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spiracles pink ; head pale-brownish with four dark streaks. Food plants : 

 seed capsules of Lychnis and Silene 7-9. 



1698a. Miselia illoba, Butl., A. M. N. H. (5) i., p. 162 (1878) ; id .111. 

 Het. B. M. iii, pi. 44, f . 7 ; Staud Cat. Lep. 

 Pal, p. 157; Hmpsn., Cat. Lep. Pal B. M. 

 v., p. 151. 



Graphiphora pacifica, Butl., A. M. N. H. (5) i., p. 165 (1878) ; id. 111. Het. 

 B.M. ii., pi. 30, f. 2. 



Mamestra declinans, Staud. Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 250 ; id. Rom. Mem. 

 vi., p. 427, pi. 8, f. 2. 



Head and thorax cupreous red ; abdomen greyish tinged with rufous. 

 Forewing cupreous red with some darker red-brown suffusion on costal area 

 to postmedial line and in and below cell ; subbasal line represented by a 

 slight striga from costa ; antemedial line indistinctly double, oblique, 

 waved ; claviform an ill-defined brown mark ; orbicular and reniform with 

 grey annuli defined by brown, the former rather oblique elliptical, open 

 above, the latter slightly angled inwards on median nervure ; an indistinct 

 curved medial line ; postmedial line fine, slightly bent outwards below 

 costa, then waved, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line 

 indistinct, greyish defined on inner side by red-brown, angled outwards at 

 vein 7 and excurved at middle ; cilia brown with a fine whitish line at base. 

 Hindwing white, the costal and terminal areas tinged with brown ; a small 

 discoidal spot ; a fine brown terminal line ; cilia whitish ; the underside 

 white, the costal area suffused with brown, a small discoidal spot, slight 

 curved postmedial line on costal area and faint curved subterminal 

 line. 



Habitat. — E. Siberia, Ussuri ; Japan ; Corea ; C. China, Kikiuang ; 

 Assam, Khasis. Exp. 44 mill. 



1710. MONIMA RTIBIDA. 



Genus Pimprana. 



Type. 



Pimprana, Moore, Lep. Atk., p. 41 (1882) .. . .atcinsoni. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, fringed with long 

 hair in front, the 3rd joint short ; frons with trincate conical prominence 

 with raised edges ; eyes rather small, round ; antennse of male ciliated ; head 

 and thorax clothed with long hair only and without crests ; tibiee fringed 

 with long hair on outer side ; abdomen with some rough hair on dorsum 

 and lateral fringes of hair, but without crests. Forewing with the apex 

 rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from 

 near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to 

 form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hindwing with veins 3*4 from angle of 

 cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6" 7 from upper angle; 

 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 

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