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Sir GEORGE F. HAMPSON, Bart.
LONDON: PRINTED BY ORDER OF THE TRUSTEES.
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PREFACE,
THE subject of Vol. XIII. of the ‘Catalogue of Moths’ is the classification of the remainder of the Noctuid subfamily Catocaline
and the subfamilies Momine and Phytometrine.
The Catocaline are represented in the present volume by 44 genera and 379 species, making a total of 107 genera and
1022 species for the subfamily.
The Momine, with 11 genera and 74 species, are characterized by the eyes being hairy and vein 5 of the hind wing being fully developed and arising from close to the lower angle of cell; that they are rather closely related to the only other Noctuid subfamily with hairy eyes—the Hadcenine—seems probable, but the exact relationship between the Trifid and Quadrifid subfamilies of
Noctuide is still rather obscure.
The Phytometrine, with 15 genera and 226 species, are similar, but the eyes are smooth and are overhung by bristly cilia ; the tibie are sometimes spined, but they do not appear to be at all closely related either to the Catocaline, which subfamily is characterized by having spiny tibize in the Quadrifid series, or to
the Agrotine of the Trifid series.
vl PREFACE.
Sir George Hampson has to acknowledge the assistance which he has received, mostly from those whose help has been referred to in earlier volumes of the Catalogue, by the loan of types and specimens, and in other ways.
The coloured drawings which have been made for him from types of species which are not in the Collection of the British Museum, and of which he has been unable to examine specimens,
have been reproduced, and are severally acknowledged in the text.
The Plates published in connection with this volume are numbers CCX XII.—CCXX XIX.
CHARLES J. GAHAN, Keeper of Entomology. British Museum (Natural History), September Ist, 1913.
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Fam. NOCTUIDAE (continued) él
Subfam. CaTocaLIN& (con-
BAEMIIGO) orca cits. nevw ea 6) xcs PTRADL, AL OOT Es). ance = cae eas 8 7771. regalis (Moore) ...... 8 Ate THO (LIPUY) oes we oe 9 7773. ethiopica, Hmpsn. .... 10 7774. metaleuca Hmpsn. .... 11 ABOUT SH Se Ue. resis ove.se- 2 aiets/= 6 ial mianoseuchidies. Wil. (55... 11 Acanthodelta, Hmpsn......... 12 7776. distriga, Hmpsn. ...... 3 Grammodes, Guen. ......++.. 13 (Gif. ocellata, Tepper .....>» 15 7778. oculicola, Wik. ...... 15 7779. pulcherrima, Lucas.... 16 7780. arenosa, Swinh. ...... Wy MSR WUELA, IY Us ecw soe 17 7782. congenita, Wik. ...... 18 7783. geometrica (Fabr.) .... 18 7784. cooma, Swinh. ........ 20 7785. queesita, Swinh. ...... 21 a700. stolida (Fabr.)........ 21 7787. euclidioides, Guen..... 23 7788. boisdeffrei (Oberth.) .. 24 7789, palestinensis (Staud.).. 25 7790, microgonia (JJmpsn.) .. 25 Chalciope, Htibn. ... 00. ..05. 26 7791. disjuncta, Moore ...... 26 7792. hyppasia (Cram.)...... 27 | 7798. pusilla (Holl.) ........ 29 7794, cephise (Cram.) ...... 30 iiao, backs (Guen.) ... 0... SL Cuneisigna, Hmpesn..........- 31 7796. obstans (Wik.) ...... 7797. cumamita (Beth.- Baker)
32 |
33 |
7798. rivulata (Jmpsn.) Parachalciope, Hmpsn. 7799. 7800. 7801. 7802. 7803. 7804. 7805.
euclidicola ( Wik.) .... deltifera (Feld.) ...... bina, (27007. )in. < os longiplaga, Hmpsn..... benitensis ( Holl.)...... trigonometrica, Hmpsn. mahura (Feld.)........ 7806. monoplaneta, Hmpsn. .. 7807. agonia, Hmpsn. ...... Euclidisema, Hmpsn. ........ 7808. erecta, Himpsn. ...... 7809. bisinuata (Svedl.)...... 7810. imminua (S*yell.) ...... 7811. mygdon (Cram.) ...... 7812. aleyona (Druce) ...... 7815, emathion (Srell.)...... 7814. delta (Boisd.) . Leucomelas, Hmpsn. ........ 7815, juvenilis (Brem.)...... Euclidimera, Hinpsn. ........ fOlLGE min Oleic S80) sc sa Fo 7817. annexa (H. Edw.) 7818. futilis (Staud.)........ 7819. regia (Staud.)........ 7820. czerulea (Grote) Gonospileia, (Hiibn.) ........ 7821. cuspidea (Hiibn.) 7822. dentata (Staud.) 7823. glyphica (Zinn.) 7824. triquetra (Schiff.) 7825. munita (Hiibn.) ...... Megistoclisma, Hmpsn. .. 7826. ribbei (Pag.) Ep peetree GeweRee s.r see hols 7827. macrostidsa, Himpsn. .. 7828. complens, W7k.
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Hypetra (con.). Page 7829, stigmata, Moore ...... 60 7830. ethiopica, Hmpsn. .... 61 7831. novaguineana, Beth.-
PRONE Be senate jae ese 62
7832. discolor (Fabr.) ...... 63 7833. noctuoides, Guen. 64
Canurpia, Wi. (sickest esac 65 7834. fortalitium (Tausch.) .. 66 7835. runica (Feld.) ........ 67 7836. convalescens (Guen.) .. 67 (651. anusta (WUE) 2s cee 68 7888. togataria (Wik.) ...... 69 7839. intercalaris (Grote) .... 70 7840. diagonalis (Dyar) 71 7841. erechtea (Cram.)...... 71 7842. crassiuscula (Haw.) .. 73 7843. distincta (Neuwm.) .... 7
Remigiodes, Hmpsn. ....-... 74 7844, remigina (Mab.)...... 75
Uae 2 01 Re ioe eer 76 7845, phasianoides (Guen.) .. 76 7846. electaria (Brem.)...... 77
7847.
antillesia, Hmpsn. .... 79
7848. megas (Guen.)........ 79 7849. cubana, Himpsn. ...... 80 7850. bahamica, Hmpsn. .. 81 fool, mounds (WIK.) 0.60565 81 7852. marcida (Guen.) ...... 82 7853. texana (Morr.) ...... &3 7854. disseverans (Wik.) .... 83 7855. repanda (Fabr.) ..... » oot 7856. diffluens (Guen.) ...... 86 7857. frugalis (Fabr.) ...... 87 7858. vitiensis, Hmpsn. 89 7859, paraguayica, Hmpsn. .. 90 7860. undata (Fadr.) ...... 91 7861. trifasciata ( Steph.) .... 93 7862. alterna (WIk.)........ 95 7863. dolosa (Butl.) ........ 95 7864, mutuaria (Wik.)...... 96 7865. inferna (Leech)........ 98 7866, persinuosa (Jimpsn.) .. 98 7867. inornata (fZoll.) ...... 99 7868. ramifera, Zmpsn. . 100 7869. diplocyma, Hmpsn..... 101 7870. undifara, Hmpsn....... 101 7871. escondida (Schaus) .... 101 7872. propugnata (Leech) .... 102 7873. annetta (Butl.) ...... 102 POPs. ARCO (WV UG.) Wisidn a bars 103 7875. discios (Koll.) ........ 104 PRUrys GM sino «ase eeae 105 7876. vinculum, Guen. ...... 105 7877. immunis, Guen. ...... 106 7878. basilans, Guen......... 108
7927.
7928.
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7879. agrapta, Hmpsn....... 108 7880, infecta (WUk.)........ 109 7881. bistriga, Herr.-Schiiff... 109 7882. lima, Guens <% anuee see 110 7883. herbarum (Guen.) .... 110 7884, bistrigata (Hiibn.) .... 111 7885. ovalis, Grote........ Pies! Wit! 7886. campanilis, Smith .... 112 7887. flavistriaria (Hiibn.) .. 112 7888. carolina, Smith ...... 113 Doryodes, Guen. ... Psimcue= oe 115 7889, insularia, Hmpen. 1l4 7890. bistrialis (Geyer) ...... 114 7891. spadaria, Guen. ...... 115 Nymbis, Guei.-. «sec sme oe 115 7892. arcuata (Wik) ...... 116 7893. helvina (Guen.) ...... 117 7894. montana (Schaus) .... 118 7895. fuscilineata (Kaye) .... 119 7896. teligera (Wik.)........ 119 7897 inficita. (Wi) eee 120 7898. iniqua, Guen. ........ 121 7899. prolixa (Feld.) ........ 122 7900. garnoti (Guen.) ...... 125 7901. jupisi( Wik.).. im. sons 124 7902. lineolaris (Hiidz.) 125 7903. jaliscana (Schaus) 126 7904. copiola (Guen.) ...:.. 126 905, flexa:(Guen.)’ -. 5. eee 127 7906. moxa (Schaus) ........ 127 7907. candida (Dogn.) ...... 128 7908. bigutta (Schaus) ...... 128 7909. navilla (Schaus) ...... 129 7910. monaxa (Schaus)...... 129 7911. dimera (Dyar).. 4. «as 130 Celiptera, Guen.)2ujico. eee 150 7912. remigioides (Guen.) 131 7913. levina (Stoll) ........ 152 7914, cometephora, Hmpsn... 133 7915. grisescens (Schaus) .... 134 7916. thericles (Schaus) 135 7917. valina (Schaus) ...... 135 7918. frustulum, Guen....... 156 7919. cado, Dyar ny cae 137 Calyptis, Guen.....2:- snes ee 158 7920. idonea (Stoll) ........ 138 7921. semicuprea ( Wik.) .... 189 7922. iter: Guens: wee ee 140 | Plecopterodes, Honpsn. ...... 141 7923. mellifiua (Holl.) ...... 142 7924. heterochroa (Hmpsn.).. 142 7925, griseicilia (Hmpsn.) 145 7926. synethes, Hmpsn. 148
moderata ( Wilgrn.). .. 144 molybdopasta (JZmpsn.) 145
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7929. pulchra (Faér.) ...... 145 | 7977. amata (Druce)........ 188 Gonodontodes, Hmpsn. ...... 146 7978. amella (Guen.) ...... 188
7930. chionosticta, Hmpsn. .. 146 7979. mollis (Méschl.) ...... 189
7931. dispar (Herr.-Schiff.).. 147 | 7980. chalybeata, Hmpsn. .. 190 Bugilidia, Amps. o's Peas 33 148.) °798L, minta, Schaws. 0662... 190
7932. texana, Hmpsn. ...... 148 7982. obscura (Schaus)...... 191
| 7933. bipunctata (Wik.) .... 149 | 7983. albidiscata (Schaus) .. 192 | 7984. grenadensis, Hmpsn. .. 150 | 7984. decessa (Wik.)........ 193 & Argyrostrotis, Hiibn. ........ 151 7985. acharia (Cram.) ...... 193 | 7935. surrufula (Dyar)...... 152 | 7986. abscisa, Schaus........ 194 7936. bucetum (Grote) ...... 152 7987. barata (Schaus) ...... 195
7937. pacalis (W1k.)......+. 153 | 7988. eceruleotincta, Schaus.. 196
7988. diffundens (Wik.) .... 158 7989, guapila (Schaus) ...... 196
7939. herbicola (Guen.) .... 153 | 7990. thermochroa, Hmpsn... 197
7940. sylvarum (Guen.) .... 154 | 7991. mascara (Schaus)...... 198
7941, erasa (Guen.) ........ 154 | 7992. diodonta, Hmpsn. .... 198
7942. contempta (Guen.) .... 155 | 7993. bidens (Kaye) ........ 199
7943. deleta (Guen.) .......- 155 | 7994. subvaria (Schaus) .... 200
7944. obsoleta (Grote) ...... 156 | 7995. nigrescens (Schaus).... 201
7945. quadrifilaris (Hiibn.) .. 156 | 7996, irresoluta (W7k.)...... 201
7946. anilis (Drury) ........ 156 | 7997. meroleuca, Hmpsn..... 202
MEINE, WY Ue. date Ses sisiete 023 157 | 7998. picturata, Schaus...... 203
7947. albopunctella, Wik..... 157 7999, divaricata (Schaus).... 205 Cymosafia, Hmpsn. .......... 158 8000. eminens, Schaus ...... 204
7948. pallida, Empsn. ...... 158 8001.*cades (Diuce) ........ 205
foao. wane (Druce). see ss 159 8002. nyctichroa, Hmpsn..... 206
ieuaphiay Gre. Fo. cs. wo 161 8003. noctar (Schaus) ...... 206
7950. albizona (Latr.) ...... 1GL | 8004. ‘minax:(Guen:). 0. ).vca: 207
BIBNAORS,, LAsI8I FS 55) 5s! ols ve « Les, |smale. Hula For Ta Lee 207
7951. azteca (Schaus) ...... 163 | 8005. discisigna(IV7k.)...... 208
a UCIE Vel oho! oe opdsata wo Ses 165 | 8006. setipes (Guen.)........ 209
7952. rufipicta (Schaus) .... 166 8007. exhausta (Guen.)...... 218 7953. pascuala (Schaus) .... 166 | 8008. pachystrigata, Hmpsn... 214
7954. obsolefacta (Schaus) .. 167 8009. galactea, Himpsn....... 215 7955. simplicior (Wik.) .... 167 | 8010. viridans (Guen.) ...... 215 7956. endomelas, Hmpsn..... 168 8011. fictilis (Guen.)........ 216 7957. demera (Schaus) ...... 169 | 8012. terrosa (Guen.)........ 217 7958. subrosea (Wik.) ...... 169) | SOLS. prata: Dognienn was... 218
7959. guayaquilata, Dogn. .. 171 8014. sabena (Schauws) ....,. 219 7960. separabilis (Wik.) .... 171 | 8015. configurata ( Wik.) .... 219
7961. pheeochroa, Hmpsn. .. 172 | 8016. fuliginosa (Wik.) .... 220 7962. ccenochroa, Hmpsn..... 173 8017. rufosa, Himpsn. ...... 221 7963. brunca (Schaus) ...... 173 | 8018. sexplagiata (Wik.) .... 221 7964. sublimis (Schaus) .... 177 S019. salicia (Behr). oso. ie B28 7965. pacifica (Wik.)........ 178 | 8020. lunata (Drury)........ 223 7966. metopis, Hmpsn....... 179 8021. rhigodora, Dyar...... 225 7967. amazonica (Butl.) .... 180 | 8022. pheograpta, Hmpsn. .. 225 7968. olearos, Schaus ...... 181 | 8023. unilineata (Grote) .... 226 = 7969. meretricia (Schaus).... 181 8024. declarans (Wik.)...... 227 7970. leucopis, Hmpsn....... 182 | 8025. albidula (Wik.) ...... 227 Tate aperta (WUk.). 0.6655. 183 | 8026. galbanata (Dorr.) .... 228 7972. permixta, Schaus...... 183 | 8027. edusina (Harv.) ...... 229 oi, celia (Cram.). verve oi 184 8028. sruginosa (Guen.) .... 229 7974. bruma, Schaus........ 185 8029. undularis (Drury) .... 220 7975. caminata (Schaus) .... 186 8030. corvus (Schaus) ...... 231
7976, leucoplaga (Schaus)..,. 187 8031. coracias (Guen.) ...... 232
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Zale (con.). Page 8032. janisca (Schaus) ...... 232 8033. insuda (Smith)........ 233 8034. minerea (Guen.) ....., 234 8035. excellens (Schaus) .... 235 8036. lunifera (Hiibn.) ...... 236 8037. penna (Morr.) ........ 236 8038. australis, Hmpsn. .... 237 8039. benesignata (Harv.) 238 8040. metata (Smith)........ 239 8041. curema (Smith) ....., 239 8042. duplicata (Bethune) 240 8045. bethunei (Smith)...... 240 8044. squamularis (Drury) .. 241 8045. largera (Smith) ...... 242 8046. obliqua Cerner Pena. 242 8047. rubiata (Smith) 243 8048. rubi (H. Edw.) ...... 244 8049. yavapai (Smith) ...... 244 8050. colorado (Smith) ...... 245 8051. cingulifera ( Wik.) .... 246 | 8052. calycanthata (sie &
Ae it on 246
. 8053. horrida, Hiibn......... 247
Sypuoides, Hmpsn. ..2....... 248 8064. equatorialis ( Holl.) .... 249 8055. mandarina (Leech) .... 250 | 8056. pannosa (JMoore) ...... 250
Tolnaodes, Hmpsn. .......... 252 8057. dasynota (Feld.) ...... 252
Hypogramm odes, Hmpsn. .... 253 | 8058. abscondens (W/k.) .... 254 8059. confusa (Butl.)........ 955 8060. seolia (Druce) ..... .. 256 8061. feronia (Fe/d.)........ 256 8062. micropis, Zmpsn. .... 257 8055, subocellata (Schaus) 258 8064. glauca (Cram.) ...... 258 8065. glaucoides (Schaus).... 259
Anisoneura, Guen. .......... 260 8066. hypocyanea, Guen. .... 260 8067. papuana, AZinpsn. 262 8068. zeuzeroides, Guen. . .. 262 8069. salebrosa, Gwen. ...... 268
Anydrophila, John .......... 264 8070. simiola (Piing.) ... 208 8071. mirifica (Ersch.) ...... 266 8072. imitatrix (Chrisi.) .... 267 8075. sabouraudi, D. Lucas... 267
Cerocala, iB0isa. 322s ee 268 8074. crelata, Karsch........ 268 8075. illustrata, Holl. ...... 270 8076. insana (Herr.-Schiff.).. 270 OO7 7; SANA, StU. wyctie sae 271 8078. oppia (Druce) ... .. 272 | 8079. munda, Druce........ 2 273 | 8080. scapulosa (TIiibn.) .... 273 |
Page 8081. vermiculosa, err. -
Schiff. Skies salen 275 8082. socotrensis (Hmpsn.) .. 276 8083. orientalis, de Joan. .... 277 8084. masaica, Hmpsn....... 278 8085. contraria (Pecos 278 Leucanitis, Guen....... 279 8086. c caby laria (Bang-Haas). 280 8087. sesquistria, Hy. ...... 280 8088. picts, Chrast.- .Sseed 282 8089. christophi, Alph. . 283 8090. roda (Herr Schiff.) 283 Scodionyx, Staud. .......... 285 8091. mystica (Staud.) ...... 285 Gnamptonyx, Hmpsn......... 286 8092. vilis, (Wik) 0c) Joa 286 8093. obsoleta, Hmpsn....... 287 Hypoglaucitis, Staud. ........ 287 8094. benenotata ( Warr.) 288 8095. infrequens (Swinh.).... 289 Clytie, Miibn. | ...2= 2s aes 289 8096. devia (Swinh.) ........ 290 8097. scotorrhiza (Piing.).... 290 8098. sancta (Steud.) ...... 291 8099. illunaris (Hiibn.)...... 291 8100. haifse (Habich) ...... 292 8101. distincta (Bang-Haas) . 293 8102. syrdaja ir eae | . 298 8103. arenosa, Roths......... 294 8LO4. syriaca (Bugnion’ ) 23 See 8105. sublunaris (Staud.) .... 295 8106. nabateea (Piing.) ...... 296 8107. delunaris (Staud.) 296 | 8103. terrulenta (Christ.).... 297 | Pericyma, Herr.-Schdff....... 297 8109. albidens (Wik.) ...... 298 8110. cruegeri (Butl.) ...... 299 811. turbida, (Huth), .< Sae 300 8112. umbrina (Guen.) ...-... 301 8113. glaucinans (Guen.) . 305 8114. atrifusa (Hmpsn.) 305 8115. mendax (TWik.) ...... 305 8116. detersa (Wik.) ........ 307 8117. metaleuca, Hon ries se 308 8118. squalens, Led. io etei 308
8119. albidentaria (Firv.) .... 3 8120. scandulata (Fedd.) 310 8121. polygramma, Hmpsn... 311 Gortytas. Wik... kite 312 8122. remigiaua, Himpsn. . 312 8123. diapera, Hmpsn. ...... 314 8124. metaxantha (Zmpsn.) 314 8125. leucoptera (ZZmpsn.) 515 8126. dispar (Piing.)........ 315 8127. fasciolata (Warr.) .... 316 8128. balnearia (Dist.) ...... 317
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Page Page 8129. impar, Hmpsn......... B17 8178; mus-(Oberth.)~. ....<- 364 8130. eremochroa (Hmpsn.).. 318 | Diphthera, 7reit. ............ 365 Sis WeDusta, (We) 3. oi oc 318 8179. ccenobita (Esp.) ...... 366 8182. rosacea (Rebel) ...... 320 8180. acronyctoides ( Wik.) .. 367 8133. polyeyma (Hmpsn.).... 320 8181. grisea (Wileman)...... 367 8134, pheocyma, Hmpsn..... 321 8182. furcilla (Pack.) ...... 368 8135. canescens, Wik. ...... 321 8183. portlandia (Grote) .... 869 8136. grisea (Leech) ........ 322 8184. gigantea (French) .... 369 8137. profesta (Christ.)...... 325 8185. virginaria (Grote) .... 870 8138. ruficolora (Hmpsn.) .. 324 8186. palata (Grote) ........ 37 Mabolina, Hard. .....-+..... 824 | Charadra, Wik, ...00.0...- a71 8139. impartialis, Harv. .... 325 6187. pata (Druce) ........ 371 Matigramma, Grote.......... 326 8188. nitens, Schaus ........ 372 8140, nitida, Hmpsn. ...... 526 8189. ingenua, Smith........ 378 8141. pulverilinea, Grote .... Bel 8190. deridens (Guen.) ...... 373 8142. rubrosuttusa, Grote .... 327 8191. sudena, Smzth ........ 379 Bias devia GIOte 2.6... so 328 8192. nigracreta, H. Edw. .. 375 8144. metaleuca, Hmpsn..... 329 8193. dispulsa, Morr. ...... 376 8145. perigeana, Hmpsn. .... 329 | Moma, Hiibn. .............. 376 8194. obsolescens, Warr. .... 377 : a re 8195. champa, Moore’ ...... 378 Subfam. Soman: 8196, ainu f Wileman) ~...... 379 Epicausis, Butl, .......+...- 38 8197. gypsochrca, Hmpsn. .. 379 Sido. smuibphn (1ab:) 3... 3. - 398 8198. luditica (Zinn.)........ 380 - Mrisnioides, But... oe. s+ os 339 8199. nigrescens, Warr, .... 382 8147. pygaria, Warr. ...... Boo | athe. Sillcy She 25s ne 382 8148. papuensis, Warr. .... 340 8200. sagata (WIk.) ........ 383 8149. luteifascia, Hmpsn..... 340 8201. chavannesi (Feld.) .... 384 8150. sericea, Bull. ........ oa? | Gaujonin, Dogm —o- 7. atcco.. 3885 Bhol,. coerulea, Bul. .. .:. 0» 343 8202. arbosa, Dogn. ........ 386 8152. albiplaga, Warr....... 544 8205. arbosioides, Dogn. .... 386 $153. cornelia (Staud.) ...... 345 8204. vau-nigrum, Hmpsn. .. 387 8154. plumbea (Butl.) ...... B45 8205. renifera, Hmpsn....... 387 8155. catocalina (Moore) .... 346 | Lichnoptera, Herr.-Schiff..... 388 8156. variegata (Moore) .... 347 8206. decora (Morr.)........ 389 8157. subflava, Wileman . .. 348 8207. felina, Druce ........ 390 8158. albitessellata, Hmpsn... 348 8208. cavillator (Wik.)...... 391 8159. entoxantha (Hmpsn.).. 849 8209. albidiscata (Dogn.).... 392 8169. flavala (Moore) ...... 350 8210. rufitincta, Hmpsn. .... 393 8161. nitida (Butl.) ........ 351 @211. illudens (Wik.) ...... B94 8162. caliginea (Buil.) ...... 352 8212. gulo, Herr.-Schiff. .... 394 8163. pallidipennis ( Warr.).. 553 8213. primulina, Dogn....... 395 8164. infausta (WIk.) ...... 353 8214. spissa (H. Edw.) ...... 396 8165. obscura (Leech) ...... bo4 8215. marmorifera (W/k.) .. 396 8166, glauca, Hmpsn. ...... 354 8216. atrifrons, Dogn. ...... 397 8167. c-album (Leech) ...... 356 8217. meestoides, Dogn. .... 898 Eilseodes, Hmpsn..........-+-. 356 8218. meesta, Herr.-Schiiff. .. 399 8168. virescens (Butl.) ...... 357 | Elydnodes, Hmpsn. .......... 399 8169. acatharta, Hmpsn. .... 357 8219. variegata (Leech)...... 400 8170. brevicornis (Wik.) .... 358 8171. utescens (Herr.-Schaff.) 359 < : a F Gnloparias Oks, . 1... as es 360 Subfam. Puytometrina: .. 401 8172. umbrosa (Wileman) .. 361 | Omorphina, Alph. .......... 403 8173. coryli (Zinn.) ........ 361 8220. aurantiaca, Alph....... 403 8174, flavicornis (Smith) .... 362 | Autographa, Hiibn. .......... 404 8175. electa (Smith)........ 365 €221. parilis (Hiidn.)........ 404 8176. propinquilinea (Grote) . 363 | Caloplusia, Smuth............ 405
8177. infanta (Smith) ..,... 964 | 8222. virgula (Blanch.)...... 406
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Caloplusia (con.). bev 8223. devergens (Jitibn.) .... 407 8224. alticola OL at! Ay eee 407 8225. hochenvarthi( oc henw.) 408 8226. ignea (Grote) ..... .. 409 Rachiplusia, Hmpsn. ........ 410 se Gan cinta (Cn (SOS) lm ae. eore ae 410 8228. pedalis (Grote)........ 412 Synerapha, Atibn. .......... 412 8229. ain (Hochenw.)........ 414
8230. microgamma (Zfiibn.).. 415 8231. orophila (Almpsn.) .... 416
8252. diasema (Boisd.)...... 416 8233. sacceni (Grote)........ 417 8234. snovi (H. Edw.) ...... 418 8235. falcifera (Kirby) ...... 419
8236. simplicissima (Ottolengui) 420 8237. speciosa (Oléolengui) .. 420
8238. epigzea (Grote) ...... 421 8239. selecta (WIK.) ........ 421 8240. celsa (71. Edw.) ...... 423 8241. rectangula (Kirby) .... 423 8242. alias (Ottolengui)...... A24
8243. u-aureum (Guen.) .... 424 8244. octoscripta (Grote) .... 425 8245. arctica (Oftolengu’) .. 426
8246. excelsa ( Ottolengut).... 427 8247. angulidens (Smth) .... 427 8248. pyrenaica, Hmpsn. .... 428
8249. altera (Ottolengui) .... 429 8250. v-alba (Ottolengu’) .... 429 8251. surena (Grote)........ 450 $252. interrogationis (Linn.) . 430 8253. orcenlandica (Staud.) .. 482
8254. circumflexa (Zinn.).... 432 8255. gammoides ( Blanch.) .. 48
8256. egena (Guen.) ..... oi. 400 8257. feisthameli (Guen.) .... 436
8258. egenella (/er7.-Schiff.). 436 8259, illustrata (Guen.) ...*. 487 Plusiopalpa, Holl, ane eae s 437
8260. camptogamma (Hmpsn.) 438
8261. adrasta (Feld.)........ 438 Chrysoptera, Lair. ........0 439 8262. sica (Greser) ........ 440 8263, micadina (Butl) ...... 441 8264, c-aureum (Knock) .... 442 * 8265. splendida (Butl.)...... 443 8266. aurata (Sfaud.) ...... 444 8267. moneta (Fabr.)........ 444 8268. morigera (7. Edw.) .. 445 Eosphoropteryx, Dyar ...... 446 8269, thyatyroides (Guen.) .. 446 Pseudeva, Hmpsn, .....-..+- 447
8270. purpurigera (Wik.) .. 448
Page 8271. palligera (Grote)...... 449 8272. rubrigera, Hmpsn. .... 449 Plusidia, But... eee eee 450 8273, cheiranthi (Tausch.) .. 450 Phytometra, Haw. .......... 452 8274. pterylota (Meyr.) 452 8275. psectrocera, Hmpsn, .. 453 8276. lavendula (Hmpsn.) 454 8277. gerda (Pting.) ........ 455 8278. chalcopasta (Hmpsn.).. 456 8279, livida (Holl.) .... 2.56 457 8280. phocea (Hmpsn.) 458 8281. zneofusa (Hmpsn.) 459 8282. fracta (WIk.) .....5.- 459 8283. placida (Moore) ...... 460 8284, gammaloba (Hmpsn.),. 463 8285. cupreomicans (Hmpsn.) 464 8286. chaleedona (Hmpsn.).. 464 8287. circumscripta (L77.) .. 465 8288. verruca (Fabr.) ...... 465 8289. hemichalcea, Hmpsn... 466 8290. dorfmeisteri (Fe/d.) 467 8291. brassicae (Riley) ...... 467 $292. ni CHubn.)| cee eee 468 8293. subsidens (Wik.)...... 470 8294. angulum (Guen.)...... 471 8295. limbirena (Gwen.) .... 472 8296. tarassota, Hmpsn. .... 473 8297. furcifera (W7k.) ...... 473 8298. eugrapha, Hmpsn. .... 474 8299. ablusa (Feld.) ........ 47 8300. lunata (Fabr.)........ 475 8301. violescens, Hmpsn..... 476 8302. microstigma (Hmpsn). 477 8303. daubei (Boisd.) ...... 477 8304. indicator (TV/k.)...... 478 8305. obtusisigna (IW7k.) .... 479 8306. lectula ( Wile) n= oc annie 480 8307. distalagma, Hmpsn. .. 480 8308. brachychalcea, Hmpsn, 481 8309. bipartita (Srell.) ...... 482 8310, chaleytes (Zsp.) ...... 484 8311. basigera (W1k.) ...... 486 8312, impulsa CW) Francs 487 8313. meretricia Ase ies . 487 8314, longicornis (Druce) .. 488 8315. caudata (Schaus)...... 489 8316. argentifera (Guen.) .. 489 8317. calceolaris (Wik.) .... 490 8318. signata (Fabr.) ...... 491 8319. rubida (Odttolengut).... 491 8320. accentifera (Zef.)...... 492 8321. phocina, Hmpsn....... 493 8322. abrota (Druce) ...:.. 493 8323. oxygramma (Geyer) .. 494 8324. cebew (Beth.-Baker) .. 495
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SYSTEMATIC INDEX.
