<j22 NOCTTITDiE. 



Hah. Feance; GERHAxr, Zeller & Frey Colls,; Spain; Greece; 

 ScANBiNAViA ; Aehenia ; Asia ^^[inok, Mthyina, Pontus ; Syria. 

 Exp. 40 millim. 



Larva. Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Raupen iv., Noct. ii. Gr. h. 



Purplish brown ; diffused dorsal black patches on 1st four somites, 

 the others with double dorsal line ; lateral line dark on 1st four 

 somites, then white with black lunules above it ; a sublateral series 

 of oblique black streaks on a dark grey stripe. Food-plant, Primula 

 acaulis. 



1074. Epilecta accipiter. 



Spintherops acc'qntcr, Felcl. Eeis. lso\. pi. 111. f. 29 (1874) ; Hmpsn. Moths 

 Ind. ii. p. 189. 



5 . Head and tegulte white, sometimes tinged with rufous ; 

 palpi black except at tips ; antenna; black : thorax black or red- 

 brown ; pectus and legs black, the tibiae and tarsi ringed with 

 white ; abdomen fuscous brown, the ventral surface black irrorated 

 with grey. Fore Aving pale or deep purple-brown ; the basal and 

 costal areas irrorated with grey-green and sometimes also vein 1 

 and the postmedial line ; a double, waved, subbasal line from costa 

 to submedian fold ; a double, waved, antemedial line ; upper and 

 outer edges of claviform defined by black : orbicular and reniform 

 pale brown, defined by black with some grey-green on them, the 

 cell before and between them black, the former nearly round, the 

 latter large ; a waved medial shade from lower angle of cell to 

 inner margin ; the postmedial line dentate, produced to short streaks 

 on the veins, sometimes double, bent outwards below costa, excurved 

 to vein 4, then incurved ; an irregularly waved subterminal line ; 

 the terminal area paler with crenulate black terminal line. Hind 

 wing yellow, with the costal area and a rather narrow terminal 

 band fuscous, the latter narrowing to tornus ; the underside with 

 the costal area grey irrorated with black, crossed by a postmedial 

 bar. 



Hah. N.W. Himalayas, Lad;ik, Pangi; Tibet, Yatung (Hohson), 

 2 § ; SiKHiM. Exj). 46-48 millim. 



Genus TRIPH.ffiNA. 



Type. 



Iriphana, Hiibn. Verz. p. 221 (1827) inferjccta. 



if(//zj37'0, Hiibn. Verz. p. 221 (1827) fimhria. 



Eusckesis, Hiibn. Verz. p. 221 (1827) jantldna. 



Ahagrotis, Smith, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. 38, p. 49 (1890) crralica. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi oblique, the 2nd joint fringed with long 

 hair, produced to a point at extremity, the ;ircl joint short, porrect, and slightly 

 fringed with hair below ; frons smooth ; eyes large ; head and thorax clothed 

 with hair and scales, the pro- and metathorax with slight spreading tufts ; 

 tibia^ fringed with hairs above, the mid and hind tibia; spined ; abdomen 

 dorsally flattened and fringed with hairs at sides. Fore wing with the margins 

 subparallel, the apex rounded ; veins o and 5 from close to angle of cell ; 

 6 f)-om 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; 5 obsolescent 

 from middle of discocellulars ; C, 7 from upper angle. 



