

200 NOCTUID.E. 



and postmedial Hues white, waved. Hind wing white, suffused with 

 grey, darker towards termeu ; ante- and postmedial lines white, 

 waved ; a fuscous discoidal spot. Underside of fore wing fuscous 

 grey with a white terminal band ; hind wing white, the termen 

 fuscous grey. 



Hob. E. Siberia, Ussuri, Vladivostok, type t in Coll. Staudinger. 

 Exp. 13 millim. 



Genus PHiEOZONA, nov. 



Type, P. ])u>yurasce7!s. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi with the 2nd joint obliquely upturned 

 to vertex of head and fringed with hair above and below, the 3rd moderate, 

 porrect ; frons smooth ; eyes large, round ; antennaj somewhat laminate and 

 ciliated ; thorax clothed with rough scales and without crests ; tibia? slightly 

 fringed with hair ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the apex 

 rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 

 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9, 10 strongly anasto- 

 mosing with 8 to form a minute areole ; 11 from cell. Hmd wing with veins 

 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 nearly fully developed from just below middle of 

 discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near 

 base onlv. 



*5311. PhsBozona pnrpurascens. 



Acantholipies purpurascens, Beth.-Baker, Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 265(1906). 



<$ . Head and thorax deep red-brown mixed with dark brown ; 

 palpi dark brown ; pectus and legs greyish mixed with red-brown ; 

 abdomen greyish suffused with red-brown, the ventral surface 

 whitish tinged with rufous. Fore wing with the basal area rufous, 

 the rest of wing dark brown except the inner half of medial area 

 which is pale rufous below the cell and the terminal area which is 



Fig. 42.— Phaozona purpurascens, c?. }-. 



violaceous grey except at apex ; antemedial line indistinct, double, 

 with some pale points on it, curved and minutely waved ; two 

 rather triangular discoidal spots defined by whitish ; an indistinct 

 oblique line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial 

 line almost obsolete towards costa, then double filled in with greyish, 

 most distinct towards inner margin, bent outwards below costa, 

 then minutely waved and excurved to vein 2, then erect ; subter- 

 minal line dark, bounding the brown area, excurved at middle ; a 



