178 NOCTUID^. 



to termen ; a terminal series of black points from apes to vein 3. 

 Hind wing pure white. 



Ab. 1 . centri2'>uncta. Fore wing with black point at lower angle 

 of cell. — Dalmatia, llussia. 



Ab. 2. Jfavida. Pore wing yellowish. 



Ab. 3. albida. Fore wing with the ground-colour white. 



Ab. 4. murinn. Head, thorax, and fore Aviug deep red-brown, 

 the veins streaked with white ; hind wing with the terminal area 

 sufiused with brown leaving white streaks on the veins. — Dalmatia, 

 Sweden. 



Hab. Britaijst Leech Coll.; Fkancb, Sand Coll.; Germany, Zeller, 

 Frey, and Leech Colls. ; Austria; HuNfiAKT ; Switzerland; Dal- 

 matia; Sweden, L (^ , 1 $; Finland; Eussia ; E. Turkestan, Hi. 

 Kvp. 30-42 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Bi-it. Lep. p. 144; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iii. p. 275, pi. 123. 

 f, 3. 



Blackish or dark grey-brown with ])ale marblings ; subdorsal 

 and spiracular lines pale ochreous jellow often marked with red, 

 the tubercles on them yellow or orange ; fascicles of pale reddish- 

 brown and black hairs; head black streaked with ochreous. Food- 

 plants : Phragmites, Careiv, Tijpha. 8-9. 



*3778. Simyra ssepistriata. 



Arsilonche scepistriaia, Alpb. Iris, viii. p. 188 (1895). 



$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen white suffused in parts with 

 browm. Fore wing white with broad biown streaks m the inter- 

 spaces. Hind wing uniform ochreous grey. 



Hab. Mongolia, Urga. Exjp. 40 millim. This species is unknown 

 to me. 



3779. Simyra albicosta, n. sp. (Plate CXXVII. fig. 15.) 



5 . Head and thorax w^hite, the Lead, tcgulse, prothorax, front, 

 of pectus, and legs suffused with rufous; abdomen white tinged 

 with red-brown. Fore wing rufous, the costal edge white, the 

 median nervure and veins of terminal half slightly streaked with 

 white ; a white spot at base of costa ; cilia w^hite at tips. Hind 

 ■wing white faintly tinged with red-brown ; cilia white. 



Hab. Madras, Xilgiris, 1 $ type. Exp. 40 millim. 



3780. Simyra confusa. 



Leucania confu&a, Wlk. ix. 105(1856) ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 9, pi. 145. 

 f. 4 ; Hmpsii. Moths Ind. ii. p. 285. 



Head and thorax white tinged with rufous; abdomen white, the 

 extremity and ventral surface tinged with rufous. Pore wing pale 

 rufous slightly irrorated with brown, sometimes with two slight 

 brown striae on discocellulars and one bej'ond upper angle of cell ; 

 cilia white faintly tinged with rufous. Hind wing white faintly 



