THE MOTHS OF INDIA. 701 



9 . Hindwing wholly suffused with brown. 



Habitat. — Kashmir, Scinde Valley, Goorais Valley. Exp. 26 mill. 



Genus Hermonassa. 



A. Hindwing uniform brown sinuata. 



U. Hindwing pale, at least towards base. 



a. Forewing with pale streaks on the veins spilota. 



b. Forewing without pale streaks on the veins. 



a Forewing with the ground colour olive-green or 



suffused in part with olive. Exp. 34 — 38 mill. 



a- Forewing with the antemedial line bisecting 



the claviform incisa. 



b'- Forewing with the antemedial line not bisect- 

 ing the claviform lunceola. 



b l Forewing fuscous suffused with purple or rufous, 



rarely with olive. Exp. 32 mill cousignata. 



1676. Hermonassa sinuata. 



1672. Hermonassa spilota. 



1673. Hermonassa incisa. 



Subsp. 1, much darker ; thorax largely mixed with black ; forewing fuscous, 

 the basal area, and the costal area to beyond middle, suffused with olive green ; 

 hindwing tinged with fuscous. 



Habitat. — Kashmir, Rala, Barra Larcha ; Punjab, Thundiani ; Dalhousie; 



Dharmsala ; Tibet, Yatung. 

 1675. Hermonassa eanceola. 

 1671. Hermonassa gonsignata, insert (syn.) Hermonassa chalybeata, Moore, 



P.Z.S., 1881, p. 353, pi. 38, f. 17 ; Hmpsn., Moths. Ind., II., p. 197. 

 The typical form has the forewing red-brown, irrorated with blue-grey and 

 with a slight olive tinge. 



ab l . Forewing more ferruginous red, without blue-grey irroration, some 



black suffusion in cell before and between the stigmata. 

 ab' 1 . Paler ; head and thorax and basal half of forewing pale olive 

 greenish ; abdomen and hindwing whitish, the former with the 

 anal tuft rufous. 

 ab* . lunata, tegulse black, or with black line at base ; forewing brown 

 suffused with purple, and without blue-grey irroration ; clavi- 

 form often minute or absent, orbicular more triangular. 

 Kuku-noor, Kashmir, Thundiani. 

 aV. chalybeata, smaller : forewing fuscous, irrorated with blue-grey, 

 the markings less distinct, claviform minute or absent. Yatung. 

 Genus Agrotis. 

 Agrotis, Ochs. Schmett. Eur., IV., p. 66 (1816), non. descr., 



Treit. .'Schmett. Eur., V (1), p. 125 (1825) rectangula. 



Graphiphora, Ochs. Schmett. Eur., IV., p. 68 (1816), non 



descr ravida. 



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