190 NOCTUID.E. 



dark dash on it below the costa ; a marginal irregular lunulate 

 line. Hind wing pale yellow, with a broad fuscous marginal band. 

 Hob. Pangi, Ladak; Sikhim. Exp. 48 millim. 



1653. Agrotis pronuba, Linn. Syst. Nat. p. 842 ; Boisd. Chen. Noct. 



pi. ix, figs. 4, 5, 6 (larva). 



Agrotis innuba, Treitsche, Ear. Schmett. v, 1, p. 265. 

 Triphaena pronuba, var. hoegei, Herr.-Schaffer* Neue Schmett. p. 25, 



figs. 117, 118. 

 Triphaena subsequa, Koll. (nee Treitsche) HuyeVs Kaschmir, iv, 



p. 478. 



Head and collar brownish white, the latter with a red-brown 

 line through it and dark tip ; palpi red-brown at sides ; thorax 

 red-brown or fuscous ; abdomen reddish ochreous. Pore wing 

 greyish fuscous or red-brown ; the medial and inner areas suffused 

 with fuscous ; the subbasal, ante- and postmedial double waved lines 

 somewhat indistinct ; orbicular filled in with grey, the reniform 

 with fuscous ; the claviform obsolete ; the waved submarginal line 

 defined with black below the costa ; a marginal lunulate line. 

 Hind wing bright yellow, with a broad irregular submarginal black 

 band. 



Larva yellow, with the ventral area green, a series of short 

 subdorsal black streaks, the stigmata black ; or purplish grey, with 

 a yellow dorsal line and yellow marks below the black streaks ; or 

 purplish grey varied with brown, the ventral area green, a lateral 

 brown and yellow line. 



Hob. Europe ; Dharmsala. Exp. 60 millim. 



*1654. Agrotis ? cuprea, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 64 ; C. fy 8. no. 2272. 



Dark red-brown. Fore wing with double waved subbasal and 

 antemedial black lines ; the orbicular and claviform spots large 

 and black ; a black quadrate spot in end of cell ; the reniform with 

 black outline ; the median nervure, discocellulars, and bases of 

 veins 3, 4, 5 pale ; a pale submarginal line with a series of black 

 spots on its inner edge ; a waved black marginal line. Hind wing 

 copper-colour. 



Hob. " Bengal." Exp. 56 millim. 



Genus AMPHIPYRA. 



Amphipyra, Ochs. Schmett. Eur. iv, p. 70 (1816). 

 Apopestes, Hubn. Verz. p. 275 (1818). 



Type, A. tragopogonis, Linn., from Europe. 



Range. Europe ; Japan ; Himalayas ; Khasi Hills. 



Eyes naked and without lashes ; proboscis fully formed ; palpi 

 upturned, the 2nd joint reaching vertex of head, the 3rd prominent ; 

 antennae simple in both sexes ; thorax and abdomen without 

 tufts, the latter flattened ; tibia3 without spines. Fore wing of 

 rather even breadth throughout ; the outer margin nearly erect ; 

 cilia crenulate. 



