DELTA. 193 



Yokohama (Jonas), 1 $ ; Corea, Gensan ( Leech), 1 $ ; Centr. 

 China, Ningpo, 1 $, Eiukiang (Pratt), 1 $ ; W. China, Chang 

 Yang (Pratt), 1 $, Nitou, 1 tf , Chia-kou-ho (Pw«), 1 tf , Ta- 

 chien-lu (Pratt), 2 3 ; Kashmir, Goorais Valley (Leech), 1 $ ; 

 Punjab, Kulu, Sultanpur, 2 J, Simla (Harford), 2 $, Dharmsala 

 (Hoclinr/),2 J-,4 $ , Thundiani ( Yerbury), 1 $; Sikhim, 3 tf type 

 sikkimensis ; Madras, Nilgiris (Hampsori), 1 d", 1 $; Ceylon 

 (Green), 1 $ . £fcp. 32-34 millim. 



3798. Delta ramosula. (Plate CXXVII. fig. 23.) 



Chantha ramomla, Guen. Moot. ii. p. 114, pi. 9. f. 1 (1852) ; Grote, Bull. 

 Buff. Soc. Nat. Sei. i. p. 83, pi. 2. f. 16; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. 

 p. 167. 



Head and thorax grey mixed with reddish brown ; frons with 

 black bars at middle and above ; tegulae with slight dark lines at 

 middle and near tips ; pectus red-brown ; mid tibbe with a black 

 streak, the tarsi brown with pale rings ; abdomen ochreous suffused 

 with rufous, the dorsal crests blackish at tips. Fore wing grey 

 suffused with red-brown, the cell and area beyond it obliquely to 

 apex ochreous white tinged with rufous, the veins with dark 

 streaks ; a black streak in basal half of submedian fold slightly 

 defined by whitish above : a short black streak above inner margin 

 before middle ; faint traces of an antemedial line very strongly 

 angled outwards in submedian interspace and above inner margin 

 and inwards on vein 1 ; orbicular represented by two slight rather 

 oblique black streaks in cell ; reniform yellowish white defined by 

 black on inner side and below and its centre by rufous, constricted 

 at middle, expanding below and extending to below angle of cell, 

 the area round its loAver part deep red-brown, a short black streak 

 from it above vein 4 ; the pale apical fascia defined by blackish below; 

 short subterminal black streaks above veins 6, 5, 4 ; veins 4, 3 

 defined by dentate whitish marks extending to termen and wedge- 

 shaped black marks from termen above veins 2, 3 ; a terminal 

 series of black striae ; cilia dark brown intersected with white 

 at the veins. Hind wing ochreous white, the terminal area 

 broadly suffused with reddish brown, more uniformly suffused in 

 female; cilia ochreous white ; the underside yellowish white, tin? 

 costal and terminal areas slightly irrorated with brown, a small 

 discoidal spot and indistinct minutely waved curved postmedial 

 line. 



Hab. Canada (Norman), 1 5 ; U.S.A., Northern, Eastern, Middle 

 and Central States, New York, Albany (W. W. Hill), 2 J , 3 $ . 

 Exp. 36-40 millim. 



3799. Delta steuarti. (Plate CXXVII. fig. 24.) 



Actinotia stewarti, Grote, Can. Ent. vii. p. 28 (1875); Smith, Cat. Noct. 

 >s. Am. p. 1(57. 



5 • Head and thorax violaceous grey mixed with dark brown ; 

 dark bars above frons and between antennae; tegulas with slight 

 vol. vii r. o 



