168 NOCXTJID^. 



a double -waved antemedial line, the outer stronger; claviform 

 elongate, usually small, outlined with black ; orbicular and reniform 

 defined by black and with brownish centres, the former small or 

 large, round or somewhat elliptical, the latter usually well- 

 developed ; an oblique medial shade from lower augie of cell to 

 inner margin ; the postmedial line dentate, bent outwards below 

 costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; the subterminal line 

 indistinct, pale, defined by brown on inner side, angled outwards at 

 vein 7 and excurved at middle : a terminal series of black points. 

 Hind wing semihyaline white, the veins, costa, inner margin, and 

 termen tinged with brown ; the underside with the costal area 

 irrorated with brown and crossed by a postmedial striga. 

 Specimens are often tinged with reddish brown or fuscous. 



2 . Nearly always darker and sufi'used with reddish brown or 

 fuscous ; fore wings sometimes fuscous black, the markings 

 obscured. 



Ab. 1. pallida. Ground-colour grey- white ; the markings of 

 fore wing indistinct. — C. Asia; Amur. 



Hah. Beitain ; Fkance ; Germany, Zeller Coll. ; Switzeelan-d, 

 Prey Coll.; Spain, Zeller Coll.; Sicily, Zeller Coll.; S. Russia, 

 Sarepta, Zeller Coll. : Sykia, Zeller & Leech Colls., The Lebanon 

 {Mrs. Niclioll), 1 $ ; Mabeiea {Leech), 1 $ ; Canaries, 2 c?, 1 § ; 

 SocoTRA {Grant), 1 S , 1 $ ; Br. E. Aerica, Munisu {Ld. Delamere), 

 1 c? , Muani {Betton), 1 $ ; Mashonaland, Salisbury {Marshall), 

 1 6 , 2 5; Natal, Estcourt {Hutchinson), 26, 1 $ : Basutoland, 

 Maseru {Grccwshay), 1 c? , 1 $ , Mahalishoek, 1 § ; C. Colony 

 {A. Smith, Drege), 1 6 type obliviosa, 3 $ type marginalis; 

 E. Turkestan, Kuldja, 1 c? , 1 $ ; Amur, 1 (5' , 2 $ ; Japan, Yoko- 

 hama {Jonas), 3 § type ingrata, {Manley) 1 c? , 1 $ , Yat Zuchiro 

 {Lewis), 1 c? , 1 $ , Kiushu, 2 6 , Gifu {Pryer), 1 J , Nikko {Leech), 

 1 2 , Tokio {Maries), 3^,22 type fucosa ; Corea, Gensan {Ito), 

 1 5 ; N. China, Shanghai, 1 c? type certijicata ; Namoa I. {J. J. 

 Walker), 1 6 ; W. China, Ta-chien-lu, 1 <5 , 2 $ , Chia-kou-ho, 1 $ , 

 Chang-yang, 2 $ {Pratt) ; Afghanistan, Dubrai (Swinhoe), 1 $ ; 

 Kashmir, Narkunda, 1 c? , 1 $ , Kuijar, 1 d, Nubra, 1 6, 1$, 

 Barra Larcha, 1 6 , 12 {McArtlmr), Dugi Pass {Thompson), 1 2 , 

 Dras, 1 2 1 Kiris, 1 6 , Scinde Yalley, 1 $ , Goorais Valley, 1 $ 

 {Leech); N.W. Himalayas, Murree (Harford), 2 6, 1$, liawal 

 Pindi, 1 6 , Cambellpur, 1 6 , Thundiani, 2^,22 {Terhury), 

 Sultanpur {G. Young), 1 $ , Simla, 2 J , 1 $ {Hearsey), type aversa, 

 Dharmsala {Hocking), 4 (5 , 8 5 : N. India {Boys), 1 5 type correcta, 

 Dehra Dhun, 1 2 ; Sikhim {Dudgeon), 1 J ; Bombay, Mhow {Sivin- 

 hoe), 15 type lassa ; Ntlgiris {Hampson), 2 6, 3$; Coimbatore 

 ( Walhouse), 1 $ type repulsa. Exp. 30-46 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 91 ; Earrett, Lep. Bi-ifc. iii. p. 291, pi. 125. f. 1. 



Pale grey or greyish ochreous, sometimes tinged with pink ; 

 dorsal, subdorsal, and spiracular lines usually defined by dark 

 edges, the subdorsal sometimes grey ; head pale, with two brown 

 marks ; thoracic plate more or less brownish. Food-plant : roots of 

 Brassica, liumecc, Chrysanthemum, etc. 7-4. 



