486 noctuim:. 



defined by olive-yellow on outer side ; a rufous terminal line diffused 

 inwardly at middle; cilia rufous at base whitish at tips, with a 

 dark line through them. Hind wing dark brown with a cupreous 

 tinge ; the basal area greyish ; a diffused crimson patch below end 

 of cell; an indistinct dark discoidal spot; cilia white, tinged with 



Fig. 231. — Stemmaphora viola, <j\ §•. 



crimson at base. Underside of fore wing white suffused with 

 crimson except on inner area, a blackish discoidal lunule and large 

 patch on terminal area from vein 6 to tornus, with whitish spot 

 above tornus ; hind wing crimson with some blackish irroration at 

 base, small discoidal lunule and diffused patch on terminal area 

 from vein 4 to tornus. 



Bah. W. Turkestan, Turcomania, 1 J , 1 $ 5 Sarawschan, 

 Issyk-kul. Exp. 22 millim. 



Genus MICRIANTHA, nov. 



Type, M. decorata. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, tlie 2nd joint reaching about 

 to middle of frons and fringed with long hair in front, the 3rd moderate ; frous 

 with large rounded prominence with raised edges, corneous process in 

 centre, and corneous plate below it ; eyes small, reniforin ; antennae of male 

 almost simple; tborax clothed with rough hair and without crests; tibia? 

 friDged with long hair, the fore tarsi with the joints short and the ungues 

 large ; abdomen clothed with rough hair and without crests. Fore wing with 

 the costa slightly excised beyond middle, the apex produced and acute, the 

 termen obliquely curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of 

 cell ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8, 9, 10 stalked ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with 

 veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 

 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



4975. Micriantha decorata. 



Heliothis decorata, Friv. Magyar Terme. Evkon, i. p. 186, pi. 3. f. 2 (1845) ; 



Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 221. 

 Anthcecia violacea, Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett. ii. p. 364 (1847), Noct. 



if. 276-7 ; Mill. Icones, iii. pi. 1 13. f. 15. 



<J . Head and thorax black clothed with brown and white hair ; 

 tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen black, the anal tuft white, the 

 ventral surface clothed with pink hair. Fore wing black-brown 

 suffused with white and purplish pink ; an oblique diffused whitish 

 antemedial band connected by a fascia on median nervure with the 

 oblique diffused postruedial whitish band ; an ill-defined rounded 

 discoidal pink patch. Hind wing orange-yellow, the basal inner 



