mythi:u:na. 603 



*1047. Mythiuma coryphsea. (Plate LXXYIII. fig. 9.) 



Agrotis c07-yphcea, Piing. Iris, xiii. p. 118, pi. 4. f. 4 (1S99) ; Staucl. Cat. 

 Lep. pal. p. 254. 



$ . Head and thorax pale purplish pink ; abdomen whitish flesh- 

 colour, pinker below. Fore wing with the basal area, and costal 

 area to subterminal line, pale flesh-pink, the rest of wing rather 

 yellower flesh-colour ; subbasal line deep chocolate-brown, angled 

 outwards below costa and ending at vein 1 ; antemedial line deep 

 chocolate, stronger on costal half, oblique, irregularly sinuous, 

 and with fuscous suff'asion before it on inner area ; orbicular and 

 reniform very large, pale flesh-piiik, the former irregularly oblique, 

 elliptical, open above, the latter with fuseous-suft'used centre, some 

 chocolate in cell before and between them ; an oblique medial shade 

 from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line strong 

 towards costa, then fine and dentate, oblique from costa to vein 6, 

 excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line defined by 

 red-brown suffusion on inner side and by fuscous at costa, angled 

 outwards at vein 7, inwards at discal fold, and excurved at middle. 

 Hind wing ochreous white tinged with pink : the underside with 

 the costal area pinker and with slight discoidal point. 



Hah. Tibet, Kuku-noor, type f $ iu Coll. Piingeler. Exp. 42 

 millim. 



1048. Mythimua pallescens. 



Semiophora pallcscens, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) i. p. 166 (1S7S); id. 111. Het. 



B. M. ii. p. 29, pi. 30. f. 4 ; Staucl. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 201. 

 Tmniocampa lata, Staucl. Eoin. Mem. vi. p. 496, pi. 9. f. 5 (1892). 



Bright rufous ; palpi blackish at sides. Fore wing with curved 

 subbasal black line from costa to vein 1 ; the antemedial line bent 

 outwards below costa and angled inwards on vein 1 ; claviform 

 obsolete ; orbicular and reniform concolorous, defined by deep black 

 in the cell before and between them, the former hemispherical, open 

 above, the latter with slight greyish outline ; the postmedial line 

 dentate, excurved from costa to vein 4, then oblique ; the sub- 

 terminal line pale, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at 

 middle, with a dark patch before it at costa ; some dark points on 

 termen sometimes present. Hind wing rather paler, with traces of 

 postmedial and subterminal waved lines ; the underside with dark 

 discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial line. 



Hah. Amtjklaxd, Ussuri ; Japan, Yokohama (Jonas), 1 d" , 1 $ 

 type, (Frt/er), 2 c^ , 4 $ . E.ip. 46 millim. 



1049. Mythimna Calebs. (Plate LXXYI. fig. 18.) 

 Agrotis ccelchs. Stand. Iris, viii. p. 313 (1895) ; id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 137. 



S . Head and thorax dark brown mixed with grey ; abdomen 

 grey-brown. Fore wing grey-brown ; a double, waved, subbasal 

 line from costa to submedian fold ; a double dentate antemedial 

 line, strongly angled outwards above inner margin ; orbicular and 



