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6. Genus : Chrysoptera Latr. 
Ch. aureus 0. B.-H. should he classified after C. aureum Knock (Vol. 3, p. 357, pi. 65 h). Forewings are aureus. 
unicoloured dark brown in basal and median areas. The antemedian almost extinct with a sharp point out¬ 
wardly below costa, then vertically and situate outwards over the inner margin. The postmedian extends from 
just before the apex in a straight line to the outer third of inner margin. The area behind is brilliant metallic 
golden. Wing expanse: 36- 38 mm. Tsekou (S. W. China). 
7. Genus: Abrostola 0. 
A. triplasia L. (Vcl. 3, p. 358, pi. 65 k). — The illustration of the form — Clarissa Stgr. (23 h) does not Clarissa. 
belong here, but to asclepiadis Schiff. (Vol. 3, p. 359, pi. 65 k). 
A. canarierssis limps. (23 h). This smaller species was first classified as a form of tripartita (Vol. 3, p. 359, canarlensis. 
pi. 65 k) but it is certainly a genuine species. It closely resembles the latter, but is much smaller, more brownish 
in colour, admixed with pale reddish, especially in the lower half of the very heavy black postmedian, which 
extends to the apex in a pale reddish oblique streak. Canary Islands. 
8. Genus: Epl sent a Ocks. 
This Genus is better known as Diloba Bsd. with the single species: caeruleocephala L. It was appended 
to the Cymatophorids among the Bombyces in Vol. 2, p. 332 and Suppl. Vol. 2, p. 194, but the species does not 
belong there at all. It is certainly a gemune Noctuid. Hampson classified it as an aberrative type of Phyto- 
metrinae, where it can be quite well attached to the Abrostola species. From these it differs mainly by the atro¬ 
phied proboscis and ciliated eyes. The larva also is not so very dissimilar from that of an A. asclepiadis. The 
Genus: Episema was denominated by Ochsenheimer in 1816. Treitschke designated caeruleocephala as 
generic type in 1825, whilst Diloba was only established by Boisduval in 1840. 
E. caeruleocephala L. (Vol. 2, p. 332, pi. 49 1). We are now illustrating the form — armena Stgr. (23 i) armena. 
from a specimen from Marasli. It looks so entirely different, that it may perhaps claim the right to be a genuine 
species. — infumata Schwing. denotes a very dusky form from the neighbourhood of Vienna, in which only infumata. 
the stigmata remain yellowish. capnodes Did. from the S. Tyrol has also a dusky black-grey ground colour, capnodes. 
but in this case also the stigmata are sooted over. 
16. Subfamily: Noctumae. 
4. Genus: Scoliopteryx Germ. 
S. libatrix L. (Vol. 3, p. 361, pi. 52 n). The form - pallida Spul. does not occur exclusively in Turkestan, pallida. 
but may also be found elsewhere. We are illustrating a pale yellowish form from Rome (23 i). — besti Osth. besti. 
clearly denotes an aberrative specimen from Schleissheim, which probably resembles suffusa Tutt. Forewings 
monotonous dark violet-grey with a reddish hue. White markings much reduced and suffused with grey. Trans¬ 
verse lines of forewing approximated and merging at inner margin. 
4a. Genus: l&apliia Him. 
This Genus was quite ommitted in Main Volume. It embraces a few species of compact structure. Palpi 
short, apressed to frons, covered from above by a stout frontal crest. Proboscis developed. Thorax scaled, 
with slight crest at rear. Abdomen with coarse hairs, with crest on first segments. Tibiae long and densely 
haired. Antennae pectinated in <$, simple in 9. Forewings fairly wide with rounded apex. Vein 3 arises shortly 
before the lower end, where 4 and 5 arise. Hindwings with bold vein 5 from below centre of disco-cellular ner- 
vure, 3 and 4 close together, but not from one point, 6 and 7 on a very short stalk. 
Type: R. hybris Him. 
R. hybris Him. (23 i). Forewings speckled with black on whitish ground, pale ochreous tone in basal hybris. 
area. A parallel blackish shade before the bold black antemedian. Stigmata are absent except for a few blackish 
scales in place of the lower end of the reniform. The crenulate postmedian indistinctly double, the area behind 
it with faintly yellowish tone. Subterminal line spotted blackish, faint short striations along the veins before 
the checked fringes. Hindwings whitish, spotted with blackish at anal angle. Fringes faintly checked. S. France. 
Spain, Algeria. — Ova whitish. — The stout larva is green, marked with red and white on the first segments, 
a dark lateral streak behind the head. It feeds in summer on poplars and pupates in a cocoon in crevices in the 
