•404 KOCTriD.Tv. 



fold ; subtei'minal line In'own, waved, exciivved below vein 7 and at 

 middle. Hind wins' orano^e-vellow ; the base and inner area black- 

 brown ; a black-brown discoidal lunule conjoined to the basal area ; 

 a narrow black-brown terminal band ; cilia black-brown at base, 

 yellow at tips. Underside of both wings orange-yellow with 

 naiTow black-brown terminal band ; fore "wdng ^vith elliptical dis- 

 coidal spot ; hind wing with discoidal point. 



Ab. 1. clirysostigma. Fore wing with elongate yellow mark in 

 lower part of cell. 



Ab. 2. Fore wing with the markings more distmct ; hind wing 

 with the cilia deep red at base, pale red at tips. 



Hah. Tibet, Kuku-noor, Amdo, SininL' Alps, 1 <S ; Sikhim 

 {Tibet Ex}:).), 2 d , 2 $ . Exp. 22-28 millim. 



Genus AUTOGRAPHA. 



Tvpe. 



Autographa, Hiibn. Yerz. p. 251 (1S27) pcirilu. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to about 

 Tertex of bead and fringed with rather long hair in front, the 3rd moderate; 

 frons smooth with large tuft of hair; eves rather small and elliptical, over- 

 hung by long cilia; antennae ot male ciliated; thorax clothed with hair 

 and hair-like scales, the metathorax with divided crest ; tibire moderately 

 fringed witii hair, the hind libiie spined between the mid and terminal spui-s 

 only; abdomen with dorsal crests on basal segments, the crests on 1st and 

 3rd segments large. Fore wing with the apex slightly produced, the termen 

 evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 

 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areoie; 11 

 from cell. Hind wing with the cell about half the length of wing; veins 

 3, 4 from angle; 5 fully developed from well above angle; 6,7 from upper 

 angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



8221. Autographa parilis. 



Kociua jxirilis, YLuhn.'Ewr. Schmett., Noct. f. 422 (ISOS) ; Dup. Lep. Fr. 



Suppl. iv. p. 527, pi. 90. f. 6 ; Auriv. Bihang K. Svensk. Vet.-Akad. 



Handl. xv. 4. i. p. 17, pi. i. f. 6; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 25C> ; 



Stiiud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 240. 

 Pluiia qv.adriplaga, Wlk. xii. 911 (1857). 



Head, tliorax, and abdomen pm-ple-grey mixed with dark red- 

 brown, the tegulse with whitish line at middle and whitish tips, 

 the patagia with Avhitish line near base ; pectus, legs, and ventral 

 surface of abdomen red-brown slightly mixed with gi'ey, the tiirsi 

 slishtlv rinsred with white ; abdomen with the basal crest red- 

 brown tipped -with white. Fore wmg jnirplish grey sparsely 

 iiTorated with black, the medial area below the cell very deep cho- 

 colate-brown ; a subbasal whitish striga from costa ; antemedial 

 line white, strongly incurved in cell, then slightly excurved ; 

 orbicidar indistinctly defined by whitish, roi;nded ; an oblique 

 silvery-white Y-shaped stigma below the cell, its arm tilled in 

 with purple-grey ; reniform with slight white annulus, its centre 

 defined bv black brown, stronglv constricted at middle where 



