78 NOCTUID^.— APAMIID^. 



lunule at end of cell and -well-marked antecilial line. Underside smoky brownish grey : 

 fore wing with short streak from eosta two thirds from base ; the area beyond the submar- 

 ginal band paler : hind wing with distinct lunule at end of cell and postmedial baud : both 

 wingrs with maculate antecilial line. 



Allied to R. reiialis. 



NOCTUID^. 



Chera efflorescens. (Plate CXLV. fig. 7.) 



Expanse IJ inch. 



Male. Fore wing purplish grey suffused with pink ; numerous very indistinct waved 

 transverse lines, the most distinct of which form a band beyond the cell, and another 

 submargiual one ; reniform chestnut with an indistinct dark spot below it ; an indistinct dark 

 patch on costa near the apex. Hind wing dusky nacreous. Cilia of both wings pinkish 

 brown. Underside pale ; costa of both wings pink; a dark striga from costa three fourths 

 from base : hind wing with lunule at end of cell and postmedial band. Head and collar 

 reddish grey ; palpi black at sides ; thorax and abdomen purple-grey. 



Chera erubesceus. (Plate CXLV. fig 14.) 



Expanse IJ inch. 



Male. Fore wing grey uniformly suffused with pink ; orbicular grey, outlined with 

 black; a large black spot below it in median interspace; reniform grey, outlined with 

 chestnut. Hing wing pale nacreous. Underside whitish : hind wing with indistinct lunule 

 at end of cell and postmedial band. Head and abdomen ochreous grey ; thorax rosy grey; 

 palpi black at sides. 



APAMIIDiE. 



Dipterygia nocturna. (Plate CXLV. fig. 19.) 



Expanse 1^ inch. 



Male. Fore wing smoky black, slightly red-brown in places ; traces of an antemedial 

 waved band ; a waved postmedial dark baud, concave to first median nervule, then convex to 

 inner margin, beyond which at outer angle is a large pale brown and w liitc patch ; some 

 white scales on inner margin at lobe ; the two discoidal and third median nervules streaked 

 with black. Some specimens have a white spot below each discoidal nervule. Hind wing 

 smoky. L^nderside smoky brown, albescent towards inner margins; a lunule at end of cell 

 of hind wing. 



Allied to the European D. pinastri and the Chinese D. callginosa, the main difference 

 being that in these species the stigmata are outlined in black. 