Page 8325. albostriata (Brem. & GREY asl tes 2 tos avers 496 8526. subchalybeea (Wik.) .. 496 8327. gorilla (Holl.)... .... 497 8328. permissa (Wik.)...... 497 8329. cebeana (Beth.-Baker), 499 8330. acuta (Wik.) .....-.. 499 | 8331. festucee (Zinn.) ...... 507 8332. festata (Gres.) ...... 508 8333. putnam (Grote) ...... 509 8334. nicholle, Hmpsn. . 510 8335. contexta (Grote)...... 510 8336. bonaerensis (Berg) .... 511 8537. biloba (Steph.)....... . ol2 8338. rhopalosema, Hmpsn... 513 8339. confusa (Steph.) ...... 514 8340. arzyrosigna (Moore) ., 515 341. ornatissima (Wik). «5 SID 8342. agualaniata (Dogn.) .. 516 8345. pyropia CBULD Yas. «ee 517 8544. rutilifrons ( W7k.) + OL7 8345. megaloba (Hmpsn.) .. 518 8346. nigriluna (WUk.)...... 518 8547. pannosa (Moore)...... 519 348, admonens (JV/k.) . 520 349. geminipuncta (JZmpsn.) 520 8350. dalei (Woll.) ........ 521 Be OO OFAN) 5. n)arcraw ss a. 522 8352. pseudochalcytes, Hmpsn. 528 8353. camptosema, Hmpsn... 523 8554. precationis (Guen.),,., 524 8355, sestertia (eld.) ...... 525 Bo, dives (2v.) 2... ..60e. 526 8357. v-argenteum (E'sp.) 527 8358. crnata (Brem.) ...... 528 8359. clarci (ZImpsn.) ...... 528 8360. corusca (Streck.) ... 529 561. labrosa (Grote) ...... 530 8362. bimaculata (Steph.) .. 530 8263. macrogamma (/v.).... 58 8364. mandarina Pe eee | 532 8365. mappa (Grote § Rob.) . §33 8566. pulchrina (ZZaw.) .... 534 EDOemtOUA (LAN)! os ey syele wl « ee 8368. nigrisigna (Wik.) .... 536 8369. schalisema. Hmpsn. 587 8370. gamma (ZLinn.) ...... 53 8371. pseudogamma (Grote). 539 8372. californica (Speyer).... 540 | 8373. flagellum (W7k.)...... 541 8374. ou “(Guen.) sper oe 542 8575. purpureofusa (Fmpsn. ). 545 8376. dudgeoni, Hmpsn..... 544 8377. limata (Schaus) eee 544 8378. jessica (Buil.) ........ 545 8379. bella ( Christ.) ........ 545
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8380. pasipheeia (Grote) .... 546 8381. sansoni(W. Dod) .... 546 8382. exquisita (Feld.)...... 547 8383. semivitta (Moore) .... 548 8384. purissima (Butl.)...... 548 8385. tetragona (Wik.)...... 549 8386. anda (Druce) ........ 550) 8387. orbifer (Guen.) ...... 550 8388. parabractea, Hmpsn. 551 8389. bractea (Schiff) ...... 551 8390. metallica (Gro/e) 552 8391. excelsa (Avetschm.) 553 8392. ceemula (Schiff.) ...... 554 8393. argyrodonta (Hmpsn.) . 555 394, v-minus (Oberth.) .... 555 595, tancrei (Staud.) ...... 556 8396. ochreata (Wik.) ...... j57 8397. transfixa (Wik.)...... 557 8398. arachnoides (Dist.) 558 8399, aranea (Hmpsn.)...... 559 8400. tetrastigma (Hmpsn.).. 559 8401. disticta, Hmpsn....... 560 8402. hampsoni (Leech) 560 8403. emichi (Rg/fr.) ...... 561 8404. dorsiflava (Stndf.) .... 561 8405. maria (Stawd.) ... 562 8406. augusta (Stavd.)...... 562 8407. variabilis (Piller)...... 563 8408. modesta (Hiibn.)...... 564 8409. uralensis (Zv.) ...... 565 8410. siderifera (Zv.) ...... 565 8411. inconspicua (Gres.) 566 8412. generosa (Staud.) 566 8413. cashmirensis (Jfoore).. 567 8414. herrichi (Staud.)...... 567 C415.-renardi (Ep.) sc. 0s. 568 8416. consona (Fabr.) ...... 569 8417, albavitta (Ottolengut).. 570 8418) ample: (WU)! can a s5 570 8419. deaurata (Zsp.) ...... 571 8420. wreoides (Grote)...... 572 8421. masoni (Schaus) ...... 573 8422. peponis (Fabr.) ...... 573 8423. hebatata (Butl.) ...... 574 8424, eerea (Hiibn.) .. -.... 575 8425, leonina (Oberth.) .... 575 8426, chryson (Esp.)........ 576 8427. balluca (Geyer) ...... 577 8428. zosimi (Hiibn.) ...... 578 8429. chrysitis (Zinn.)...... 578 8430. florina (Gwen.) ...... 579 8431. orichalcea (Fadr.) .... 580 Paleoplusia, Hmpsn. ........ 581 8432. venusta (Wik.) ...... 582 Aurostola, OCkS: es. .4:. sb kees 582 8433, formosa (Grote) ...... 583
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SYSTEMATIC INDEX.
Abrostola (con.). Page Page 8434. ovalis, Guen. .:...... 584 8441. abrostolina (Butl.).... 589 8435. urentis, Guen. ........ 585 8442. canariensis, Himpsn. .. 590 8436. tripartita (Ziibn.) .... 585 8443. brevipennis (Wik.).... 591 8437. asclepiadis (Schiff) .. 586 | Mouralia, Wik............+.. 591 8438. triplasia (Zinn.) ...... 587 8444. tinctoides (Guen.) .... 592 8439. anophioides, Moore.... 588 | Episema, Ochs............... 593 8440. triopis, Hmpsn. ...... 589 8445. ceruleocephala (Linn.). 593
ADDENDA TO VOL. XII. Vol. XIII.
342 a. Ulothrichopus maccvoodi, Hmpsn. Vol. XII. p. 222...... 330 576.a. Anua rufescens, Himpsn......... PP prAabeeacaae 331
73
75
7604 a. Tolna macrosema, Hmpsn....... “ p 47D y Sees 331 lode d
ivy
48 a. Parallelia rectivia, Hmpsn....... = PipOen. aes 332
CATAECG UE
OF
LEPIDOPTERA PHALAIN A,
Family NOCTUID.®.
Subfamily CATOCALIN i (continued).
The Key to the Genera is reprinted from Vol. XII. of the Catalogue, with the references to the pages of the present volume inserted with the figure (2) before them.
Key to the Genera. A. Hind tibie spined. a. Fore tibie spined. a‘, Hind wing with the cell about one-fifth length of wing. a2, Wings with the termen non-crenulate ... AGonrsTA, p. 267, 22, Wings with the termen highly crenulate... Nycripao, p. 273, ‘1, Hind wing with the cell about one-third length of wing. a*, Abdomen with dorsal crests on basal BECIMON ESpsccn oases oniiswescacessans sence csecses CataBarrta, p. 11. 6, Abdomen without dorsal crests. a*, Abdomen dorsally clothed with woolly hair at base. a4, Palpi with the 3rd_ joint thickly scaled, somewhat dilated at ex- tremity and very long. a, Fore wing with the apex produced
GO) AE POIMtnirandaees iccecctcuece sass XyLornyLa, p. 387. b5, Fore wing with the apex not pro- GUCGUM: ie scseecorsecrsasescarcerevnscss Miniornyiuopes, p. 401.
b*, Palpi with the 3rd joint moderate and dilated by a tuft of scales at extremity. VOL. XIII. B
NOCTUID®#.
a5, Fore wing with the inner margin
strongly lobed before middle 45, Yore wing with the inner margin ee Ber Ot ie ce, Palpi_ with the 3rd joint naked, moderate and not dilated at ex- tremity..... si olsddudasSeecetsewssscensanea
d‘, Palpi with the 3rd joint minute. a®, Abdomen dorsally flattened and entirely clothed with woolly hair. }®, Abdomen not dorsally flattened and clothed with woolly hair at base DENS Sagnoncbticen saan Bone mance sor cesses b3, Abdomen not dorsally clothed with _ Woolly hair at base. ies with the 3rd joint long.
. Fore tibie fringed with long hair on outer side; fore wing with the termen evenly curved.
a®, Fore wing with the costa highly arched towards apex which is NOb produced. pe .ccc--scneranee- b°, Fore wing with the costa highly arched towards apex which is produced and acute ..,......... c®- Fore wing with the costa slightly arched towards apex which is produced and acute. a, Hind wing with the termen strongly angled at vein 4 ... i7. Hind wing with the termen evenly curved <-c.ccenencrvess-s 5, Fore tibize smoothly scaled.
a®. Fore wing with the termen nearly straight; veins 7, 8, 9 stalked, 10, 11 from cell, and much attenuated ...............06 }8, Fore wing with the termen evenly
curved ; the areole present.
a’, Palpi with the 2nd joint
reaching to above vertex of head, the 3rd dilated at ex- EPCMNIGY sc, cosenee seupap na ane aen 7, Palpi with the 2nd joint not reaching above vertex of head, the 3rd not dilated at
extremity. a8, Thorax clothed with scales and hair mixed ... ........ 48, Thorax clothed with hair ONLY j.5) Scsnnasdiewanveuseauvers
b*, Palpi with the 5rd joint short. a5, Thorax clothed with hair and scales TOUKOO 4 sNis okie cassen. caaatesasthenecne
6°. Thorax clothed with hair only
c'. Hind wing with the cell half the length of
win wee with transverse ridge not clothed with scales, and corneous plate below it. b2, Frons smooth. a’, Hind wing with vein 8 approximated to the cell to middle ....... wks dese peasant
Loxzornyitones, p. 400:
Puytioprs, p. 389. Mintopes, p. 402. Cocyrtongs, p. 258.
Opororny ta, p. 385,
Meroprta, p. 300.
Eytomocranma, p. 313,
Hexamitorrera, p. 312.
Exmonopta, p. 319,
Cy.icranMa, p. 802.
Crroca.a, (2) p. 268,
Catutopes, p. 344.
Sperreponta, p. 346,
Comeraster, p. 862. Donuca, p. 364.
Lornotipia, p. 242,
AcANTHODELTA, (2) p. 12.
CATOCALINE.
}®, Hind wing with vein 8 anastomosing with the cell near base, then approxi- mated to it to middle............ Sense
c*, Hind wing with vein 8 anastomosing with the cell near base, then diverging.
a*, Abdomen with dorsal series of crests. Sarrpr, (2) p. 163. bt. Abdomen with crests on two basal SOPIMEMUS ssa cemrcesarsceenslesnspesriarcaria a
c*, Abdomen without crests.
a. Tibie fringed with long hair.
a’. Fore wing short and broad, the costa highly arched towards FATNENS odScse codec Sososoapananechootne a: 6, Fore wing longer and narrower, the apex more produced, the costa not highly arched towards SPOR. aces Agee eset man acu eee aes oe
2°, Tibiz smoothly scaled. a’, Eyes small and elliptical; fore wing short and broad............ Evcuipimera, (2) p. 45. b°, Eyes large and round ; fore wing longer and narrower, the apex more produced .........s00s0e0++
b. Fore tibiz not spined.
a', Hind tibiz spined above the medial spurs.
a’, Hind wing with the termen produced fo) abet eeu b Vel At teas eideteonetesensee es =
b?, Hind wing with the termen produced to a slight lobe at vein 4 ...............
c’, Hind wing with the termen evenly curved.
a3, Fore tibie with long curved claw on
outer side at extremity ...............
b3, Fore tibiee without claw at extremity.
a’, Abdomen with dorsal series of
CTESES .eecescoccccccrsrcreceeccescocccs
b', Abdomen with dorsal crests on basal segments.
@, Palpi with the 3rd joint
moderate; pro- and meso-
thorax with crests ....... ryt Mormon, p. 42.
b®. Palpi with the 3rd joint long;
pro- and mesothorax without
CEOSUS Saw aaeceesaaeasepansare= se as eies
>, Palpi with the 3rd joint minute ; pro- and metathorax with crests; hind tibiae of male
with the medial spurs absent . AcantTmoprca, p. 249.
ce’, Abdomen with basal crest only. a’. Frons with pointed conical PLOWIMENCO Rat ca-c evened os coene ce a®, Pro- and metathorax with small crests; fore wing with scale-teeth at middle of inner margin and tornus............ 5°, Thorax without crests; fore- wing without scale-teeth at middle of inner margin and LOFTUS 2.-...ceeceeceeeveccerseees
d4, Abdomen without dorsal crests. a>, Abdomen dorsally clothed with
woolly hair at base.
Doryopss, (2) p. 115.
Prionortera, p. 471.
Nieuza, p. 872.
Aupsa, p. 209.
Czyuret, (2) p. 65.
PrerocycLopuora, p. 466.
OrENUSA, p. 377.
Acantionyx, p. 82.
Sypnorpks, (2) p. 248.
Touna, p. 475.
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Remiaropes, (2) p. 74.
Carerutopgs, p. 481,
Excnera, p. 482,
B2
NOCTUID2®.
a’, Thorax with dorsal ridge-like CHOSE Lease eteeee cae < So kece dios Minvcta, p. 423. b°. Thorax without ridge - like crest. a’, Abdomen dorsally flattened. a, Frons with large tuft of hair above; palpi with the 3rd joint porrect .... Herwinrocara, p. 234. 28. Frons with slight tuft of hair above; palpi with the 8rd joint upturned Dermaxerra, p. 406. b’. Abdomen not dorsally flat- tened. a8, Fore wing with the apex somewhat produced and falentersst ecstak eee Hettoriisma, p. 461, 6%. Fore wing with the apex not produced and fal-
cate. a, Frons with tuft of hair above. a’, Fore wing long and TIAUTO W. gare «teadanas Anva, p. 425, b10, Fore wing short and DrOaG: ais93 443.5908. Gonoponropes, (2) p. 146.
09, Frons without tuft of hair above ; fore wing short and broad ...... Acua, p. 496. 6°. Abdomen dorsally — smoothly scaled. a’, Abdomen dorsally flattened ... Eccrita, p. 236. v8, Abdomen not dorsally flat- tened. a’, Thorax clothed with hair and scales, a*, Fore wing with the apex produced and acute; eyes large, round. a’, Hind wing with the cell about one-third length of wing. a, Frons with tuft of hair above. a, Fore wing with the termen oblique and hardly excurved ... Cuciorr, (2) p. 26, b, Fore wing with the termen more erect and strongly ex-
CUIVEd -...viadusdes<acs Nyuais, (2) p. 115. b°, Frons without tuft of airs ose getereeetcens cus Puvrys, (2) p. 105,
o*. Hind wing with the cell about half the length of
WANE ds chanes meen ures cdcee Mocs, (2) p. 76. b’, Fore wing short and broad, a, Eyes small, elliptical ...... Levcometas, (2) p. 44.
b°. Eyes large, round. a'°, Fore wing with the termen crenulate .... Hyrogravcrris, (2)p. 287.
CATOCALINE. 5
b'°, Fore wing with the ter- men not crenulate... PLecorreropes, (2) p. 141. b7, Thorax clothed with hair and hair-like scales; fore wing with the apex pro- duced and acute ..........-- YRAMMODES, (2) p. 13. ec’, Thorax clothed with hair only ; fore wing with the apex not produced and CULO eee Rese eee mce-(taseee cote CuytIs, (2) p. 289. }', Hind tibie spined hetween the medial and terminal spurs only. a*, Palpi with the third joint dilated into a rounded knob at extremity. a, Abdomen with dorsal series of crests. Ramruta, (2) p. 161. v®. Abdomen with dorsal crests on two basal Be=Ments...<..s0sce0.c0seseoeeees Amrmoraceras, p. 376. b, Palpi with the 3rd joint not dilated at extremity. a, Abdomen with dorsal series of crests. Evrarruenos, p. 9. u3, Abdomen with dorsal crest at base
only. a‘, Thorax with ridge-like dorsal crest Crntprera, (2) p. 180, }+, Metathorax with paired crests ...... Arratia, (2) p. 8.
c3, Abdomen with dorsal ridges of hair on basal segments. a*. Thorax with dorsal ridge-like crest. Euminucra, p. 421 b', Prothorax with spreading crest ; fore tibize with claw ............68 CnEeLecaLa, p. 240. ct, Thorax without crests. a, Fore wing with the apex pro- duced and acute ...............008 Lacorrera, p. 413, 2°, Fore wing with the apex not pro- duced and acute. a’, Fore wing broad and tri- BU Ulateerevereeerer obese senses CaTocata, p. 58, b®. Fore wing longer and narrower. a", Palpi with the 2nd joint reaching to vertex of head, the 38rd long; hind wing with the cell about one- third length of wing ...... Hyrpanva, p. 459. b7, Palpi with the 2nd joint reaching to middle of frons, the 3rd moderate ; hind wing with the cell about half length of wing. Tactosa, p. 241. d°, Abdomen dorsally smoothly scaled. a*, Metathorax with crest. a>, Frons with large tuft of hair; palpi with the 3rd joint long... Evsoxtna, (2) p. 324, b®, Frons without tuft of hair; palpi with the 3rd joint moderate... Anyprorutva, (2) p. 264, b*, Metathorax with crest. a®, Palpi with the 3rd joint porrect. a®, Frons with large flattened tuft of hair above; fore wing
long and narrow ..9..........++ Hyroracna, p. 243. b8, Frons with small tuft of hair ; fore wing triangular ......... Evrurvsa, p. 530,
65, Palpi with the 3rd joint up- turned,
6 ~ NOCTUID£.
a’, Fore wing with the apex some- what produced and acute. a’. Palpi with the 3rd joint long and acuminate ; fore wing with the termen excised below apex and excurved Ab ANIL O paeace cose sdonaeve tae Focitwipta, (2) p. 148. Ui. Palpi_ with the 38rd joint nioderate, blunt ; fore wing with the termen evenly
CURVOU:ieesssteessaseneoewesene CunristanA, (2) p. dl. b’, Fore wing with the apex rounded. 2 ai, Eyes small and elliptical .... GonosrrLEia, (2) p. 50. b7, Eyes large, round .........++- AnpreuslA, p. 2U6.
B. Hind tibiz not spined. a. Abdomen with dorsal series of crests. a, Thorax clothed with hair and scales, the prothorax with spreading crests. a®, Patagia broadly dilated with scales at extremity ; abdomen with very large basal crest. a’, Abdomen with the crests on medial i segments large and somewhat bifid. Sarra, (2) p. 165. 23, Abdomen with the crests on medial
segments simall..............0++ eeeeanes ZALE, (2) p. 207. &*, Patagia not dilated with scales at ex- tremity. a, Abdomen with the crests on medial segments large.......0.-.sseseeeeeeeeeees Pericyma, (2) p. 297. b3, Abdomen with the crests on medial sermonts SMALL ...<.-.5.asusceeseeteeo> Attorrta, p. 204. b', Thorax clothed with hair and _ hair-like scales, : a>, Metathorax with spreading crest ......... Totnaovss, (2) p. 252. 67, Metathorax without crest ............+++++- Catyeris, (2) p. 158.
b. Abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. _ a', Frons with tuft of hair above; palpi with
the 3rd joint long ...2.....5....c00esa0¢ 1. CALLopPiismA, p. 268. b', Frons without tuft of hair above; palpi with the 8rd joint moderate ............... Coxsusa, (2) p. 11. c. Abdomen with dorsal ridges of hair on basal
segments. a\, Kore tibia with curved claw at extremity, Scopronyx, (2) p. 285. U1. Fore tibize without claw at extremity. a>, Fore wing with the apex somewhat pro- duced and acute. a, Fore wing long and narrow, the costa not highly arched towards apex, the termen obliquely curved. aj, Prothorax with crest, metathorax
without crents<c. cweaiecoupdedctes Uxoruricuorvs, p. 220. 44, Prothorax without crest, meta- thorax with spreading crest ...... HyrocramMopes, b*®, Fore wing short and broad, the costa [(2) p. 253.
highly arched towards apex. a’, Fore wing with the apex strongly produced and falcate ............... Ornisma, p. 539. b4, Fore wing with the apex slightly produced and not falcate. a. Fore wing with the termen ‘ excurved at VEIN 5 ..cecesescseess Prasmaticrs, p. 548,
CATOCALIN SE.
6°, Fore wing with the termen not
excurved at vein D .....sceseeeee
b*. Fore wing with the apex not pro- duced.
a, Palpi with the 2nd joint reaching to above vertex of head, the 3rd long.
a‘, Palpi with the 3rd joint dilated at Gxtrenithyscea-csscereecnsceserecas se
4, Palpi with the 3rd joint not dilated at extremity.
a, Thorax clothed with scales and hair mixed.
a®, Hind wing with the cell about
one-fourth length of wing...
68, Hind wing with the cell about
one-half length of wing ......
48, Thorax clothed with hair only ...
}°, Palpi with the 2nd joint reaching to vertex of head, the 3rd long .........
c?, Palpi with the 2nd joint reaching to middle of frons, the 3rd moderate.
at, Hind wing with the termen excised between veins6and2 ... .....
U4, Hind wing with the termen not excised between veins 6 and 2 ...
d. Abdomen dorsally smoothly scaled and with- out crests.
a. Fore tibie with claw at extremity. a, Metathorax with spreading crest 42, Metathorax without crest ............cee0ee
b!. Fore tibize without claw at extremity.
«, Palpi with the 3rd joint porrect.
a>. Palpi with the 3rd joint long, slender, and somewhat dilated at extremity.
b°, Palpi with the 3rd joint moderate, thickly scaled, and not dilated at extremity.
a’, Palpi with the 2nd joint bent forward at extremity and fringed above and below with hair.........
4, Palpi with the 2nd joint not bent forward at extremity or fringed OL Oh fl GN PS inbopodens eabeobooeanc
b2, Palpi with the 5rd joint upturned.
a}, Frons with tuft of hair above.
a‘, Hind wing with the cell about one- third length of wing.
a, Palpi with the 3rd joint long and acuminate.
a’, Palpi with the 2nd joint reach-
ing to above vertex of head .
b§, Palpi with the 2nd joint not
reaching to above vertex of
eatlpess tess nctenatc oactecs eS
L5, Palpi with the 3rd joint moderate
BNCUODUUEG Meas ntseresessecess «-
}4, Hind wing with the cell about half the length of wing .........sses.+0
b3. Frons without tuft of hair above.
a‘, Fore wing with the apex produced and acute
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PARALLELIA, p. 551.
ParaGarisra, p. 262.
Antsoneurs, (2) p. 260.
Hyrzrra, (2) p. 58. Eayzouts, p. 264.
Hemasasis,p. 266.
Merartacua, p. 238.
Ernest, p. 143.
Levcanitis, (2) p. 279. Gwamrronyx, (2) p. 286.
Mecistocrisma, (2) p. 55.
Crypsoripra, p. 246.
CorryTa, (2) p. 312,
Paracnancropy, (2) p. 35 >
Honma, p. 384. Eucripisema, (2) p. 40,
ARGYROSTROTIS, (2)p.16].
Curtina, (2) p. 157.
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+4, Fore wing with the apex not pro- duced and acute.
«@, Metathorax with depressed crest.
a, Fore wing with the termen
angled at veins Gand 4, then
Obliqueyesnestusvesees so-so oe CymossFia, (2) p. 158. }®, Fore wing with the termen evenly Curved: <....ncs-ccese MaricramMa. (2) p, 326. >, Metathorax without crest ......... Contsce, p. 207.
Genus ATTATHA. Type. Attatha, Moore, Ps 4.8. UST6yp. GAT ccc, s-dsepesensvates eases do eae regalis,
Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to about vertex of head and moderately scaled, the 8rd moderate; frons smooth ; eyes large, round ; antennez of male somewhat laminate and almost simple ; thorax clothed with hair and scales mixed, the metathorax with paired crests ; tibiz smoothly sealed, the fore tibiz not spined, the hind tibix with spines between the mid and terminal spurs only ; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen obliquely curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with § to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the cell about one-third length of wing; veins 3, 4 from angle; 5 fully developed from above angle ; 6,7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only
A. Hind wing scarlet or tinged with scarlet. a, Hind wing with series of small black spots just before termen
and large spot above tOLNUS ss wesentesdp-pecensesscara-meccscees regalis, 6. Hind wing with subterminal wedge-shaped blackish band for’ apex fO Vel Zia. acces seneescneeemieedsaes== seckisarive eee onieae ino. iB: Hind wing yellows<:...--.sesse2sces66 Re esaeric foidd sates sien deseeek ... ethiopica. (C; Hind! wing/creamyawhities..,.sdess<tsrescrsesceees +> “reneece Be POE metaleuca.
