620 NOCTUID^. 



terminal line interrupted by minute white streaks at the veins ; 

 cilia "white at tips ; the- underside white irrorated with dark brown, 

 a fuscous discoidal lunule, sinuous postmedial line, and some grey 

 on termen of both wings. 



Ab. 1. issifca. Redder, the termen less waved. — Issyk-kul. 



JIab. Beitaix ; France ; Geemaxy, Zeller & Prey Colls. ; Savitzer- 

 LAND ; Spain : Italy ; S. Russia ; Armenia ; Bithynia ; W. Siberia ; 

 W. TtTRifESTAN, Altai, Issyk-kul ; E. Siberia. E.-q). 42-48 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 104 ; Bar]-ett, Lep. Brit, t. p. 246, pi. 217. f. 1. 



Pale greyish ochreous, brown-speckled ; subdorsal black marks 

 on somites 11, 12, the latter confluent behind ; lateral series of 

 indistinct pale oblique marks ; spiracular line pale, black-edged 

 above ; ventral surface yellower ; head greyish ochreous marked 

 Avith brown. Pood-plants : Rumex, Sonclms, apple, etc. 8-4. 



1072. NaBiiia contaminata. (Plate LXXYI. fig. 28.) 



Gi-aphipliora contaminata, Wlk. xxxiii. 710 (1865) ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. 

 p. 185. 



Head and thorax reddish brown mixed with grey ; palpi blackish 

 at sides, the tarsi blackish with pale bands ; abdomen fuscous brown, 

 the ventral surface pale brown irrorated with black. Pore wing 

 pale brown irrorated with black ; a double, slightly waved, subbasal 

 black line from costa to submedian fold : a double, waved, somewhat 

 oblique antemedial line ; claviform sometimes slightly defined by 

 black ; orbicular and reniform with their centres defined by brown 

 and defined by blaclv, the former round, the latter large, the cell 

 between them suffused with black ; postmedial line double, dentate, 

 and produced to points at the veins, bent outwards below costa, 

 excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the subterminal line minutely 

 waved, excurved at vein 7 and middle, and with dentate black 

 marks on its inner side below costa and above and below vein 5 ; 

 a terminal series of black points. Hind wing fuscous brown ; cilia 

 pale ochreous with brownish spots ; the underside greyer irrorated 

 with black, a black discoidal lunule and sinuous postmedial line, 

 some grey on termen of both wings. 



Hah. Amur ; Ussuri : Japan, Yokohama (Jonas, Maries, Pryer), 

 5 (5, 8 $, type, Tsu-shima (Hoist), 1 $, Oiwake (Pryer), 1 ?; 

 China, Shanghai, 1 J , 2 $ , Kiukiaug (Pratt), 3 $ . Kvj). 40-50 

 millim. 



Genus EPILECTA. 



Type. 



Epilccta, Hiibn. Verz. p. 220 (1827) Unogrisea. 



Hiria, Dup. Cat. Meth. p. 145 (1844), nee Hyria, Lam. Moll. 



1819 Unogrisea. 



Proboscis fully clevelopecl ; paljii with tlie 2nd joint oblique, moderately 

 scaled in front and with slight pointed tuft at estreuiity, the 3rd joint long, 

 naked, and porrect ; frons smooth, with ridges of scales above and between 

 antennre ; eyes large ; antenna? of male ciliated ; head and thorax clothed with 

 scales, prothorax with spreading crest, a double dorsal ridge-like crest ; mid 



