L'H xoCTriD.r-, 



A. Fore winj; witli the antPincdial line rloublo. 

 fl. b'nie wiiit; wiili tlie aiitemedial line waved. 



«'. Fi>re wing reil-bri(wii, without yellow tinge. 



«■-'. Fore wing with white points on outer edge of 



renitbrni bntleri. 



b'. Fore wing wiilioiit white points on outer edge of 



reniform velu/a. 



b\ Fore wing more <>r less strongly tinged with yellow. 



a^. Ilind wing sufJu-^ed wiiii brown nictitans. 



b'^. lliud wing wiiite tinged with rufous; fore wing with 



tlie reniform white ockreola. 



c^. Hind wing ochreous tinged with rufous ; fore wing 



witli the reniform not white se?iilis. 



h. Fore wing witii the antemedial line evenly eurved liinata. 



B. Fore wing with the antemedial line single erepta. 



4319. Apamea Mtleri. (Plate CXXXVII. fig. 20.) 



Apamea butleri, Leech, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1900, p. 64. 



5 . Head and thorax graj'-brown with a few white scales ; tarsi 

 with pale rings; abdomen grey suffused with brown, the dorsal 

 crests black. Fore wing cupreous red-brown with slight dark 

 irroration. the medial and terminal areas faintly tinged with fuscous ; 

 subbasal line defined by grey on outer side, waved, from costa to 

 submcdian fold; antemedial lino double filled in with grey, bent 

 inwards below costa, then oblitiue, minutely waved; claviform 

 defined by blackish ; orbicular and reniform with fuscous centres 

 and slight brown annuli defined by black, the former round, the 

 latter slightly angled inwards on median nervure and with white 

 lunule and points on its outer edge ; an indistinct rather diffused 

 medial line, oblique from costa to lower angle of cell; postmedial 

 line indistinctly double filled in with grey, bent outwards below 

 costa, then minutely dentate and produced to black and white 

 points on the veins, oblique below vein 4, some white points 

 beyond it on costa : subterminal line indistinct, pale, defined by 

 slight brown suffusion on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 slightly excurved at middle ; a terminal series of small black 

 lunules ; cilia fuscous and grey with fine pale line at base. Hind 

 wing greyish nearly evenly suffused with pale brown ; a slight 

 brown terminal line ; cilia with a fine pale line at base ; the under- 

 side grey ; the costal area thickly irrorated with brown, a dark 

 discoidal lunule, sinuous diffused postmedial line, and terminal series 

 of small lunules. 



Hah. W. China, Omei-shan, 1 $ type, Exp. 36 millira. 



4320. Apamea velata. (Plate CXXXYII. fig. 21.) 



Apamea velafa, Wlk. xxxii. 671 (1865); Smith. Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 174. 

 Hi/dracia sera, Grote & Eob. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. i. p. 345, pi. 7. f. 55 

 '(18(i8). 



Head and thorax red-brown tinged with grey ; sides of palpi and 

 frons dark brown ; tarsi blackish ringed with white ; abdomen grey 

 sufi'used with brown, the ciests dark at tips, the lateral Iringes and 

 anal tult reddish. Fore wing pale red-brown sufi'used witli deep 



