324 



NOCTUIDJE. 



red streaks ; an indistinct pale streak on inner margin ; the veins 

 and interspaces beyond the cell streaked with ochreous white with 

 broader fascia above vein 4 ; cilia brown at base, pure white at tips. 



Fig. 141. — Doer riesa striata, 5- f- 



Hind wing ochreous white ; the underside with the costal area 

 slightly tinged with red and irrorated with brown towards apex, 

 some brown irroration on terminal area to vein 2. 



Hub. E. Siberia, Amurland, 1 $ , Ussuri. Exp. 30 millim. 



Genus SESAMIA. 



Type. 



Sesamia, Guen. Noct. i. p. 95 (1852) vuteria. 



Microsemyra, Butl.P.Z,S. 1883, p. 155 pallida. 



Proboscis aborted, minute; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to 

 middle of irons and fringed with long hair in front, the 3rd short ; frons 

 smooth with tuff of hair; eyes large, round ; antennas of male typically bi- 

 pectinate with rather short branches to apex ; thorax clothed with hair only 

 and without crests ; tibia? fringed with rather long hair; abdomen with some 

 rough hair at base but without crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the 

 tertuen evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of 

 cell • 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 

 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell or stalked; 

 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle or stalked ; 

 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. (Sesamia). Antennae of male bipectinate to apex with rather short 

 branches. 



A. Fore wing with dark terminal line. 



a. Fore wing ochreous tinged with rufous and with slight 



dark irroration vuteria. 



h. Fore wing ochreous not tinged with rufous and strongly 



i rrorated with black calamistis. 



B. Fore wing with terminal series of black points coniola. 



4753. Sesamia vuteria. 



Phalena vuteria Stoll, Suppl. Cram. Pap. Exot. v. p. 161, pi. 36. f. 5 



(1783). 

 Cossus nonagrioides, Lef. Ann. Soc. Linn. Pans, vi. p. 98, pi. 5 (1827); 



Staud. Cat. Lep. pat. p. 190. 

 Nonagria kesperica, Brabr. Faun. And. pi. 18. ff. 1-3 (1839); Dup. Lep. 



Fr., Suppl. hi. p. 470, pi. 41. f. 2 ; Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett. ii. p. 237, 



Noct. ft'. 344-5. 

 Leucaniu incerta, \Ylk. ix. 103 (1856). 



