MANOBIA. 277 



Fore wiug rufous suffused with purplish grey, leaving the area in 

 and beyond end of cell and the medial area below submedian fold 

 rufous ; subbasal line waved, from costa to submedian fold ; a 

 wedge-shaped dark brown streak below base of cell ; antemedial 

 line defined by grey on inner side, angled outwards below costa, 

 oblique to vein 1, and bent inwards to inner margin ; claviform 

 small, very indistinctly defined by brown ; orbicular and reniform 

 with brownish centres and grey annuli defined by brown, the former 



Fig. 57. — Manobia xena , (S . \. 



round, the latter slightly angled inwards on median nervure ; post- 

 medial line double, filled in with grey, minutely waved, slightly 

 bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; sub- 

 terminal line grey defined by brown on each side and with a brown 

 patch with pale points on it before it on costa, minutely waved, 

 angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate at veins 4, 3 ; a fine waved 

 terminal line. Hind wing pale brown, the veins and a fine terminal 

 line darker ; cilia brownish white ; the underside pale pinkish 

 irrorated with brown, a discoidal lunule and curved postmedial line. 



Fore tarsi with curved claws on outer side of 1st joint. 



Eah. Tibet, Kuku-noor, 1 S • Amdo. Exp. 40 millim. 



1525. Manobia grisea. (Plate LXXXV. fig. 22.) 



Alyssia grisea, Butl. A. M. N. H. 1 5) i. p. 82 (1878). 



(S . Head and thorax reddish brown, some of the scales tipped 

 with grey ; abdomen pale ochreous brown. Fore wing ochreous 

 brown tinged with greyish ; subbasal line indistinct, double, \Aaved, 

 from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line indistinct, double, 

 waved, oblique ; orbicular and reniform very indistinct, pale ; an 

 indistinct curved medial shade ; postmedial line indistinct, double, 

 waved, bent outwards below costa aud incurved below vein 4, some 

 wliitish points beyond it on costa ; the terminal area rather darker, 

 with traces of subterminal line angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 slightly excurved at middle ; a terminal lunulate line. Hind wing 

 brownish ochreous, the terminal area rather darker ; the underside 

 with indistinct, diffused, subterminal band. 



Hub. Japan, Yokohama (Jonas), 1 d type. Ex}). 54 millim. 



