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THYATIRA. By W. Warren. 



irimaculata. 



slramineata 



finvida. 



ohlonga. 



flavimargo. 



conspi.cKa. 



hedemanni. 



violaceu 



out Europe. North and Central Asia, to China and Japan; al.so occurs in N. India. The examples from China 

 and Japan are always larger than the European. 



T. trimaculata Brem. (49 e). Forewing deep olive browai overlaid with dense black speckling; three 

 large white rounded blotches, their centres suffused with brownish pink; the largest occupying the base, a smaller 

 one at apex and anal angle; terminal pinkish white, brown-filled lunules along termen between the blotches; 

 fringe brown, pink at apex and anal angle; hindwing whitish, with grey cell-spot, sinuous outer line and diffuse 

 terminal border, the extreme termen and fringe whitish; head and collar black; tegulae white; patagia white 

 at base, then brownish. Amurland. 



T. stramineata spec. nov. (= flavida Leech (part) nee Bth.) (55 n). Forewing olive grey with the wavy 

 lines blackish; an oblong whitish basal patch, rimning bluntly outwards above vein 1 across base of cell; a large 

 rounded white patch at apex; a smaller one at middle of costa and a flattened one at anal angle; inner line 

 bigeminate, outcurved at middle; outer line double, followed on costa by two short white strigae; stigmata 

 pale, with dark outlines; the orbicular dotlike, the reniform oblong, vertical; subterrainal line hnmlate-dentate, 

 the teeth white-tipped basewards; terminal black lunules filled in with paler; fringe ohve brown; hindwing 

 straw yellow, with broad blackish terminal border in apical half, becoming narrower and subterminal below; 

 the fringe and extreme termen straw colom-. A large and conspicuous insect ; the type from the Khasia Hills, 

 Assam; the specimen from Ichang, Central China, referred by Leech (Tr. E. S. 1900, p. 11) to flavida Btlr. 

 and now in the British Museum Collection, is identical. 



T. flavida Btlr. Considerably smaller than stramineata and nmch duller, the hindwing suffused with 

 dull browniish grey. Described from a single (^ from Hakodate, Japan. 



T. oblonga Pouj. (= flavida Leech (part) nee Btlr.). Forewing dark gre5dsh fuscous with wavy cross lines ; 

 basal patch small, projecting in middle somewhat in the shape of a duck's beak; a small white spot at middle 

 of costa beyond rise of outer line ; a large and a small white spot on imier margin, often united ; an oblique round- 

 ed white apical patch, and a small flattened anal patch ; the wavy dark transverse lines alternated with paler 

 spaces; the outer and subterminal lines edged with grey; terminal lunules dark with grey edges; fringe brown; 

 hindwing fuscous tinged with luteous. especially in the cj; a darker obscurely marked subterminal band. Found 

 in W. Cliina. 



T. flavimargo I^eech. Forewing fuscous brown, traversed by several darker and paler wavy lines; a 

 purplish brown spot at base of wing, tliis colour extending also over the thorax; reniforna stigma outlined 

 with blackish; a round pinkish white spot above it, and a larger curved spot towards apex, outwardly edged 

 with black; on middle of inner margin a narrow erect whitish spot, and towards anal angle a round ochreous 

 one iuM-ardly edged with whitish; fringe brown beyond a sinuous black terminal line: hindwing fuliginous, the 

 termen bordered with orange yellow in the $ ; fringe orange jellow in both sexes ; luiderside of wings fuliginous 

 with yellow median bands and terminal borders. W. China: Omei-shan; Pu-tsu-fong; Chia-kou-ho. 



T. conspicua Leech. Forewing pale fuscous brown, traversed by faint wavy lines; an irregularly shaped 

 white basal patch, marked with black spots and outlined Avith black; stigmata Avhite outlined with black: a large 

 white patch at middle of costa traversed by short dark lines; another towards apex preceded and followed 

 by black lines ; on the outer part of inner margin some smaller white spots with black outlines ; hindwing yellowish, 

 with a blackish subterminal band, outwardly diffuse; fringe yellowi.sh; two black spots at outer angle ; underside 

 yellowish with black median and terminal markings. Described from 2 (J<^ from Chia-kou-ho and Pu-tsu-fong, 

 West China. 



T. hedemanni Christ. (49 d). Forewing greyish olive, darker in median area; basal patch dull whitish, 

 tinged below median vem with olive brown; the blotches before apex and at anal angle dull grey tinged 

 with pmk; before the apical blotch a deep olive costal triangle; outer line forming the limit of the blotches 

 and projecting outwards as a crenulate line between them ; subterminal line obscurely dentate lunulate ; reniform 

 sliL'iiiii obscure; hindwing pale olive fuscous. Transcaucasia. 



T. violacea Fixs. (49 e). Forewing olive brown mixed in parts with bluish slate-colour; a large slate- 

 coloured basal blotch, shortly and narrowly projecting in middle, tinged with dark olive at costa and yellowish 

 olive below median, and containing a short oblique white dash from vein 1 to median vein; stigmata deep 

 olive brown, round, with white contiguous annuli; above the reniform two inwardly oblique short dark streaks 

 in the midst of a pale slate-coloured costal patch ; these streaks reappear beyond cell between veins 6 and 2 

 as two lunulate dark outer lines edged with a white line, this last alone continued to imier margm as the edge of 

 a slate coloured anal blotch, the inner half of which is olive yellow; the dark olive terminal area is interrupted 

 by a wide diffuse slate-coloured streak from apex ; subterminal line marked at its origin on costa by a white 

 curved striga; a black festooned terminal line followed by a row of narrow white terminal lunules filled up with 

 deep olive; fringe deep olive, rayed with white beyond veins; hindwing glossy slaty olive, with a faint paler 

 outer band; the fringe whitish. Described from Gorea, found also in West and Central China. 



