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Chera erubescens, Hmpsn. 111. Het B. M. viii, p. 78., pi. 145, f. 14. (1891). 



1635a. Agrotis rubicilia, Moore, P.Z.S., 1867, p. 55. 



Graphiphora mgrogigna, Moore, P.Z.S., 1881, p. 352 pi. 38. f. 4. 



Head and thorax olive-yellow and rufous to bright lufous, ; palpi except -at 

 tips and hair on pectus purplish red, tibia? and tarsi blackish ; abdomen greyish 

 or ochreous, the anal tuft and ventral surface rufous. Forewing pale rufous 

 suffused with yellow except the terminal area from apex to middle of inner 

 margin, or purplish with some olive suffusion from middle of costa to subter- 

 minal line and extending to lower angle of cell ; an indistinct, waved, double 

 sub-basal line from costal to submedian fold ; a double, waved antemedial line ; 

 claviform represented by a fuscous point at its extremity ; orbicular and 

 reniform indistinctly defined by brown, the former round ; an indistinct waved 

 medial line, angled outwards to lower angle of cell ; the postmedial line 

 double, dentate and produced to points on the veins, bent outwards below 

 costa, slightly incurved at discal fold and incurved below vein 4 ; the 

 subterminal line greyish, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a 

 terminal series of points. Hindwing fuscous brown ; the cilia purplish red : 

 the underside pale reddish, the costal area deeper red, and the costal and 

 terminal areas irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal spot and sinuous post- 

 medial line. 



Habitat.— J \v.\s ; W. China ; Kashmir, Narsundah ; Punjab Sultanpur, 

 Dalhousie, Dharmsala ; Sikhim. Exp. 32-40 mill. 



1635&. Agrotis basistriga, Moore, P.Z.S., 1867, p. 54 ; Hmpsn. Cat. Lep. 

 Phal. P.M. IV., p. 427, pi. 71 f. 4. 



Head and thorax purplish grey suffused with deep red-brown, or entirely 

 red-brown ; palpi deep red-brown, pale at tips ; tibia? and tarsi blackish 

 irrorated with white ; abdomen pale red-brown, the anal tuft and ventral 

 surface purplish red. Forewing deep rufous and olive fuscous, more or less 

 completely suffused with purple-grey, some dark suffusion above basal part 

 of vein 1 and on medial part of inner margin ; a double waved sub-basal line 

 from costa to vein 1 with a dark point in the cell beyond it ; a double, waved, 

 antemedial line strongly angled outwards above inner margin ; claviform 

 small, defined by brown ; orbicular and reniform defined by brown, and with 

 their centres defined by brown ; an indistinct waved medial line angled 

 outwards on median nervure ; a double postmedial line, dentate and produced to 

 points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, slightly angled inwards at discal 

 fold, incurved below vein 4 ; a double subterminal line, angled outwards at vein 

 7 and excurved at middle, and with some olive-brown suffusion before it at 

 costa, some pale points on costa towards apex ; a terminal series of dark points. 

 Hindwing yellowish white, the terminal area suffused with fuscous or fuscous 

 brown ; cilia pale purplish red ; the underside paler, the costal area suffused 

 with purplish red ; a dark discoidal lunule and sinuous postmedial line. 



Habitat. — W. China ; Punjab, Dharmsala ; Tibet, Yatung ; Sikhim. Exp„ 

 38—42 mill. 



