582 



xoctuidj:. 



Sarepta, Leech Coll.; Armenia; Asia Minor, Pontus, Bithynia, 

 Taurus; Persia; W. Turkestan, Ala Tau ; \V. Siberia, Altai; 

 Mongolia, Urga; E. Siberia, Kentei, Amurland, Ussuri ; Japan, 

 Yesso (Pn/er), 2 J, Oiwake (Pryer), 1 J, Tokio {Maries), 1 $ ; 

 Corea, Gensan (Leech), 1 <S , 1 $'. i&p. 24-28 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 2S5; Hffm. Kaup. p. 142. pi. 36. 

 f. 13. 



Green ; dorsal and subdorsal lines black ; lateral line whitish. 

 Food-plants: Grasses, Sparganium and Polygonum. 8-9. 



5865. Eustrotia argotypa. (Plate C'LXV. fig. 31.) 



Hycla aryotypa, Turner, Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. sxvii. p. Ill (1902). 



8 • Head and thorax white mixed with dark brown ; abdomen 

 ochreous white slightly irrorated with brown, the basal crest 

 blackish. Fore wing white irrorated with dark brown, the medial 

 and terminal areas suffused with brown ; subbasal line represented 

 by a slight dark striga from costa ; antemedial line strong, white 

 defined on outer side by dark stria?, angled outwards and interrupted 

 below costa, then oblique and minutely sinuous ; claviform repre- 

 sented by slight dark suffusion ; orbicular and reniform white 

 faintly defined by blackish, the former an oblique bar, its upper 

 extremity slightly bent outwards and its lower extremity inwards, 

 the latter with brownish centre, strongly constricted at middle and 

 angled inwards on median ner\ tire almost to the orbicular, a diffused 

 blackish fascia between and beyond them, the veins beyond the 

 reniform with slight dark streaks; postmedial line strong, white, 

 oblique from costa to vein 4, then slightly incurved ; a subterrainal 

 series of short blackish streaks ; a terminal series of slight black 

 lunules defined on inner side by some white scales. Hind wing 

 white irrorated with brown, the underside with dark discoidal 

 lunule and traces of diffused curved postmedial line. 



Hub. Queensland, Brisbane (Turner), 1 J . Exp. 26 millim. 

 Type t in Coll. Turner. 



5866. Eustrotia rhaptina. (Plate CLXV. fig. 32.) 



Erastria rhaptina, Turner, Tr. R. Soc. S. Austr. xxviii. p. 217 (1904). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen whitish grey ; palpi fuscous at sides ; 

 legs tinged with fuscous. Fore wing white largely suffused with 

 golden brown, especially on medial area and before the subterminal 

 line ; the subbasal line ill-defined, white with a black striga before 

 it at costa and a waved black mark beyond it below the cell ; ante- 

 medial line golden brown, fine, oblique, defined by white on each 

 side ; orbicular and reniform figure-of-8-shaped, white with golden 

 brown centres to upper and lower parts, defined by black ; post- 

 medial line fine, golden brown defined on each side by white, 

 strongly bent outwards below costa and slightly incurved below 



