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NOCTUID^. 



hind wing tinged with green, especially towards costa ; the veins 

 brown. 



Ah. 1. albivitta. Fore wing with a white streak in basal half of 

 submedian fold, and sometimes also a small spot in middle of cell, 



Ab. 2. virklissiina. Fore wing without the white spot; hind 

 wing paler. 



Hab. Siberia ; E. Turkestan, Kuldja, 1 cJ ; Tibet, Kuku Nor ; 

 Kashmir, Deosai plains 12,000 ft. {Leech), 3 $ , type fuscovirens. 

 Exp. 42-50 millim. 



229. Isochlora grumi. 



Isochlora yrumi, Alph. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. xxri. p. 448 (1892) ; id. Rom. 

 Mem. ix. p. 42, pi. 1. f. 2; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 223. 



S • Head and thorax pale ochreous ; antennae fulvous : palpi, 

 tibia, and tarsi pink ; abdomen ochreous white, the ventral surface 

 pink and fuscous except towards extremity. Fore wing pale 

 ochreous ; the costal edge pink ; a pink fascia on inner margin 

 from before middle to tornus, emitting slight teeth at position of 

 ante- and postmedial lines ; a spot at lower angle of cell ; an 

 oblique postmedial series of points from below apex to inner margin 

 incurved below vein 3. Hind wing white, with some fuscous 

 suffusion on median nervure and vein 1. Underside of fore wing 

 with fuscous suffusion along subcostal and median nervures. 



Hab. Tibet, Amdo, Kuku Nor, 1 d" . Exj). 40 millim. 



Genus GRUMIA. 

 Grumia, Alph. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. xsvi. p. 453 (1<S92). 



Type. 



flora. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi pon-ect, reaching well beyond the frous 

 jind fringed with long hair below ; frons smooth, without prominence ; eyes 

 small, reniform, overhung by long cilia ; antennae of male bipectinate, with 

 short branches ; head and thorax clothed with long rough hair ; all the tibise 

 spined. Fore wing rather narrow ; the apex rectangular ; 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 ; 

 o obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 shortly stalked. 



230. Grumia flora. 



Grumia flora, Alph. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. xxvi. p. 453(1892): id. Rom. 

 Mem. ix. p. 44, pi. 1. f. 10; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 223. 



S - Head and thorax clothed with apple-green hair ; pectus and 



Fig. 45. — Grumia flora, J. \. 

 legs clothed with white hair ; abdomen black with some white hair, 