7771. Attatha regalis.
Hypercompa regalis, Moore, P. Z. 8.1872; p. 575, pl. 33. f.'7; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 528.
Head and thorax white; palpi pale scarlet, the extremity of 2nd joint, the 8rd joint and the frons black; antenne black; tegulz except at base, shoulders, a band across patagia and mesothorax and a patch on metathorax black; pectus orange, scarlet in front; legs orange, the fore and mid legs black-brown in front; abdomen orange, the basal crest black, the ventral surface tinged with scarlet. Fore wing creamy white; the costal edge blackish towards base; a black fascia on base of median nervure, rounded at extremity; a black fascia on inner margin from near base to beyond middle, pointed at extremities ; a triangular black patch from middle of costa to lower angle of cell with an oblique tail from it to submedian fold above tornus, a slight oblique red-brown line from its outer edge below costa to above vein 2 near termen, then erect and waved to inner margin above which it has a small black spot on it; a wedge-shaped black patch from apical part of costa, its lower part attenuate, bent outwards, and ending below vein 4 towards termen ; a fine black line on apical part of termen, then black spots on veins
ATTATIIA. 9
4, 3, 2, the termen tinged with scarlet towards tornus. Hind wing scarlet ; a round subterminal black spot in submedian interspace, a series of minute black spots before termen from apex to below
Fig. 1:—Attatha regalis, . }.
vein 2, and black points on termen at veins 4, 3, 2. Underside of both wings pale scarlet; fore wing with the oblique medial mark reduced and not extending to costa, a black patch before middle of termen.
Hab. “N. Ixnpta”; Bompay, Kanara; Creyton (Mackwood), 1 $; Burma, Kalewa (Watson), 1 3, Up. Tenasserim (Wood- Mason), 2 3, Dawnat Hills (de Nicéville), 1 9 ; Puriiprryes, Luzon, Cebu. Exp. 48-58 millin.
Larva. Semper, Reise Phil., Schmett. ii. p. 566, pl. T. ff. 3-5.
Yellow with a black lateral stripe except on Ist and terminal somites, defined by whitish and with some black striz above it; or green with a pale lateral line, the stigmata crimson. Food-plant, Streblus. 7. Forms a brownish white cocoon of silk and hair.
7772. Attatha ino.
Noctua ino, Drury, Ill, Exot. Ins. iii. p. 39, pl. 29. f. 8 (1782); Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 529,
Noctua notata, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. 2. p. 39 (1794).
Grammodes mundicolor, Wk. xxxiii, 973 (1865).
Head and thorax creamy white; 8rd joint of palpi, frons and antenne black-brown; tegule except at base, shoulders, a band across patagia and mesothorax and a patch on metathorax black ; fore and mid tibize in front and the tarsi tinged with brown ; abdomen ochreous yellow, the basal crest black, a lateral series of small black spots. Fore wing creamy white; the costal edge blackish towards base; a wedge-shaped subbasal black mark on median nervure; an antemedial black fascia on inner margin; a
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quadrate black patch from costa to lower end of cell with a curved fascia from its inner side to submedian fold above tornus with a small black spot beyond it above vein 1; a triangular black patch from terminal part of costa to above vein 2 before termen, a fine black line before its inner edge except above vein 6; a fine black line on apical half of termen followed by small spots on veins 4, 3, 2, the lowest larger and round; the terminal part of vein 2 streaked with crimson and the termen tinged with scarlet towards tornus. Hind wing pale scarlet ; a wedge-shaped black-brown band from apical part of costa to submedian fold towards which it becomes maculate ; small terminal black spots on veins 4, 3, 2; cilia blackish at apex. Underside of both wings ochreous yellow with the markings obsolescent.
Hab. Puxsas (James, Horne), 3 3,2 2, Kangra,1 Q ; NEPAL (Hardwicke), 1 ¢ ; Stkutm; Bencat, Pusa (Mason),1 3,1 9; Bommay, Kutch, Anjar, 1 ¢ ; Mapras (Watson), 1 ¢ Exp
32-40 millim.
Larva. Indian Museum Notes, v. p. 114, pl. xiii. ff. 6 a, b.
Yellowish white or dark pink above, yellowish white below; lateral lines pale, more or less distinct; each somite with a few colourless bristles ; head dirty white, pinkish, or brown. Food-plant, Pipal. Pupates underground without cocoon.
7773. Attatha ethiopica. Atiatha ethiopica, Hmpsn. P. Z. §. 1910, p. 425, pl. xxxviii. f. 17.
Head orange, the frons with black bands at middle and above ; palpi with some black above ; antenne blackish ; thorax yellow, the tegul at tips, the meso- and metathorax with velvety black bands ; pectus in front and fore legs orange; abdomen orange above, yellow below. Fore wing ochreous yellow tinged with rufous towards tornus ; a triangular velvety black patch in and below base of cell, its outer edge somewhat excised and its lower extremity rather produced ; a black fascia on inner margin from near base to beyond middle, its extremities acute; a triangular velvety black patch from middle of costa, its outer edge produced to a point between veins 4, 3 and its lower extremity produced to a long oblique fascia where it is somewhat dilated and bifureate; a triangular velvety black patch from costa before apex, its lower extremity obliquely produced to a point near termen below vein 3, rather lobed on outer side, a fine oblique brown line before the patch from vein 7 to below vein 3; a fine black terminal line from apex to vein 4, followed by small spots at veins 4, 3,2; a few black scales at tornus; cilia black at tips between veins 4 and 2. Hind wing orange-yellow with narrow black band or series of small spots between apex and vein 3 sometimes followed by some points towards tornus; the underside yellow with more or less complete series of small black spots just before termen.
ATTATHA.—COLBUSA. abil
Hab. Coxco, Katanga, Kambove (Neave), 1 9; Germ. E. Arrica, Usagara Distr. Kilossa (Neave),1 9; Br. C. Arrica, Lr. Shiré Valley, Chikawa (Weave), 1 9; N.E. Ruopesta, E. Luangwa Distr., Mterize R. (Neave),1 ¢,1 2 type; Mozam- BIQUE, Gorongoza. Lap. 44 millin.
7774. Attatha metaleuca, sp.n. (Plate CCXXII. fig. 4.)
$. Head and thorax creamy yellow; palpi at tips, frons, and antenne blackish; tegule black, white at base ; streaks on shoulders, a band across patagia and mesothorax, and a patch on metathorax black ; fore and hind legs in front and the hind tarsi blackish ; abdomen white tinged with ochreous, the basal crest black. Fore wing ochreous yellow; a subbasal wedge-shaped black mark in sub- median interspace; a black fascia on antemedial part of inner margin; an oblique quadrate black patch from costa to lower end of cell with its lower extremities produced to points; an oblique black streak in postmedial part of submedian fold; a wedge-shaped black patch from apical part of costa to below vein 3 near termen, its inner edge indented above vein 6 and incurved with a fine black line before it below vein 6; a brownish line on medial part of termen, a small black spot at vein 3 and larger rounded spot at vein 2; the terminal area tinged with scarlet towards tornus, a subterminal black striga above vein 1. Hind wing creamy-white ; a wedge- shaped fuscous band from apical’ part of costa to below vein 5; cilia fuscous at apex, then tinged with scarlet. Underside of both wings creamy white with the markings shewing faintly.
Hab. N. Nicerta, Zungeru (Simpson), 1 S$ type. Exp. 36 rillim.
Genus COLBUSA. Type Colbusa, Wik. xxxiii. 978 (1SE5) ...2-.....00.-0-2+000 snscoceeceeesseeeeee euclidica,
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to about vertex of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd short or moderate; frons smooth; eyes large, round; antenne of male ciliated; thorax clothed with hair and seales mixed, the metathorax with spreading crest; tibie slightly fringed with hair, the fore and hind tibis: not spined ; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and nut crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the cell about half the length of wing; veins 3,4 from angle; 5 fully developed from well above angle; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only.
7775. Colbusa euclidica. Colbusa euclidica, Wik. xxxiii. 978 (1865). Head and thorax white ; palpi, frons, antennz, tegulz, shoulders,
a band across patagia and mesothorax and a patch on metathorax black-brown ; pectus scarlet ; fore and mid legs blackish brown,
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hind legs ochreous brown ; abdomen ochreous with some blackish at base and some scarlet at sides. Fore wing black-brown ; a white fascia on basal half of costa leaving the costal edge blackish; an oblique white line from the fascia before middle to above inner margin near base ; a narrow oblique white band from the extremity of the costal fascia to a crimson patch at tornus, the band with a hooked black mark on its lower extremity, the crimson patch with two small subterminal and two terminal black spots on it, the upper terminal spot larger; a terminal black line with a narrow white band before it ending at the tornal patch; cilia brownish. Hind wing crimson; a terminal black-brown band, broad at apex, narrowing
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to tornus; a slight black streak on inner margin above tornus. Underside of fore wing with the white band extending to tornus and not extending to costa.
Ab. 1. Hind wing yellow.
Hab. Goup Coast, Cape Coast Castle (Higlett), 1 ¢, Ashanti, 2 3,1 Q type; S. Nigerta, Lagos, Olokemiji (Dudgeon), 5 3, Mama (Dudgeon), 1 2, Onitsha,1 ¢,1 2. Exp. 30-48 millim.
Genus ACANTHODELTA. The Acanthodelta, Hmpsn, A. M. N. H. (8) i. p. 487 (1908) ............ distriga.
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to about vertex of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd porrect ; frons smooth, with tuft of hair above; eyes large, round ; antennez of male laminate; thorax clothed entirely with hair and witbout crests; tibia smoothly scaled, all the tibia spined ; abdomen smoothly scaled and without crests. Fore wing short and broad, the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved, crenulate; vein 3 from well before angle of cell; 5 from above angle; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the apex extending to well beyond tornus of fore wing, the termen crenulate ;
ACANTHODELTA.—GRAMMODES. ils
the cell about half the length of wing; vein 3 from well before angle; 5 fully developed from above angle; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 approximated to the cell to middle.
7776. Acanthodelta distriga. Acanthodelta distriga, Hmpsn. A. M. N, H. (8) i. p. 487 (1908).
d. Head and thorax dull reddish brown; antennz rufous, the shaft white above; legs and abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing grey-brown with a cupreous gloss; a black point at lower angle of cell; a whitish streak in discal fold from the cell to well before termen; a whitish streak in submedian fold from middle to well
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Fig. 3.—Acanthodelta distriga, 3. }-
before termen with a black postmedial point on it; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing glossy grey-brown with a slight waved dark terminal line ; the underside greyer with slight dark irroration, a black discoidal point.
Hab. Carr Conony, Table Mt. (Meade-Waldo), 1 3S type. Exp. 40 millim.
Genus GRAMMODES.
Type. Grammodes, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 275 (1852) ......... ensechereece Gamenine Prodotis, John. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross, xxxix. p. 622 (1910)...... stolida.
Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex of head and moderately scaled, the 8rd moderate, oblique; frons smooth, with tuft of hair above; eyes large, round; antenne of male ciliated; thorax clothed with hair and hair-like scales and without crests ; tibia moderately fringed with hair, the fore tibiz not spined, the hind tibia spined to base ; abdomen smoothly scaled and without crests, Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and slightly crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to
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form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the cell about one-third length of wing; veins 3, 4 from angle; 5 fully developed from above angle; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only.
A. Fore wing with the medial and postmedial bands out- wardly oblique. a. Fore wing with ocellate mark above tornus. a, Fore wing without oblique white striga from costa towards apex.
a®, Fore wing with the postmedial band strongly incurved below vein 3 with a large ocellate mark
beyond itabove Cornus’) yr.cseescsaessosesen ence eee ocellata. +2, Fore wing with the postmedial band much less strongly incurved below vein 3 and with smaller
ocellate mark beyond it above tornus ............ oculicola. b}. Fore wing with oblique white striga from costa LOWANdS)|BPOX fH eeacesdeseeereasnesees oteadbanee pece sees: nae puicherrima,
6. Fore wing without ocellate mark above tornus. a‘, Fore wing with oblique white striga from costa towards apex, the postinedial band ending at vein 4. arenosa. b'. Fore wing without oblique white striga from costa towards apex, the postmedial band extending to above vein 2 near termen, thea bent inwards to INNEL MALPW es. cedasenscas scenes oo eaceemeres aneeeeeeeee Justa. B. Fore wing with the medial and postmedial bands nearly erect, a. Fore wing with the postmedial band not incurved below vein 3. a, Fore wing with the postmedial band straight from costa to above inner margin. a>, Fore wing with the postmedial band angled inwards at inner margin to near the antemedial band. a, Fore wing with the antemedial band almost erect; hind wing with the medial white band GbSPIORCENE .ascr26.0 es ceecuen nent We sseeesocs ee congenita, b8, Fore wing with the antemedial band more oblique; hind wing with the medial white
band! distinct, -<.0=. fcoxsn.cnngenetemesee ats caret geometrica. b*, Fore wing with the postmedial band not angled imwards to iuMer Mare’, 2os--ee. gs aee en dessesee eee cooma. 4', Fore wing with the postmedial band slightly ex- curved from below costa to above inner margin ... quesita, ». Fore wing with the postmedial band incurved below yein 3, a‘, Fore wing with the medial band straight. a+, Hind: wine fuscous Drown «c2.5...<-sase<sseeencteees tee stolida. 62, Hinge wing fulvous yellow®....:......cs...c.c.de0+eve00e euclidioides,
», Fore wing with the medial band excuryed in the cell and incurved below it. a*, Fore wing with the postmedial line oblique below
EHOe*COsta’, S,.-.ccecsat-asotecstocs actos cae boisdeffrei. b?. Fore wing with the postmedial line excurved below the costa ...;..:c0.saccsssessci acheee ater eee palestinensis.
C, Fore wing with the medial band oblique and confluent with the nearly erect postmedial band on inner area... méicrogonia.
GRAMMODES. 15
7777. Grammodes ocellata. (Plate CCXXII. fig. 5.)
Grammodes ocellata, Tepper, Comm. Native Ins. S. Austr. pt. 2, p. 46 (1890), Grammodes excellens, Lucas, P. Linn. Soc, N.S.W. (2) vii. p. 257 (1892).
Head and thorax dark brown tinged with greyish; palpi white except behind; lower part of frons white; antennz with the shaft whitish in front towards base; pectus and legs white, the tibie slightly tinged with brown, the tarsi brown ringed with white ; abdomen grey-white irrorated with brown and suffused with brown on basal half, the anal tuft ochreous white, the ventral surface white. Fore wing black-brown ; an oblique yellowish white band from costa before middle to inner margin beyond middle; an oblique yellowish white band from costa beyond middle to just before termen above vein 2, then strongly incurved and narrow to inner margin, enclosing an ocellate black mark irrorated with blue-white with some yellow marks round it defined by a curved black-brown line above, and on inner side and on outer side by the terminal line; cilia yellowish white with a brown line near tips. Hind wing black-brown; an obliquely curved white band from below middle of costa to just above tornus towards which it narrows; slight white marks before termen towards apex and below middle ; cilia white, brown at apex, middle, and tornus. Underside of fore wing with the basal half white with oblique outer edge, the terminal half black-brown, with a white band excurved to vein 3 then incurved and narrowing to near tornus; hind wing with the basal half white with oblique black antemedial line and curved medial line with slight white marks beyond it, the white marks before termen more distinct.
Hab. QUEENSLAND, Brisbane (Lucas, Turner), 13,49; W. Avstratia, Sherlock R. (Clements), 1d, 29. Exp. 40-52 millin,
7778. Grammodes oculicola. (Plate CCXXII. fig. 6.)
Grammodes oculicola, Wik. xiy. 14465 (1858). Grammodes oculata, Snell. Tijd. vy. Ent, xxiii. p. 103, pl. viii. f. 6 (1880).
Head and thorax dull reddish brown; abdomen pale reddish brown ; palpi, pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen whitish tinged with brown. Fore wing blackish brown; an oblique yel- lowish white band from costa before middle to inner margin beyond middle where there is some red-brown on it; an oblique yellowish white band from costa beyond middle to below vein 3 towards termen, then bent inwards, oblique, narrow, and defined by black to inner margin near the antemedial band; a brownish white line from termen below apex to beyond the angle of the postmedial line, then diffused and enclosing a black ocellate mark above tornus with slight white streaks above and below it on veins 2 and 1; cilia ochreous with a brownish line at middle. Hind wing fuscous brown; an oblique white band from middle of costa to submedian fold, then bent inwards, narrow, and ending at vein 1; a blackish
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terminal line with some ochreous white before it above and below middle ; cilia white, black-brown at apex, middle, and towards tornus. Underside of fore wing brownish white to the oblique white antemedial band, a curved white postmedial band; hind wing with the basal half white, the basal area irrorated with brown, obliquely curved black-brown medial and postmedial lines, the latter with some white beyond it on inner area.
Hab. Creteses; Br. N. Guinea, Port Moresby, 1 ¢, 3 9, New Heprives (Mathew), 192 ; N. Ausrrarta, Baudin I. (J. J. Walker), 28, 3 9, Adelaide R. (J. J. Walker), 1 3, Port Darwin (Buckland, J. J. Walker), 48, 12; QUEENSLAND, Townsville (Dodd), 1 9, Cooktown (de la Garde), 1 3, Brisbane (Lucas, Turner), 235,29; N.S. Wats, Sydney (Diggles), 1 3 type; Frienpity Is., Vavau (Keclipse Exp.), 1 29; Coox’s Is., Aitutaki I. (J. J. Walker), 1 3. Exp. 34-44 millim.
7779. Grammodes pulcherrima. (Plate CCXXII. fig. 7.)
Grammodes pulcherrima, Lucas, P. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. (2) vii. p. 258 (1892). Grammodes clementi, Swinh, A, M. N. H. (7) viii. p. 133 (1901).
Head and thorax grey-brown; palpi, pectus, legs, and abdomen whitish tinged with brown. Fore wing fuscous brown tinged with grey; an oblique white band from costa before middle to inner margin beyond middle; a white point at upper angle of cell and minute spot above lower angle ; an oblique white band from costa beyond middle to below vein 3 towards termen, then incurved, narrow, and ending at vein 1; an oblique white bar from costa towards apex; an incurved whitish line from before termen below apex to beyond the angle of the postmedial band, then diffused and enclosing a round black spot in submedian interspace with slight white streak above it; cilia with whitish line at base and whitish tips. Hind wing fuscous brown tinged with grey; an obliquely curved white band from middle of costa to above tornus towards which it narrows; some whitish before termen above and below middle, where there is a blackish mark; cilia white with a brown patch at middle. Underside of fore wing with the basal half white, an oblique whitish medial shade, a postmedial white band obliquely excurved to vein 3, then incurved, a curved white mark from costa before apex to vein 6; hind wing white, the terminal area suffused with fuscous brown, an obliquely curved blackish antemedial line, curved postmedial line with series of small white spots beyond it, and bar from costa towards apex to vein 6.
Hind tibiz usually with a single spine between the mid and hind spurs.
Hab. QurENnstand, Brisbane (Lucas, Turner), 3 9; N. Aus- Tratta, Alexandria (Stalker), 2 6, 19; W. Avsrratta, Sher- lock R. (Clements), 16,49. Exp. 28-84 millim.
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7780. Grammodes arenosa. (Plate CCXXII. fig. 8.) Grammodes arenosa, Swinh. A. M. N. H. (7) ix. p. 422 (1902).
$. Head and thorax grey-brown; abdomen white suffused with brown; palpi except at tips, pectus, legs, and ventral surfree of abdomen white, the legs tinged with brown. Fore wing grey-brown, the postmedial area white irrorated with brown except towards costa ; an oblique white band from costa before middle, to which it is slightly bent inwards, to middle of inner margin; an oblique white postmedial band from costa to vein 4, narrow at costa and expanding to vein 4; a narrow oblique white subterminal band from below apex to above inner margin hardly differentiated from the white postmedial area; cilia whitish at tips. Hind wing whitish suffused with brown; an oblique brown discoidal bar defined on outer side by a diffused white band; cilia white towards apex, blackish brown at middle and brownish towards tornus; the under- side whitish with oblique sinuous medial and postmedial brownish lines from costa to vein 2, diffused subterminal band excurved at middle, and waved blaekish terminal hne.
Hind tibie with a single spine between the mid and hind spurs.
Hab. W. Avsrrata, Roeburne (Clements), 1 3g type. Eup. 30 millim.
7781. Grammodes justa. (Plate CCXXII. fig. 9.)
Gramimodes justa, Wik. xiv. 1445 (1858). Grammodes ceca, Pag Zoologica, xxi. Hft. 29, p. 108, pl. 1. f. 12 (1900).
Head and thorax reddish brown with a grey gloss; antenna white in front; pectus, legs, and abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing dark brown with a cupreous gloss; a rather narrow oblique white band from costa before middle to inner margin beyond middle ; a nar- rower white band from costa beyond middle to above vein 2 near termen, then bent inwards and linear to inner margin just beyond the antemedial band; a dark terminal line defined on inner side by ochreous from below apex to tornus; cilia white at apex, then grey- brown with darker lines near base and tips. Hind wing brown with a greyish gloss; an obliquely curved white band from below middle of costa to just above tornus; a blackish terminal line slightly defined on inner side by whitish above and below middle ; a black spot in submedian fold before termen ; cilia white, brown at apex and middle and with brown line through them towards tornus. Under- side of fore wing grey-brown with an obliquely curved white postmedial band; hind wing white thickly irrorated with brown, the terminal area suffused with brown, a slight minutely waved brown postmedial line defined on outer side by small white lunules.
Hab. Bismarck Arcu.; N. Austrania, Port Darwin (Lyel/), 1 2; QueENsLAND, 1 ¢, Brisbane (Lucas, Turner), 13,4 2, Moreton Bay (Gibbons, Diggles),1 3,22 type. Exp. 34-36 millim.
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7782. Grammodes congenita. (Plate CCXXII. fig. 10.)
Grammodes congenita, W\k. xiv. 1443 (1857). Grammodes exclusiva, Pag. Reis. in Ost-Afr. ii. p. 121, pl 6. f. 19 (1907).
Head and thorax brown irrorated with white; abdomen whitish suffused with brown. Fore wing grey thickly irrorated with brown; a black subbasal line from costa to median nervure; a black patch from median nervure to inner margin before the rather oblique white antemedial band extending from below subcostal nervure to inner margin and tinged with rufous above and at inner margin, defined by black lines extending to costa where they are bent inwards and wider apart ; medial area black-brown from below costa to inner margin; a rather oblique postmedial rufous band from vein 6 to inner margin, defined on inner side by a yellowish white line bent inwards to inner margin and with a black line from it bent inwards to costa, the band defined on outer side by black forming dentate marks at veins 6 and 4 and inner margin; a black patch from apex diffused on inner side, its outer edge oblique to vein 6, then bent inwards to just above the outer edge of the postmedial band; an obliquely curved whitish shade from termen just below apex to tornus; a fine waved black terminal line angled inwards to slight dentate marks in the interspaces. Hind wing brown, the terminal half suffused with fuscous; an oblique whitish band from middle of costa to inner margin towards tornus ; an oblique whitish shade from vein 4 to termen at submedian fold ; cilia white, brown at middle and towards tornus. Underside of fore wing grey tinged with brown, the terminal area suffused with fuscous, a dark postmedial line defined on outer side by a white band ; hind wing whitish thickly irrorated with brown, the terminal area suffused with brown, a slight dark postmedial line.
Ab. 1. exclusiva. Fore wing with the white antemedial band very narrow.
Hab. Coneo, Katanga, Kambove (Neave),1¢; Br. E. Arrica, Taveta (Rogers), 2 6; Br. C. Arrica, Ruo Valley (Weave), 1 9, Fort Mangoche (Weave), 2 6,192, Zomba (Johnston), 35,22, Blantyre (Neave), 1 9; Masnonatann (Dobbie), 1 3, Salisbury (Marshall),5 3,29; Transvaat, Piet Retief (Crawshay), 16, 1 2, Moddertontein (Cruger), 1 $, Zoutspanberg (Janse), 1 Q, Waterfalonder (oss), 12 , Johannesburg, 1 2 , Pretoria (Distant), 1d; Narat, Estcourt (Hutchinson), 1 ¢,1 9, Durban ( Guein- zius, Marsden), 23,12 type; Mapacascar. Earp. 36-46 millim.
7783. Grammodes geometrica.
Noctua geomelrica, Fabr, Syst. Ent. p. 599 (1775); Godt. Lép. Fr. v. p. 114, pl. 53. f. 4; Mill. Ieones, ii. pl. 75. ff. 4-6; Hinpsn. Moths Ind. ii. . 631; John. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. xxxix. p. 626, pl. xviii. f. 7 a@, xxi. . 25, & xxiii. f. 50; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 245. Phalena ammonia, Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. p. 98, pl. 250. f. D (1779) ; Moore, Lep. Cey]l. iii. p. 179.
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Noctua bifasciata, Petag. Spec. Ins. p. 38, f. 26 (1787). Noctua linearis, Hiibn. Beitr. ii. p. 26, pl. iv. f. T (1791). Noctua chalciptera, Borkh. Schmett. Eur, iv. p. 771 (1792). Noctua parallelaris, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 824 (1802).
Head and thorax brown irrorated with grey; pectus, legs, and abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing pale reddish brown irorated with grey ; a black patch before the oblique yellowish white medial band, its inner edge extending obliquely from middle of cell to submedian fold, then erect to inner margin, the band extending to discal fold and with a slight black line from it to costa to which it is slightly bent inwards; medial area black from just above discal fold to inner margin ; a rather oblique postmedial band from vein 6 to inner margin, yellowish white on inner side, rufous on outer, its inner edge bent inwards to inner margin near the medial
Fig. 4.—Gramimodes geometrica, 3. }-
band and with a slight blackish line from it to costa to which it is bent inwards, the outer edge of the band defined by black, excurved at middle and slightly at vein 2 and inner margin; an oblique black mark from apex to above vein 6, where it is bent inwards to just above the outer edge of the postmedial band ; a faint curved pale shade from apex to tornus; a slight crenulate dark terminal line ; cilia with a faint dark line at middle. Hind wing brown, the terminal half tinged with fuscous; an oblique whitish band from middle of costa to above tornus; an oblique whitish shade from vein 3 to termen at submedian fold; cilia white, brown at middle and tornus. Underside of fore wing greyish brown with white postmedial band from below costa to inner margin ; hind wing pale brown, a slight dark discoidal spot, faint minutely waved medial and postmedial lines, and a subterminal shade except on
inner area. c2
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Ab. 1. Fore wing with the medial white band very narrow and not extending above median nervure.
Ab. 2. Fore wing with the medial band bright yellow.
