MYTHIMNA. 603 



*1047. Mythimna coryphsea. (Plate LXXVIII. fig. 9.) 



Agrotis coryphcea, Piing. Iris, xiii. p. 118, pi. 4. f. 4 (1899); Stand. Cat. 

 Lep. pal. p. 254. 



$ . Head and thorax pale purplish pink ; abdomen whitish flesh- 

 colour, pinker below. Pore wing with the basal area, and costal 

 area to subterminal line, pale flesh-pink, the rest of wing rather 

 yellower flesh-colour ; subbasal line deep chocolate-brown, angled 

 outwards below costa and ending at vein 1 ; antemedial line deep 

 chocolate, stronger on costal half, oblique, irregularly sinuous, 

 and with fuscous suflfusion before it on inner area; orbicular and 

 reuiform very large, pale flesh-pink, the former irregularly oblique, 

 elliptical, open above, the latter with fuscous-suffused centre, some 

 chocolate in cell before and between them ; an oblique medial shade 

 from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line strong 

 towards costa, then fine and dentate, oblique from costa to vein 6, 

 excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line defined by 

 red-brown suffusion on inner side and by fuscous at costa, angled 

 outwards at vein 7, inwards at discal fold, and excurved at middle. 

 Hind wing ochreous white tinged with pink ; the underside with 

 the costal area pinker and with slight discoidal point. 



Hah. Tibet, Kuku-noor, tj-pe f $ iii Coll. Piingeler. Ex]p. 42 

 millim. 



1048. Mythimna pallescens. 



Semiophora. pallescens, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) i. p. 166 (1878); id. 111. Het. 



B. M. ii. p. 29, pi. 30. f. 4 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 201. 

 TcBiiiocampa lata, Staud. Rom. Mem. s\. p. 496, pi. 9. f. 5 (1892). 



Bright rufous ; palpi blackish at sides. Fore wing with curved 

 subbasal black line from costa to vein 1 ; the antemedial line bent 

 outwards below costa and angled inwards on vein 1 ; claviform 

 obsolete ; orbicular and reniform coneolorous, defined bj^ deep black 

 in the cell before and between them, the former hemispherical, open 

 above, the latter with slight greyish outline ; the postmedial line 

 dentate, excurved from costa to vein 4, then oblique ; the sub- 

 terminal line pale, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at 

 middle, with a dark patch before it at costa ; some dark points on 

 termen sometimes present. Hind wing rather paler, with traces of 

 postmedial and subterminal -waved lines ; the underside with dark 

 discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial line. 



Hah. Amfkland, Ussuri ; Japan, Yokohama {Jonas), 1 c? , 1 $ 

 type, {Pryer), 2 d" , 4 5 . Exp. 46 millim. 



1049. Mythimna caelehs. (Plate LXXVI. fig. 18.) 



Agrotis ccelebs, Staud. Iris, viii. p. 313 (1895) ; id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 137. 



6 . Head and thorax dark brown mixed with grey ; abdomen 

 grey-brown. Fore wing grey-brown ; a double, waved, subbasal 

 line from costa to submedian fold ; a double dentate antemedial 

 line, strongly angled outwards above inner margin ; orbicular and 



