54 KocriJiDJE, 



and at middle and angled inwards at discal and suLmedian folds where 

 there is a whitish lunule on it and dark marks beyond it at discal 

 and submedian folds ; a terminal series of slight brown lunules ; 

 cilia chequered dark brown and whitish. Hind wing whitish 

 tinged with ochreous, the terminal area snSused with brown from 

 apex to vein 2 ; a slight discoidal lunule ; cilia brownish with pale 

 line at base ; the underside grey-white irrorated with brown, a 

 slight dark mark from costa before middle, discoidal spot, and traces 

 of postmedial line with dark spots on and below costa and in discal 

 and submedian folds. 



2 , Fore wing with the white before medial line confined to an 

 oblique mark below submedian fold, the subterminal line formed of 

 whitish lunules; hind wing wholly red-brown. 



Hah. E. Siberia, Amurland in Coll. Piiugeler ; W. China, Omei- 

 shan, 1 S ? Chang-yang {Pratt), 1 § . Exp. 32 millim. 



3629. Craniophora praeclara. (Plate CXXIV. fig. 4.) 



Acronycta 'praclara, Gr^s. Berl. ent. Zeit. xxxv. p. 74 (1890) ; Staud. 

 Cat. Lep. pal. p. 134. 



J . Head and thorax purplish grey mixed with fuscous ; 

 2nd joint of palpi with black band ; frons with black bars at 

 middle and above ; tegulae with diffused black medial line ; 

 shoulders and outer edge of patagia with black stripe ; tibiae and 

 tarsi banded with black ; abdomen whitish irrorated with fuscous 

 and dorsally tinged with brown towards base, the crests blackish. 

 Fore wing purplish grey irrorated with fuscous, the basal area 

 suffused Avith olive-brown, a difi^used olive-brown hand beyond the 

 medial line and a band beyond postmedial line, some yellow at base 

 of inner margin ; subbasal line represented by indistinct double 

 dark striae from costa and cell ; a black streak in submedian fold 

 from base to just before medial line, defined by olive below ; ante- 

 medial line double, oblique, waved, angled outwards below costa 

 and inwards on vein 1 ; orbicular and reniform lai'ge, with olive 

 centres and whitish annuli defined by blackish, the former round, 

 the latter with rather irregular outline : a double minutely waved 

 medial line, excurved to median nervure, angled inwards in sub- 

 median fold and outwards ou vein 1 ; postmedial line double filled 

 in with whitish, bent outwards below costa, then minutely dentate, 

 incurved below vein 3 and angled outwards on vein 1 ; an obscure 

 interrupted black streak in submedian fold from medial line to 

 termen and a slight streak in discal fold from postmedial line to 

 before termen ; some white points on costa on the dark postmedial 

 band ; an ill-defined waved whitish subterminal line, angled out- 

 wards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of slight 

 black lunules with olive spots beyond them on the cilia. Hind 

 wing whitish uniformly suffused with olive-brown ; some indistinct 

 whitish lunules on termen ; cilia chequered olive and whitish ; the 

 underside whitish, the veins tinged with olive, the costal area 



