BAEATHRA. — TEICHORHIZA. 13 



antemedial line double, waved, nearlj' erect ; claviform defined by 

 black, short ; orbicular and reniform large, defined by black, the 

 former round, the latter with white spots on its inner and outer 

 sides, or wholly filled in with whitish ; a waved medial shade 

 angled outwards on median nervure ; postmedial line dentate and 

 produced to points on the veins, double towards costa, bent out- 

 wards below costa, slightly incurved at discal fold and strongly 

 below vein 4, some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal 

 line white, dentate outwards at veins 7, 4, 3, the area beyond it 

 rather darker ; a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia 

 intersected with whitish. Hind wing brown, paler towards base ; 

 a slight whitish mark on vein 2 near termen ; cilia white, with 

 brown line through them ; the underside ochreous white, the costal 

 and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a discoidal lunule and 

 waved postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. scotochroma. Melanic. 



Ab. 2. andalusica. Paler, the fore wing yellowish grey and 

 without rufous tinge. — S. Europe. 



Ab. 3. decolorata. Much paler, fore wing whitish grey. — 

 W. Turkestan. 



Uab. Britain, Leech Coll. ; France, Leech Coll. ; Germany, Zeller 

 and Leech Colls. ; Switzerland, Frey Coll. ; Spain ; Italy ; Sicily ; 

 Norway, Zeller Coll.; Piussia; Armenia; Asia Minor, Bithynia, 

 Pontus ; Persia ; W. Turkestan, Fergana, Issyk-kul ; Siberia ; 

 Amtjrland, Blagoveschensk, 6 J , Ussuri : Japan, Hakodate, 1 cJ , 

 Yokohama (Jonas, Fri/er), 6 d" > 1 2 ■> Tokio (Maries), 1 c? , 1 2 ; 

 "W. China, Chia-kou-ho (Pratt), 1 d , Wa-ssu-kou, 1 S , Pu-tsu-fang, 

 1 c5' ; Kashmir, Narkundah (McArthur), 2 S , Nubra (J\Ic Arthur), 

 1 (S , Scind Valley (Leech), 1 2i Croorais Valley (Leech), 1 (J • 

 Punjab, Kulu, Sultanpur (G. Yoimy), 2 cT , Thuudiani (Yerhury), 

 1 S , 2 5 , Simla (Sivinhoe), 1 J , Dalhousie, 1 § , Dharmsjila 

 (Hocking), 2 c? , 1 $ ; Tibet, Yatung (Hohson), 1 $. Exp. 

 40-52 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 86 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 210, pi. 160. f. 2. 



Brown to dull green, sometimes marked with blackish ; 

 dorsal line dark ; spiracular line yellowish ; somite 1 1 dorsally 

 humped ; head yellowish brown with dark markings. Food-plants : 

 Brassica, Rumex, Chenopodium, etc. 6-9. 



Genus TRICHORHIZA, nov. 



Type, T. pefcrseni. 



Proboscis luUy developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint fringed with hair 

 in front ; frons with rovinded prominence excised below, above the corneous 

 plate ; antennte of male ciliated ; head and thorax clothed chiefly with scales, 

 the prothorax with divided crest ; abdomen with dorsal .series ot crests. Fore 

 wing with veins 3 and 5 from near argle 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 ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 

 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with oell near base only. 



