SYNOEAPHA. 415 



with slight white amuihis defiiu^d at sides hy black-brown and its 

 centre deiined by black-brown, constricted at middle ; a dark brown 

 medial shade, oblique to lower angle of cell, then inwardly oblique ; 

 postmedial line double, dark-brown filled in with silvery-white, bent 

 outwards below costa, oblique and sinuous below vein 6, some white 

 points with dark streaks between them beyond it on costa ; 

 subterminal line black-brown defined on inner side by brown 

 suffusion, excurved below vein 7 and angled outwards below veins 4 

 and 8 ; a waved dark terminal line defined on inner side hx whitish ; 

 cilia chequered brown and grey. Hind wing yellow, the basal and 

 inner areas suffused with brown, the terminal area dark brown; 

 cilia chequered white and brown ; the underside with the basal and 

 costal areas irrorated wltli brown, a slight brown discoidal lunule 

 and curved postmedial line. 



Hab. GrERMAXT, Alps, Zeller Coll. ; Austria, Carinthia, Zeller 

 Coll. ; Hungary ; Switzerland, Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls. ; 

 N. Italy, Courmayeur {Ilanrpson) ; W. Turkestan, Tarbagatai 

 Mts. ; W. Siberia, Altai ; E. Siberia, Dahuria, Amurland, 1 S , 

 1 9 . U.q). 3i-42 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & ilotlis Eur. p. 272; Hlfm. Raiip. p. 135. 



Green with 'fine vellow longitudinal lines. Food-plant, Larch. 

 4-5. 



8230. Syngrapha niicrogamma, 



Kuclua inicrogamma, Iliibn. Eur. Scliniett., Noct. ff. G9S-9 ("1823); l)up. 



Lep. Fr. vii. 2, p. 55, pi. 138. f. 2 ; Siaud., Cat. Lep. pal. p. 239. 

 Plusia inco?7ipleta, Reuter, Act. Fauna Flora Fenn, i.\. p. 59 (1893). 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed with grey ; tegula) whitish at 

 tips, the patagia with oblique whitish line at middle and whitish 

 ti[)S, the thoracic crest whitish at tips ; tarsi ringed -with white ; 

 abdomen grey-brown, the crests dark brown tipped with white. Fore 

 wing purple-grey slightly irrorated with black, the medial area 

 below the cell and the terminal area suffused with cupreous red- 

 brown ; subbasal line double, blackish filled in with -white, excurved 

 below costa and ending at vein 1 ; antemedial line blackish defined 

 on inner side by silvery-white, excurved below costa,* strongly 

 incurved in cell, then oblique and sinuous ; orbicular with faint 

 whitish annulus. oldique elliptical ; an ol)li(pie silvery-wdiite Y-shaped 

 stigma below the cell, its tail dilated into a spot ; reniform with 

 slight silvery annulus defined on inner side by black, its centre with 

 some black at extremities, constricted at middle where there is a 

 black spot beyond it ; postmedial line double, red-brown, filled in 

 with silvery-wdiitish towards inner margin, bent outwards below 

 costa, then minutely waved to vein 5, then slightly incurved and 

 sinuous, some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line 

 brown, excurved belinv vein 7 and slightly below veins 1 and 3 ; a 

 brown terminal line defined on inner side by a fine grey line ; cilia 

 cheijuered gi-eyish and brown. Hind wing yellow, the base and 

 inner margin suffused with brown, tlie terminal area dark red-brown, 