Hab. 8. France, Frey & Leech Colls.; Sparx, Leech Coll. ; Trany ; Avusrrita, Carniola; Danmatra; GREECE, Merlin Coll. ; Gop Coast, Ashanti, 1 ¢, Kumasi (Whiteside), 19; 8. NigErta, Old Calabar (Cockburn), 1 6, 2 2, Ilesha (Humfrey), 1 @ ; Conco, Opobo (Marsden), 1g; Br. E. Arrica, Eb Urru (Betton), 1d, Nairobi (Crawshay), 1 ¢; UGanpa, Wadelai (Hmin Pasha), 1 9; Br. C. Arrica, Fort Maguire (Neave), 1 2, Fort Magoche (Neave), 1 9, Blantyre (eave), 1 d, Lr. Shiré Valley (Weave), 29; N.E. Ruopzsia, Lr. Loangwa R. (Neave), 1 §; Masnona- LAND, Salisbury (Marshall), 1 $, 19; Becuuanatann, Lake N’Gami (Lugara), 1 g;. Transvaat, Pretoria (Distant), 1 6 ; Narat, Durban ee Meade-Waldo, Leigh), 33,22; Carr Cotony, Plettenburg Bay (Trimen), 1 ¢; Fareunar Is. (B. Fletcher), 1 3; ARMENTA ; Asta Minor, Bithynia; Persia; Formosa, Takow (Hobson), Tg CHina, Washan (Pratt), 1 g, Omei-shan (Pratt), 1 ¢, Chung-king (Pratt), 1 dg, Chia- kou-ho (Pratt), 1 9, Ta-chien-lu (Pratt), T 3; Punsas (Horne), 19, Almorah (Boys), 19, Allahabad, 19, Manpuri, 19; SIKHIM (Moller), 1 9; Assam, Silhet (Stainsfor th), 1 aie 1 9; Beneat, Caleutta, 1 ¢; Bompay (Leth), 2 9, Thanna Distr., Wangni (Sweinhoe), 1 9, Mhow cee hoe), 1 9, Kanara (Ward), 1 <4; Manpras, Nilgiris (Hampson), 2 2; Ceyton, Colombo (Vetner), lee Burma, Moulmein (Clerk), 1 9; Anpamans, 1 9; Srne@a- PORE (Ridley), ici Os. Puno Lav T (Doherty), 1 do; Jae ( Horsfield), 1 3,2 9; QuEENSLAND, Geraldton (Turner), 1d. Exp. 38-52 millim.
Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 281; Hffm. Raup. p. 146, pl. 36. f, 24.
Pale bluish grey with slender yellowish lines ; two dorsal ochreous yellow stripes and a lateral pale ; vellow stripe defined by fuscous. Food- plants: Polygonum persicaria and Cistus salv ifolia.
Cocoon strong and waterproof.
7784. Grammodes cooma. (Plate CCXXIL. fig. 13.) Grammodes cooma, Swinh. Cat. Het. Mus. Oxon. ii. p. 158 (1900).
Head, thorax, and abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing grey - brown; a black patch with oblique inner edge before the nearly erect white medial band which extends from below subcostal nervure to inner margin; medial area black from below costa to inner margin; a postmedial erect band from vein 7 to inner margin, its inner part white and narrow, its outer part rufous, defined on outer side by black, forming a dentate mark at vein 4 and smaller mark at vein 8; an oblique black shade from apex to vein 7, then angled outwards at vein 6 and incurved to join the black on outer edge of the postmedial band ; a fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing fuscous brown; an oblique white band from costa before
GRAMMODES. WAL
middle to submedian fold; a waved black terminal line with white lunules before it from apex to vein 5 and an oblique bar from vein 2 to submedian fold; cilia brown, white towards apex and at submedian fold. Underside of fore wing grey-brown, a white post- medial band from below costa to inner margin, its inner edge slightly incurved at discal fold; hind wing pale brown with slight dark medial and postmedial lines with black spots on them at discal fold and white marks beyond them at discal and submedian folds, a broad blackish subterminal shade.
Ab. 1. Fore wing with the medial band bright yellow.
Hab. Crrepes, Patinoean (Cockayne), 1 9 ; QuEENSLAND, Duaringa, 1 d co-type, Brisbane (Turner), 1d. Exp 46-56 millim.
7785. Grammodges quesita. (Plate CCXXII. fig. 14.) Gramimodes quesita, Swinh. A. M. N. H. (7) viii. p. 182 (1901).
Head and thorax brown mixed with grey ; abdomen pale grey- brown ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen whitish tinged with brown. Fore wing grey thickly irrorated with brown; a large triangular black-brown patch from middle of cell to inner margin before an erect white medial band from below subcostal nervure to inner margin; the outer part of medial area black-brown except towards costa ; 3a slight curved blackish postmedial line from costa to inner margin defined on outer side by a yellowish white line except towards costa, followed by a rufous band with dentate black marks on its outer edge at veins 4, 3, a point at vein 2, and triangular mark at inner margin; a dark brown apical patch with curved black mark on the lower part of its outer edge to the outer edge of the postmedial band; the terminal area with some blue- white suffusion except towards apex; some dark brown at middle of termen and a fine terminal black line. Hind wing brown, the terminal area suffused with fuscous; an oblique white band from middle of costa to above inner margin towards tornus ; some whitish suffusion on terminal area above and below middle; cilia white at tips except at middle and tornus. Underside of fore wing grey suffused and irrorated with brown, a whitish postmedial band from below costa to inner margin; hind wing whitish wrorated with brown, the terminal area suffused with brown, a dark discoidal point and faint postmedial line defined on outer side by whitish except towards costa.
Hind tibiz with a single spine between the mid and hind spurs.
Hab. N. AtsTRatta, “Port Darwin (Buckland), 1 2; QUEENS- LAND, Duaringa, 1 d, 1 92 type. Exp. 26-28 millim.
7786. Grammodes stolida.
Noctua stolida, Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 599 (1775) ; Godt. Lép. Fr. v. p. 117, pl. 53. f.5; Hmpsu. Moths Ind. ii. p. 582; John. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. XXXiX. p. 622, pl. xviii. f. 5e, & xxi. f. 26; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 244.
Noclua cingularis, Wibn. Bur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 352, 512 (1808).
to bo
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Euclidia stupida, Herr.-Schaff. Schmett. Eur, ii. p. 423, Noct. ff. 297-8 (1845).
Grammodes curvilinea, Wik. Proc. Nat. Hist. Svc. Glasgow, i. p. 361 (1869).
Head, thorax, and abdomen reddish brown tinged with grey ; palpi white at base; pectus and legs whitish tinged with brown ; ventral surface of abdomen white. Fore wing grey-brown ; a large triangular black-brown patch from subcostal nervure to inner margin before the erect yellowish white medial band also extending from sub- costal nervure to inner margin ; the outer part of medial area black- brown except towards costa; a narrow yellowish white postmedial band, arising below costa, excurved to below vein 3, where it is angled inwards, then again exearved: followed by a eatin band from vein 6 to inner margin with a minute black spot on its outer edge below vein 6, dente mark at vein 4, points at veins 3 and 2, and dentate mark at inner margin ; a blackish mark from costa towards apex to vein 6, diffused on inner side and defined on outer side by whitish; some blackish at apex and brown at middle of termen ; cilia brown witha fine whitish line at base and white patch at apex. Hind wing fuscous brown; an oblique white band from middle of costa to just above tornus where it narrows to a point; a subterminal white spot between veins 3 and 2; cilia white, brown at middle and tornus. Underside of fore wing with the basal half whitish irrorated with grey at costa, the terminal half fuscous, a white discoidal bar, white postmedial band slightly exeurved to vein 2, then outwardly oblique, a subterminal series of white spots except at middle, slight towards costa and confluent towards tornus ; hind wing white, the terminal area fuscous, narrowing to Ronee an oblique dark antemedial line and sinuous medial line converging towards inner margin near tornus, an incurved maculate subterminal white hand on costal area and spot below vein 3.
Ab. 1. Fore wing with the white medial band reduced to a narrow line from below the cell to inner margin.
Ab. 2. stupida. Fore wing with the white medial band reduced to a small spot on inner margin; hind wing without the white subterminal spot between veins 3 and 2.
Hab. 8. France; Spatn; Irary, Zeller Coll. ; Angrrta, Batna (Eaton), 19; Avusrria, Carniola; Datmatia, Leech Coll. ; GREECE, Merlin Coll.; ArmentIA; Asta Minor, Bithynia, Taurus; Syria, 1¢,19, Leech Coll., Lebanon (Pratt), 1¢,19; Sterra LEONE (Foxcroft), 12; N. Nieerta, Zungeru (Macfie), 13,19; Conco (Marsden), 1d type curvilinea; Supan, White Nile, Gabt el Megahid (Dunn), 1 9; ABYSSINIA, Atbara (Gerrard), 1, Essen Gola (Drake-Brockman), 2 9; Somanianp, Bulhar (Drake- Brockman), 12; Br. E. Arrica, Kilima’njaro (Han- nington), 13,19, Nakuta (Bodeker), 2 2, Machuna (Betton), 13, Eb Urru (Betton), 1 9, Munisu (Betton), 1 9, Nairobi (Crawshay), 13, Machakos (Crawshay), 833,19; Ueanpa, Port Ugowe (Johnston), 19, Ketoma (Doggett), 3 3,49; Gero. E. Arrica, Moschi, 1 9; Br. C. Arrica, Fort Maguire (Neave),.
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1 3, Chiromo (de Jersey), 1 $; Becuuanatanp, Lake N’Gami (Lugard), 29, Ovampo Lake (KHriesson), 1 2; TRANSVAAL, Lin- popo, 1 do, Lydenburg, 1 2, Johannesburg (Cregoe), 1 9, Pretoria (Distant), 19; Navan, Maritzburg (Burnup), 1 2, Victoria Distr. (Gooch), 1 2; Basurotanp, Maseru (Crawshay), 2 9; Orance R. Conony, Bloemfontein (Eckersley), 29; CAPE Cotony (Sir A. Smith, Trimen), 2 2, Deelfontein (Sloggett), 16; AvEN (Yerbury), 1 3; Persta; W. Turkestan, Turco- mania, Ferghana; PunsaB (Horne), 1 9, Kulu (Hocking), 12, Campbellpur (Yerbury), 26,19, Almorah (Boys), 1d, Chittar Pahar (Yerbury), 1 2, Wuzeerabad (Hearsey), 3 5,129, Allah- -abad, 1d; Sryp, 1 9, Karachi (Swinhoe), 2 5,19; Bomsay, 19, Kutch, 1 9, Kanara (Ward), 1 3; Mapras, 1 ¢, Coimba- tore (Walhouse), 1 2; Burma, Theyetmyo (Watson), 1d. Exp. 30-44 millim.
Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 281; Hoffm. Raup. p. 146.
Yellowish grey with slender blackish lines. Food-plants: Pali- urus aculeatus, Rubus fruticosus, Coriaria myrtifolia, and Quercus. 6-7.
7787. Grammodes euclidioides.
Grammodes euclidioides, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 276 (1852); Herr.-Scbaff. Aussereur. Schmett. ff. 137-8. Euclidia dubitans, W\k. xiv. 1463 (1858).
Head and thorax grey-brown ; frons white at sides; abdomen pale grey-brown; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen whitish tinged with brown. Fore wing grey irrorated with fuscous; a pale rufous medial erect band from subcostal nervure to inner margin, defined on inner side by a white line with black suffusion before it, the outer edge of the band slightly incurved ; the outer part of medial area_black-brown, narrowing to costa and inner margin ; a narrow white postmedial line excurved to vein 3, then slightly incurved, and again somewhat excurved below vein 2, followed by a rufous band from vein 6 to inner margin, with small dentate black marks on its outer edge below vein 6 and at vein 4 and inner margin ; some white points on postmedial part of costa ; a blackish patch from apex, diffused on inner side, its outer edge oblique to vein 6 where it is bent inwards to the postmedial band ; some brown suffusion on middle of termen and a fine waved black terminal line ; cilia white at apex. Hind wing fulvous yellow, the basal area tinged with brown; a dark discoidal striga with slight line from it to submedian fold; an oblique dark line from below middle of costa to inner margin towards tornus ; the terminal area blackish, narrowing to tornus, and witha narrow fulvous yellow sub- terminal band from vein 6 to tornus; cil’a white, blackish at middle and tornus and with slight blackish spots towards apex. Underside of fore wing yellow with blackish discoidal striga, postmedial line slightly incurved below discal fold, the apical area blackish, with blackish subterminal band with waved edges and blackish terminal
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band from it to submedian fold; hind wing with slight discoidal striga, faint sinuous postmedial line, the yellow subterminal band with waved edges.
Hab, Transvaat (Ross), 1 ¢, Barberton (Rendall), 1 3, Modderfontein (Cruger), 1 3, Rietfontein (Janse), 1 2, Pretoria (Janse, Distant), 33; ORANGE R. Cotony, Bloemfontein (Wilson, Eckersley), 3 3, Vredefort Rd. (Hamilton), 1 6; Narat, Est- court (Hutchinson), 1d, Durban, 13 type; Basurorann, Masite (Crawshay), 1 3, Maseru ( Crawshay), 1 3, 2 9; Care Cotony, Albany, 1 ¢. xp. 30-36 millim.
7788. Grammodes boisdeffrei.
Ophiusa boisdeffrei, Oberth. Et. Ent. i. p. 54, pl. 4. f. 6 (1876); Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 244.
Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous white ; antennz brownish ; palpi white, brownish at tips; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen white, the legs slightly irrorated with brown. Fore wing pale ochreous irrorated and in parts suffused with red-brown ; ante- medial line black, slightly sinuous, from subcostal nervure to inner margin, a conical red-brown patch before it; a medial whitish band from subcostal nervure to inner margin, excurved in cell and ineurved in submedian interspace ; the outer part of medial area red-brown, narrowing to a point at inner margin, defined on outer side by the black postmedial line, which is oblique from costa, towards which it is obsolescent, to vein 6, incurved below vein 3, and bent inwards to inner margin ; subterminal line whitish defined on inner side by red-brown, and by a slight black streak above vein 6, then by some blackish marks, oblique to vein 6, then incurved and slightly sinuous and bent outwards to near tornus; a small black spot on termen just below apex and some red-brown suffusion on middle of termen; cilia white with a brown line at middle. Hind wing ochreous white tinged with red-brown; an oblique dark medial line with some brown suffusion before it,-followed by a white band; the terminal area suffused with black-brown, narrowing to tornus and leaving pale patches just before termen at apex and below middle ; a blacker spot at middle of termen; a dark terminal line ; cilia white with a dark line at middle from vein 4 to tornus. Underside white tinged in parts with ochreous ; fore wing with a dark discoidal striga, sinuous postmedial line from vein 7 to sub- median fold and brownish subterminal and terminal shades; hind wing with dark discoidal striga, slight sinuous line from lower angle of cell to submedian fold, curved slightly waved postmedial line from below costa to submedian fold, and sinuous subterminal shade.
Hab. Aucerta, Batna (Eaton), 1 ¢, Hamman-es-Salahin (Walsingham), 23,392; ? Panestine. Lap. 34-48 millim.
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7789. Grammedes palestinensis. (Plate CCXXII. fig. 15.)
Leucanitis palestinensis, Staud. Iris, x. p. 299, pl. 9. f. 19 (1897); id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 244.
2. Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous white; antennz ringed with black; palpi white wrorated with brown; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen white, the legs in romed with brown. Fore wing with the basal area and costal area to the subterminal line ochreous white tinged and irrorated with red-brown; ante- medial line black, execurved below costa and incurved in submedian interspace, a conical dark brown patch before it from subcostal nervure to inner margin; medial band ochreous white tinged with rufous, excurved in cell and incurved below it; the outer half of medial area reddish brown except towards costa, narrowing to a point at inner margin, defined by the black postmedi: al line, which is excurved below “costa and ineurved below vein 3 and to inner margin, its outer edge defined by a creamy white line; the narrow postmedial area rufous except towards costa; a patch of fuscous suffusion on costal area with some white po‘nts on costa before the slight whitish subterminal line, defined on inner side by black marks, oblique to vein 6, then incurved and slightly angled out-
rards at veins 4 and 38; the terminal area eeprabed with erey- brown; a fine blackish terminal line; cilia white at base, ae a dark line at middle and brownish tips. Hind wing with the basal half white slightly tinged with ochreous brown ; a narrow oblique brown medial ‘band; the terminal area suffused aed black-brown, narrowing to jocnnc and leaving pale marks just before termen at apex and. below middle; cilia white, brown at tips at middle. iterate white; fore wing with dak discoidal striga, sinuous postmedial line from below costa to submedian fold and subterminal and terminal brown shades; hind wing with slight discoidal spot, faint line from lower angle of cell to submedian fold, minutely waved postmedial line from below costa to submedian fold, sub- terminal black shade with dentate outer edge, and black terminal line with diffused patch before it at middle.
Hab. PatEestinE, 1 9. Lap. 34 millim.
7790. Grammodes microgonia. Chalciope microgonia, Umpsn. P.Z. 8. 1910, p. 424, pl. xxxvii. f, 24.
Head, thorax, and abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing grey-brown irrorated with fuscous; a triangular velvety black patch in sub- median interspace from near base to middle, its outer edge obliquely excised and slightly defined by white ; a blackish point in end of cell; a triangular velvety black patch on postmedial area defined on inner and outer sides by whitish, its angles on discocellulars and vein 6 and its apex below vein 2, followed by a rufous band from
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vein 6 to above inner margin, met at vein 6 by an oblique diffused black fascia from apex, its outer edge then defined by small dentate black marks, the mark above inner margin diffused to tornus; a tine blackish terminal line. Hind wing grey-brown with a broad diffused fuscous subterminal shade, a fine black terminal line; the underside grey-brown tinged with fuscous.
Hab. N.E. Ruovesta, E. Luangwa Distr., Petauke (Weave), 1 2 type, Selukwe (Short), 1d. xp. 44 millim.
Genus CHALCIOPE.
Type. Ondlciope Hubn = VietZ; P1208 (Loh) asst seeccsces teehee cee tee cephise. Trigonodes, Guen. Noct. iti. p. 281 (1852) ........--0-c.-nc.es-ceseee cephise.
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd moderate and fringed with scales in front; frons smooth, with tuft of hair above; eyes large, round; antenne of male typically ciliated ; thorax clothed with hair and scales mixed and without crests ; fore tibia of male fringed with long hair on outer side, the mid and hind tibiz with long hair on inner side, the fore tibia not spined, the mid and hind tibize spined ; abdomen smoothly scaled and without crests. Fore wing with the apex somewhat produced and acute, the termen oblique and slightly crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell; male with the cell and area just below it on underside clothed with rough hair. Hind wing
with the cell about one-third length of wing; veins 3and 4 from angle of cell ;
d fully developed from just above angle; 6,7 from upper angle; 8 anasto- mosing with the cell near base only; male with the basal area on underside clothed with rough hair.
Sect. I. Antennz of male dilated into a knot fringed with hair above just before middle, then bipectinate to near apex.
7791. Chalciope disjuncta.
Chalciope disjuncta, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 171 (1882); Hmpsn. Moths Ind. li. p. 528.
Head and thorax red-brown, the vertex of head with some blackish ; tegule brownish white at base with black medial line ; pectus, legs, and abdomen grey-brown with a reddish tinge. Fore wing grey-brown slightly irrorated with blackish, the veins tinged with reddish ; an elongate triangular black patch defined by whitish lines in submedian interspace from near base to beyond middle; a black point in middle of cell; a triangular black postmedial patch defined by whitish lines, its angles at middle of discocellulars, at vein 7 towards apex, and below vein 2 towards tornus, a rufous band beyond it from apex to submedian fold followed by a faint double slightly waved dark line with some black points on the outer line on inner area; a terminal series of blackish points; cilia reddish brown with a darker line near base. Hind wing grey-
CHALCIOPE. Zi
brown with a reddish tinge, a fuscous subterminal shade and fine terminal line; the underside with diffused curved postmedial line and subterminal shade.
Fig. 5.— Chaleiope disjuncta, 3. }.
Hab. Bompay, 1 2 type; Manpras, Nilgiris (Hampson), 1 6; TRAVANCORE, Pirmad (Imray), 1 2. Hap. 40-48 millim.
Secr. II. Antenne of male normal.
A. Fore wing without incurved subterminal black-brown band extending to apex. a, Fore wing with the antemedial triangular black-brown patch extending above the base of vein 2 ...............44. hyppasia. b. Fore wing with the antemedial triangular black-brown patch not extending above the base of vein 2. a’, Fore wing with the antemedial black-brown patch very
narrow and not extending to vein | ...............4.60.. pusilla,
6’. Fore wing with the antemedial black-brown patch broader and extending to vein 1...................eeeee eee cephise.
B. Fore wing with incurved subterminal black-brown band SRLIGTO NIN 190) E)DEES goS yea anqadne en boonucaohsacasouDasondacdascsdesde lucasi.
7792. Chalciope hyppasia.
Noctua hyppasia, Cram. Pap. Exot. ili. p. 99, pl. 250. f. E (1779); Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, p. 186; Indian Museum Notes, v. p. 161, pl. 13. f. 5; Hinpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 527.
Phalena deliana, Stoll. Cram. Pap. Exot. v. p. 160, pl. 56. f. 4 (1790).
Ophiusa anfractuosa, Boisd. Faun, Ent, Madag., Lep. p. 104, pl. 15. f. 6 (18383).
Trigonodes acutata, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 283, pl. 22. f. 6 (1852).
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Trigonodes inacuta, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 284 (1852). Trigonodes exportata, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 284 (1852). Trigonodes compar, W\k. xiv. 1451 (1858).
3. Head grey-brown ; thorax ochreous grey with a brown streak on dorsum of tegule and patagia; pectus, legs, and abdomen ochreous whitish. Fore wing grey-white tinged with brown ; an antemedial blackish brown patch ‘defined by whitish lines in sub- median interspace from near base ee beyond middle, its apex extend- ing to the cell above base of vein 2, separated, except by a streak above median nervure, by an oblique whitish band from a triangular blackish brown postmedial patch defined by whitish lines except above and with its angles at lower angle of cell, at vein 6 towards apex and below vein 2 towards tornus; a reddish brown shade beyond the postmedial patch followed by an incurved whitish line from apex to near tornus, with some blackish brown suffusion before it above and below maddie and blackish points on its outer edge at veins 4, 8, 2; a whitish shade before the dark terminal line which extends from apex to submedian fold; cilia whitish with a brown line near base. Hind wing Mieioe whitish, the veins tinged with brown; a faint curved brown postmedial line from below costa to vein 2; a brown subterminal shade, broad at apex and ending on termen at vein 1; a dark terminal line from apex to submedian fold; cilia whitish with a brown line near base. Under- side of both wings ochreous whitish tinged with rufous; fore wing with an incurved brown subterminal shade; hind wing with a brown subterminal shade from costa to submedian fold.
Q. Browner, especially the hind wing.
Ab. 1. Fore wing much _ redder brown, the white markings reduced.— Bougainville.
Ab. 2. Fore wing with the oblique medial band very narrow and not nearly extending to the pale costal area.
Ab. 3. inacuta. Fore w ing with the postmedial triangular patch shorter, rounded below and w vith the white on ie eee stronger.
Hab. Sierra LEONE (Morgan, Smith),2 3, 2 Q; ; GOLD Coast, Appan, 1 ¢; 8. NigErta, Lagos (Boag), 1 = , Old Calabar (Cock- burn, Crompton), 5 3, Sapele (Sampson), 1 3; N. Nt@erta, Bida (Macfie), 1 2, Zangeru (Macfie), 1 2; Cameroons, 1 5; Conao, Katanga, Kambove (Neave), 1 ¢6; AnGora, San Salvador, Lid 3 Supan, Port Sudan (Mrs. Waterfield), 2 2, White Nile, Gabt el Megahid (Dunn), 1 2; AByssrnta, Atbara (Gerrard), 1 9, Zegi Tsana (Degen), 1 2; Br. * ee Mombasa (de la Garde), 13, Taveta (Rogers), Sanduk (Betton), 1 Q, Nairobi (Crawshay), 12, Eb e ane (Betton), 19; Ucanpa, Entebbe (Johnston), 1 6, Wadelai (min Pasha), 1 9, Ruwen- zori (Wollaston), 1 Q; Br. C. Arrica, M’langi Boma (Neave), 1 2, Zomba (Johnston), 1 acy Deep Bay (Crawshay), 1 9; MozamBiQuk (Ansorge, Muir), 1 6,1 2, Delagoa Bay (Junod), 1 ¢; Transvaat, Bultfontein (Janse), 1 9; Navan, Durban (Gueinzius, Burrows), 1 ¢,2 9; Carve Cotony (Sir A. Sinith),
CHALCIOPE. 29
1 ¢, Grahamstown, 1 9, Deelfontein (Sloggett), 1 29; Manpa- G@ascar, Betsileo (Cowan), 1 2; Mavrirrus, 1 9; Ropricurz (Gulliver), 1 ¢, 1 9; Comoro Is., Mayotta (Meade-Waldo), 1 ¢; Grortosa (Meade-Waldo), 1 $; Srycuevues, Felicité (Meade-Waldo), 2 3, Le Cerf (Meade-Waldo), 1 8,2 2, Mahé (Meade-Waldo), 2 $,1 2; ADEN (J. J. Walker, Yerbury), 3 3, 5 2; Loocnoo Is. (Pryer), 1 5d, 1 2; Formosa (Seebohm), 1g, Takow (Hobson), 1 5, 2 9; Centr. Carna, Foo-chau (Lay), 13,1 2 type compar, Ichang (Mrs. Pratt), 1 9; Ship- y-shan, 1 9, Fokien, Sam-sah (de la Garde), 1 9; W. Cuina, Chia-ting-fu (Pratt), 2 2; Puxsaz, Kulu, Sultanpur (G. Young), 1 6, Kangra (Hocking), 3 9, Masuri,1 ¢, Allahabad, 1 ¢, Manpuri, 1 ¢ , Cawnpore (Betton), 13; Assam, Shillong (Parish), 1 9; Beneat, Calcutta, 2 ¢; Barucuistan, Ormara (Cumming), 1 ¢; Suyn, Karadchi (Swinhoe), 1 5; BomBay, 1 5,1 9, Poona (Swinhoe), 1 3, Ratnagiri (Jayaker), 1 9; Manras, Nilgiris (Hampson), 1 Q, Coimbatore (Walhouse),1 3g; Ceyton, Colombo (Nietner), 1 6, 1 9; Burma, Moulmein (Clerk), 1 3, 1 2; AnpDAMAns (fogers),,2 6, 19; Nicopars (Hogers), 1 9, Camorta, 19, Nancowry, 1-5, 1 9; Sumarra, Pulo-Wek Is. (Meade-Waldo), 1 2; Putitrrrnes, Tacao (MacGregor), 1 3, Taytai (Betton), 1 9; Java (Horsfield), 1 g, Tanjong Priok (J. J. Walker), 1 6, 1 2; New-Guinea (Mathew), 1 ¢; Soromons, Bougainville (Meek), 1 2, Lord Howe I., 13; N. Avs- praia, Adéle I. (J. J. Walker), 1 3, Bathurst I. (J. J. Walker), 1 ¢, Baudin I. (J. J. Walker), 1 2, Port Darwin (J. J. Walker, Lyell), 1 3, 1 9; QuEENstanD, Brisbane (Turner),1 3,1 9 ; N. S. Wares (Lambert, de la Garde), 3 3. Exp. 34-50 millim. .
7793. Chaleiope pusilla. (Plate CCXXII. fig. 16.) Grammodes pusilla, Holl. Psyche, vii. p. 86, pl. ii. f. 26 (1894).
3d. Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous white. Fore wing ochreous white faintly tinged with brown ; a narrow elongate tri- angular black-brown patch in submedian interspace from near base to well beyond middle, not extending to vein 1 and with its apex at origin of vein 2; a triangular postmedial black-brown patch, its angles at middle of discocellulars, on vein 7 towards apex and below vein 8 towards tornus, its outer edge defined by a slightly waved white line; a dark subterminal line from apex to submedian fold ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing creamy white; a slight dark terminal line from apex to vein 2.
@. Hind wing suffused with brown.
Hab. N. Nicerta, Minna (Macfie), 1 9; Gapnoon, Ogové R., 1 g cotype. Exp. g 26, 2 30 millim.
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7794. Chalciope cephise.
Noctua cephise, Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. p. 59, pl. 227. f. C (1779); Hmpsn, Moths Ind. ii. p. 528. Trigonodes maxima, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 282 (1852).
