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slightly irrorated with fuscous, a dark spot on middle of costa, dark 

 diseoidal spot and postmedial spots on and below costa, in discal fold 

 nearer termen and in submedian fold. 



Ilab. E. Siberia, Amurland, 1 S , Ussnri. Exp. 48 millim. 



8630. Craniophora mibilata. (Plate CXXIY. fig. 5.) 



Euplexia nubilafa, Hmpsu. Moths Ind. ii. p. 208 (1894). 



c? . Head and thorax dark reddish brown tinged with fuscous 

 and mixed with some grey scales ; tibiae and tarsi ringed with 

 whitish ; abdomen dark brown mixed with blackish and with some 

 grey hair at base. Fore wing reddish brown suffused with purplish 

 fuscous leaving a browner patch on medial area in and below cell 

 and the terminal area browner ; some golden and greenish scales 

 on inner margin near base ; subbasal line represented by double 

 black striae from costa and a diiSused oblique streak below cell ; 

 antemedial line double, black, oblique, slightly waved, angled in- 

 wards on vein 1, then outwards above inner margin ; claviform 

 absent ; orbicular pale rufous with red-brown centre and indistinctly 

 defined by red-brown, round ; reniform a black lunule ; a double 

 slightly waved black medial line, oblique from costa to median 

 nervure, then incurved and again oblique to inner margin ; post- 

 medial line double, black, strongly bent outwards below costa, then 

 dentate, the outer line less strongly, excurved to vein 3, then 

 incurved ; subterminal line pale rufous, diffused, dentate, approxi- 

 mated to postmedial line, angled inwards below vein 3 where there 

 is a small wedge-shaped black spot beyond it ; a series of small 

 black spots just before termen on indistinct pale lunules ; cilia 

 with a fine pale line at base. Hind wing white, the veins, inner 

 and apical areas suffused with ochreous brown ; a diffused post- 

 medial line and subterminal band ; the underside with black spot 

 in middle of cell with two spots above it below costa, a diseoidal 

 spot and diffused postmedial line incurved below vein 3. 

 Hah. SiKHiM (Mdlkf), 1 cJ type. Exp. 46 millim. 



3631. Craniophora pontica. (Plate CXXIV. fig. 6.) 



Acronycta pontica, Staud. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. xiv. p. 364 (1879); Melio- 

 ransky, Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. xxsi. p. 239, pi. 7. f. 6 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. 

 pal. p. 132. 



Head and thorax white mixed with black ; 2nd joint of palpi 

 with black band ; frons with black bar ; tegulse with black medial 

 line and yellowish and black tips ; shoulders and outer edge of 

 patagia with black streaks ; tibiae and tarsi banded with black ; 

 abdomen white irrorated with fuscous, the crests black. Fore wing 

 grey-white irrorated with fuscous, the basal area and a broad band 

 beyond the medial line suffused with black, extending to termen 

 above toruus ; subbasal line represented by double black striae from 



