. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. JLrCOPHOTlA. ADITA. 579 Ab. 1. favomacuJata. Fore wing bluish green ; hind wing much darker.—Mongolia ; Amurland ; Japan. Hah. Britain, Leech Coll.; France ; Gerjiany, Zeller Coll. ; Switzerland, Frey Coll.; Scandinavia ; Russia, Livonia ; Mongolia, Changai Mts. ; Amurland; .L\pan, Oiwake (Pnjer), 1 cj", 2 5. Exj). 40-48 millim. Larva. Meyr. Ei-it. Lep. p. 93; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iii. p. .3(>7, pi. 132. f. 3. Pale brown to ferruginous ochreous, sides greenish or pale grejf ; dorsal line gre3'-Avhite, developed into a se
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. JLrCOPHOTlA. ADITA. 579 Ab. 1. favomacuJata. Fore wing bluish green ; hind wing much darker.—Mongolia ; Amurland ; Japan. Hah. Britain, Leech Coll.; France ; Gerjiany, Zeller Coll. ; Switzerland, Frey Coll.; Scandinavia ; Russia, Livonia ; Mongolia, Changai Mts. ; Amurland; .L\pan, Oiwake (Pnjer), 1 cj", 2 5. Exj). 40-48 millim. Larva. Meyr. Ei-it. Lep. p. 93; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iii. p. .3(>7, pi. 132. f. 3. Pale brown to ferruginous ochreous, sides greenish or pale grejf ; dorsal line gre3'-Avhite, developed into a series of confluent spots edged with dark spots: subdorsal line whitish, dark-edged ; spiracular line whitish ; head pale brownish, with indistinct dark markings. Food-plants : Salix, Artemisia, grasses, &c. 5-6. Genus ADITA. Aclita, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 63 (1S74). Type. eldonanthi. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi short, upturned, the 2nd joint rougldy scaled; eyes large, round, smooth, not ciliated; frons and vertex of head with ridges of scales ; auteunse of male bipeetinate to apex, with moderate branches dilated at extremity ; thorax quadrately scaled, the tegulffi with slight dorsal ridge; fore tibiai with long curved claw on inner side; mid and hind tibioj spiued. 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 u)3per angle. 1012. Adita cliionanthi. Fhalcena cJiioncmfhi, Abbot & Smith, Ins. Georj Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 158. ia, ii. p. 195, pi. 98 (1797); 6 . Head and thorax grey-white mixed with blackish scales, the tegulce 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.—Adita chionanthi, c
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