3. Head, thorax, and abdomen greyish ochreous tinged with brown ; palpi and frons dark reddish brown; antenne with the shaft whitish above; pectus and fore and mid femora dark brown, the fore tibize and tarsi white. Fore wing greyish ochreous tinged with brown and slightly irrorated with black; a triangular black- brown patch defined by white lines in submedian interspace from near base to well beyond middle, its apex at origin of vein 2, separated by an oblique white band from a triangular black-brown
Fig. 6.—Chalciope cephise, 3. }.
postmedial patch defined by white lines, its angles at middle of discocellulars, on vein 7 towards apex, and on vein 1 near tornus ; a dark shade from apical part of costa and a series of black points on outer edge of the white line defining the outer edge of the post- medial patch; the termen and cilia dark brown except towards tornus. Hind wing ochreous suffused with brown; a dark medial shade from costa to submedian fold, diffused in the cell to near base, separated by a pale ochreous band from a fuscous black sub- terminal shade, extending to termen on apical area, then narrower and ending at submedian fold where it is produced to a point near termen. Underside of fore wing suffused with red-brown except on inner area, the cell and area below and beyond it suffused with black partly interrupted by an obliquely curved reddish band from
a
CHALCIOPE.—CUNEISIGNA. 31
lower angle of cell to submedian fold ; hind wing ochreous whitish, the costal area broadly suffused with red-brown.
Q. Fore wing with the oblique medial band replaced by a large triangular ochreous white patch with its base towards costa, a blackish streak above the middle of its base, the triangular post- medial black patch replaced by a band before the subterminal line pointed at extremities and its inner edge curved.
Ab. 1. 2. Fore wing with the eround- -colour ochreous white ; hind wing bright yellow without any brown on basal half, the sub- terminal band much reduced.
Hab. Beneat (James), 2 9, Calcutta (Hearsey), 1 ¢ ; Burma, Moulmein (Clerk), 1 3,2 2; Borneo, 2 9; Durcn N. GutnEa, Mimika Bay (Wollaston), 2 6; KiéIs.,1 6; Fut (Mathew),1 6,19; Samoa, Tutuila I. (Wicholl),1 $, 1 9. Exp. 52-62 millim.
7795. Chalciope lucasi. (Plate CCX XII. fig. 17.)
Trigonodes lucasit, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 282 (1852). Trigonodes problematica, W\k. xiv. 1448 (1858).
Head and thorax greyish ochreous tinged with red-brown espe- cially the vertex of ead and tegule, the ee tipped with white, the patagia edged with blackish; fore and mid legs ,tinged with fuscous ; abdomen greyish ochreous. Fore w ing oreyish ochreous tinged with brown, the costal edge fuscous ; a ‘blackish streak in upper part of cell; a triangular black antemedial patch, its base above inner margin and Pe apex on median nervure beyond origin of vein 2, separated by an oblique pale medial band from an ineurved black-brown postmedial band with pointed extremities below costa and above inner margin, followed by an incurved reddish brown band with two fine black lines on it; an obliquely incurved black-brown subterminal band from just below apex to just before tornus, edged by black and with black spot below apex, followed by a net strong white line ; the termen reddish brown with a rather strong black terminal line ; cilia reddish brown. Hind wing greyish patiaced with brown ; Ane terminal area fuscous except towards tornus ; a black eeerinal line defined on inner side by grey except towards apex; cilia greyish. Underside of both wings greyish ochreous, the rough hair at base tinged with rufous; fore wing with a feeous subterminal shade.
Hab. Jamatca, 1 5, 1 9; Hartt (Hearne, Tweedie), 2 ¢, 1 Q type problematica. Exp. 44-48 millim.
Genus CUNEISIGNA, nov.
Type, C. obstans.
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to about vertex of bead and broadly scaled, the 8rd rather long; frons amooth, with tuft of hair above; eyes large, round ; antennze of male with bristles and
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cilia; thorax clothed with scales and hair mixed, and without crests; fore tibix fringed with long hair, the mid and hind tibia moderately fringed with hair, the mid tibizw of male dilated with a groove containing a fringe of large scales, the fore tibia not spined, the hind tibiwe spined between the mid and terminal spurs only; abdomen smoothly scaled and without crests. Fore wing with the apex somewhat produced and acute, the termen evenly curved and crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the cell about one-third length of wing; veins 3, 4 from ang!e; 5 fully developed from just above angle; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anasto- mosing with the cell near base only.
A. Fore wing with the pale postmedial band produced toa rounded knob on outer side at middle. a. Fore wing with the antemedial black patch wedge-
SHADE 72. hina. saues cow innne toe aecean eden: un eee at eee ee ohstans. b. Fore wing with the antemedial black patch narrow and attenuate ab extremities) 2 .s2.-.0.7-sesseerereseasen eee e eee cumainila, B. Fore wing with the pale postinedial band produced to a strong fork on outer side at middle ............ cesece2s0ere . rivulata,
7796. Cuneisigna obstans.
Trigonodes obstans, Wik. xiv. 1449 (1858). Trigonodes hemidelia, Mab. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1890, p. 46.
Head and thorax greyish ochreous tinged with brown, the tegulz with three brown lines, a brown line across middle of patagia and thorax; abdomen greyish ochreous with slight dark irroration.
Fig. 7.-- Cuneisigna obstans, 3. }.-
Fore wing greyish ochreous, the costal and terminal areas tinged with brown, the basal area with some black irroration ; an oblique wedge-shaped black patch defined by white lines except above, from inner margin near base to median nervure at lower angle of cell, its
EE EEE — ee ee ee ee ee
CUNEISIGNA. 33
lower extremity just above vein 1, a black streak above its apex in and beyond lower end of cell, almost bisected by an oblique striga of the ground-colour ; five fine oblique brownish postmedial lines arising below costa, slightly sinuous and the three outer lines excurved at middle, at vein 1 very strongly bent inwards to inner margin below the antemedial black patch; a black-brown sub- terminal band defined by white lines shading to a pale brown point edged with black below apex and pale brown at middle, its inner edge incurved above and below middle and excurved at middle, its lower extremity bent outwards and ending above tornus, followed by two indistinct dark lines arising below apex and excurved at middle; a fine sinuous black line with series of black points on it just before termen ; cilia whitish, with brown line near base and tine dark line near tips which are reddish brown. Hind wing ochreous white irrorated with brown except at base, the terminal area suffused with fuscous brown; a sinuous blackish line before termen ; cilia white with fine dark lines near base and tips which are reddish brown ‘at middle ; the underside white irrorated with black, the costal area and terminal area to vein 4 tinged with red- brown, a series of black points before termen.
Hab. Zanz1Bar ; Transvaat, Limpopo, 1 9, Barberton, 1 ¢; ZuLvuLanD (Anderson), 1 Q; Narat, Estcourt (Hutchinson), 26,3 2, Durban (Gooch), 1 6,19; Carpe Cotony (Sir A. Smith), 1 2 type, Cape Town, 1 ¢. Exp. 36-44 millim. Type +g hemidelta in Coll. Mabille.
7797. Cuneisigna cumamita. (Plate CCXXII. fig. 18.) Chalcivpe cumamita, Beth.-Baker, A. M. N. H. (8) viii. p. 528 (1911).
3g. Head and thorax pale ochreous tinged with red-brown; palpi browner except 8rd joint; frons with brown line ; tegulae with three red-brown lines, the patagia with oblique bars near base and tips, the prothorax with brown line; abdomen ochreous white, dorsally tinged with brown, ventrally irrorated with brown. Fore wing greyish ochreous irrorated with a few black scales to the postmedial line ; a subbasal black striga from costa below which it is angled outwards; an oblique black-brown fascia defined by yellow-white from above inner margin near base to before the post- medial line below vein 3, pointed at extremities ; a black point in middle of cell; a brownish mark defined by yellow-white and by black on its inner side except towards base on extremity of median nervure, running inwards to a point below the medial black point and outwards to a rounded lobe beyond lower angle of cell; three fine double postmedial brown lines filled in with yellowish white from below costa near apex to submedian fold, then bent inwards to inner margin before middle; a reddish brown band defined by black and with a yellow line on its outer side from below apex, where it ends in a point, to above inner margin towards tornus, excurved at middle and bent inwards at lower extremity, a double
VOL. XIII. D
34 NOCTUID ®.
rather diffused fuscous line beyond it; a fine black subterminal line followed by a double brown line filled in with yellowish white ; a fine black terminal line; cilia red-brown at tips. Hind wing yellowish white ; the terminal area brown to vein 1, narrowing to apex and with a slight punctiform dark line on its inner side; a slight dark line just before termen ; cilia yellowish white, with a rather diffused brown line near base and fine line near tips except towards tornus ; the underside irrorated with brown, a double black discoidal point, postmedial line excurved below costa, and a series of black points just before termen and two small lunules in sub- median interspace.
Hab. Br. E. Arrica, Elburgon Ry. Station, type + ¢ in Coll. Bethune-Baker; Transvaat, White R. (Cooke), 13. ap. 40 millim.
7798. Cuneisigna rivulata. (Plate CCXXII. fig. 19.) Chalciope rivulata, Hmpsn. Ann, 8, Afr. Mus, ii. p. 384 (1902).
Head and thorax ochreous white irrorated with brown, the vertex of head and metathorax tinged with red-brown, the tegule with three fine brown lines; abdomen ochreous white tinged with red- brown. Fore wing white thickly irrorated with brown, the costal area brownish with fine white streaks on the veins, the terminal area suffused with red-brown; a black line with a brown band above it arising below lower angle of cell, oblique to submedian fold, then strongly incurved to inner margin before middle; a blackish point in middle of cell; a slight wedge-shaped brown mark defined by fine white lines beyond lower angle of cell and running to a point on median nervure at origin of vein 2; the whitish post- medial area emitting a strong fork on outer side at vein 4 and with five fine brown lines on it arising well below apex and ending at submedian fold, the three outer lines bent outwards into the fork, this area defined on outer side by a fine black line extending to inner margin and excurved at vein 1; the red-brown terminal area with two slight brown subterminal lines filled in with grey and defined on outer side by greyish followed by some blackish, following the sinuations of the pale postmedial area; the termen whitish with a black point just below costa before apex, a fine dark line before termen with a black point at submedian fold and a fine dark terminal line; cilia whitish at base, brown at tips. Hind wing white ; the terminal half and inner area tinged and irrorated with brown; a fuscous subterminal shade from below apex to sub- median fold; a slight dark line just before termen with some black points on it; cilia white; the underside white tinged with red- brown and irrorated with black except on basal and inner areas, a brown subterminal shade from costa to submedian fold.
Hab. Br. EK. Arrica, Nairobi (Crawshay), 1 2; Transvaat, Pretoria (Cooke), 1d; Navrat, Weenen, 1 ¢ type, Durban (Bell- Marley), 1 2; Cape Cotony, Transkei (Miss F. Barrett), 1 3, 19. Exp, 34-86 millim.
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. Genus PARACHALCIOPE, nov.
Type, P. euclidicola.
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to above vertex of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd long and acuminate ; frons smooth ; eyes large, round; antenne of male with bristles and cilia; thorax clothed with hair and scales mixed and without crests; femora of male and the fore tibix fringed with long hair; the fore and hind tibie not spined ; abdomen smoothly scaled and without crests, long and slender in male. Fore wing with the apex somewhat produced and acute, the termen evenly curved and slightly crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the cell about one-third length of wing; veins 3,4 from angle; 5 fully developed from just above angle; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only.
Scr. I. Hind tibiz of male fringed with long hair,
A. Fore wing dark reddish brown except the costal area ...... euclidicola, B. Fore wing grey-brown with black ante- and postmedial patches.
a. Fore wing with the postmedial black patch triangular and
separate from the antemedial patch which extends to
beyond middle above inner margin...............2e0eeeeereee deltifera. b. Fore wing with the postmedial black patch rounded below
and confluent above with the antemedial patch which
doesinofextend tommiddla ec. .sssscacssensert cases cers sce> binaria. C. Fore wing brownish ochreous, with elongate black patch from near base to beyond middle ............cecsecsscvereoeees longiplaga.
7799. Parachalciope euclidicola. Fodina euclidicola, Wk. xiv. 1438 (1858) ; Holl. Psyche, vii. p. 144, pl. ili. P54
Mecodina furcifera, Hmpsn. Ann. 8, Afr: Mus. ii. p, 638 (1902),
Fig. 8.—DParachalciope euclidicola, 3. }.
Head and tegule reddish brown; thorax and abdomen grey- brown. Fore wing black-brown with a reddish tinge, the costal
9 a
36 NOCTUID.
area grey-brown to beyond middle; a very oblique yellowish white line from subcostal nervure near base to inner margin before middle; an obliquely curved white line from middle of subcostal nervure to vein 1, where it is joined by an obliquely curved white line from below costa well beyond middle, the two lines emitting a slight spur to just above inner margin; a waved black terminal line; cilia greyish at tips. Hind wing fuscous brown with a fine waved blackish terminal line. Underside of both wings uniform fuscous brown.
Hab. 8. Leone; 8S. Niaerta, Old Calabar (Avngsley, Cromp- ton), 1&6, 19, Ilesha (Humfrey), 19; FERNANDO Po (Fraser), 2 2 type; Conao, Kambove (Neave), 1 d; Natat, type + ¢o furcifera in Coll. Druce. Exp. 36-44 millim.
7 7800. Parachalciope deltifera.
Chalciope deltifera, Feld. Reis. Nov. pl. 117. f. 24 (1874). Chalciope albifissa, Hmpsn. P. Z. 8. 1910, p. 424, pl. xxxvii. f. 6.
Head, thorax, and abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing greyish ochreous suffused with red-brown ; a velvety black triangular patch, its angles on median nervure near base and lower angle of cell and on vein 1 near tornus, divided by an oblique white streak from another velvety black triangular mark on postmedial area, defined on outer side by white, its angles on discocellulars, on vein 7 below apex and submedian fold above tornus; a fuscous subterminal line diffused on outer side and bent outwards to apex; a fine waved black terminal line; cilia white at tips. Hind wing grey-brown ; a fine black terminal line; cilia white at tips; the underside grey suffused with reddish brown.
Hab. W. Arrica, Bogos, type + ¢ in Coll. Rothschild ; S. Nieerta, Olokemeji (Dudgeon), 1 ¢ ; N. Niceria, Minna (Macfie), 3 d, Baro (Macfie), 1 S$, 19; N.W. RuopeEsta, Alala Plateau, Mkushi Distr. (Weave), 1 Q type albifissa; N.E. Ruopesta, Bangweolo Distr. (Veave), 1d. Exp. 34-40 millim.
7801. Parachalciope binaria. (Plate CCXXII. fig. 20.) Trigonodes Linaria, Holl. Psyche, vii. p. 86, pl. ii. f. 24 (1894).
Head, thorax, and abdomen greyish brown mixed with some blackish; palpi black-brown at base; pectus, fringes of hair on legs, and ventral surface of abdomen pale reddish brown. Fore wing grey-brown irrorated with blackish ; a triangular black-brown patch on antemedial area confluent with a triangular postmedial patch, the upper edge of the conjoined patches running obliquely from submedian fold towards base to vein 6 well beyond middle, their lower and outer edges defined by a whitish line, the apex of the antemedial patch at middle of vein 1 where it is acutely pro- duced, the apex of the postmedial patch extending to submedian
EE ee eS ————————E———S ee OT
PARACHALCIOPE, 37
fold and rounded; an oblique blackish shade beyond the post- medial patch from apex to tornus ; cilia black-brown. Hind wing grey suffused with brown, the terminal area tinged with fuscous to vein 3. Underside of both wings grey suffused with brown ; fore wing with curved dark postmedial shade and oblique shade from apex to vein 3; hind wing with curved postmedial shade and faint oblique subterminal shade from costa to vein 2.
Hab. 3. Nicerta, Lagos (Boag), 1 3; GaBoon, Ogové R., 1 ¢ cotype; UGanva, Entebbe (Ainchin), 1 9. Exp.50 millim.
7802. Parachalciope longiplaga, n. sp. (Plate CCXXII. fig. 21.)
3. Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous tinged with brown ;
fore tibix and the mid tibie and tarsi fuscous above. Fore wing ochreous tinged with red-brown and irrorated with blackish; a
minute black discoidal spot; an oblique black wedge-shaped patch defined by white from submedian fold near base to vein 6 towards apex, its lower edge sinuous, its outer edge oblique; an oblique fuscous streak from apex to the apex of the wedge-shaped patch ; a slight fuscous subterminal shade; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing pale ochreous tinged with brown, the terminal area suffused with fuscous brown; a terminal series of blackish points ; cilia pale brownish ochreous ; the underside pale ochreous wrorated with brown, a small black discoidal spot and terminal series of black points.
Hab. Ucanna, Kafu R. (Neave), 1 3 type. Exp. 46 millim.
Secr. IT. Hind tibiz of male smoothly scaled.
A. Fore wing with ante- and postmedial triangular black ee . Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial black arate Tong. . Fore wing with the antemedial black patch ex- pus into the cell. . Fore | wing with the postmedial black patch
roundedtbelow A iiee., SOL S a cee benitensis, b?, Fore wing with the postmedial black patch tri- BAYER EST Be pranrig decor oe Segoe ben ebOcCoC URC RMeCe nema trigonometrica,
6’, Fore wing with the antemedial black pateh not extending into the cell, the postmedial patch
tr iangular een seers Tames xe eae cet oer fc ietoneomaeee ae mahura. 6. Fore wing with the ante- and ‘postmedial black PALCHES VSIA lets etece vast see aeesmotcmseees eaalesc sere monoplancta.
B. Hare wing without ante- and postmedial black patches. agonza.
7803. Parachalciope benitensis. Grammodes benitensis, Holl. Psyche, vii. p. 8, pl. ii. f. 25 (1894). Head, thorax, and abdomen grey-brown, the tegule and patagia
with black stripes on upper edge ; palpi with the 3rd joint black ; fore and mid legs black in front. Fore wing with the costal area
38 NOCTUIDS.
grey irrorated with fuscous, some brownish ochreous below it, the inner and postmedial areas rufous, the terminal area grey suffused with fuscous; a large triangular black antemedial patch defined by yellowish white lines and separated by a narrow oblique yellowish white medial band from a large conical black postmedial patch defined on outer side and below by a yellowish white line, these markings extending from below subcostal nervure and vein 6 to submedian fold; the postmedial rufous area with black points on its inner and outer edges ; an oblique black shade from apex; a tine waved black terminal line; cilia grey-brown. Hind wing
4 S
Fig. 9.—Parachaleiope benitensis S. 1.
grey-brown, the terminal area suffused with fuscous ; cilia: brown, pale at tips. Underside of both wings grey-brown, the terminal areas fuscous.
Hab. Sierra LEONE (Clements), 1 9; S. NiaERta, Old Calabar (Kingsley, Crompton), 1 3, 2 2, Sapele (Sampson), 2 3; Tlesha (Humfrey), 1 3; N. Nigerta, Minna (Macfie), 1 ¢, Bauchi Prov., Kabwir (For), 1 9 ; Cameroons (Rutherford), 1 3 ; GapBoon, Benita; N.E. Ruopesra, Kulunewisi (Neave), 1 oS. Exp. 84-44 millim.
7804. Parachalciope trigonometrica, n. sp. (Plate CCXXII. fig. 22.
3S. Head and thorax grey tinged with brown and mixed with fuscous; palpi and frons black; legs blackish; abdomen grey suffused with fuscous brown, the ventral surface paler. Fore wing with the costal area pale brownish grey, the costa suffused with black to beyond middle and with some black irroration below it ;
a large triangular black patch between the cell and vein 1 from
PARACHALCIOPE. 39
near base to beyond middle, its apex extending just into the cell, separated by an oblique whitish band from a triangular black patch beyond the cell, its base resting on the discal fold and vein 6 and its acute apex below the submedian fold, defined on outer side by a white line; the inner area and the postmedial area below vein 6 rufous ; an oblique black shade from apex diffused below, then a subterminal series of minute black spots with a rather diffused waved blackish line beyond them; the termen grey with slight blackish streaks in the interspaces; a fine waved black terminal line; cilia pale brownish with a slight dark shade at middle and whitish tips. Hind wing pale reddish brown; a fuscous terminal shade, broad at apex, narrowing to a point at termen at sub- median fold and leaving some grey-brown on middle of termen ; a fine dark terminal line; cilia brownish grey, fuscous at apex. Underside of both wings fuscous grey, the terminal areas fuscous with a paler band before them.
Hab. Br. E. Arrica, Ravirondo, Up. Nzoia R. (Neave), 1 3 type. Exp. 48 millim.
7805. Parachalciope mahura.
Chaleiope mahura, Feld. Reis. Nov. pl. 117. f. 13 (1874) Chalciope ditrigona, Hmpsn. P. Z.8. 1910, p. 424, pl. xxxvii. f, 5.
Head, thorax, and abdomen brownish ochreous mixed with some fuscous. Fore wing greyish ochreous tinged with red-brown and irrorated with fuscous; a velvety black triangular mark defined by silvery white, its angles on vein 1 near base and beyond middle and its apex on median nervure ; another velvety black triangular patch defined by silvery white on postmedial area, its angles on disco- cellulars, at vein 7 below apex and above vein 1 towards tornus ; two nea subterminal lines bent outwards to apex; a terminal series of black points; cilia whitish with a fuscous line near base. Hind wing grey suffused with brown; a fuscous subterminal shade from apex to vein 2 ; a terminal series of black points ; cilia whitish with a fuscous line from apex to vein 2; the underside white tinged with brown and irrorated with fuscous except on inner area, a faint curved pale postmedial shade from costa to vein 2.
Hab. Br. E. Arrica, Kilima’njaro, Taveta Forest (Hanning- ton), 1d; Br. C. Arrica, Zomba (Johnston), 1 3d; N.E. Ruo- pEstA, E. Luangwa Distr., Petauke (Neave), 1 d type ditrigona ; Natat, Durban, type ¢ 2 in Coll. Rothschild. Hap. 42 millim.
7806. Parachalciope monoplaneta, n. sp. (Plate CCX XII. fig. 23.)
2. Head, thorax, and abdomen pale brownish ochreous; an- tenn, 3rd joint of palpi, and legs rather browner. Fore wing pale ochreous tinged with brown ; a small oblique triangular antemedial
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patch, its upper angles produced and resting on the submedian fold and median nervure near origin of vein 3; a similar but not oblique patch on vein 4 ae beyond the cell, its outer angle extending to just above vein 4, where it is joined by an oblique blackish streak from apex with a brownish shade beyond it extending to inner margin ; a series of black points just before termen. Hind wing ochreous white with a taint fuscous subterminal shade ; the under- side ochreous white slightly irrorated with brown.
Hab. Uceannba, Toro, Mpanga Forest (Neave), 3 2 type. Exp. 4.2-46 millim.
7807. Parachalciope agonia, n. sp. (Plate CCXXII. fig. 24.)
Head, thorax, and abdomen pale ochreous tinged with red-brown and irrorated with fuscous; tarsi fuscous with pale rings. Fore wing pale ochreous tinged with red-brown and irrorated with fuscous; a minute blackish discoidal spot; a diffused oblique blackish brown streak from apex to vein 5 with a faint curved shade from it to inner margin ; a faint diffused waved subterminal line, incurved below vein 4; a series of black points just before termen. Hind wing pale ochreous tinged with brown ; a diffused fuscous subterminal shade, darker towards apex; a terminal series of black points; the underside pale ochreous slightly irrorated with brown and tinged with rufous towards base.
Hab. Ucanna, Entebbe (Neave), 1 3 type, Toro, Mpanga Forest (eave), 1 ¢. Exp. 3 54, 9 50 millim.
Genus EUCLIDISEMA, nov.
Type, FE. mygdon.
Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd moderate; frons smooth with tuft of hair above; eyes large, round; antenne of male minutely ciliated; thorax clothed with scales and hair mixed and without crests; tibise of male fringed with long hair, the mid tibie dilated with a groove containing a tuft of long hair, of female moderately fringed with hair, the fore and ‘hind tibiae mE spined; abdomen smoothly se: aled and withont crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and slightly crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the cell about one-third length of wing ; veins 3, 4 from angle; 5 fully dev eloped from just above angle; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only.
A. Fore wing with the antemedial band erect ......... meedesnacons see erecta. B. Fore wing with the antemedial band oblique. a, Fore wing with the antemedial band arising below the costa well beyond the base. a‘, Fore wing with the outer edge of the postmedial black patch strongly excised at middle, then strongly ex- AUG CL aca mecronoycOnnOOn ae ne eect sot recede uc veo altos bisinuata. b'. Fore wing with the outer edge of the postmedial black patch slightly excised at middle, then slightly excurved. imminua.
EUCLIDISEMA. 41
c'. Fore wing with the outer edge of the postmedial black patch evenly curved ...........-ccesseeeneeeeee eeeeee Sedeaoeces mygdon. b. Fore wing with the antemedial band arising below the costa close to the base. ai, Fore wing with the outer edge of the postmedial black
patch inwardly oblique ........-2-----eeeseeseeeen eee eetescens aleyona, b!, Fore wing with the outer edge of the postmedial black
patch erect and slightly excised at middle.................. emathion. c}, Fore wing with the outer edge of the postmedial black
patch outwardly oblique ......... Bee anemone sce sere esee delta.
7808. Euclidisema erecta. (Plate CCXXII. fig. 25.) Chalciope erecta, Hmpsn. Ann. &. Afr. Mus, ii. p. 583 (1902).
2. Head and tegule grey-brown ; thorax blackish brown ; an- tenn with the shaft white in front; pectus, legs, and abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing black-brown to the postmedial line except on costal area, the rest of wing grey-brown; a very narrow erect white antemedial band from below costa to inner margin; post- medial line double, brown filled in with whitish, oblique from costa to below vein 6 where it is angled outwards, then obliquely incurved, two white points beyond it on costa; an oblique black- brown shade from apex diffused on inner side and bent inwards above vein 6-to near the angle of the postmedial line; a fine waved dark terminal line with points at the interspaces, and fine whitish line at base of cilia. Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia paler ; the underside grey-brown with small discoidal spot, curved post- medial line and terminal series of points.
‘Hab. Navat, Northdene, 1 2 type. EHzvp. 36 millim.
*7809. Euclidisema bisinuata. Grammodes bisinuata, Snell. Tijd. v. Ent. xxiii. p. 104, pl. 8. f. 3 (1880).
2. Head and tegule grey-brown ; thorax black-brown ; abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing grey-brown with a reddish tinge; the basal area black-brown except at costa; an oblique white band from below costa before middle to above middle of inner margin where it forks slightly, a large black-brown patch beyond it from below costa to just above inner margin defined by slight whitish lines, its outer edge produced to a point at vein 6 where it is met by a curved dark streak from apex, then strongly excised and again strongly excurved on inner area. Hind wing reddish brown. :
Hab. Cevepes, Makassar, Saleyer, Takalar. Havp. 32 millim. This species is unknown to me.
*7810. Euclidisema imminua. Grammodes imminua, Snell. Tijd. v. Ent. xlv. p. 91, pl. 8. f. 4 (1902).
Q. Head and thorax black-brown ; abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing grey-brown ; the basal area black-brown except towards costa ; a rather broad oblique white band from below costa before middle
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NOCTUIDE.
to middle of inner margin, a large black-brown patch beyond it defined by white lines, its outer edge produced to a point at vein 6, then slightly excised and again slightly excurved below vein 2; an oblique dark shade from apex to the angle of the postmedial patch, defined on outer side by the whitish subterminal line which is slightly waved below vein 6; a fine dark terminal line and whitish: line at base of cilia. Hind wing grey-brown.
Hab. Wetter. Exp. 32 millim. This species is unknown to me.
