CARADRININA [misema 



1. M. oxyacanthae, L. 36-42 mm. Forewings rather light 

 brown, veins and dorsum suffused with brassy-green, interrupted 

 before subterminal line ; a black median dash from base passing 

 first line ; first and second lines black, second followed by a 

 white crescent near dorsum ; spots rather pale, roundish, finely 

 and indistinctly blackish- edged, reniform large; subterminal 

 lino whitish-dotted, preceded by dark fuscous dots. Hindwings 

 fuscous, with darker angulated postmedian line. 



Britain to Ross, Ireland, common ; C. Europe, Asia Minor ; 

 9, 10. Larva fuscous, darker-marked, dots pale; dorsal and 

 subdorsal lines indistinctly pale ; 12 somewhat raised, with four 

 small tubercles ; head brown : on hawthorn and blackthorn ; 4-6. 



2. M. bimaculosa, L. 48-!)4 mm. Forewings pale brown 

 much mixed with white, veins partly black-marked; lines 

 waved-dentate; brown-edged; spots roundish, brown-edged, reni- 

 form large, partly suffused with white, edged beneath by a black 

 dash ; a brown suffusion on fold above tornus. Hindwings 

 whitish-fuscous; discal spot rather large, fuscous; a fuscous 

 subterminal suffusion, forming a darker spot above tornus. 



Gloucester, once eighty years ago, perhaps now extinct ; C. 

 Europe ; 8, 9. Larva brown, darker anteriorly, dots pale ; 

 spiraoular line pale, dark-edged above; 12 with two tubercles: 

 on elm ; 5-6. 



6. Diloba, B. 



Head rough-haired ; eyes glabrous, ciliated. Tongue short, 

 slight. Antennae in J bipectinated to apex. Thorax with 

 slight posterior crest. Abdomen not crested. 



The single species is of somewhat peculiar facies, but un- 

 doubtedly referable here. 



1. D. caeruleocephala, L. 32-37 nun. Forewings fuscous, basal 

 and praesubterminal spaces browner; a short black median 

 dash from base ; first and second lines black ; spots broadly 

 edged with bluish-white, orbicular and claviform circular, con- 

 tinent ; subterminal lino pale, terminal space often irrorated 

 with whitish. Hindwings fuscous-whitish ; discal spot and post- 

 median line grey; a suffused black tornal mark. 



Britain to the Clyde, Ireland, common ; Europe, Asia Minor; 

 9. Larva blue-grey : dorsal line yellow, interrupted ; spiracular 

 yellow ; tubercular dots black : on hawthorn and blackthorn ; 

 4-6. 



7. AsTEltOSCOPTJS, B. 



Head rough-scaled ; eyes glabrous, ciliated. Tongue short, 



