. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. LYCOPHOTlA. ADITA. 579 Ab. 1. flavomaculata. Fore wing bluish green ; hind wing much darker.—Mongolia ; Amiirland ; Japan. Hah. Britai:^, Leech Coll.; France ; Germaijy, Zeller Coll. ; Switzerland, Frey Coll.; Scandinavia ; Eussia, Livonia ; Mongolia, Changai Mts. ; Amiirland ; Japan, Oiwake (Pryer), 1 Si^^ $• Exp. 40-48 millim. Larva. Meyr. Erit. Lep. p. 93; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iii. p. 367, pi. 132. f. 3. Pale brown to ferruginous ochreous, sides greenish or pale grey ; dorsal line grey-white, developed into a
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. LYCOPHOTlA. ADITA. 579 Ab. 1. flavomaculata. Fore wing bluish green ; hind wing much darker.—Mongolia ; Amiirland ; Japan. Hah. Britai:^, Leech Coll.; France ; Germaijy, Zeller Coll. ; Switzerland, Frey Coll.; Scandinavia ; Eussia, Livonia ; Mongolia, Changai Mts. ; Amiirland ; Japan, Oiwake (Pryer), 1 Si^^ $• Exp. 40-48 millim. Larva. Meyr. Erit. Lep. p. 93; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iii. p. 367, pi. 132. f. 3. Pale brown to ferruginous ochreous, sides greenish or pale grey ; dorsal line grey-white, developed into a series of confluent spots edged with dark spots: subdorsal line whitish, dark-edged ; spiracular line Avhitish ; head pale brownish, with indistinct dark markings. Food-plants : Salix, Artemisia, grasses, &c. 5-6. Genus ADITA. Adita, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 63 (1874). Type chionanthi. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi short, upturned, the 2iid joint roughly scaled; eyes large, round, smooth, not ciliated; frons and vertex of head with ridges of scales ; anteunte of male bipectinate to apex, with moderate branches dilated at extremity ; thorax quadrately scaled, the tegulffi with slight dorsal ridge; fore tibios with long curved claw on inner side; mid and hind tibite spined. Fore wing with veins 3 and 5 from close to angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle. 1012. Adita cliionaiitlii. Phcdwna chionanthi. Abbot & Smith, Ins. Georgia, ii. p. 19-5, pi. 98 (1797); Smith, Oat. Noct. N. Am. p. 158. 6 . Head and thorax grey-white mixed with blackish scales, the tegulse in front and behind and patagia banded with black: abdomen grey irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing grey suffused with fuscous ; a subbasal black line from costa to vein 1; an antemedial black. Fig. 93.—AdUa chionanthi,
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