192 NOCTuiD.^i:. 



yellowish white sufFuscd with brown especiall}- on terminal area ; 

 the underside white with some slight dark points on termen. 



Uuh. Mexico, Jalapa {Trujillo), '1 § type, Godman-Salvin Coll. 

 Exp, 36 millim. 



3797. Delta intermedia. 



Cloaniha wtermedia, Brein. Lep. Ost-Sib. p. 53, pi. v. f. 13 (186i) ; 



Hmpsn. Moths Iiid. ii. p. 283 : Staurl. Cat. Lep. pal p. 183. 

 Auchmis si/fkimensis, Moore, P. Z. S. 18(57, p. 49, pi. 6. f. 15. 



Head ochreous tinged with rufous, brown bars on frons and 

 between antennae ; tegulas with three brown lines defined by white 

 on basal half, the terminal half ochreous mixed with brown and 

 with black and red-brown tips; thorax ochreous, the patagia with 

 black streak near upper edge which is red-brown, the dorsum with 

 l)aired black streaks, the metathoracic crest mixed with black ; legs 

 red-brown, the tibite and tarsi with black streaks ; abdomen 

 ochreous tinged with rufous, the crests blackish at tips. Pore 

 wing ochreous suffused with red-brown, the cell and area beyond it 



tip. 



Fig. 37. — I)e( fa intermedia, d". j. 



obliquely to apex and a fascia below it to origin of vein 2 ochreous 

 white ; a black streak in submedian fold from bnse to middle and 

 another above inner margin from near base ; a slight brown streak 

 in middle of cell ; reuiform ochreous white defined by black, faintly 

 above, with rufous centre with pale bar on it, extending to well 

 below cell, narrowing above and below, with wedge-shaped rufous 

 mark before it in lower part of cell, the area round its low^er part 

 deep red-brown with dark streaks on the veins, a black streak 

 beyond it above vein 4 defined by a whitish streak above ; a wedge- 

 shaped black mark above extremity of vein 6 and black streak 

 below it ; dentate whitish marks extending to termen defining 

 veins 5, 4, 3, which are slightly streaked with brown ; small dentate 

 black marks above extremities of veins 3, 2 ; a terminal series of 

 sli^'ht brown strise ; cilia ochreous and red-brown. Hind wing 

 yellowish white, in female tinged with broAvu, the terminal area 

 suflFused with brown; cilia yellowish white; the underside yellowish 

 white, the costal area tinged with rufous, the terminal area slightly 

 with brown at middle, a slight discoidal lunula and postmedial 

 series of black points on the veins. 



Hab. Transvaal (C/ioZmZe?/), 1 ? ; Natal, Victoria Distr. (GoocJi), 

 2 5; E. Siberia, Amurland, Ussuri ; Japan, Hakodate, 1 5 , 

 Kiushiu, 1 6 , Satsuma (Leech), 1 $ , Tsuruga (Leech), 1 j , 



