DELTA. 193 



Yokohama (Jonas), 1 $ ; Corea, Gensan (Leech), 1 5 ; Ceisttr. 

 China, Kingpo, 1 5 , Kiukiang (Pratt), 1 $ ; W. China, Chang 

 Yang (Pratt), 1 2 , Niton, 1 c? , Chia-kou-ho (Pratt), 1 c? , Ta- 

 chien-lu (Pratt), 2 c? ; Kashmir, Goorais Valley (Leech), 1 5 ; 

 Pfnjab, Kulu, Sultanpur, 2 (^ , Simla (Harford), 2 5 , Dharmsala 

 (Hoclcing), 2 c? , 4 5 , Thundiani (Yerhury), 1 5 ; Sikhim, 3 c? type 

 sikJcimensis ; Madras, Nilgiris (Hampson), 1 d', 1 $ ; Ceylon 

 (Green), 1 $ . E-.rjo. 32-34 millim. 



3798. Delta ramosula. (Plate CXXVII. fig. 23.) 



Cloantha ramosula, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 114, pi. 9. f. 1 (1852) ; Grote, Bull. 

 Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. i. p. 83, pi. 2. f. 1(3 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. 

 p. 167. 



Head and thorax grey mixed with reddish brown ; frons with 

 black bars at middle and above ; tegulse with slight dark lines at 

 middle and near tips ; pectus red-brown ; mid tibisB with a black 

 streak, the tarsi brown with pale rings ; abdomen ochreous suffused 

 with rufous, the dorsal crests blackish at tips. Fore wing grey 

 suif used with red-brown, the cell and area beyond it obliquely to 

 apex ochreous white tinged with rufous, the veins with dark 

 streaks ; a black streak in basal half of submedian fold slightly 

 defined by whitish above : a short black streak above inner margin 

 before middle ; faint traces of an antemedial line very strongly 

 angled outwards in submedian interspace and above inner margin 

 and inwards on vein 1 ; orbicular represented by two slight rather 

 oblique black streaks in cell ; reniform yellowish white defined by 

 black on inner side and below and its centre by rufous, constricted 

 at middle, exp-anding below and extending to below angle of cell, 

 the area round its lower part deep red-brown, a short black streak 

 from it above vein 4 ; the pale apical fascia defined by blackish below ; 

 short subterminal black streaks above veins 6, 5, 4 ; veins 4, 3 

 defined by dentate whitish marks extending to termen and wedge- 

 shaped black marks from termen above veins 2, 3 ; a terminal 

 series of black striae ; cilia dark brown intersected with white 

 at the veins. Hind wing ochreous white, the terminal area 

 broadly suffused with reddish brow^n, more uniformly suffused in 

 female ; cilia ochreous white ; the underside yellowish white, the 

 costal and terminal areas slightly irrorated with brown, a small 

 discoidal spot and indistinct minutely waved curved postmedial 

 line. 



Hah. Canada (Norman~), 1 5 ; U.S.A., Northern, Eastern, Middle 

 and Central States, New' York, Albany (IF. W. Hill), 2 J , 3 $ . 

 Exp. 36-40 millim. 



3799. Delta steuarti. (Plate CXXVII. fig. 24.) 



Aciinotia stcwarti, Grote, Can. Ent. vii. p. 28 (1875) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. 

 N. Am. p. 167. 



5 . Head and thorax violaceous grey mixed with dark brown ; 

 dark bars above frons and between antennas ; tegulse with slight 



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