SYXGRAPHA. 433 



wing whltisli suffused with red-brown with a golden gloss and 

 sti-iated with dark brown, the medial area with a deeper red-brown 

 patch below the cell ; subbasal line white defined on each side by 

 dark brown, sinuous, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line 

 silverv-white defined on each side by deep red-brown, angled 

 outwards below costa, strongly bent inwards in cell, then obliquely 

 curved ; orbicular with white annulus, oblique elliptical, narrowing 

 below ; an oblique silvery-Avhite V-sliaped stigma below the cell, its 

 inner side angled inwards on median nervure, its anns filled in by 

 whitish defined by red-broAvn ; reniform with silvery-white outline 

 and slight black marks in its four extremities, its inner edge oblique, 

 its outer strongly indented at middle with a blackish mark beyond 

 it ; postmedial line double, red-brown filled in with whitish, "bent 

 outwards below costa, then oblique, slightly waved to discal fold 

 and angled inwards at vein 2 and submedian fold, a whitish shade 

 beyond it ; subterminal line black-brown with short dark streaks 

 before it from costa to below vein 3 and a longer streak at discal 

 fold, angled inwards below costa, excurved at vein 7 and angled 

 outwards below veins 4 and 3, a red-brown shade beyond it from 

 costa to vein 2 ; a fine sinuous dark terminal line ; cilia with a 

 white line at base followed by a sinuous red-brown line. Hind 

 wing wdiite tinged with red-brown, the terminal area red-brown 

 with a golden gloss ; cilia white with a red-brown line near base ; 

 the underside white tinged and irrorated with red-brown, a slight 

 brown discoidal striga, dilf used postmedial line and subterminalshade. 



Sah. Madeira {WoUasfoii, Meek), 1 d^ , 4 2 ; Ca>-aries, 

 Teneriffe (Leech, KoU-White, V/aUinrjliam), 4 d , 1 $ ; 

 Dalmatia ; Greece, Leech Coll. ; S. Kussia ; Traxstaal 

 {Boss), 2 S, Pretoria {Distant), 1 5, Johannesburg (Distant), 

 1 6 ; Natal, Stanger {Deh-in), 1 c? , Estcourt {Hutchinson), 

 1 d", 1 ?, Maritsberg {Berensburr/), 1 5, Durban (Leigh), 

 1 6 ; Basutolaxd, Machacha (Crawshay), 1 S ; Cape Colont 

 {Sir A. Smith, Drege), 2 d" , 4 2 type patefacta, Annshaw 

 (Miss F. Barrett), 1 $, G-rahamstown {Mrs. Tuck), 1 c? , 

 Capetown (Trimen), 1 $ ; Armexia ; Asia Minor (Leclerer), 

 1 2 , Amanus Mts., 1 c? ; Syria, 1 d' , Leech Coll. ; Persian Gulf, 

 Fao {Cum/nin(/),l S,l 2; N- PERSIA, Seharud {Cristojjh),^ 2; 

 W. Turkestan, Sarawschan, Issyk-Kul, Ala Tau ; W. Siberia, 

 Altai; E. Turkestan, Hi; Madras, Nilgiris (Hampson), 2 6, 

 1 2 ! Pain is (CampheU),! d ; Ceylon, Pundalo^'a {Green),! 2- 

 Exp. 36-46 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 271. 



Green with a lateral yellow stripe. Food-plants : Potato, etc. 



Sect. II. Fore wing witli tlie apex somewhat produced and acute, the tenuen 

 slightly excised below it. 



A. Fore wing with the stigma below the cell Y-shaped, or 



U-siiaped with a spot beyond its lower extremity gammoidcs. 



B. Fore wing with the stigma below tlie cell U-shaped, its 



lower extremity produced to a slight streak eqcua. 



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