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XOCITID.E. 



A. Fore wing M'ith the antemedial line double. 



a. Fore wing with the antemedial line waved. 



a 1 . Fore wing red-brown, without yellow tinge. 



a' 2 . Fore wing with white points on outer edge of 



reniform butleri. 



b 2 . Fore wing without white points on outer edge of 



reniform velata. 



b l . Fore wing more or less strongly tinged with yellow. 



a 2 . Hind wing suffused with brown nictitans. 



b 2 . Hind wing white tinged with rufous ; fore wing with 



the reniforin white ochreola. 



c 2 . Hind wing ochreous tinged with rufous ; fore wing 



with the reniform not white senilis. 



b. Fore wing with the antemedial line evenly curved lunata. 



B. Fore wing with the antemedial line single erepta. 



4319. Apamea butleri. (Plate CXXXVII. fig. 20.) 



Apamea butleri, Leech, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1900, p. 64. 



5 . Head and thorax grey-brown with a few white scales ; tarsi 

 with pale rings; abdomen grey suffused with brown, the dorsal 

 crests black. Fore wing cupreous red-brown with slight dark 

 irroration, the medial and terminal areas faintly tinged with fuscous ; 

 subbasal line defined by grey on outer side, waved, from costa to 

 submediau fold ; antemedial line double filled in with grey, bent 

 inwards below costa, then oblique, minutely waved; claviform 

 defined by blackish ; orbicular and reniform with fuscous centres 

 and slight brown annuli defined by black, the former round, the 

 latter slightly angled inwards on median nervure and with white 

 lunule and points on its outer edge ; an indistinct rather diffused 

 medial line, oblique from costa to lower angle of cell; postmedial 

 line indistinctly double filled in with grey, bent outwards below 

 costa, then minutely dentate and produced to black and white 

 points on the veins, oblique below vein 4, some white points 

 beyond it on costa ; subterminal line indistinct, pale, defined by 

 slight brown suffusion on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 slightly excurved at middle ; a terminal series of small black 

 lunules ; cilia fuscous and grey with fine pale line at base. Hind 

 wing greyish nearly evenlv suffused with pale brown ; a slight 

 brown terminal line ; cilia with a fine pale line at base ; the under- 

 side grey ; the costal area thickly irrorated with brown, a dark 

 discoidal lunule, sinuous diffused postmedial line, and terminal series 

 of small lunules. 



Hab. W. China, Omei-shan, 1 5 type. Exp. 36 millim. 



4320. Apamea velata. (Plate CXXXVII. fig. 21.) 



Apamea velata, Wlk. xxxii. 671 (1S65) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 174. 

 Ht/drcecia sera, Grote & Eob. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. i. p. 345, pi. 7. f. 55 

 (1868). 



Head and thorax red-brown tinged with grey ; sides of palpi and 

 frons dark brown ; tarsi blackish ringed with white ; abdomen grey 

 suffused with brown, the crests dark at tips, the lateral fringes and 

 anal tuft reddish. Fore wing pale red-brown suffused with deep 



