320 AECTlADiK. 



Stage 2. Prothoracic shield crescentic ; wrtas concolorous reddish, 

 with 5 to 6 hairs ; hair dark brown ; body livid purplish. 



Stage 3. The hair on somites 1-4 and 7-10 black-brown, on 

 median somites pale brownish with a few black ones ; head pale 

 horn-colour. 



Stage 4 to adult. Head dark chestnut ; somites 1-5 black, the 

 tubercles and hair of somite 5 and the somites 6-8 reddish- brown, 

 somites 9, 10 black ; the 2nd somite with a few red hairs ; some of 

 the anterior and posterior hairs very long. Pood-plants, ' wild cherry ^ 

 and oak. 



1822. Diacrisia placida. 



Euprepia placida, Friv. Magy. Tucl. Tars. Evk. ii. p. 271, pi. vii. f. 5 (1835) ; 

 Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett. ii. p. 142, ff. 31-32; Mill. Lepidopterologie, 

 ii. p. 4, pi. 8. f. 5 ; Staud. Cat. p. 59 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 245. 



c? . Head and thorax pale red-brown ; antennae whitish ; femora 

 crimson above ; abdomen crimson above, with dorsal and lateral 

 series of black spots, the ventral surface brown. Fore wing pale 

 red-brown ; two black discoidal points. Hind wing crimson, the 

 margins and cilia pale red-brown ; two black discoidal spots and 

 subterminal spots below apex and on veins 2 and 1. 



Hah. Asia Minor ; Turkestan, 1 S > Zeller Coll., Kuldja, 

 (LansdeU) 1 d" . ^^p. 40 millim. 



1823. Diacrisia intricata. (Plate XLYI. fig. 9.) 

 Isia intricata, Wlk. vii. 1698 (1856) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 233. 



c? . Head and thorax white ; palpi, frons, and antennae black, 

 the frons with orange bar above ; tegulae with black points; shoul- 

 ders with orange streaks ; tegulae edged with orange and streaked 

 with fuscous at extremity; legs black banded with orange: abdomen 

 orange, with dorsal and lateral series of black points, the ventral 

 surface white, the segments fringed with orange and with sublateral 

 series of fuscous points. Fore wing flesh-white ; a subbasal series 

 of short fuscous streaks with the veins between them orange, the 

 streaks longer on costa ; an antemedial series of points slightly 

 excurved below costa ; a medial band formed of quadrate fuscoas 

 spots with the veins between them orange, angled at median nervure; 

 an orange discoidal lunule with black spots on its edges ; a post- 

 medial series of points excurved from vein 7 to 4 ; the veins of 

 terminal area streaked with orange, with small fuscous spots between 

 them towards costa beyond the postmedial line and wedge-shaped 

 spots towards inner margin ; the veins with black streaks on each 

 side of them at termen, those at veins 6, 7 longer, and at veins 3, 

 4 reaching to near the postmedial line. Hind wing with the costal 

 half yellowish white, the inner half, veins, and cilia orange; 

 terminal black points on each side of veins 3, 4, and a discoida Ipoint. 



2 . Hind wing orange, with fuscous discoidal lunule ; a spot, 

 below middle of cell ; a postmedial series of fuscous streaks on each 

 side of the veins with no streaks between veins 3, 4, and the streaks 

 near veins 5, 2, and 1 larger. 



