178 NocTrm^:. 



to termen ; a terminal series of black points from apex lo vein 3. 

 Hind -wing pure white. 



Ab. 1. centripuncta. Fore wing with black point at lower angle 

 of cell. — Dalmatia, Russia. 



Ab. 2. flavhhi. Pore wing yellowish. 



Ab. 3. cdbida. . Fore wing with the ground-colour white. 



Ab. 4. murina. Head, thorax, and fore wing deep red-brown, 

 the veins streaked with white ; hind wing with the terminal area 

 suffused with brown leaving white streaks on the veins. — Dalmatia, 

 Sweden. 



Hub. Britain Leech Coll. ; France, Sand Coll.; Germany, Zeller, 

 Prey, and Leech Colls. ; Austria; Hungary; Switzerland; Dal- 

 matia; Sweden, I cJ , 1 §; Finland; Russia; E. Turkestan, Hi. 

 Exp. 30-42 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 144; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iii. p. 275, pi. 123. 

 f. 3. 



Blackish or dark grey-brown with pale marblings ; subdorsal 

 and spiracular lines pale ochreous yellow often marked with red, 

 the tubercles on them yellow or orange ; fascicles of pale reddish- 

 brown and black hairs; head black streaked with ochreous. Food- 

 plants: Phragmites, Oarex, Typlia, 8-9. 



*377 s; . Simyva saepistriata. 

 Arsilonche sapistriata, Alph. Iris, viii. p. 188 1 1895). 



o . Head, thorax, and abdomen white suffused in parts with 

 brown. Fore wing white with broad brown streaks in the inter- 

 spaces. Hind wing uniform ochreous grey. 



Bab. Mongolia, TJrga. E.vj). 40 millim. This species is unknown 

 to me. 



3770. Simyra albicosta, n. sp. (Plate CXXVII. fig. 15.) 



5 . Head and thorax white, the Lead, teguloe, prothorax, front 

 of pectus, and legs suffused with rufous ; abdomen white tinged 

 with red-brown. Fore wing rufous, the costal edge white, the 

 median nervure and veins of terminal half slightly streaked with 

 white ; a white spot at base of costa ; cilia white at tips. Hind 

 wing white faintly tinged with red-brown; cilia white. 



Hub. Madras. Nilgirifi, 1 $ type. Exp. 40 millim. 



3780. Simyra confusa. 



Leitcania confusa, Wlk. ix. 105(1856) ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 9, pi. 145. 

 f. 4 ; Hmpsii. Moths Ind. ii. p. 285. 



Head and thorax white tinged with rufous ; abdomen white, the 

 extremity and ventral surface tinged with rufous. Fore wing pale 

 rufous slightly irrorated with brown, sometimes with two slight 

 brown striye on discocellulars and one beyond upper angle of cell ; 

 cilia white faintly tinged with rufous. Hind wing white taint ly 



