:{24 NocTcinjE. 



red streaks ; an iiidistinci palo streak on inner margin ; the veins 

 and interspaces beyond the cell streaked witli ochreous wliite with 

 broader fascia above vein 4 ; cilia brown at base, pure white at tips. 



Fig. 141. — Doer riesa striata, $. J. 



ITind wing ochreous white ; the underside with the costal area 

 slightly tinged with red and irrorated with brown towards apex, 

 some brown irroration on terminal area to vein 2. 



Hah. E. Siberia, Amurland, 1 $, Ussuri. Exp. 36 millim. 



Genus SESAMIA. 



Type. 



.SfSflwia, Guen. Noct. i. p. 95 (1R.52) vutcria. 



AJicrose7ni/ru,Biit\.'P.Z.S. 1883, p. 15.> pallida. 



Proboscis aborted, niiuute; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reacliing about to 

 middle of frons and fringed with long hair in front, the 3rd short ; frons 

 smooth with tuft of hair; eyes large, round ; antennaj of male typically bi- 

 poctinate with rather sliort branches to apex ; thorax clothed with hair only 

 and witlioiit crests; tibiffi fringed with rather long liair ; abdomen with sorae 

 rough hair at base but without crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the 

 terraen evenly curved and not crenulate; veins 3 and 5 fi-oui near angle of 

 cell ; 6 froui upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing witli 8 to form the areole 

 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell or stalked 

 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle or stalked 

 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. (Sesamia). Antennae of male bipectinate to apex with rather short 

 branches. 



A. Fore wing with dark terminal line. 



a. Fore wins ochreous tinged with rufous and with slight 



dark i rrorai ion vutcria. 



b. Fore wing ochreous not tinged with rufous and strongly 



irrorated with black calamistis. 



R Fore wing with terminal series of black points coniota. 



4753, Sesamia vuteria. 



Pha/ena vuleria Stoll, Suppl. Cram. Pap. Exot. v. p. 161, pi. 36. f. 5 



(1783). 

 Cossus noJiagrioidcs, Lef. Ann. Soc. Linn. Paris, vi. p. 98, pi. 5 (1827); 



Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 190. 

 yoiiagria hcspcrica, Rmbr. Faun. And. pi. 18. If. 1-3 (1839); Dup. IA\). 



Fr., Suppl. iii. p. 470, pi. 41. f. 2 ; Hcrr.-Schaff. Eur. Schraett. ii. p. 237. 



Noct. ff. 344-.i. 

 Leucama incerla, Wlk. \\. 103 (1856j. 