7811. Euclidisema mygdon.
Noctua mygdon, Cram, Pap. Exot. ii. p. 94, pl. 156. f. G (1777); Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 180; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 531.
Noctua triangulum, Fabr. Mant. ii. p. 145 (1787).
Chaleiope mygdonias, Hiibn. Verz. p. 268 (1827).
Head and thorax reddish brown ;_ pectus, legs, and abdomen pale red-brown. Fore wing dark chocolate-brown, the costal and terminal areas grey-brown, the costal edge whitish towards base ; a narrow oblique white band from subcostal nervure before middle to inner margin towards tornus; the upper edge of the dark area on postmedial area and its outer edge defined by white lines; a triangular blackish patch on apical part of costa, its outer edge
Fig. 10,—Euclidisema mygdon, d. }.
oblique, a whitish subterminal shade from it to tornus; a fine waved dark terminal line with black points at the interspaces ; cilia red-brown. Hind wing fuscous brown; a waved dark ter- minal line with some grey-white before it towards tornus; cilia grey-white below apex and towards tornus; the underside whitish, the costal and terminal areas suffused and irrorated with brown. Hab. Loo-cuoo Is. (Pryer), 2 3d; Formosa, Takow (Hobson), 1 g, 19; Honexone (J. J. Walker), 2 6; Crntr. Cura, Kiukiang (Pratt), 1d; PunsaBp (Horne), 1 gd, 1 9, Kulu
EUCLIDISEMA. 43
(Hocking), 1 3, Jubbulpur (Ff. Butler), 1 9, Fattehpur (Betton), 1 9, Manpuri, 2 9; Srxurm, 12; Assam (Badgley), 1 3; Beneat, Calcutta 1 ¢; Manras, Nilgiris (Hampson), 2 3, Coimbatore (Walhouse), 1 6; CEyton (Templeton), 1 3,1 &, Trincomali (Yerbury), 1 9; Burma, Moulmein (Clerk), 2 9, Rangoon (Noble), 1 ¢,1 2, Hsipaw (de Nicéville),1 9; Anva- MANS (Rogers), 3 6; Nicopars (Rogers), 2 ¢,1 9, Nancowry, 1o,19; Prenane (Ridley), 13; PERrax, Goping (Kistler), 1 3; Serancor (Meade-Waldo), 1 2; Sincavore (Ridley), 5 2; SUMATRA, ns Weh Is. (Meade-Waldo), 1 2; Borneo, Sarawak (We allace), 2 2 9, Mt. Marapok, 19; Java (Horsfield), 36,29. zp. 30-38 millim.
7812. Euclidisema alcyona. (Plate CCXXII. fig. 26.) Grammodes aleyona, Druce, P. Z.S. 1888, p. 225, pl. xiii. f. 5.
Grammodes hoplitis. Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1902, p. 28. Trigonodes isusceles, Warr, Noy. Zool. x. p. 128 (1903).
Head and tegule grey-brown, the thorax fuscous brown ; antenme with the basal half of shaft in front white; pectus, legs, and abdomen pale grey-brown. Fore wing deep chocolate-brown, the costal area grey irrorated with brown, the terminal area violaceous white ; an oblique white fascia from subcostal nervure near base to vein 1 towards tornus; the dark area defined above except towards base and on outer side by white; an oblique blackish streak from apex, diffused on inner side and followed by a narrow rufous band beyond the white line defining the dark area; a fine waved brown terminal line with black points at the interspaces; cilia dark reddish brown. Hind wing dull reddish brown; a fine waved dark terminal line with some grey-white before it towards tornus ; cilia whitish towards tornus; the underside whitish, the costal and terminal areas broadly suffused with reddish brown, a small brown spot on upper discocellular.
Hab. Br. N. Guinea, Port Moresby, 1 9; QuEENSLAND, 1 9; Fr (Mathew), 1 3,19. Exp. 32-36 millim.
*7813. Euclidisema emathion. Grammodes emathion, Snell. Tijd. v. Ent. xlv. p. 90, pl. &. f. 5 (1902).
Head and thorax black-brown; abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing grey-brown; a white fascia from below costa close to base to above inner margin beyond middle, its extremities pointed, the area below it black- brown ; a large tr iangular black-brown patch above the white fascia defined by white lines, its outer edge erect and slightly excised at middle; an oblique black-brown shade from apex to vein 6, diffused on inner side ; a faint whitish subterminal line ; a fine black terminal line. Hind wing grey-brown.
Hab. Crepes, Bonthain, Menado. xp. 36 millim. This species is unknown to me.
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7814. Euclidisema delta.
Ophiusa delta, Boisd. Faun, Ent. Mad., Lép. p. 105, pl. 13. f. 1 (1833), Grammodes crestonion, Snell. Tijd, vy. Ent. xlv. p. 90, pl. 8. f. 3 (1902).
Head and thorax reddish-brown, the head with some whitish above frons and behind; legs and abdomen grey-brown ; pectus and ventral surface of abdomen whitish tinged with brown. Fore wing deep chocolate-brown, the costal area grey tinged with brown except at apex; an oblique white fascia from base of subcostal nervure to vein 1 just before tornus; the dark area defined above except towards base and on outer side by strong white lines; a dark terminal line slightly defined on inner side by grey from below apex to tornus ; cilia grey witha fine white line at base. Hind wing dull reddish brown, a dark terminal line; cilia whitish, brown at apex, then with brown line near base; the underside whitish, the costal and terminal areas broadly suffused with red- brown, a small brown spot on upper discocellular.
Hab. Zanzrpar (de la Garde), 136; Br. EK. Arrica, Taveta (Rogers), 1 2, Tanga (Hollis), 1 ¢; Masnonarann, (Dobbie), 1d; Becnvuanarann, Lake N’Gami (Lugard), 1 3; TRANSVAAL (Pead),1 9; Carr Conony, Plettenburg Bay, 1 9; MapaGascar (Kitching), 1 3; AnpaBra (Meade-Waldo), 1 3d; AMIRANTES, D’Arros I. (B. Fletcher), 19; Mauritius; CrLeses, Menado. Exp. 30-38 millim.
Genus LEUCOMELAS, nov.
Type, L. juvenilis.
Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex of head and moderately scaled, the rd moderate; frons smooth, with tuft of hair above; eyes rather small and elliptical; antennae of male minutely ciliated ; thorax clothed with scales and hair mixed and without crests ; tibiz slightly fringed with hair, the fore tibix not spined, the hind tibia strongly spined ; abdomen smoothly scaled and without crests. Fore wing short and broad, the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and nct crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from eell. Hind wing with the cell about one-third length of wing ; veins 3, 4 from angle; 5 fully developed from just above angle; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base ouly.
7815. Leucomelas juvenilis.
Agnomonia juvenilis, Brem. Lep. Ost-Sib. p. 61, pl. 5. f. 18 (1864); Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 242.
Head, thorax, and abdomen black-brown slightly mixed with grey; antenne with the shaft white above towards base ; palpi and legs strongly irrorated with white; pectus and ventral surface of abdomen grey-white. Fore wing black-brown ; a creamy-white band from costa beyond middle to tornus, its outer edge angled outwards at vein 6, then narrowing to tornus, the costal edge
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LEUCOMELAS.—EUCLIDIMERA. 45
white for a short distance on each side of the band; a minute white streak on costa towards apex; cilia white at tips from apex to below vein 5 and from submedian fold to tornus. Hind wing black-brown ; an oblique creamy white band from vein 6 well beyond middle to termen at vein 1, interrupted by slight dark
Fig. 11.—Leucomelas juvenilis, 3. 4.
streaks on the veins; cilia white at tips from apex to below vein 5. Underside of fore wing with the band rather broader and with irregular edges; hind wing with the inner area slightly irrorated with white.
Hab. EB. Steerts, Amurland, 2 ¢, 4 92, Zeller & Leech Colls., Ussuri. Hap. 38-44 millim.
Genus EUCLIDIMERA, nov.*
Type, H. mi.
Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex of head and fringed with long hair in front, the 5rd moderate; frons smooth ; eyes rather small and elliptical; antennz of male ciliated; thorax clothed with hair and scales mixed and without crests ; tibie slightly fringed with hair, all the tibia strongly spined; abdomen smoothly scaled and without crests. Fore wing short and broad, the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole, 11 from cell. Hind wing with the cell about half the length of wing; veins 3, 4 from angle; 5 fully developed from above angle; 6,7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only,
* Euclidia, Treit. (1826) type fiwa should take precedence over Synthymia, Vol. ix. p. 372,
46 NOCTUID®.
A. Hind wing not blue-white. a. Hind wing without subterminal series of stnall black spots. a', Fore wing with the markings clearly defined by ochreous
or white. a?, Hind wing with ochreous white or yellow maculate postmedial and subterminal bands...........seeeeeseeeeee ees mi. 6°. Hind wing with the postmedial and subterminal bands LOW ACH AGG meter et atc es acs cae reacea ce nanneeeeonens apeeesace annexa.
b1, Fore wing with the white markings reduced to the post- medial line and slight spots; hind wing with the white
confinedito) Chemnner Ares arc. ....-0.2ee cee deccs ta eeces + eaaaeeaee Futilis, b. Hind wing with subterminal series of small black spots ...... regia. IB. Hind! wing blue-whitevs.. 22:--..-:-..-«sssseasep esse) ocr +nesanconnescanmem cerulea,
7816. Euclidimera mi.
Phalena mi, Clerck, Teones, pl. 9. f.5 (1759); Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. xii. p. 838 (1767); Esp. Schmett. iv. pl. 89. ff. 3,4; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 346; Godt. Lép. Fr. v. p. 98, pl. 52. ff. 3-5; Steph. Ill. Brit. Ent., Haust. iii. p. 189; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 240.
Phalena litterata, Cyr. Ent. Nap. i. p. 2, pl. 1. f. 9 (1787).
Euclidia explanata, Rebel, Verb. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, lvii. p. (271) (1908).
Euclidia extrema, Bang-Haas, Iris, xxvi. p. 162 (1912).
3. Head and thorax black-brown mixed with greyish ;_ palpi, pectus, and legs ochreous white mixed with brown; abdomen black-brown with whitish segmental lines, the ventral surface ochreous white. Fore wing red-brown mixed with ochreous; an elliptical black spot defined by ochreous just above inner margin before middle; an oblique ochreous line defined on outer side by
Fig. 12.—Euclidimera mi, d, }.
dark brown from costa before middle, below which it is slightly incurved, to just above middle of inner margin, then curved round upwards and incurved to lower angle of cell, then defined on inner side by dark brown and running downwards to submedian fold, then
EUCLIDIMERA. A7
up to the costa beyond middle with a strong outward curve beyond the cell ; orbicular black-brown with some ochreous suffusion beyond it; reniform dark brown with an ochreous bar on its outer edge ; subterminal line ochreous defined on inner side by wedge-shaped black-brown marks from below costa to submedian fold except at middle where it is strongly incurved, an ochreous shade or line just beyond it from vein 7 to submedian fold; cilia dark brown at base, chequered ochreous and brown at tips. Hind wing dark brown, mixed with ochreous on basal half ; a round ochreous spot beyond the discocellulars ; a maculate ochreous postmedial band, excurved at discal fold, incurved beyond lower angle of cell, then again excurved ; a subterminal series of eight ochreous spots, excurved at middle and angled inwards between veins 4, 3; cilia brown at base, the tips ochreous, chequered with brown from apex to vein 2. Underside of fore wing ochreous, the costa irrorated with brown, orbicular and reniform black, a black-brown postmedial line angled outwards at discal fold, then incurved and ending at submedian fold, a subterminal band interrupted between veins 4, 3 and excurved above that point, the veins of terminal area streaked with black- brown, a terminal band expanding at middle; hind wing ochreous, the base irrorated with black-brown, a black discoidal lunule, postmedial line angled outwards at discal fold, excurved below vein 2 and ending at submedian fold, a subterminal line diffused on inner side, incurved below costa, interrupted between veins 4, 3, excurved above and below that point and ending on termen at vein 1, a terminal line expanding at apex and between veins 4, 3.
Q. The markings whiter; fore wing with the antemedial line not incurved below costa.
Ab. 1. litterata. Fore wing with more white especially beyond the postmedial line ; hind wing much whiter.
Ab. 2. explanata. Fore and hind wings with the markings clear whitish yellow.— Bohemia.
Ab. 3. Hind wing orange-yellow with the markings black.— Portugal.
Hab. Britatn, Leech Coll.; France, Sand Coll.; Gerwany, Zeller, Frey, & Leech Colls.; Austr1a; HtuneGary ; SwitzERLAND, Frey Coll.; Spary; Porrvueat (Katon) ; Irary; Russta, Livonia, Zeller Coll., Sarepta, Leech Coll.; ArmENTA; Asta Mrvyor, Bithynia, ? Pontus; Syrra, 1 2, Leech Coll.; W. Turkestan, Issyk-kul, Ala Tau; W. Srperia, Altai; E. Turkestan, Ili; E. Srperta, Amurland, 4 2, Ussuri. Exp. 32-36 millim.
Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 163; Barrett, Lep. Brit. vi. p. 274, pl. 255. f, 2; Hffm. Raup. p. 145, pl. 36. f. 20.
Pale ochreous or yellow; dorsal and lateral lines double, pale brown or fuscous; subdorsal and supraspiracular lines darker brown ; spiracular line pale edged with darker brown; head pale pinkish ochreous. Food-plants: Trifolium, Medicago, and Meli- lotus. 7-9.
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7817. Euclidimera annexa, (Plate CCXXIIL. fig. 1.)
Euclidia annexa, H. Edw, Ent. Am. vi. p. 115 (1890); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 319. Drasteria conspicua, Smith, Can. Ent. xxxii. p, 224, pl. v. ff. 13, 14 (1999).
Head, thorax, and abdomen white mixed with dark brown. Fore wing grey-white thickly irrorated with dark brown; subbasal line slight, double, brown filled in with whitish, from costa to sub- median fold; antemedial line oblique from costa to middle of inner margin, slightly sinuous, dark brown defined on inner side by whitish; a small black spot in middle of cell and diffused brown discoidal mark defined on outer side by whitish; a dark brown band
beyond the cell from costa to submedian fold edged by the dark
postmedial line defined on outer side by whitish, excurved below costa and at submedian fold retracted to lower angle of cell, then curved inwards to near the antemedial line and “obliquely excurved to inner margin, with dark suffusion between it and the antemedial line below the cell; a brown subterminal shade with blackish spots on it above and ion vein 7, the lower slightly angled outwards ; the termen dark brown with a series of blecans points. Hind wing yellowish white sparsely irrorated with dark brown and with diffused brown fascize along median nervure and on inner area to the postmedial line. whichi s strong, black-brown, incurved beyond lower angle of cell; a black discoidal lunule ; a black-brown sub- terminal band and a narrow terminal band; cilia yellowish white sutfused with brown at base; the underside yellow vish white sparsely irrorated with black, a black discoidal lunule, postmedial line oblique to discal fold and incurved beyond lower angle of cell, sub- terminal and terminal bands narrow.
Hab. Canavas, Alberta, Pine Creek (Wolley-Dod), 13,19, Banff (Mrs. Nicholl), 1 9, Br. Columbia, Up. Keremeos (Mrs. Nicholl), 19 ; U.S.A., Oregon, The Dalles, 33, 2 Q type. Herp. 32-34 millin.
*7818. Euclidimera futilis.
Euclidia futilis, Staud. Iris, x, p. 341, pl. 9. f. 23 (1897); id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 240.
3. Head and thorax dark brown mixed with some grey; abdo- men dark brown with segmental white rings. Fore wing dark brown; two slight grey-white marks at base of inner margin ; antemedial line indistinct, greyish, oblique, sinuous; a small rather elongate white discoidal spot; postmedial line whitish, oblique towards costa, angled outwards at discal and submedian folds and incurved between them; subterminal line indistinct, greyish, in- curved at middle; cilia white. Hind wing dark brown, the inner area suffused with white ; cilia white.
Hab. E. Steerta, Apfel Mts. Zap. 28 millim. This species is
unknown to me,
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7819. Euclidimera regia.
Euclidia regia, Stand. Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 48; Alph. Rom. Mém. y, p. 185, pl. 8. f. 1; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 240.
¢. Head, thorax, and abdomen black-brown mixed with white, the ventral surface of abdomen whiter. Fore wing deep red-brown ; some diffused white on basal costal area and a streak on base of inner margin; a narrow very oblique white band irrorated with blackish from costa before middle to middle of inner margin, angled at vein 1; orbicular a small elongate black spot; reniform creamy- white with black lunule in centre, confluent with a white patch on costa ; postmedial line creamy white, diffused at costa, oblique to vein 6, and at submedian fold emitting an oblique streak below vein 2 to below end of cell ; subterminal line creamy white, emitting streaks on its inner side on veins 7 to 2, those on veins 6 to 2 connected with the postmedial line and leaving spots of the ground colour in the interspaces, ending at tornus ; ~ eilia dark brown at base, creamy white at tips, chequered with brown at veins 4, 3. Hind wing orange-yellow ; the basal inner area suffused with black- brown ie irregular outer edge; a small black discoidal spot ; postmedial line black-brown, incurved at discal fold and excurved above and below that point; a subterminal series of small black spots with wedge-shaped mark at tornus; a terminal black-brown band except towards tornus ; cilia black-brown at base, yellow at tips. Underside orange-yellow ; fore wing with the orbicular and reniform black, the former with black irroration above and below it, a narrow black postmedial band angled outwards at discal fold and ending at submedian fold, a subterminal bar from costa to vein 6, a series of wedge-shaped brown patches in the interspaces of terminal area; hind wing with shght antemedial band of black irroration ane costa to “snes fold, black discoidal lunule, postmedial line angled outwards at discal fold, excurved at vein 2 and bent inwards to inner margin, subterminal series of small spots, and series of brown spots on termen and cilia at the veins.
Hab. W. TurxeEstaNn, Turcomania, 1¢, Ferghana, ? Pamirs. Exp. 26 millim.
7820. Euclidimera cerulea. (Plate CCXXIII. fig. 2.)
Drasteria cerulea, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. i. p. 155 (1873) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 318.
Euclidia aquamarina, Feld. Reis. Nov. pl. 117. f. 10 (1874).
Drasteria lividu, Letcher, Ent. News Philad. vii. p. 223 (1896).
(aquamarina). Head and thorax blue-white mixed with brown ; antenne brown; abdomen blue-white mixed with some _ blackish. Fore wing blue-white irrorated with brown, the terminal area suffused with brown, narrowing to tornus; subbasal line slight, brown, curved, from costa to vein 1; antemedial line reddish brown, oblique, slightly sinuous ; a diffused brownish bar from middle of costa; a black point in middle of cell; reniform slightly defined by brown, large ; postmedial line fine, brown, oblique to vein 6, angled
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inwards at discal fold to the reniform, then running down to vein 2, where it is sharply retracted to the lower edge of the reni- form and oblique to inner margin ; a subterminal chocolate-brown mark on costa with black spots below it above and below vein 7, followed by a faint slightly waved line to inner margin; a faint waved brown terminal line; cilia brown, concolorous with the brown terminal area. Hind wing bluish white, the basal half irrorated with fuscous; a faint dark postmedial line, incurved from below costa to submedian fold where it is angled outwards; a strong blackish terminal line; cilia white; the underside white sparsely irrorated with black.
Ab. 1. cerulea. Fore wing with the antemedial brown line diffused on outer side, not reaching inner margin but curved out- wards to join the postmedial line to which it is more closely approximated on inner area, a red-brown band beyond the cell before the postmedial line; hind wing with narrow dark sub- terminal band slightly excurved at vein 6.
Hab. Vancouver I. (Lyall, J. J. Walker),2 3,12, Dun- cans (Livingston), 2 3, Galliano I. (Stephenson), 1d, 1 Q; U.S.A., Washington, 1 d, California, 3 g, 12 type, Sierra Nevada, 2 9, Mendocino Co., Rancherie Creek (Walsingham), 4 3,29. Evp. 36-40 millim.
Genus GONOSPILEIA.
Type. Gonospileia, Hiibn. Verz. p. 281 (1827) .....-.:esseseeeeseeeeeeeeeseeees munita. Euclidia, Hitbn. Teut. ined. ...........cceceececeeeecessee eee eeeeeeeereceens glyphica,
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to vertex of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd moderate; frons smooth with slight tuft of hair ahove; eyes rather small and elliptical ; antennz of male ciliated ; thorax clothed with hair and scales mixed and without crests ; tibise slightly fringed with hair, the fore tibiz not spined, the hind tibize spined between the mid and hind spurs only; abdomen smoothly scaled and without crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and hardly crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell: 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form tbe areole; 11 from ceil. Hind wing with the cell about half the length of wing; veins 3, 4 from angle; 5 fully developed from just above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only.
A. Hind wing with the basal and inner areas dark brown. a. Hind wing with the terminal half reddish brown ............ cuspidea. b. Hind wing with the terminal half yellow with dark sub- terminal band. a‘, Fore wing with prominent acute triangular dark brown
mark beyond the reniform before the postinedial line... dentata. b, Fore wing with faint and not acute triangular shade beyond the reniform before the postmedial line ......... glyphica. B. Hind wing with the basal and inner areas orange slightly tinged with brown ...sceseeesseeeeeseesseseeeeeeeereesaneesen ee ces triquetra.
C. Hind wing fulvous red .........cseceeee sereerseeeeeeee eee eene comes munita,
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7821. Gonospileia cuspidea. (Plate CCX XIII. fig. 3.)
Drasteria cuspidea, Hibn. Zutr. ex. Schmett. i. p. 16, ff. 69-70 (1818); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 319.
Head, thorax, and abdomen dark chocolate-brown suffused with grey. Fore wing dark chocolate-brown suffused with grey ; a round black spot just “above inner margin before the antemedial deep chocolate-brown band, its inner edge strongly incurved above vein 1 over the black spot, its outer edge obliquely excurved ; an indistinct sinuous medial line with an oblique elliptical brown annulus beyond it in and below angle of cell cutting into the lower edge of the indistinct elliptical ; greyish reniform which has a triangular deep, chocolate-brown patch beyond it; postmedial line chocolate-brown with a pale grey patch before it below the costa and slightly defined on outer side by pale grey, bent outwards below costa, incurved below vein 6 and slightly excurved at submedian fold; a chocolate-brown patch bey ond it from costa to vein 6 with some pale points at costa, its outer edge defined by black and acutely angled outwards above vein 6; a very faint waved grey subterminal line from vein 6 to inner margin with a series of small blackish spots beyond it followed by a pale grey shade; the terminal area suffused with red-brown; a fine waved brown terminal line; cilia red-brown mixed with some grey. Hind wing with the basal half dark brown, the terminal half cupreous reddish brown; the dark area defined by a sinuous dark line from middle of costa to tornus ; a narrow dark brown subterminal band with somewhat dentate outer edge ; the termen suffused with brown from apex to vein 3; a waved dark brown terminal line; cilia red-brown mixed with some grey. Underside of both wings with the basal half dark brown, the terminal half pale red-brown, irrorated with brown ; fore wing with the dark area extending to the subterminal line except towards costa.
Hind tibiz sometimes with one or two spines above the medial spurs.
OLB: Arctic America, Slave R. (Taylor), 1 ¢ ; Canapa, Ottawa (Mrs. Nicholl), 1 ¢, Br. Columbia, Mabel Lake (Br ooks), 1g, Pentecton (Mrs. Nicholl),1 3,12, Greenwood (Mrs. Nicholl), 1 2, Lr. Kootenay, Nelson (J/7rs. Nicholl), 4 9, Okanagan R.,
Up. Keremeos (Mrs. Nicholl), 2 6, 19; Vancouver I., eae vichan Bay (Livingston), 1 ¢, Ladysmith (Livingston), 1 Q ; U.S.A., Northern, Eastern, Middle, and Central States, New York (Packar d),2¢6, 49 : Kansas (Snow), 2 9, Texas, Dallas (Boll), 1 dg, California (Walsingham), 23,2 9, Knights Valley, 1 9, Hanlah, 1 9. xp. 30-42 millim.
Egg. Lembert, Can. Ent. xxvii. p. 107.
Pea-green with deep vertical lines.
Larva, 1st stage. A slender looper ; thoracic somites pale green, then dark green to the somites which carry the prolegs, of which there are two pairs, then pale green. Food-plant : clover.
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7822. Gonospileia dentata.
Euclidia cuspidea, Ey. Bull. Mose. 1857, iv. p. 436 (nec Hiibn.).
Euclidia dentata, Staud. Cat. Lep. Eur. ed. ii. p. 135 (1871); id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 240.
Euclidia consors, Butl, A. M.N. H. (5) i. p. 293 (1878) ; id. Ill. Het. B.M. ii. p. 42, pl. 34, f. 6
Head and thorax bright rufous ; pectus and legs fulvous yellow ; abdomen yellow dorsally suffused with red- Groni except towards ex- tremity. Fore wing pale red-brown with a greyish tinge to beyond middle, the terminal area yellow slightly tinged with rufous leaving the termen red-brown from apex to vein 2 2+ an oblique red-brown ante. medial band, broadening to above vein a where its outer edge is angled nee rds, then bent inwards to inner margin; an oblique ea medial ne. sinuous below the cell ; the outer part of medial area red-brown except a yellow patch before the postmedial line on costal area; reniform with faint pale annulus, elliptical, a trian- gular chocolate-brown patch beyond it ; postmedial line indistinctly double, rufous filled in with yellow, excurved to vein 6, then de- fining the red-brown area, incurved to below vein 3, then excurved, some rufous suffusion beyond it from vein 4 to inner margin, a conical chocolate-brown patch beyond it from costa to vein 6, with two minute oblique pale strie from costa and its outer edge excised; a waved red-brown terminal line; cilia red-brown. Hind wing with the basal and inner areas red-brown with a greyish tinge, defined by an oblique sinuous line from below costa to tornus, excurved bey ond the cell and below vein 2; a narrow dark brown subterminal band, almost obsolete towards costa, incurved below costa, excurved at middle and ending on termen at vein 1; the termen suffused with rufous from apex to submedian fold ; a waved red-brown terminal line; cilia rufous. Underside yellow tinged with rufous; fore wing with brown discoidal lunule, postmedial line angled outwards at discal fold, and incurved subterminal shade from costa to vein 6, the terminal area yellow except towards apex ; hind wing with discoidal striga and red-brown subterminal shade excurved at costa and discal fold, then obsolescent and ending at submedian fold.
Hab. W.-Stperta, Altai, 3 6,29, Zeller Coll.; E. Srperra, Ussuri; Japan, Yezo (Pryer), 1 5,1 9, Oiwaké (Pryer, Leech), 1 g,1 92, Tokio (Maries), 2 9, Yokohama (Jonas), 2 2 type
consors. Hep. 38-40 millim.
7823. Gonospileia glyphica.
Se glyphica, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. x. p. 510 (1758); Esp. Schmett. iv. 89. f. 2; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. p. 347; Godt. Lép. Fr. vy. 4 06. pl. b2. £2 2; Steph. Ill. Brit. Ent., Haust. iil. p. 1388; Curt. Brit. int. 659; Staud. Cat, Lep. pal. p. 240. Euclidia tristicula, Schultz, Soc, Ent, xxii. p. 186 (1908).
