SIMYEA. 175 



tJah. Germany, Zeller & Leech Colls. ; Austria ; Hungary, Fiey 

 Coll. ; Switzerland, Valais ; J^. Italy ; S. Eussia, Sarepta, Zeller 

 & D'Emmick Colls. ; ? Asia Minor, Pontus; W. Turkestan, Tarba- 

 gatai Mts., Issyk Kill, Ala Tau ; W. Siberia, Altai; E. Turkestan, 

 111, Korla ; Mongolia, Urga. Exjj. 32-42 millira. 



Larva. Kirby, "Rutt. & Moths Eur. p. 161 ; Hffm. Eaup. p. 73, pi. 21. f. 16. 



Dark grey -svith yellowish hairs, whitish longitudinal lines and 

 broad macular dorsal stripe. Food-plants : Spurge, Sorrel. 6. 



3773. Simyra splendida. 



Simyra splendida, Stand. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 215; id. Eoni. Mem. 



yi. p. 383, pi. 6. f. 1 ; id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 134. 

 Simyra niveonitens, Grtes. Berl. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 309. 



S . Head and thorax pure white, the tegiilae faintly tinged with 

 brown ; branches of antennae fulvous ; tarsi tinged with brOAvn ; 

 abdomen white with a few dark scales. Fore wing white irrorated 

 with a very few brown scales, the veins slightly tinged with brown, 

 the termen with ochreous. Hind wing pure white. 



Ab. 1. Hind wing suffused with brown leaving the termen and 

 cilia Avhite. 



Hah. W. Turkestan, Tedschen Oasis {Hauser), 1 J ; E. Turk- 

 estan, Hi; Tibet, Amdo ; E. Siberia, Ussuri ; Corea. Exp. 

 36 millim. 



Sect. II. AntennEe of male bipectinate with very short branches. 



3774. Simyra dentinosa. 



Noctua dentinosa, Frr. Neue Beitr. iii. p. 97, pi. 263. ff. 2, 3 (1839) ; Diip. 



Lep. Fr., Suppl. iii. p. 479, pi. 41. f. 4 ; Staud. Oat. Lep. pal. p. 134. 

 Symira tendinosa, Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett. ii. p. 179, Noct. ff 393-4 



(1845;. 

 Cticullia leucas'pis, F. de Wald. Bull. Mosc. 1840, p. 84, pi. 3. f. 2. 



Head and thorax white suffused with red-brown leaving the 

 dorsum of thorax and the patagia whiter ; palpi red-brown except at 

 base ; patagia with black streaks on outer edges ; abdomen white 

 mixed with pale fuscous and some rufous hair at base. Fore wing 

 white, the area below the cell suffused with reddish brown to post- 

 medial line, the veins slightly streaked with brown ; antemedial 

 line brown with dark spot at costa, inwardly oblique, and slightly 

 excurved at inner margin, a slight brown spot in end of cell ; post- 

 medial line very indistinct, double, oblique from costa to vein 7, 

 then dentate, very oblique from vein 4 to submedian fold, then 

 angled outwards on vein 1 on which there is a whitish dentate 

 mark before it, some brown suffusion beyond it on costa with 

 whitish points on it and brown streaks from it to termen below 

 apex and at vein 5 ; the interspaces of terminal area with diffused 

 brown streaks ; cilia red-brown at base, white at tips. Hind wing, 

 white, the base suffused with red-brown ; a slight discoidal point 



