404 isrocTuiD.i:. 



fold ; subterminal line brown, waved, excurved below vein 7 and at 

 middle. Hind wing orange-yellow^ ; the base and inner area black- 

 brown ; a black-brown discoidal lunule conjoined to the basal area ; 

 a narrow black-brown terminal band; cilia black-brown at base, 

 yellow at tips. Underside of both wings orange-yellow with 

 narrow black-brown terminal band ; fore wing with elliptical dis- 

 coidal sjDot ; hind wing with discoidal point. 



Ab. 1. clirysostigma. Fore wing with elongate yellow mark in 

 lower part of cell. 



Ab. 2. Fore wing with the markinsrs more distmct ; hind wing 

 with the cilia deep red at base, pale red at tips. 



Hah. Tibet, Kuku-noor, Amdo, Sining Alps, 1 S ; Sikhim 

 {Tilet Exp.), 2 c? , 2 $ . Exi^. 22-28 millim. 



Genus AUTOGRAPHA. 



Type. 



Autographa, Hilbii. Verz. p. 251 (1827) farilis. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi iiptiu'ned, the 2nd joint reaching to about 

 vertex of head and Fringed with rather long hair in front, the 3rd moderate; 

 frons smooth with large tuft of hair; eyes rather small and elliptical, over- 

 lumg by long cilia ; antennse of male ciliated ; thorax clothed with hair 

 and hair-like scales, the metathorax with divided crest ; tibire moderately 

 fringed with liair, the hind tibitB spined between the mid and terminal spurs 

 only; abdomen with dorsal crests on basal segments, the crests on 1st and 

 3rd segments large. Fore wing with the apex slightly produced, the termen 

 evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 

 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with. 8 to form theareole; 11 

 from cell. Hind wing with the cell about half the length of wing; veins 

 3, 4 from angle ; 5 fully developed from well above angle ; 6, 7 from upper 

 angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



8221. Autographa parilis. 



iToci'?Mpffn7M, Htibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 422 (1808) ; Dup. Lep. Fr. 



Suppl. iv. p. 627, pi. 90. f. 6 ; Auriv. Bihang K. Svcnsk. Vet.-Akad. 



Handl. xv. 4, i. p. 17, pi. i. f. 6; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 256; 



Stand. Cat. Lep. ])al. p. 240. 

 Flmia quadriplaga, Wlk. xii. 911 (1857). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen purple-grey mixed with dark red- 

 brown, the tegulse with whitish line at middle and whitish tips, 

 the patagia with whitish line near base ; pectus, legs, and ventral 

 surface of abdomen red-brown slightly mixed with grey, the tarsi 

 slightly ringed with white ; abdomen w^ith the basal crest red- 

 brown tipped with wdiite. Fore Aving purplish grey sparsely 

 irrorated with black, the medial area below the cell very deep cho- 

 colate-brown ; a subbasal Avhitish striga from costa ; antemedial 

 line white, strongly incurved in cell, then slightly excurved ; 

 orbictdar indistinctly defined by whitish, rounded ; an oblique 

 silvery-white Y-shaped stigma below the cell, its arm filled in 

 with purple-grey ; reniform with slight white annulus, its centre 

 defined by black broAvn, strongly constricted at middle where 



