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■between and beyond them ; the postmedial line pale defined by 

 black, bent outwards below costa, incurved in discal fold, and bent 

 inwards below vein 4 to below end of cell, a brownish band between 

 it and the grey subterminal line, which is excurved below costa and 

 at middle and bent outwards to tornus ; a terminal series of black 

 points ; cilia chequered brown and black. .Hind wing deep orange; 

 some black suffusion at base and on inner margin ; a large black 

 •discoidal lunule ; a moderately broad terminal black band ; cilia 

 ochreous white, blackish at base. Underside of fore wing orange, 

 with streak below the cell ; orbicular, reniform, and terminal band 

 black. 



Hah. U.S.A., California {Walsbujham), 1 J type. Exp. 20 

 millim. 



28. Pyrocleptria cora. 



Hcliothis cora. Ev. Bull. Mosc. 1837, p. 47 ; id. Faini. Volg. Ur. p. 324 ; 



Dup. Lep. Fr. Siippl. iv. p. 227, pi. 70. f. 1 ; Herr.-Schaff. Sclimett. Eur. 



ii. pi. 49. ff. 246, 247 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 221 . 

 Anthcecia coreta, Gnen. Noet. iii. p. 399 (1852). 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed with grey hair and the 

 thorax with black scales ; pectus and legs brownish ochreous ; 

 abdomen black with ochreous segmental lines, the anal tuft and 

 ventral surface ochreous. Fore wing red-brown ; a subbasal black 

 striga from costa ; the ante- and postmedial lines grey arising from 

 black costal striae, the former highly curved, the latter excurved to 



Wig. W.—Pt/rocIrptrta cora, (^ , \. 



-vein 4, then strongly incurved ; a dark medial shade obtusely angled 

 at lower angle of cell ; grey streaks on the veins of medial area 

 -except towards costa, and short streaks on the veins beyond the 

 postmedial line, where there is some darker brown suffusion ; an 

 indistinct minutely waved subterminal line, with a black mark on 

 its inner side at costa; fine brown lines on termen and through 

 the cilia. Hind wing orange ; the base and inner margin black : a 

 large black discoidal lunule sometimes conjoined to the black basal 

 area ; a moderately broad terminal black band with slightly 

 sinuous inner edge. Underside orange ; fore wing Avith point in 

 cell, spot below it, the reniform, and a curved postmedial band 

 forking towards costa black ; hind wing with black discoidal lunule; 

 traces of a terminal band suffused with red towards apex. 



Hah. Hungary ; S. Kitssia, Sarepta, 3 c?, 2 $ ; Ueals, 1 6 ; 

 W. Siberia, Altai ; Mongolia ; E. Siberia ; Amur. Exp. 24 millim. 