Head and thorax dark red-brown ; antenne with the shaft whitish above towards base; abdomen black-brown; palpi, pectus, legs,
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and ventral surface of abdomen grey mixed with brown. Fore wing grey tinged with red-brown and irrorated with black; an oblique red-brown antemedial band from costa to just above inner margin, its edges angled outwards at vein 1 and its inner edge incurved in submedian interspace; an oblique sinuous red-brown medial line, the reniform indicated by some dark brown defined by a greyish line on its outer side ; postmedial line red-brown, ex- curved below costa, then incurved and excurved in submedian inter- space, the area between it and the medial line suffused with red- brown except towards costa; a conical chocolate-brown patch on postmedial part of costa with two grey points on costa, its outer edge excised at middle, traces of a double sinuous subterminal line from the outer edge of the patch to inner margin ; a red-brown terminal band ending in a point at submedian fold, and a fine dark terminal line. Hind wing yellow with the basal and inner areas black-brown ; an oblique black line from vein 6 well beyond the cell to termen at vein 1, incurved below vein 5; a terminal red- brown band with waved inner edge, and dark terminal line from apex to submedian fold ; cilia red-brown. Underside orange-yellow ; fore wing with black discoidal spot, postmedial striga from costa, subterminal patch on costal area and terminal band from apex to vein 2; hind wing with black discoidal lunule, slight postmedial line angled outwards at discal fold and ending at vein 2, sub- terminal line forming patches at costa and discal fold where it is excurved, and ending at submedian fold, and terminal line.
Ab. 1. tristicula. Darker.
Hab. Brivatn, Leech Coll.; France, Sand and Leech Colls. ; Germany, Zeller and Leech Colls.; Austria; HunGary ; SWITZER- Lanp, Zeller and Frey Colls.; Spary ; Corsica, Zeller and Leech Colls.; Irany, Courmayeur (Hampson); GreEcE, Merlin Coll. ; Batxan Srares; Norway, Frey Coll.; Russta, St. Petersburg, Zeller Coll.; Armenta; Asta Minor, Pontus, Bithynia; Syrta, 29, Leech Coll.; W. Turxesray, ? Ferghana, Tarbagatai Mts. ; W. Srperta, Altai; E. Srperta, Amurland, 2 ¢, 3 2, Ussuri. Exp. 26-34 millim.
Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 164; Barrett, Lep. Brit. vi. p. 270, pl. 255. f.3 ; Hffm. Raup. p. 145, pl. 36, f. 21.
Ochreous yellow, sometimes tinged with ferruginous at sides ; dorsal line double, brown; subdorsal line double, dark grey ; spira- cular line yellow edged with dark grey ; head brown marked with yellow. Food-plants : Trifolium and Medicago. 7-9.
7824. Gonospileia triquetra.
Noctua triquetra, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 94 (1776); Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. p. 143 (1787) ; Hiibn. Beitr. i. 3, p. 14, pl. 2, f. I. (1788) ; Esp. Schmett. iv. pl. 145. f. 4 (1789); Hubn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 348; Godt. Lép. Fr. v. p. 94, pl. 52. f. 1.
Noctua fascialis, De Vill. Ent. Linn. ii. p. 450, pl. 6. f. 28 (1789).
Noctua fortificata, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. 2. p. 52 (1794).
Euclidia aurantiaca, Staud. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. xvi. p.79 (1881).
Euclidia fumata, Hirschke, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, lx. p. 414 (1910),
Head and thorax red-brown with a greyish tinge; palpi except at
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tips, pectus, and legs rufous ; abdomen grey irrorated with brown, the anal tuft yellow. Fore wing purplish grey irrorated with red- brown ; a triangular chocolate-brown patch, edged with black and defined by white, from subcostal nervure before middle to above inner margin where its lower edge is excised; reniform pale red- brown defined on outer side by white, oblique elliptical, followed by a triangular deep chocolate-brown patch extending to the post- medial line ; a slight incurved oblique line from lower angle of cell to inner margin followed by some pale red-brown, then deep choco- late-brown before the postmedial line, which is white defined on inner side by black except at costa and vein 6, obliquely curved from vein 6 to beyond lower angle of cell where it is strongly incurved, then strongly excurved, a reddish-brown band beyond it incurved and obsolescent below vein 6; the termen suffused with red-brown except towards apex and tornus ; cilia reddish brown Hind wing orange-yellow, the inner area irrorated with brown; a brown subterminal band, excurved at discal fold and ending on termen at vein 1; the termen suffused with red-brown from apex to submedian fold; cilia pale red-brown. Underside golden yellow ; fore wing with the costa and apical area irrorated with brown, brown subterminal bars from costa and inner margin; hind wing irrorated with red-brown, traces of a curved postmedial line from costa to vein 2, the terminal shade faint.
Ab. 1. aurantiaca. Hind wing orange-red. —Pontus.
Ab. 2. fumata. Both wings thickly irrorated with fuscous ob- scuring the markings.
Hab. Ausrrta, Zeller and Leech Colls.; Huneary, Frey and Leech Colls.; Barkan Srares; 8S. Russta; ARMENTA; ASIA Minor, Pontus; W. Turkestan, Chwalynsk (Christoph), 1 3, Ala Tau; W. Srperia, Altai; E. Srperta. Exp. 28-32 millim.
Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 278; Hffm. Raup, p. 145, pl. 36. f. 22.
Pale rusty yellow dotted with brownish, each somite with four black warts, two pairs of ventral prolegs. Food-plant : Astragalus onobrychis.
7825. Gonospileia munita. Noctua munita, Hiibn. Eur, Schmett., Noct. f. 593 (1818); Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 241. Euchidia angulosa, Ev. Nouy. Mém. Mose. ii. p. 353, pl. 19. f. 7 (1832). Euclidia immunita, Mill. Icones, ii. p. 406, pl. 92. f. 11 (1867).
Head and thorax pale rufous; antenne with the shaft white above towards base; abdomen fulvous yellow. Fore wing pale rufous with slight dark irroration ; a triangular chocolate-brown patch defined by white from just ‘below costa before middle to above middle of inner margin, 1ts lower outer angle produced to a point ; the outer part of medial area bright rufous except towards costa, deeper towards the postmedial line where it is produced to an acute angle beyond the cell; postmedial line black defined on outer
side by white, faintly towards costa, obliquely incurved below
GONOSPILEIA.—MEGISTOCLISMA. De
vein 6 and excurved below vein 3, the area beyond it yellowish below vein 6, where it is joined by some yellowish from apex. Hind wing yellow tinged with rufous ; a brown subterminal shade, excurved at discal fold and ending at tornus ; the termen and cilia rufous. Underside of both wings yellow suffused with rufous.
Fig. 13.—Gonospileia munita, 3. }. to} yi T
Ab. 1. immunita. Fore wing with the markings almost obso- lete, without the triangular chocolate-brown patch before the antemedial line or the chocolate-brown before the postmedial line.
Ab. 2. Similar but both wings grey-brown tinged with red-
brown. Ab. 3. Wings grey-brown without red-brown tinge; fore wing
with the black markings present. Hab. Russta, Sarepta, Zeller, Frey, D’Emmich, Leech and
Crowley Colls.; ARmENTA; W. TurKESTAN, Transcaspia, Buchara, Ferghana; E. Turkestan, Ili. Exp. 32-40 millim.
Genus MEGISTOCLISMA, nov.
Type, M. ribbei.
Proboscis fully developed; palpi with the 2nd joint obliquely upturned, reaching to above vertex of head and fringed with hair in front and behind, the 3rd porrect, long, slender, and somewhat dilated at extremity; frons smooth, with slight tuft of hair above; eyes large, round; antennx of male minutely ciliated; thorax clothed with scales and hair mixed, and without crests; fore tibie and Ist joint of tarsus of male fringed with long hair, the mid and hind tibia smoothly scaled, the fore and hind tibize not spined ; abdomen smoothly scaled and without crests. Fore wing with the costa highly arched towards apex which is rounded, the termen evenly curved and strongly crenulate; vein 3 from well before angle of cell; 5 from just above angle; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the termen highly crenulate; the cell about one-third length of wing; vein 3 from just before angle; 4, 5 from angle; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only ; the costal area in male sparsely clothed with very long fine hair on upperside,
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7826. Megistoclisma ribbei. Nyctipao ribbei, Pag. J.B. Nass, Ver. xxxix. )». 140, pl. x. f. 2 (1886).
@. Head ochreous mixed with red-brown; tegule ochreous at base, red-brown at tips; thorax grey-brown with a blackish line behind the tegul; pectus and legs yellow, the fore legs suffused with red-brown in front; abdomen yellow with a black-brown band at base of dorsum and the two following segments suffused with grey-brown. Fore wing with the costal area grey-brown from inner margin near base to the postmedial line with some black
Fig. 14.—Megistoclisma ribbei, Q. 5.
suffusion along its very irregular lower edge and before the post- medial line, the inner area to the subterminal line and the apical area ochreous tinged with red-brown, the terminal area below vein 6 grey-brown with some dark striz and patches of blackish suffusion ; a curved subbasal black striga from costa defined on outer side by greyish and a black striga below the cell; a curved antemedial black striga from costa defined on inner side by greyish ; antemedial line double, the inner line dark, the outer faint, arising at submedian fold from a tooth from the lower edge of costal area, sinuous to inner margin to which it is slightly bent outwards; a yellow line on outer edge of the tooth and along lower edge of the costal area
MEGISTOCLISMA. Sf
to a large semicircular black-brown discoidal spot which it defines except above ; a rufous fascia beyond the cell below vein 6 to the subterminal line where it ends in a point, defined above by a slight pale streak on vein 6 with a semicircular grey spot above it at middle; postmedial line double, brown filled in with ochreous, arising from costa towards apex, incurved between veins 8 and 6, interr uupted at the rufous fascia, then oblique and waved to vein i with deeper excision between veins 3 and 2, at vein 1 retracted upwards with an inward curve to the outer edge of the discoidal spot where it terminates, its sinus below the rufous fascia filled in with chocolate-brown ; subterminal line indistinctly double, brown filled in with yellow, arising below vein 6 and at submedian fold bent outwards to inner margin towards tornus, some blackish brown suffusion beyond its upper extremity and at middle and before and beyond it towards inner margin ; a lunulate black-brown line before termen from the apical area to above tornus ; a double chocolate- brown terminal line. Hind wing pale grey-brown striated with red-brown, the terminal area fuscous brown except at tornus, on costa extending to middle; a large white medial patch from costa to vein 3, with a band from its lower extremity before a slightly sinuous dark brown postmedial line, with a faint line before it on the white band; a waved ochreous subterminal line from discal fold to inner margin to which it is bent outwards with black spots on its inner side. at veins 5 to 2 and a blackish bar on inner area ; some white on apical part of termen with an indistinct waved brown line before termen from it to inner margin followed by a fine waved yellow terminal line with black-brown suffusion before it. Underside of fore wing with the basal area and costal area to the postmedial band yellow, the rest of wing fuscous with white patches on apical area and on termen above tornus ; a yellow discoidal annulus filled in with black with a blue-white point i im centre, a white postmedial band interrupted by slight dark streaks on the veins, oblique to discal fold, then slightly i incurved, a series of blackish strize before termen double and filled i in with some white on the dark area; hind wing with the basal and inner areas yellow, the rest of the wing fuscous with white patches at apex and on termen towards tornus, a round black discoidal spot with white point in centre and slight yellow mark towards outer edge, an obliquely excurved white medial band interrupted by slight dark streaks on the veins, its inner edge defined by a narrow dark band with dentate outer edge.
gd. Fore wing with the inner medial and postmedial areas more red-brown, the apical area yellower ; hind wing without white patch on medial costal area or at apex, the postmedial ‘line distinctly double, the underside with the postmedial band narrower and bluer, the white marks on termen much reduced except at apex of fore win
Hab. Arv Is.; Dutcu N. Guinea (Burke), 1 9, Oetakwa R. (Meek), 3 in Coll. Rothschild; Br. N. Gutnea, Albert Edward Range (Roker), 1 9. Exp. 116-120 millim.
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Genus HYPATRA.
Type. Hypetra,Guen. Noct. tiep. 259 (1852), .2..c5.2.0s-seencasareconetees ee LADUE iGea NW Lee XA Toe LOG (LEDC) sso 20a avcions acne oeaseesecenmencmee ee teenee . discolor. Pseudathyrma, Butl. A. M. N. H. (6) x. p. 209 (1892) ............ complens. Pterocheta, Holl. Nov. Zool. vii. p. 568 (1900) ...........s.ceeeee stigmata.
Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex of head and broadly scaled, the 38rd long; frons smooth, with tuft of hair above ; eyes large, round; antenne of male typically minutely ciliated; thorax clothed with hair and scales and without crests; fore tibia broadly fringed with hair, the mid and hind tibiz slightly fringed with hair, the fore and hind tibia not spined; abdomen with ridges of hair and hairy crests on basal segments. Fore wing short and broad, the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the cell about half the length of wing; veins 3, 4 from angle; 5 fully developed from just above angle; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastowosing with the cell near base only.
Secr. I. (Pseudathyrma.) Antenne of male with serrations ending in a bristle ; fore wing with the subcostal nervure curved downwards, with a large patch of androconia edged by rough scales above it on underside, the subcostal neuration distorted; hind wing with an elliptical patch of androconia on underside below extremity of vein 6.
A. Fore wing of male with the terminal area ochreous tinged with brown; hind wing with whitish patch at middle of fer minal saved enn sneececsesescasereckecsecss qui dtande vedere sade macrostidsa. B. Fore wing with the terminal area brown suffused with purplish grey; hind wing without whitish patch at middle of terminal area. a. Fore wing without distinct oblique pale medial band ... complens, b, Fore wing with distinct oblique pale medial band ...... stigmata.
7827. Hypeztra macrostidsa, n. sp. (Plate CCX XIII. fig. 4.)
do. Head and thorax brown mixed with ochreous; antenne brown; palpi creamy white suffused with black-brown at sides ; lower part of frons white, black at sides; pectus and legs ochreous white mixed with brown, the tarsi blackish ringed with white ; abdomen grey-brown, the ventral surface ochreous white, irrorated with brown towards extremity. Fore wing grey-brown largely suffused with black-brown, the terminal area except at costa ochreous suffused with red-brown; subbasal line represented by small black spots on costa and median nervure ; antemedial line double, black filled in with black-brown, oblique, the lines separating below submedian fold and forming a lobe on inner side and hook on outer above inner margin, defined on outer side by ochreous white below median nervure ; the medial area red-brown with the depressed area pale with grey-brown and two blackish patches on costa; reniform obscurely defined by black, very narrow and forming a somewhat bilobate mark beyond lower angle of cell, an obliquely curved waved black line from it to inner margin; an oblique waved black line from below costa joining the upper extremity of the reniform ; postmedial line very indistinct, double, oblique, defining the dark area, a dark brown patch before it beyond the reniform ; some
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ochreous white points on apical part of costa; subterminal line with two small black marks below costa, then slight and dentate ; a fine crenulate black terminal line. Hind wing reddish brown, the terminal area with an ochreous patch irrorated with red-brown between discal fold and vein 1; postmedial line represented by double blackish bars between vein 3 and submedian fold and a small black spot on vein 1; a slight waved brown subterminal line on the pale patch and a series of minute blackish lunules on medial part of termen ; cilia white towards apex and above vein 1; the underside pale grey-brown, a small whitish discoidal spot defined by brown and slight curved postmedial line with small blackish spots on it.
Q@. Fore wing much more uniform grey-brown, the terminal area not paler, the medial area red-brown with oblique dark line from costa to the reniform and black spot on costa above end of cell; the postmedial area with some red-brown suffusion at middle ; hind wing without the pale patch on termen.
Hab. Durcu N. Guryea, Kapaur (Doherty), 9 3,4 9 type. Exp. 3 36-38, 2 40-44 millim.
7828. Hypztra complens. Hypetra complens, Wk. xiv. 1415 (1858) ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 509. Cropia glaucofascia, Wik. xy. 1804 (1858). Cropia onerata, W\k. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. vii. p. 166 (1864). Hypetra ruinosa, Swinh. A. M. N. H. (7) xv. p. 159 (1905).
3. Head and thorax dark brown with a slight purplish grey tinge, the base of tegul ochreous ; palpi white suffused with black
Fig. 15.— Hypetra complens, 3. }.
at sides; lower part of frons white, black at sides ; pectus white ; legs banded black and white; abdomen grey-brown, the base and anal tuft:reddish brown, the ventral surface creamy white at base. Fore wing reddish brown, irrorated and in parts suffused with dark
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brown, the terminal area suffused with purple-grey ; an oblique. waved black subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line double, black, oblique, minutely waved, the lines separating below submedian fold and forming a lobe on inner side and a hook on outer just above inner margin; a black point in middle of cell ; reniform indistinctly defined by black, narrow, its lower extremity forming a bilobate mark beyond lower angle of cell; medial line indistinctly double, oblique and diffused to the reniform, waved below the cell; a semicircular pale brown patch on costal area beyond the medial line enclosing a black-brown patch on costa, its outer edge defined by a black line connected with the upper edge of the reniform ; postmedial line indistinct, double, oblique, minutely waved, a dark brown patch before it beyond the reniform ; apical part of costa with alternating black and ochreous streaks; a very faint pale subterminal line, slightly waved and defined on outer side by black marks towards costa; a crenulate black terminal line with series of ochreous points beyond it on the termen. Hind wing greyish brown; postmedial line represented by a double black bar filled in with reddish brown from vein 3 to submedian fold and black and reddish striga at vein 1 ; a waved black line on middle of termen ; cilia white towards apex and above vein 1; the underside brownish grey ; a small ochreous discoidal spot defined by brown and small postmedial spots in discal fold and below vein 2.
2. Fore wing with the patch on costa beyond the medial line less distinct and irregular, the dark spot on it nearer its inner edge ; underside of hind wing browner with faint curved waved postmedial line.
Hab. Assam, Silhet, 1 g¢ ; ANnpamans, 1 9; SrnGApoRE (Ridley), 6 3,4 2 type ruinosa; Sumatra (Sir S. Raffles),1 3, 1 2 type and type glaucofascia ; Borneo, Kuching (Shelford), 22. xp. 36-50 millim.
7829. Hypetra stigmata. (Plate CCXXIII. fig. 5.)
Hypetra stigmata, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1877, p. 610; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 509. Pterocheia dohertyi, Holl. Noy. Zool. vii. p. 568 (1900).
¢d. Head and thorax dark reddish brown with a faint purplish grey gloss; tegulie with some white at base; palpi white suffused with black at sides; lower part of frons white, black at sides; pectus white; legs banded black and white; abdomen reddish brown, the ventral surface white suffused with brown towards extremity. Fore wing reddish brown suffused in parts with black- brown and glossed with purple-grey; an oblique waved black subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line double, black filled in with dark brown, oblique, the two lines separating below submedian fold and forming a lobe on inner side and hook on outer just above inner margin, an oblique ochreous band beyond it suffused with red-brown on outer side; a black point in middle of cell; reniform indistinctly defined by black, narrow, its lower
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extremity forming a somewhat bilobate mark beyond lower angle of cell; an obliquely curved sinuous black medial line ; a black- brown spot defined by greyish on costa above end of cell and a small ochreous spot below its outer edge with a sinuous black line beyond it connected with the upper extremity of the reniform ; postmedial line indistinctly double, brown, oblique ; some ochreous points on postmedial part of costa; subterminal line indistinct, black-brown, waved to vein 4, then incurved; a crenulate black terminal line with series of ess points beyond it. Hind wing reddish brown ; postmedial line represented by a double black bar filled in with red-brown from vein 3 to submedian fold and black and reddish striga at vein 1, some dark brown and blue-grey suffusion beyond them ; a waved blackish line at middle of termen ; cilia white towards apex and above vein 1; the underside ochreous suffused and irrorated with red-brown, an ochreous discoidal spot defined by brown, traces of a curved postmedial line with dark spots at costa, discal fold, and below vein 2
Os: Fore w ing with the band bey ond the antemedial line redder brown, the spot on costa above end of cell smaller without ochreous spot below it, the postmedial line bent outwards below costa, then oblique.
Hab. AnDAmMAns, 1 $6; Burvu, typet ¢& dohertyi in Coll. Holland ; Soromons, Choiseul (Meek),2 6,19. Exp. ¢ 42, © 48 millim.
Secr. II. Antenne of male ciliated. A. Mid tibix of male dilated with a fold containing a tuft of long hair.
7830. Hypetra ethiopica, n. sp.
Head and thorax dark brown mixed with grey and some pale rufous; antenne blackish; palpi black-brown slightly irrorated with grey, pale at tips; legs blackish irrorated with grey, the extremities of the tibize and the tarsi ochreous ringed with black ; abdomen fuscous brown, the ventral surface with white bars on terminal segments, lateral series of white points. Fore wing grey- brown suffused in parts with black-brown and with slight “dark irroration, the terminal area paler; a waved black subbasal line from costa to vein 1 defined on inner side by ochreous brown ; antemedial line black, waved, oblique to submedian fold, then bent inwards to inner margin, some black suffusion before it on inner area, defined on outer side by ochreous brown, broadly at costa and extending in the cell to its extremity ; two indistinct waved dark medial lines, oblique to end of cell, ‘then inwardly oblique ; post- medial line black, bent outwards Helow costa, then oblique and rather irregularly waved, a dark brown band beyond it; the post- medial part of costa with alternating ochreous and black marks ; subterminal line slight, dark defined on inner side by ochreous, minutely dentate, slightly incurved below costa and with two small black marks on it towards costa with ochreous marks beyond
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them; a crenulate blackish terminal line with ochreous points beyond it in the interspaces ; cilia black-brown. Hind wing fuscous brown ; two slight blackish marks on vein 1 towards its extremity
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Fig. 16.—Hypeira ethiopica, g. }.
with an oblique whitish bar beyond them ; cilia with a punctiform whitish line at base; the underside with small whitish discoidal spot and dark postmedial line from costa to submedian fold.
Hab. Goin Coast, Bibianaha (Spurrell), 1 2 ; S. Nie@eErta, Tlesha (Humfrey), 1 3 type; UGanpa, Entebbe (Minchin), LQ. xp. 42-46 millim.
B. (Hypeira.) Mid tibie of male not dilated. a. Fore wing with quadrate black-brown patch beyond the cell forming a hook on inner side below...... Per novaguineana. b. Fore wifig with Junulate dark patch beyond the cell, sometimes obsolete, and without subbasal and ante- medial black bars fromicosta).:.<-.-.-<--ees------e ee ane discolor. ce. Fore wing with subbasal and antemedial black bars from costa, and without dark patch beyond the cell.. océuoides.
7831. Hypetra novaguineana. (Plate CCXXIII. fig. 6.) Hypetra novaguineana, Beth.-Baker, Noy. Zool. xiii. p. 262 (1906).
Head and thorax bright red-brown; palpi pale at tips; pectus, legs, and abdomen greyish brown. Fore wing bright red-brown with some grey irroration on basal and medial parts of costa and on postmedial area; a quadrate antemedial velvety black pateh in submedian interspace defined at sides by yellow lines; a black point in middle of cell; a velvety black discoidal patch defined at sides by yellow lines, extending to well below the cell where it forms a hook on inner side; traces of a dark postmedial line, sinuous to vein 4, then incurved, the grey irroration forming slight streaks beyond it on the veins; an indistinct sinuous dark sub-
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terminal line, excurved below vein 7 and at middle. Hind wing dark fuscous brown, the cilia whitish at tips towards apex and in submedian interspace. Ab. 1. Head, thorax, and fore wing paler and more ochreous. Hab. Br. N. Guinea, Ekeikei (Pratt), 1 5,4 2, Mt. Kebea (Pratt),3 3,32. Exp. 44-54millim. Type in Coll. Bethune- Baker.
7832. Hypeztra discolor.
Noctua discolor, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. (2) p. 50 (1794).
Avatha includens, Wik. xiii. 1107 (1857); Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 172, pl. 170. f. 6; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 507,
Hypetra trigonifera, Wik. xiv. 1411 (1858).
Hypetra curvifera, Wik. xiv. 1412 (1858); Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 174, pl. 170. f. 4; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 507.
Hypetra complacens, W\k. xiv. 1414 (1858).
Ophiusa frontalis, Wik. xiv. 1434 (1858).
Achea expectans, Wik. xv. 1827 (1858).
Head and thorax reddish brown ; antenne blackish; palpi and sides of frons deep chocolate-brown ; pectus and legs grey-brown, the spurs and tarsi with pale rings; abdomen grey-brown, the ventral surface whitish. Fore wing purplish grey-brown faintly irrorated and striated with brown; a small tuft of white-tipped scales below base of cell; subbasal line black-brown, curved, from costa to median nervure; a deep chocolate- brown antemedial lunulate spot in submedian interspace slightly defined at sides by yellowish scales, with a red-brown band from it to costa, where there is a pale oblique striga with some dark brown beyond it ; medial area pale greyish ochreous irrorated with red-brown ; a black point in middle of cell; medial line red-brown, slight, excurved and sinuous to discal fold, then incurved; postmedial line black- brown, sinuous towards costa, incurved at discal fold to the disco- cellulars where there is a chocolate-brown spot on its outer side defined on inner side by yellow scales, beyond lower angle of cell produced to a small oblique loop, excurved below submedian fold, some pale points. beyond it on costa; a slight crenulate dark terminal line. Hind wing grey-brown, the cilia white intersected with brown towards apex and white above vein 2; the underside grey-brown, the inner area whitish, a slight whitish discoidal lunule and rather diffused curved dark postmedial line from costa to submedian fold.
Ab. 1. Fore wing without the dark antemedial lunulate spot.
Ab. 2. Fore wing without the pale medial band, the antemedial spot present.
Ab. 3. trigonifera. Similar to ab. 2 but fore wing red-brown.
Ab. 4. Fore wing with blackish suffusion before the antemedial and beyond the postmedial lines, the medial area reddish brown, the antemedial spot absent.—N. Guinea.
Ab. 5. Similar to ab. 4 but fore wing with the basal and terminal areas suffused with silvery grey.—N. Guinea.
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Ab. 6. expectans. Fore wing grey-brown striated with red-brown, the medial area suffused with dark brown, the antemedial spot absent.
Ab. 7. frontalis. Fore wing grey-brown or reddish brown, the ante- and postmedial lines absent or obsolescent and the antemedial spot absent, a brown patch on costa confluent with the postmedial spot.
Ab. 8. curvifera. Fore wing entirely suffused with deep choco- late-brown, the lines pale and indistinct, the ante- and postmedial spots absent.
Ab. 9. Fore wing grey-brown, the medial area red-brown, the lines indistinct, the spots absent.—Thursday I.
Hab. “Inxpta,” 1 g type curvifera; Manpras, Nilgiris (Hampson), 2 9 ; Travancore, Pirmad (Mrs. Imray), 1 Q ; CEYLon (Templeton),5 3,7 Y types trigonifera, curvifera, and expectans, Colombo (Nietner, Meade-Waldo),2 2 type complacens, Kandy (Green, Meade-Waldo),2 3,1 2, Trincomali ( Yerbury), 3.9; Java (Horsfield, Miller), 1 6,19, Arjuno (Doherty), 19; Doren N. Gurnea, Kapaur (Doherty), 19; Br N. GuInEA, Ekeikei (Pratt), 6 6, 5 2, Port Moresby, 1 ¢, Milne Bay (Meek), 1 9 ; QuEENsLAND, Thursday I. (Mathew), 1 ¢ ; Cook’s Is., Rarotonga (J. J. Walker), 1 3 ; Socrety Is., Tahiti (J. J. Watker), if Q, Eimeo I. (J. J. Wa Iker), 1d. Exp. 34—- 50 millim.
Larva. Semper, Reise Phil. Schmett. ii. p. 562, pl. S. ff. 14, 15.
Grey ; 1st somite with pair of dorsal black spots, the 8rd to 6th and 11th somites with dorsal black bars, the 11th with dorsal hump ; abdominal somites with the dorsal area yellowish, the incisures with black lines, the lateral area with slight black streaks and more prominent streaks above the stigmata which are ringed with red-brown, the 12th somite with red-brown lateral streak and black sublateral streak; head red-brown; the anterior pair of claspers
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aborted and small. Food-plant, Callicarpa mesa. 7.
