AMPHIPTEA. 191 



SECT. 1. (Amphipyra}. Palpi with the 2nd joint smoothly scaled. 



1655. Amphipyra monolitha, Guen. Noct. ii,p. 414 ; C. $ S. no. 2258. 

 Amphipyra surnia, Feld. Reis. Nov. pi. 112, fig. 17. 



Head and thorax dark chocolate ; abdomen fuscous. Fore wing 

 with the waved subbasal and antemedial double lines filled in with 



Fig. 118. Amphipyra monolitha, $ . \. 



silvery grey ; the orbicular small and silvery ; the postmedial 

 waved line bent inwards below the costa, and with diffused silvery 

 grey on its outer edge ; a subrnarginal series of ill-defined silvery- 

 grey lunules, those towards the costa having black streaks inside 

 them and joined by grey streaks to a marginal series of specks. 

 Hind wing coppery red, the costal area suffused with red-brown ; 

 underside with cell-spot and broad marginal band. The silvery 

 grey of fore wing may be replaced by pale brown. 



Hab. Japan ; JN". China ; Dharmsala ; Sikhim. Exp. 66 millim. 



1656. Amphipyra magna, Wlk. Cat. xxxiii,p. 868 ; C. #. S. no. 2257. 

 Amphipyra chalcoptera, Feld. Reis. Nov. pi. 112, fig. 18 ; C. fy S. 



no. 2254. 



Differs from monolitha in the head, thorax, and fore wing being: 

 pale red-brown irrorated with black scales, the last with a broad 

 medial black-brown band ; the subbasal and postmedial lines more 

 prominent and waved ; the orbicular larger ; the submarginal dark 

 and pale lunules more prominent and joined to the marginal specks 

 by dark streaks. Underside of both wings with postmedial 

 diffused band. 



Hob. N.AV. Himalayas ; Punjab. Exp. 70 millim. 



1657. Amphipyra livida, Schi/. Wien. Verz. p. 85. 



Amphipyra corvina, Motsch. Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. xxxix, i, 



p. 194 (1866) 

 Amphipyra corviis, C. $ S. no. 2255. 



Head, thorax, and fore wing dark shining purplish fuscous ; the 

 vertex of head sometimes pale reddish ; abdomen fuscous. Hind 

 wing pale, suffused with coppery red, the apical area with fuscous. 



Hob. Europe ; Japan ; China ; Khasis. Exp. 48-52 millim. 



