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Llacklsh-brown suffusion beyond it extending to inner margin and 

 to the very indistinct dentate subterminal line with a series of 

 blackish points on the veins ; the termen tinged v^^ith brown from 

 apex to below vein 3 ; a fine waved brown terminal line. Hind 

 wing grey suffiised with brown ; an indistinct brown postmedial 

 line and diffused subterminal shade ; a fine brown terminal line ; 

 the underside with the postmedial line more diffused and curved. 



Hah. PuN-TAB {Read, Magee), 2 S , Kulu, Sultanpur ( G. Totmg), 

 1 c? , 1 $ , Simla {Harford), 3 $ , Masuri {Lang), 1 $ , Dharmsala 

 {Hocking), 5 c? , 2 $ . Krj). 4-1-50 millim. 



Genus PHUEYS. 



Crochiphora, Hlibn. Zutr. Samml. exot. Sclimett. iii. p. 3.j(1825), Type. 



non. descr flavistriaria. 



Phiirys, Guen . Noct. iii. p. 303 (1852) vinadum. 



Proboscis fully deyelopecl ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex 

 of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd long ; frons smooth, without tuft of 

 liair ; eyes large, round ; antennae of male ciliated ; thorax clothed almost 

 entirely with scales and without crests ; femora and tibiije of male typically 

 fringed with long hair, in female smoothly scaled; the fore tibise not spined, 

 the hind tibiag spined ; abdomen smoothly scaled and without crests. Fore 

 wing with the apex somewhat produced and acute, the termen evenly curved 

 and slightly crenulate ; veins 3 and ii from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper 

 angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 1 1 from cell. Hind 

 wing with the cell about about one-third length of wing ; veins 3, 4 from 

 angle ; 6 fully developed from above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anasto- 

 mosing with the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. {FMirys.) Femora and tibiae of male fringed with long hair. 



A. Fore wing with the ground-colour leaden grey vinculum. 



B. Fore wing with the ground-colour ochreous immunis. 



7876. Phurys vinculum, 



Phurys vinculum, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 304 (18.52); Smith, Cat. Noct. 

 N. Am. p. 357. 



Head and thorax glossy leaden grey tinged with brown ; antennae 

 with the shaft white above towards base ; pectus and legs red- 

 brown tinged with grey, the tarsi grey ; abdomen ochreous brown. 

 Fore wing glossy leaden grey irrorated with blackish ; an inwardly 

 oblique yellow antemedial line defined on outer side by dark red- 

 brown ; reniform with whitish annulus ; postmedial line yellow 

 defined on inner side by a fine red-brown line and on outer b}^ a 

 red-brown band, arising from costa towards apex, oblique to vein 2, 

 then erect ; a subterminal series of black points on the veins just 

 beyond the brown band ; a chocolate-brown apical spot ; a terminal 

 series of minute black points. Hind wing greyish ochreous 

 suffused with brown, the terminal area broadly grey-brown, defined 

 on inner side by the faint Avhitish postmedial line bent outwards to 



