BARATHRA, TP.ICHORniZA. 13 



antemedial line double, waved, nearly erect ; claviform defined by 

 black, short ; orbicular and reniform large, defined by black, the 

 former round, the latter with white spots on its inner and outer 

 sides, or wholly filled in with whitish ; a waved medial shade 

 angled outwards on median nervure ; postmedial line dentate and 

 produced to points on the veins, double towards costa, bent out- 

 wards below costa, slightly incurved at discal fold and strongly 

 below vein 4, some white points beyond it on costa ; siibterminal 

 line white, dentate outwards at veins 7, 4, 3, the area beyond it 

 rather darker ; a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia 

 intersected with whitish. Hind wing brown, paler towards base ; 

 a slight whitish mark on vein 2 near termen ; cilia wliite, with 

 brown line through them ; the underside ochreous white, the costal 

 and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a discoidal lunule and 

 waved postmedial line. 



Ab. 1, scotochroma. Melanic. 



Ab. 2. andalusica. Paler, the fore wing yellowish grey and 

 without rufous tinge. — S. Europe. 



Ab. 3. decoJoraia. Much paler, fore wing whitish grey. — 

 W. Turkestan. 



JIah. Britain, Leech Coll. ; France, Leech Coll. ; Germany, Zeller 

 and Leech Colls. ; Switzerland, Frey Coll. ; Spain; Italy; Sicily; 

 NoRAVAY, Zeller Coll.; Kussia; Armenia; Asia Minor, Bithynia, 

 Pontus ; Persia ; W. Turkestan, Fergana, Issyk-kul ; Siberia ; 

 Amtjrland, Blagoveschensk, 6 J , Ussuri ; L^^pan, Hakodate, 1 cJ , 

 Yokohama {Jonas, Fryer), G cj' , 1 $ , Tokio (Maries), 1 (^ , 1 2 ; 

 W. China, Chia-kou-ho (Pratt), 1 c? , Wa-ssu-kou, 1 (^ , Pu-tsu-fang, 

 1 (S ; Kashmir, Xarkundah (McArthur), 2 S -, Nubra (McArthur), 

 1 d", Scind Valley (Leech), 1 §, Goorais Valley (Leech), 1 .^ ; 

 Punjab, Kulu, Sultanpur (G. Young), 2 c? , Thundiani (Yerhury), 

 ] c? > 2 2 , Simla (SwinJioe), 1 c? , Dalhousie, 1 § , Dharmsala 

 (Hoclinq), 2 cJ, 1 $; Tibet, Yatung (LJobson), 1 §. E.vj^. 

 40-52 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 8G ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 210, pi. 160. f. 2. 



Brown to dull green, sometimes marked with blackish ; 

 dorsal line dark ; spiraeular line yellowish ; somite 1 1 dorsally 

 humped ; head yellowish brown with dark markings. Food-plants : 

 Lirassica, liumex, Che^iopodium, etc. 6-9. 



Genus TRICHORHIZA, nov. 



Type, T. peferseiii. 



Proboscis liiUy developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint fringed with liair 

 in front ; t'rons with rounded prominence excised below, above the corneous 

 plate ; antenna; of n)ale ciliated ; head and thorax clothed chiel3y w ith scales, 

 the prothorax with divided cres^t ; abdomen with dorsal series ot crests. Fore 

 wing with veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; (> Ironi u])per angle ; !• from 

 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell, llind w'ing with 

 veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; /> obsolescent from middle of discocellulurs ; 

 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with cell uear base only. 



