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1717. Parastightis flavistigma. 



Xyloplmsia fiavistigma, Moore, P. Z. S., 1867, p. 50; Hmpsn., Cat. 



Lep. Phal. B. M., vii., p. 93, pi. 110, f. 5. 

 Apamea basalts, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 346. 



„ denticulosa, Moore, Lep. Atk., p. 109, pi. 4, f. 13 (1882). 

 1717. Parastightis sodalis. 



Xylophasia sodalis, Butl, A. M. N. H. (5) i., p. 83 (1878); id. 111., 



Het. B. M., ii., p. 24, pi. 29, f. 2. 

 Apamea obliquiorbis, Moore, Lep. Atk., p. 109 (1882). 

 17106. Parastichtis funerea. 



Hadena funerea, Hein. Schmett. Deutsch., I., p. 828 (1859); 

 Snell Tijd. v., Ent. xi., p. 299, pi. 12, f. 1; Hofm. Gr. 

 Schmett. ed. ii., pi. 39, f. 27; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal 

 p. 191. 

 Head and thorax black mixed with purplish red and some grey, frons with 

 lateral black basers ; tegulss with black medial line ; patagia with black line 

 near upper edge ; tarsi black ringed with pinkish ; abdomen fuscous, the 

 lateral fringes and sides of anal tuft purplish, the ventral surface irrorated 

 with purplish. Forewing fuscous black more or less tinged with purplish ; 

 sub-basal line represented by double oblique black striae from costa ; a 

 sinuous black streak in base of submedian fold and an oblique streak above 

 inner margin near base; antemedial line indistinctly double, angled outwards 

 below costa, then oblique and slightly waved, retracted to inner margin; 

 clavifrom narrow or small, defined by black ; orbicular very oblique ellipti- 

 cal, defined by black; reniform defined by black, with a little white in 

 centre and some white points on upper and outer edges and slight black 

 streaks beyond it in the inter spaces ; an indistinct curved minutely waved 

 medial line ; postmedial line double at costa, bent outwards below costa, 

 then indistinct, minutely dentate, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some 

 white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line indistinct, reddish, 

 defined on inner side by faint dentate dark marks, excurved below vein 7 

 and at middle, the area beyond it rather darker except at apex ; a terminal 

 series of slight black points ; a fine pale line at base of cilia. Hindwing 

 fuscous with a slight greyish tinge ; cilia pale brown at base with fuscous 

 line at middle and whitish tips ; the underside whitish irrorated with 

 fuscous, the costal area tinged with purplish, the terminal area suffused with 

 fuscous, a black discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. 



Habitat. — Holland; N. W. Germany; E. Siberia; Japan; C. China; 

 W. China ; Kashmir, Narkunda ; Punjab, Dharmsala ; Assam, Khasis. 

 Exp. 40-48 mill. 

 Lavva, Kirby. Butt, and Moths Eur., p. 237 ; Hff'm., Raup., p. 96. 

 Palerosy grey to reddish brown ; dorsal line ochreous whitish, dark- 

 edged ; subdorsal line pale ; spiracular line broad, pale greyish o chreous 



