci- 

 liations, with a thickening of the shaft below middle; thorax and abdomen smooth; tibiae smoothly scaled; 

 foretibiae of S often with a large expansible hair pencil. Pupa in a slight spun cocoon. Typo H. tentacu- 

 laria L. 



Sect. I. Antennae of o with long, thin pectinations and a k n o 1 1 i k e swel- 

 ling at mi d d 1 e. 



Subsect. A. Foreleg's of cJ with pencil of hairs. 



H. cribrutnalis Hbn. (= cribralis Hbn.) (72 e). Forewing bone colour, slightly brown speckled; inner and cribrumalis. 

 outer lines formed of cloudy dark fuscous^ marks ; the subterminal of indistinct dark dots; cell dot black; 

 hindwing with the termen brownish; cell dot grey. Larva pale greyish brown with yellow freckles; dorsal line 

 darker, pale edged; subdorsal and spiracular lines paler; feeds on marsh grasses, Carex, Luzula, etc., hyber- 

 nating small. Occurs throughout Europe. 



H. crinalis Tr. (= barbalis Schiff., nee CI.) (72 e, f). Forewing greyish ochreous, dusted with dark crinaUs. 

 brown; inner and outer lines dark yellowish brown, bent below costa and somewhat sinuous; subterminal 

 line cloudy, dark brown, nearly straight; cell mark dark, ill-defined; hindwing whitish dusted with fuscous 

 except towards costa and apex, with obscure dark outer and subterminal lines. Larva diffusely yellow and red, 

 sometimes wood brown; dorsal line broad, brown; a square white spot in the incisions of the segments; 

 subdorsal lines narrow; a strong dark oblique streak at sides of each segment; head dull black; feeds 

 on Rubia peregrina; when disturbed rolls itself up into a knot. 



H. gryphalis F. R. Smaller than the other species, somewhat resembling tentacular ia, but the colour gryphalis. 

 is a much warmer red. Hungary, Slavonia, the Tyrol, Armenia, Amurland, Ussuri district, Corea. 



Subsect. B. Forelegs of $ without pencil of hairs. 



H. tentacularia L. (=tentaculalis Schiff .) (72f). Forewing bone colour, thickly dusted with yellow brown; tenlacularia. 

 the lines broM-n; the inner curved in cell, the outer angled on vein 6, the subterminal oblique, straight 

 or slightly bent; a dark lunule at end of cell; hindwing with traces of outer and subterminal lines, the latter 

 pale-edged; $ always smaller than <J ; the ab. modestalis Heyd. (72 f) the mountain form, is without the yel- modestalis. 

 low tinge and therefore duller; on the other hand, ab. carpathica Horm. (72 f), though partially retaining the carpathica. 

 yellow flush, is more or less without dark dusting; Japanese examples belong to this form, and Statjdinger 

 quotes the Kentei Mts. for it. Larva pale brownish grey, shagreened with white atoms; dorsal streak dark; 

 head round, dark brown; feeding on low plants, especially Hieracium pilosella, and grasses. Of partial distri- 

 bution in Europe, also occurring in Armenia and through northern Asia to Amurland and Japan. 



Sect. II. Antennae of $ without knotlike swelling, ciliated and with 

 bristles. 



H. derivalis Hbn. (72 f). Forewing bright'rufous ochreous thickly dusted with brown; inner and outer derivalis. 

 lines brown, curved, more or less parallel; the subterminal dark and waved, but rarely distinct; a dark linear 

 cellspot; hindwing with cellspot, outer line, and traces of a subterminal. Larva dark yellowish brown, 

 narrow in front; head and thoracic plate dark brown, the latter edged and bisected with white; anal plate 

 of the ground colour, bluntly triangular; dorsal and lateral tubercles black, interspersed with numerous pale 

 points; feeding on dry and decaying leaves of oak, sallow, etc. Fairly distributed in Europe, and occurring in 

 Asia Minor, Armenia, the Kentei Mts., Amurland, and the Ussuri district. 



101. Genus: I*ecliipogo Hbn. 



Differs from Herminia in the very much smaller areole; the antennae of the <J without knotlike swel- 

 ling, ciliated and with bristles; the forelegs of <J with hair pencil. Type P. barbalis CI. 



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