7833. Hypetra noctuoides.
Hypatra noctuoides, Guen, Noct. ili, p. 259 (1852); Hmpsn. Moths Ind. il. p. 507.
Head, thorax, and abdomen reddish brown; palpi chocolate- brown, except the 3rd joint; tarsi with pale rings; ventral surface of abdomen pale grey-brown. Fore wing reddish brown tinged with grey and w ith slight dark irroration; an oblique black sub- basal bar from costa, its lower extremity produced to a slight hook on outer side; an inwardly oblique small wedge-shaped deep chocolate-brown antemedial spot from costa and large lunulate spot in submedian interspace slightly edged at sides by pale scales ; faint traces of a curved dark medial line ; reniform a bluish grey spot slightly defined by black seales, extending to below the cell and rather coneave on inner side ; faint traces of a dark postmedial line slightly exeurved below the costa and closely approximated to
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the reniform ; an indistinct waved dark subterminal line, excurved below vein 7 and at middle; a faint crenulate dark terminal line. Hind wing grey-brown with a reddish tinge; a fine pale line at base of cilia ; the underside pale reddish brown with a slight whitish discoidal striga.
Fig. 17.—Hypetra noctuoides, 5. }.
Hab. “N. Inpta” (James), 2 2 ; Assam, Silhet (Stainsforth), 1 g, 12; Burma, Moulmein (Clerk), 1 3, Rangoon (Noble), 1g; N. Borneo, 1 @ ; Java (Horsfield), 2 $,1 9 type. Exp. 40-42 millim.
Genus CH NURGIA.
Type. Cenurgia, W\k. xiv. TAO CLSD8) ie seesecscecec sscccecscseoerseseneate convalescens. Litosea, Grote, Can. Ent. vii. p. 49 (1875) .............. ccs scenes convalescens.
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to about vertex of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd moderate; frons smooth, with slight tuft of hair above; eyes large, round; antennz of male typically bipectinate ; thorax clothed with hair and scales mixed and without crests; build slender; tibize smoothly scaled, all the tibisee spined ; abdomen smoothly scaled and without crests. Fore wing rather long and narrow, the apex rounded, the termen obliquely curved and not crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell, Hind wing with the cell about half the length of wing; veins 3, 4 from angle; 5 fully developed from above angle; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only.
Secr. I. Antenne of male bipectinate with moderate branches to apex.
A. Fore wing with the postmedial line angled outwards at submedian fold, then retracted and bent upwards to the
HOTITRO IRIS eee cae oe ute ere eens meee chain deceteee Jortalitium. B. Fore wing with the postmedial line bent inwards to the MOWONKAT AU VOlIN ts) nee cece cnet aoe Senor naiiiton conse cece susewens runica,
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7834. Cenurgia fortalitium.
Noctua fortalitium, Tausch. Mém. Mosc. 1809, p. 323, pl. 20. f£.7; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 241.
Noctua fortatilium, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 592 (1818) ; Dup. Lép.
Fr., Suppl. iii. p. 523, pl. 44. f.5; Frr. Neue Beitr. pl. 399. ff. 3, 4 ¢. Head and thorax grey mixed with brown; abdomen grey irrorated with black-brown. Fore wing pale grey irrorated with dark brown; an oblique wedge-shaped Drown patch from the cell, where it extends from near base to near extremity, to just aan middle of vein 1, edged by black and detined by white except above, its outer edge angled’ inwards at submedian “fold ; a wedge- shaped brown patch i in end of cell with a black spot in lewae angle, followed by the oblique whitish medial band; a brown postmedial band from below costa to submedian fold, edged by black and defined by white except above, its inner edge oblique, its outer edge excurved above, then ceed and angled outwards at submedian fold to near the subterminal line, which is white and strong, defined
Fig. 18.—Cenurgia fortalitium, 3.
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on/inner side by brown suffusion at costa and blackish spots above and below veins 7 and 9, defined on outer side by dark brown ‘except towards tornus; a fine dark terminal line; cilia with two brown lines through them. Hind wing ochreous whitish suffused and irrorated w ith brown ; a narrow ochreous whitish post- medial band, angled inwards beyond lower angle of cell and bent inwards to inner margin; an ochreous white subterminal line; the underside grey-white irrorated with brown, faint postmedial and subterminal dark shades except on inner area.
Hab. Russia, Urals, 1 ¢; W. Srperta, Altai; E. Turkestan, Thian Shin Mts. rp. 34 millim.
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7835. Canurgia runica.
Fuclidia runica, Feld. Reis. Noy. pl. 117. f. 11 (1874). Euclidia tehuclcha, Berg. Buli. Soc. Mose. xlix. iv. p. 221 (1875).
Euclidia magalhaensi, Staud. Hamburgh Magalhaens, iv. p. 79, pl. f. 8 (1898).
$. Head, thorax, and abdomen greyish tinged with brown ; antenne with the branches black. Bors wing pale grey suffused and irrorated with brown ; antemedial line w hich defined on outer side by dark brown, very oblique from costa to middle of vein 1 where it is joined by the whitish postmedial line defined on inner side by dark brown, which is excurved below below vein 7 and at vein 3 bent ee to below end of cell, then sinuous to the ante- medial line at vein 1; a minute brown spot in middle of cell; reni- form faintly defined by brown and with brown striga in ene the postmedial area rather browner to the strong somewhat oblique whitish subterminal line defined on outer aie by brown. Hind wing whitish tinged with brown; an oblique brown postmedial line; a brown eabccnnoal band rather diffused on inner side and excurved at vein 6; the underside whitish slightly irrorated with brown, the postmedial and subterminal lines eae and diffused.
2. Pectus and abdomen fulvous yellow irrorated with brown ; fore wing strongly suffused and irrorated with red-brown, Ve area between the ante- and postmedial lines below the cell dark brown, the subterminal line tinged with yellow, a waved brown ter- minal line, cilia with fulvous yellow mixed; hind wing fulvous yellow, the postmedial line and subterminal band darker, a brown terminal line, cilia with brown mixed.
Hab. Curnr (Sadler), 1 3,1 2, Mulchen (Elwes), 2 5,39, Araucania (B. Calvert), 1 6, 392 ; Paraconta, Chabuts Lago Blanco, 5¢,19, Straits of Magellan (J. J. Walker), 29, Sandy Point (oe JW talicery. © Q:; TIERRA DEL Fvxco. Exp. 34-44 millim.
Secr, II. Antenne of male bipectinate with short branches, the apex ciliated,
A. Fore wing with the postmedial Jine retracted at sub- geen fold to lower angle of cell.
. Hind wing of male whitish tinged with brown, of
female with the basal and inner areas suffused with
INTHE oc yaestoacaopud -baddaSsebancono one dpcincoboossnoRoudoaaeece convalescens, Hind wing of male white, of female ochreous yellow... adusta. B. oe wing “with the postinedial line oblique to inner DANCE tan ateaemeeadasis tas cine desea els vrciactleceteasies PanocdnnDenobeee togataria.
7836. Cenurgia convalescens.
Drasteria convalescens, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 289, pl. 22. f. 9 (1852); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 318.
Cenurgia purgata, Wik. xiv. 1492 (1858).
Cenurgia socors, Wik. xiv. 1492 (1858).
3. Head, thorax, and abdomen grey-white suffused with brown,
the abdomen somewhat paler. Fore wing grey suffused and F2
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irrorated with brown; antemedial line brown faintly defined on inner side by whitish, oblique to submedian fold, then erect and slightly sinuous ; a small brown spot in middle of cell; reniform faintly defined by brown, slightly angled inwards on median nervure ; postmedial line brown faintly defined on outer side by whitish, slightly excurved at vein 7, then slightly waved, at vein 2 retracted to lower angle of cell and at submedian fold again excurved, some brown suffusion on its outer side at discal fold; a faint pale subterminal line defined on outer side by blackish points. Hind wing whitish tinged with brown; a diffused slightly sinuous brown postmedial line; a narrow diffused brown subterminal band; a brown terminal line; the underside tinged with red-brown, a faint
Fig. 19.— Cenurgia convalescens, S. }.
brown discoidal spot, the postmedial lie curved and ending at vein 2, a brownish subterminal shade from costa to vein 3.
2. Head, thorax, abdomen, and fore wing more strongly suffused with brown, the last with the ante- and postmedial lines very indistinct; hind wing with the basal and inner areas strongly suffused with brown.
Hab. Canapa, Renfrew Co. (Grote), 19, Br. Columbia, New Westminster (Durrant), 19; U.S.A., New York, 3 g, 2 9, Georgia, 1 ¢, Florida (Doubleday), 3 3 types purgata and secors, Centr. States. Hap. 36-46 millim.
7837. Cenurgia adusta. (Plate CCXXIII. fig. 7.)
Poaphila adusta, W1k. xxxiii. 988 (1865). ? Drasteria convalescens, Herr.-Sehaff. Corresp.-blatt. zool.-min. Ver. Regensb. xxiii. p. 155 (1869).
Q. Head and thorax pale rufous; abdomen yellowish white slightly irrorated with rufous, the ventral surface suffused with rufous. Fore wing bright rufous irrorated with grey ; antemedial line rufous, curved ; medial line rufous, oblique to middle of cell, then erect and waved; reniform slightly defined by rufous; post-
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medial line rufous defined on outer side by whitish, oblique to vein 6, then erect and slightly waved to submedian fold, then indistinct and retracted to lower angle of cell and again excurved at submedian fold, a black mark beyond it between veins 6 and 4; subterminal line whitish, slightly waved, defined on outer side by a series of black points; a waved rufous terminal line. Hind wing whitish suffused with ochreous and irrorated with brown ; a diffused dark postmedial line; a fuscous subterminal band diffused on inner side and defined on outer side by whitish; a waved red-brown terminal line ; cilia rufous ; the underside suffused and irrorated with rufous, a dark discoidal spot, slight postmedial line, and subterminal band slightly excurved at middle.
3. Head, thorax, and fore wing grey tinged with brown and irrorated with fuscous, the last with slight dark mark beyond the postmedial line at discal fold; hind wing white faintly tinged with brown, the postmedial line and subterminal band much reduced.
Hab. Honvvuras (Dyson), 13; ? Cupa; Harrt (Tweedie), 12 type. Herp. 34 millin.
7838. Cenurgia togataria. (Plate CCXXIII. fig. 8.) Anaitis togataria, Wik. xxv. 1445 (1862). Litosea adversa, Grote, Can. Ent. vii. p. 49 (1875); Smith, Cat. Noct.
N. Am. p. 318. Cenurgia purgata, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 887 (nee W1k.).
3. Head and thorax pale grey suffused with brown; abdomen white slightly tinged with brown. Fore wing pale grey tinged with brown and irrorated with dark brown; antemedial line very indistinct, brownish, oblique, sinuous ; a blackish point in middle of cell; reniform faintly defined by brown and slightly angled inwards at median nervure ; traces of an oblique brown line from lower angle of cell to inner margin at the antemedial line; post- medial line whitish faintly defined on each side by brown, oblique below vein 7 ; a faint oblique pale subterminal line defined on outer side by minute blackish points at the veins ; a slight waved brown terminal line. Hind wing white faintly tinged with brown; a faint oblique diffused brownish postmedial line and faint white sub- terminal line slightly defined on each side by brown; the underside with the costal half irrorated with red-brown.
Q. Fore wing browner; hind wing with the subterminal line more distinctly defined on inner side by diffused brown except towards apex and tornus.
Hab. U.S.A., California, 1 d, 2 2, type adversa, Palo Alto (Barnes), 13, Sta. Barbara (D’ Urban) 2 3; Mexico, 1 ¢ , Oajaca (Salle), 1 2 type, Orizaba (Elwes, Godman), 1 3, 1 9, Jalapa (Hoege),1 3, Milpas (Forrer), 1 3,12, Coatepee (Brooks), 2 3, Cuernavaca (H. H. Smith), 1 ¢, Durango (Becker), 2 3; GUATEMALA, San Geronimo (Champion), 2¢,2 2; Costa Rica (Van Patten), 1 2, Candelaria Mts. (Underwood), 1 3, 1 9; Panama, Chiriqui (Champion), 1g, Godman-Salvin Coll. Exp. 38-50 millim.
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Sect. IIT, Antenne of male ciliated.
A. Fore wing with triangular black-brown antemedial patch in submedian interspace and two postmedial patches, . Fore wing with the lower extremity of the antemedial triangular patch produced to below the sinus of the postmedial line above inner margin ..... ..-+--++-seeeeers intercalaris. >. Fore wing with the lower extremity of the antemedial triangular patch not produced to below the sinus of the postmedial line above inner Margin ....2....0..:25---s0se0 diagonalis. B. Fore wing without ante- and postmedial black-brown patches. a. Wind wing strongly suffused with brown to the post- medial line. a. Fore wing with the antemedial line bent outwards above inner margin to join the postmecial line ...... erechlea. b', Pore wing with the antemedial line extending to inner margin and not bent outwards to join the postmedi il
lena RE RA een MENS <P LORIE Cry Fina Sued Oa An $a wee. erassiuscula. . Hind wing cchreous white with soine brown irroration .. distincta.
7839. Cenurgia intercalaris. (Plate CCXXIII. fig. 9.)
Euclidia intercalaris, Grote, Bull. Geog. Geol. Surv. Terr. vi. p. 563 (1882); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 319.
Euclidia dyari, Smith, Trans. Am, Ent. Soc. xxix. p. 214 (1903).
Head and thorax grey mixed with brown; antenne whitish ; abdomen grey tinged with brown. Fore wing grey irrorated with dark brown, the costal edge brown; a short black fascia above inner margin before middle; an obliquely curved wedge-shaped black patch shading to brown below median nervure, on which it extends from before middle to the reniform, to above inner margin beyond middle, defined by whitish except above; the cell except towards base suffused with red-brown with a wedge-shaped black streak in it before the reniform, which is oblique, grey with its centre irrorated with brown; a white line from outer edge of reni- form curving down to submedian fold, then upwards as the post- medial line to costa towards which it is defined on inner side by black ; an elongate black patch from the upper part of reniform to the postmedial line and a conical black patch filling in the lower part of its sinus, the area between them suffused with red-brown with whitish streaks on veins 4, 3; some red-brown suffusion beyond and below the postmedial line ; a double white subterminal line with a black bar before it on costal area and black line from vein 3 to inner margin; a waved black terminal line; cilia brown at base, white at tips. Hind wing grey suffused with brown; a brown postmedial line diffused on inner side and defined on outer side by whitish; a curved brown subterminal shade diffused on inner side; a blackish terminal line; cilia brown at base, whitish at tips; the underside grey-white tinged and irrorated with brown.
Hab. U.S.A., New Mexico, 1 9 type, Arizona, Tucson (Oslar), 1g, Oracle (Oslar), 1 3, Phoenix Co., Sta. Catalina Mts., 1 ¢. Exp. 34 millim.
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7840. Cenurgia diagonalis. (Plate CCX XIII. fig. 10.)
Euclidia diagonalis, Nyar, J. N.Y. Ent. Soe. vi. p, 41 (198) ; id. Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 221.
Head, thorax, and abdomen grey mixed with brown ; antennze Ww Papen Fore wing grey ieromided with brown; a short black fascia above inner margin before middle ; a triangular antemedial black patch defined by white in submedian interspace : median nervure streaked with white; a slight wedge-shaped black streak in cell before the reniform, which is me brown with faint pale annulus, elliptical; a white line from lower angle of cell curving down to submedian fold, then upwards as the postmedial line to costa, towards which it is defined on inner side by black ; an elongate black patch from the upper part of reniform to the postmedial line and a conical black patch filling in the lower part of its sinus, veins 4, 3 between them streaked with white ; some red-brown suffusion beyond the postmedial line, then running upwards to the cell before its sinus ; subterminal line double, white, defined on inner side by two black spots below costa, then by some black scales and two spots between veins 3 and 1; the terminal area tinged with brown except at apex; a waved black terminal line ; cilia brown at base, white at tips. Hind wing grey suffused with brown and irrorated with blackish ; a simuous white postmedial line excurved at submedian fold; a curved dark subterminal shade defined on outer side by whitish except towards costa; a blackish terminal line; cilia brown at base, white at tips, the underside whitish tinged and irrorated with brown, a sinuous brown postmedial shade and curved sub- terminal shade.
Hab. U.S.A., Arizona, Tucson (Oslar), 1 ¢, Oracle (Oslar), 192. Exp. 28-32 millim.
7841. Cenurgia erechtea.
Phalena erechtea, Cram, Pap. Exot. iii. p. 149, pl. 275. f. EE (1782) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am, p. 316.
Poaphila patibilis, W\k. xiv. 1471 (1858).
Poaphila narrata, W\k: xiv. 1474 (1858).
Drasteria agricola, Grote & Rob. Trans. Am. Ent. Soe. i. p. 189, pl. iv. f. 34 (1868).
Drasteria mundula, Grote & Rob. Trans. Ain. Ent. Soe. i. p. 191, pl. iv f. 85 (1868).
3. Head, thorax, and abdomen purplish mixed with brown ; antenne ringed with white; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen whitish mixed with brown. Fore wing purplish grey irrorated with brown ; a slight oblique subbasal brown striga from costa ; antemedial ine dene defined on inner side by ree and on outer side by diffused chocolate-brown, oblique and sinuous from costa to above middle of inner margin where it is met by two faint sinuous lines from median nervure before end of cell ; a black point in middle of cell; reniform faintly defined by brown ; a chocolate- brown postmedial band from costa to submedian nervure, attenuated
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above and below and diffused inwards on costa to above the reni- form, defined on outer side by the very faint slightly sinuous post- medial line, which is somewhat oblique to vein 7. a subterminal dark shade from costa to below vein 7, diffused on inner side and waved on outer, followed by a series of blackish points on the veins; the termen suffused with reddish brown from apex to submedian fold; a waved brown terminal line. Hind wing grey suffused with brown ; a brown postmedial line defined on outer side by whitish and excurved at submedian fold; a brown subterminal shade and terminal line; cilia whitish tinged with brown at base ; the under- side white tinged with atone and irrorated with red-brown, a sinuous brown postmedial line.
Fig. 20.—Cenurgia erechtea, G. }.
Q@. Fore wing suffused with red-brown, the markings very indistinct, no chocolate-brown beyond the antemedial or before the postmedial lines.
Hab. Canapa, Renfrew Co. (Grote), 2 5, 2 2, Toronto (Prout), 1 3, Vancouver I. (J. J. Walker), 1 3,2 9; U.S.A., Massachusetts, Beverly (Burg), 1 2, New York (Doubleday, Fuchs, Packard), 93,72, Garrison (Cockerell), 13,192, Texas, Dallas (Boll), 1 2, Washington, 1g, Colorado, Durango (Oslar), 3 3, 1 9, California (Osten Sschen Behrens), 3 $. Exp. 38-54 millim.
gq. Greyish green with irregular grey-brown markings, the apex with rounded fac ‘ets, the sides coarsely ribbed,
Larva. Saunders, Can. Ent. i. p. 4 & vii. p. 116; French, Papilio, iv. p. 149; Riley, 4th Rept. U.S. Ent. Comm, p. 352, pl, 62, £. 5.
Greyish yellow with two broad blackeesh somewhat interrupted dorsal ‘stripes. Food-plants : Grass, Clover, Cottonwood.
Pupa. Head and thorax dark hiown : abdomen pale brown with the incisures darker, with slight purplish bloom, the extremity with eight hooklets.
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7842. Cenurgia crassiuscula. (Plate CCXXIII. fig. 11.)
Phytometra crassiuscula, Waw, Lep. Brit. p, 259 (1809); Steph, Ill, Brit. Ent., Haust, iii. p. 126; Wood, Index Ent. pl. 17, f, 436; Sivith, Cat, Noct, N, Am. p. 317.
Drasteria erichto, Guen, Noct, iii. p, 290 (1852),
Microphysa sobria, W1k. xii. 835 che: a7).
Drasteria ochrea, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc, Nat. Sci. i. p. 155 (1873).
Remigia impressa, Butl. Cist. Ent. i. p. 117 (1872); id. Lep. Exot. pl. Ixi, f. 19.
Remigia latipes, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Aim., Het. i. p. 3888 (part.), nee Guen,
3. Head, thorax, and abdomen purplish grey mixed with brown; antenne ringed with whitish; palpi, pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen whitish irrorated with brown. Fore wing purplish grey irrorated with brown; subbasal line brown, curved, from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line brown defined on inner side by whitish and on outer side by diffused chocolate-brown, oblique and sinuous from costa to above middle of inner margin where it is met by two slight sinuous brown lines from median nervure before end of cell; a small black spot in middle of cell; reniform defined by brown, large; a chocolate- brown postmedial band from below costa to submedian fold, its edges slightly waved and its outer edge defined by the slight post- medial line ; an oblique subterminal series of small dentate blackish marks on the veins with some chocolate-brown at costa and larger black spots at veins 8 and 7; the termen suffused with reddish brown from apex to submedian fold; a waved brown terminal line. Hind wing whitish tinged with grey-brown and slightly irrorated with brown, the basal half more strongly tinged with brown; a rather diffused brown postmedial line strongly incurved bey ond lower angle of cell, then excurved; a rather “diffused dark brown subterminal band, slightly excurved at discal fold and ending on termen at vein 1; a dark brown terminal line; cilia whitish tinged with brown; the underside whitish faintly tinged with rufous and irrorated with brown except on inner area.
2. Fore wing with the antemedial line extending to inner margin, oblique and nearly straight, not defined on inner side by whitish and the chocolate-brown beyond it not diffused ; the inner line from median nervure (medial line) erect and sinuous, the outer line (part of the postmedial line) excurved below submedian fold, reniform smaller, postmedial line with slight red-brown suffusion before it beyond the cell, terminal area without red-brown suffusion ; hind wing with the basal half more strongly suffused with brown, the underside with the inner area irrorated with brown, a faint sinuous postmedial line.
Hab. Canava, Hudson’s Bay, Albany R., St. Martin’s Falls (Barnston), 49, Nova Scotia (Redman), 13,392, Ottawa (Mrs. Nicholl), 1 2, Calgary (Wolley-Dod), 3 é, ‘Vancouver L CES Walker),13; U. S. A., 1 Q type sobria, Massachusetts, 13, New York (Packard), 3 a 39, Trenton Falls (Doubleday), id.
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Garrison (Cockerell), 1 3, N. Illinois, 2 ¢, 2 9, Texas, Dallas (Boll), 23,2 9, Colorado, Boulder (Cockerell), 1 3; Mexico, Durango (Becker), 1d, Godman-Salvin Coll. ; Costa Rica, Cas- tago (Van Patten), 1 3 type impressa. Exp. 34-44 millim.
7843. Cenurgia distincta. (Plate CCX XIII. fig. 12.)
Drasteria distincta, Num, Papilio, iii. p. 143 (1883); S nith, Can. Ent. Xxxii. p. 225, pl. v. ff. 11, 12; id. Cat. Noct. N. Am.-p. 317.
3. Head and thorax pale grey mixed with brown; antennz ringed with white towards base ; palpi, pectus, legs, anil abdomen grey-white slightly irrorated with brown. Fore w ing pale grey irrorated with brow n; subbasal line brown, curved, from eee to submedian fold ; i Cstneibs line chocolate- isco n, strong, obliquely curved from eee to above middle of inner margin, ee which it is curved outwards and met by a sinuous medial He and two lines from lower angle of cell excurved below submedian fold; a small black spot in middle of cell; reniform defined by brown, large; a reddish brown postmedial oan from costa to snbeietiene fold, defined on outer side by the postmedial line, which is slightly excurved below the costa and vein 3; two subterminal black spots below costa followed by a series of minute blackish spots on the veins on a slight brownish shade; the costa towards apex and the termen from apex to vein 2 suffused with brown; a waved brown terminal line; cilia suffused with brown. Hind wing ochreous white with some brown irroration, the basal and inner areas browner; a somewhat diffused dark postmedial line from below costa to tornus, incurved beyond lower angle of cell, then excurved; a dark brown subterminal band, slightly ed at discal fold and ending on termen at vein 1; a dark brown terminal line ; ; cilia grey, “tinged with brown except towards tornus; the underside grey-w hite irrorated with brown, a faint subterminal shade.
Q. Head, thorax, abdomen, and fore wing rather darker, the last with the lines more diffused, the antemedial line extending to inner margin.
Hab. Arctic America, Slave R., Rapids of the Drowned (Taylor), 2 2; Canava, Manitoba, Aweme (Criddle), 1 3, Alberta, Calgary (Ms. Nicholl, Wolley-Dod), 8 6, 3 2, Br. Oe ee (Mrs. Nicholl), 23, Pentecton (Mrs.
Nicholl), 3 3, Okanaga R., Hedley (Mrs. Nicholl), 1 9, Up. Ashnold ane Nicholl), 4.3. Exp. 32-38 millim.
Genus REMIGIODES, nov.
Type, R. remigina.
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex of head and broadly scaled, the 3rd porrect, moderate, and thickly scaled; frons with pointed conical prominence covered by a tuft of hair above; eyes large, round; antenne of male bipectinate with moderate
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branches ending in bristles, the apex serrate; thorax clothed with scales and hair mixed and without crests; tibiae moderately fringed with hair, the fore tibiz not spined, the mid and hind tibia spined; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 1! from cell. Hind wing with the cell about half the length of wing; veins 5, 4 from angle; 5 fully developed from just above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only.
7844. Remigiodes remigina.
Euclidia remigina, Mab. C. R. Soe. Ent. Belg. xxviil. p. exci (1684. Remigia pectinata, Hmpsn. Tr. Zool. Soc. xix. p. 110, pl. iv. f. 82 (1909).
Head and thorax purplish grey suffused with red-brown; abdomen yellow, the basal crest brown. Fore wing purplish grey suffused and irrorated with red-brown ; a small red-brown Sal spot on costa; antemedial line brown, oblique, defined on outer side by red- brown from costa to vein 1, incurved in submedian interspace where there is a conical red-brown patch beyond it, a small round black spot before it above inner margin; a sinuous brown medial line angled outwards in cell and inwe Fae at vein 1; reniform obscurely
Fig. 21.— Remigiodes remiyina, 3. 2
defined by brown and with a dark red-brown patch beyond it;
brown annulus below end of cell, its outer edge indented ; post- medial line red-brown with some red-brown suffusion before it, oblique to above vein 6, shghtly bent inwards at discal fold, then obliquely curved to inner margin, a red-brown patch beyond it on costal area; a very indistinct dentate subterminal line slightly “defined on Saar side by brown and with blackish points at veins 6 to 1: the termen suffused with red-brown from apex to vein 2; a
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waved red-brown terminal line; cilia red-brown at tips. Hind wing yellow, the terminal area suffused with red-brown; a slight oblique brown postmedial line from discal fold to inner margin, excurved in submedian interspace; a waved red-brown terminal line ; cilia red-brown at tips. Underside yellow ; fore wing tinged with brown except on terminal area; hind wing slightly irrorated with brown, a slight curved postmedial line from costa to vein 2.
Hab. 8. Ntaerta, Lakoja, Mt. Patti (Christy), 1 9; Ueanpa, Ruwenzori (Wollaston), 1 $,1 9 type pectinata; MapaGascar, type f ¢ in Coll. Mabille. Hp. 44-50 millim.
Genus MOCIS. ; Type. Mocs, Habu: Vern) p. 267020 lenses cess toe an entered undata. Pelamia, Guen. Noct. 11. p: 286 (1852) oie. ee ccncasnacnssere phasianoides. Remigia,