YAIEEIA. 353 



Sect. V. {Synvaleria). Antenna3 in both sexes almost simple. 



A. Fore wing with the terminal area white sauheri. 



B. Fore wing with the terminal area not white. 



a. Fore wing with large white tooth in snbterminal line 



running inwards below vein 3 jaspidea. 



h. Fore wing without white tooth in subterminal line pardaria. 



*2525. Valeria sauteri. (Plate CIV. fig. 20.) 



Valeria sauheri, Grass. Berl. ewt. Zeit. 1892, p. 223 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. 

 pal. p. 168. 



2 . Head and thorax white ; sides of palpi and frons black ; a 



black bar above frons ; vertex of head with some black hair ; 



tegulas with black stripe at middle ; patagia edged with black ; 



vertex of thorax mostly black; tibiae and tarsi banded with black; 



abdomen black-brown mixed with some whitish. Pore wing white 



with a slight olive tinge, the basal area slightlj- irrorated with 



black, the medial area almost wholly suffused and irrorated with 



black ; subbasal line represented by strong black striae from costa 



and cell; antemedial line strong, black, connected with the subbasal 



line at costa, oblique and sinuous to submedian fold, angled inwards 



on vein 1, excurved and with black lunule before it above inner 



margin ; claviform very large, whitish strongly defined by black 



except at base, extending to median nervure; orbicular and reniform 



large, whitish defined by black, the fermer round, the latter slightly 



angled inwards on median nervure ; postmedial line strong, black, 



arising from below costa, slightly incurved at discal fold, then 



minutely dentate, slightly angled outwards at vein 4, then oblique, 



incurved in submedian interspace where there is a short oblique 



black streak from just beyond it to above tornus ; the postmedial 



area with blackish patch on costal area with two white points on 



costa ; subterminal line absent ; a terminal series of small black 



lunules ; cilia with series of black lunules at tips. HLiud wing 



blackish brown ; cilia white slightly chequered with brown ; the 



underside grey-white suftused in parts with brown, a diftused 



oblique antemedial line, a discoidal spot, a diffused slightly sinuous 



postmedial line curved inwards to costa, a diffused subterminal 



band on costal area, and some small spots and stride on termen. 



Hah. E. SiBBBA, Amurland, Pokrofka, type t § in Coll. Piingeler. 

 Exp. 38 millim. 



2526. Valeria jaspidea. 



Noctua jaspidea, Vill. Linn. Ent. ii. p. 284, pi. 5. f. 28 (1789) ; Doiiz. Ann. 

 Soe. Ent. Fr. x. p. 211, pi. 4. f. 1 ; Diip. Lep. Fr., Suppl. iv. p. 90, 

 pi. 58. f. 3; Herr.-Schatl'. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 426; Stand. Cat. Lep. 

 pal. p. 168. 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed with blackish, grey, and 

 greenish scales ; tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen red-brown 

 mixed with greyish. Pore wing red-brown mixed with greyish 

 and irrorated with black scales, the veins streaked with sap-green 



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