COSMIA. 321 



Genus COSMIA. 



Cosmia, Ochs. Eur. Sohmett. iv, p. 84 (1816). 

 Elydna, Wlk. Cat. Xv, p. 1712 (1858). 



Type, C. diffinis, Linn., from Europe. 



Range. Europe ; Japan ; China ; Himalayas ; Burma. 



Differs from Xanthoptera in being mora stoutly built ; the outer 

 margin of fore wiug more oblique towards outer augle, aud with 

 the cilia crenulate. 



Larvce with four pairs of abdominal prolegs. 



2055. Cosmia restituta, Wlk. Cat. x, p. 490; C. $ S. no. 1794. 



Head and thorax chestnut ; abdomen fuscous. Fore wing 

 chestnut, slightly suffused with fuscous ; an oblong subbasal white 



spot on the costa; a quadrate 

 antemedial spot extending as a 

 narrow line across the cell ; a 

 triangular patch, followed by a 

 linear spot before the apex ; traces 

 of subbasal and antemedial dark 

 lines ; faint traces of orbicular 

 Yia 172. au( i reniform stigmata, and highly 



Cosmia restituta, $. \. curved postmedial and submarginal 



lines. Hind wing dark fuscous, 

 with the cilia yellow. Underside reddish ochreous, suffused in parts 

 with fuscous ; a cell-spot and postmedial line to both wings. 

 The Nepal specimen is much darker and less red. 

 Hab. Murree ; Nepal. Exp. 30-38 millim. 



2056. Cosmia affinis, Linn. Syst. Nat. xii ; p. 848. 



Head, thorax, and fore wing pale or bright red-brown ; abdomen 

 fuscous, with slight pale segmental rings and ochreous anal tuft. 

 Eore wing with whitish indistinct short subbasal, obliquely sinuous 

 antemedial, and postmedial line excurved beyond the cell ; traces 

 of a fuscous medial line and of orbicular and reniform spots ; an 

 indistinct pale sinuous submarginal line. Hind wing nearly 

 uniform dark fuscous, or the basal area pale, the outer blackish ; 

 cilia bright yellow. 



The fore wing may be suffused in parts with black and the 

 apical area with white. 



Hab. Europe ; Japan ; Gurais Valley, Kashmir. Exp. 32-38 

 millim. 



2057. Cosmia transversa, Wlk. Cat. xv, p. 1713; C. & S. no. 1122. 



5 . Head, thorax, and fore wing ochreous, irrorated with dark 

 scales ; the last with an oblique dark antemedial line ; a post- 



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