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$ 36 to 42 miu. In Kashmir, also distributed in Anterior India, extending to Ceylon. — In the form June- junctifera. 

 tifera Walk, the wings are rather lighter towards the base, with black discocellular spot, whic:h touches 

 a brownish or reddish spot on the outside. 



A. substrigosa Walk. (19 h). Light reddish yellow; forewing greyish in the marginal area at a subcostal suhstru/osa. 

 and median striix-. Hindwing slightly lighter than the forewing. Pectinations of antennae black. Body 

 beneath white. Fringes with indistinct darker spots. 32 mm. pyrrhochroma Walk. (19 i) is said to be a riyrrho- 

 form of substrigosa, as they occur together and with all kinds of transitional forms. But true pyrrhochroma ""-roma. 

 looks very different, the hindwing bearing a broad marginal band. North India, China. 



A. cinnaniomea Moore. From the boundary of the Palearctic Region. Forewing light yellowish brown chnm- 

 with rather indistinct discocellular spot tuid without transverse lines, fringes ochreous. Hindwing orange, inomea. 

 suffu!5ed with brownish. ^ 34 mm. — aurantiaca Walk, is a somewhat smaller form (30 mm.) which, to iwdge aurantmca. 

 from the description, has darker dull brown forewings. North- West Himalayas. 



A. flavicoUis Leech (22 c), from Chang-yang in China, is semitransparent whitish; venation, costa, flavicollis. 

 margin and fringes of both wings, as well as head and thorax smoky brownish grey. Collar yellow. Ab- 

 domen whitish with darker rings in the basal half. 40 mm. — Later Leech has described (in Trans. Ent. 

 Soc. London 1899, p. 120.) a $ from Chia-kou-ho which is said to be entirely whitish, with the thorax 

 of the same coloxu- as the collar. This form, which is more probably a separate species, may receive the 

 name leucoides Strand. leucoiden. 



8. Genus: Cifiiiia Walk. 



Medium-sized, usually dark-coloured moths with long stout and usually obiquely porrect palpi, 

 bipectinate antennae, and moderately long wings, whose outer margin is nearly straight. — Distributed in 

 South and East Asia. 



C. locuples Walk. (19 d). Forewing dull reddish yellow or ochreous, variegated with whitish and tocuplcs. 

 purple, with curved indistinct transverse band and a more distinct, darker, and almost straight marginal 

 band russet brown. Hindwing brownish yellow to ochreous. Both wings beneath reddish yellovv, bearing a 

 blackish spot externally light-edged, and a similar submarginal band. Forewing usually with distinct reni- 

 forra discocellular spot. $ darker and more unicolourous. Expanse 40 to 52 mm. The chief form occurs in India 

 as well as in South and Central China. — In Auiurland, Corea Japan, etc., the species occurs in a smaller 

 (32 to 35 mm.) and darker form, var. confusa Brem., in which there are often sharply defined black spots coniusa. 

 before the inner angle and in the costal half of the basal area, these spots being at most indicated in true 

 locuples. Moreover, at least in Japanese specimens, the median band of the forewing is more irregular than 

 in true locuples. — Larva not unlike that of fascelina, with long-hairy brushes; those near the head yellow 

 with dark hairs in the centre; on low-growing plants, especially on vetches (Graeser). 



C. eurydice Butl. (= amata Stgr.) (19d). 9: Forewing olive-grey, in the basal half with a broad black eurydice. 

 transverse band not reaching the base; a discocellular spot is at least indicated; at the costal margin in the 

 apical half there is a deep black narrow halfring and in the marginal area a transverse row of black dots, 

 which markings are larger on the grey-l)lackish underside. Hindwing black (brown), with olivaceous greyish 

 yellow outer margin above and below. ^ smaller and darker, hindwing uniformly brownish black to the 

 olive-grey fringes. ^ 39, $ 46 mm. — Larva very brightly coloured, with rose-red dorsal tufts. Full-grown 

 in June, on Vitis amurensis. Amurland, Japan. 



C. jankowskii Oberth. (19d). (J: Reddish brown, forewing in the basal half with two or three nar- ja»k-owskr,. 

 row whitish transverse streaks edged with black on the inner side, discocellular spot indistinct and reni- 

 form; in the apical half two black zigzag or wavy transverse lines, between them a black transverse stripe 

 twice or three times interrupted. Hindwing without transverse markings, but with two or three short black 

 longitudinal streaks in the apical half ; similar streaks on the underside of both wings, but only in the basal 

 half; a submarginal dark transverse band is indicated beneath on both wings. $ slightly lighter, especially 

 the hindwing, which is traversed by a broad blackish transverse line. ^ 33, $ 30 mm. — Larva resembling 

 that of the preceding species, but the dorsal tufts of hair golden brown; on Vitis amurensis. Eastern Asia. 



9. Genus: liaelisi Steph. 



Medium-sized moths, unicolourous, white, ochreous, brown, etc., or with very simple markings. Closely 

 allied to Aroa, but nocturnal, the wings rather more elongate and the membrane of the wings forming a 

 small groove at the upper angle of the cell on the underside. Antennae long, with long pectinations in the 

 (J, and short ones in the $. Palpi long and porrect. Veins 6 and 7 of the hindwing stalked. Hindtibiae 



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