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877. PhlogopJiora fuscomarginata, sp. n. 



Head, tliorax and abdomen pale brownigli, tufts on nietathorax 

 dark velvety-brown ; lateral tufts of abdomen pinkish ; pectus, 

 tibiie, and under side of abdomen rusty-red. 



Primaries pale brownish tinged with fuscous ; basal line sliort, 

 blackish, indistinct ; antemedial line blackish, curved and recurved, 

 preceded by a blackish triangular patch on the inner margin ; post- 

 medial line blackish, curved to vein 5 where it is angled, thence slightly 

 curved to inner margin and shaded internally with deep fuscous ; sub- 

 marginal line paler than ground colour edged, and obscured below vein 

 6, by a dark brown band ; the area beyond is deep fuscous from 

 vein 6 almost to the inner margin ; there are indications of other 

 finer transverse lines ; reniform and orbicular both large, of the 

 ground colour edged and centred with paler and outlined in blackish ; 

 fringes dark fuscous, excejit towards apex, preceded by a black line 

 which is lunulated below apex. Secondaries pale brown suffused 

 with fuscous on basal area, the discal mark is linear but indistinct ; 

 central line blackish, wavy ; submarginal and marginal lines dark 

 fuscous, interrupted ; fringes brown preceded by a blackish line. 

 Under surface of primaries pale brown, suffused with fuscous on 

 median area, merging into ochreous on the outer half of the wing 

 and powdered with red scales towards the apex ; there is a dusky 

 bar-like cloud at the end of the cell with an ochreous spot on each 

 side of it ; postmedial line dark brown, curved ; submarginal band 

 fuscous parallel with the outer margin but indented below the costa ; 

 outer margin clouded with fuscous below vein 6 : secondaries pale 

 brown, the costal area powdered with rusty-red, postmedial line dark 

 brown, wavy. 



Expanse 56 millim. 



One male example ffom Pu-tsu-fong, taken in June or 

 July. 



Hcibitat. Western China. 



Genus Helotropha. 

 Lederer, Noct. Eur. (1857). 



878. IJdotro'plia Icucostigma. 



Nodua Icucostigma, Hlibn., Noct., fig. 375. 



Noctua fibrosa, Hlibn., Noct., fig. 385. 



A'pamca Icucostigma, Treit., Schmett., v, 2, p. 331. 



Cerastis Lvvis, Butl., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1881, p. 181. 



