620 NOCTUID^. 



terminal line interrupted by minute white streaks at the veins ; 

 cilia white at tips ; the underside white irrorated with dark brown, 

 a fuscous discoidal lunule, sinuous postmedial line, and some grey 

 on'termen of both wings. 



Ab. 1. issyca. Redder, the termen less waved. — Issyk-kul. 



Hah. Beitatn; Pbance ; Geemany, Zeller & Frey Colls.; Switzer- 

 land ; Spain ; Italy ; S. Russia : Armenia ; Bithtnia ; VV. Siberia ; 

 W. Turkestan, Altai, Issyk-kul ; E. Siberia. Exj). 42-48 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 104 ; Eari-ett, Lep. Brit. v. p. 246, pi. 217. f. 1. 



Pale greyish ochreous, brown-speckled ; subdorsal black marks 

 on somites 11, 12, the latter confluent behind ; lateral series of 

 indistinct pale oblique marks : spiracular line pale, black-edged 

 above ; ventral surface yellower ; head greyish ochreous marked 

 with brown. Food-plants : Rumex, SoncJius, apple, etc. 8-4. 



1072. Nania contaminata. (Plate LXXVI. fig. 28.) 



Graphiphora eontaminaia, Wlk. xxxiii. 710 (1865) ; Staud. Oat. Lep. pal. 

 p. 185. 



Head and thorax reddish brown mixed with grey ; palpi blackish 

 at sides, the tarsi blackish with pale bands ; abdomen fuscous brown, 

 the ventral surface pale brown irrorated with black. Fore wing 

 pale brown irrorated with black ; a double, slightly waved, subbasal 

 black line from costa to submedian fold ; a double, waved, somewhat 

 oblique antemedial line ; claviform sometimes slightly defined by 

 black ; orbicular and reniform with their centres defined by brown 

 and defined by black, the former round, the latter large, the cell 

 between them suffused with black ; postmedial line double, dentate, 

 and produced to points at the veins, bent outwards below costa, 

 excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the subterminal line minutely 

 waved, excurved at vein 7 and middle, and with dentate black 

 marks on its inner side below costa and above and below vein 5 ; 

 a terminal series of black points. Hind wing fuscous brown ; cilia 

 pale ochreous with brownish spots ; the underside greyer irrorated 

 with black, a black discoidal lunule and sinuous postmedial line, 

 some grey on termen of both wings. 



Hah. Amur; UsauRL; Japan, Yokohama (Jonas, ilfaries, Pryer), 

 5 cJ, 8 $, type, Tsu-shima (Hoist), 1 $, Oiwake {Fryer'), 1 ?; 

 China, Shanghai, 1 d , 2 $ , Kiukiang {Pratt), 3 $ . Exp. 40-50 

 millim. 



Genus EPILECTA. 



Type. 



Epikcta, Hiibn. Verz. p. 220 (1827) linogrisea. 



Hiria, Dup. Cat. Meth. p. 145 (1844), nee Hyria, Lam. Moll. 



1819 linogrisea. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi with the 2nd joint oblique, moderately 

 scaled in front and with slight pointed tuft at extreaiity, the 3rd joint long, 

 naked, and porrect ; frons smooth, with ridges of scales above and between 

 antennas ; eyes large ; antennae of male ciliated ; head and thorax clothed with 

 scales, prothorax with spreading crest, a double dorsal ridge-like crest ; mid 



