288 NOCTUIDiE. 



with red-brown ; the underside with the costal area suffused with 

 red-brown, a slight discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. 



Ab. 1, cervina. Fore wing slightly browner. — Mongolia ; E. 

 Siberia. 



Ab. 2. gracilis. Slightly smaller and paler. — Mongolia. 



Nah. AirsTEiA, Zeller and Leech Colls., Moravia ; Htjngaey, 

 Leech Coll.; Russia, Urals ; ? Asia Minor, -Pontus ; W. Turkestan, 

 Issyk-kul ; W. Siberia, Altai ; E. Turkestan, Hi ; Mongolia, 

 Uliassutai ; E. Siberia, Dahuria, Ussuri. Exjy. 44-46 millim. 



7360. Eccrita maxima. 



Toxocampa maxima, Brem. Lep. Ost-Sib. p. 57, pi. 5. f. 17 (18G4) ; Stand. 



Oat. Lep. pal. p. 262. 

 Toxocampa enorvns, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) i. p. 290 (1878) ; id. 111. Ilet. 



B.M. ii. p. 38, pi. 32. f. 9. 



Head and thorax grey with a few dark brown scales, the vertex 

 of head and tegulse except at tips deep red-brown; mid legs dark 

 brown, the fore and hind legs suffused with brown ; abdomen grey, 

 dorsally tinged with browai except towards extremity, ventrally 

 irrorated with brown. Fore wing grey striated with dark brown 

 and tinged in parts with brown ; antemedial line brown, angled 

 outwards below costa, then incurved ; a black point in middle of 

 cell ; reniform with brownish striga in centre defined on inner side 

 by two black bars and on outer by three small black spots at upper 

 angle of cell and three at lower angle ; some diffused brown on 

 middle of costa and a strongly incurved shade from lower angle of 

 cell to inner margin, a brownish shade beyond it between veins 3 

 and 1 ; postmedial line diffused, brownish, excurved below costa 

 and at middle, incurved at discal fold and below vein 4 ; a brown 

 shade on costal area before the pale slightly sinuous subterminal 

 line ; a series of black points just before termen ; the veins of 

 terminal area pale. Hind wing greyish suffused with brown 

 except on disk and terminal area ; a fuscous brown subterminal 

 shade, broad towards costa, narrowing to termen near tornus ; a 

 series of black points just before termen ; cilia whitish. Underside 

 of both wings whitish with broad fuscous subterminal shade and 

 slight discoidal spots. 



Ab. ]. enormis. Eather larger and browner. 



Hab. E. Siberia, Amurland, 1 c? , 1 5 , Ussuri ; Jat-an, Oiwake 

 (Pryer), 1 cJ , 1 $ , Shimonoseki {Leech), 1 $ , Tokio {JlJm'ies), 

 1 d , 1 2 , Yokohama {Jonas, Fryer, IJcmley), 3 J , 1 $ type 

 enormis, Nikko {Maries), 2 § ; Coeea, Gensan {Leech, Lto), 2 $ . 

 Bx^. 60-72 millim. 



Genus METATACHA, nov. 



Type, M. excavata. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2iid joint reaching to about 

 middle of frons and moderately scaled, the 3rd moderate ; frons smooth ; eyes 

 large, round ; antennae of male ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with 



