622 NOCITJID^. 



Hah. Pkajtce ; Geemany, Zeller &, Frey Colls. ; Spain ; Greece ; 

 Scandinavia ; Ak^lenia ; Asia 3i[inoe, Bithyina, Pontus ; Sykia. 

 Exp. 40 millim. 



Larva. Hiibn. Eiu-. Schmett., Raupen iv., Noct. ii. G. h. 



Purplish brown ; diffused dorsal black patches on 1st four somites, 

 the others with double dorsal line ; lateral line dark on 1st four 

 somites, then white with black lunules above it ; a sublateral series 

 of oblique black streaks on a dark grey stripe. Food-plant, Primula 

 acaulis. 



1074. Epilecta accipiter. 



Spintherops accijnte?', Felcl. Eeis. Nov. pi. 111. f. 29 (1874) ; Hmpsn, Moths 

 Ind. ii. p. 189. 



$ . Head and tegulse white, sometimes tinged with rufous ; 

 palpi black except at tips ; antenna? black ; thorax black or red- 

 brown ; pectus and legs black, the tibise and tarsi ringed with 

 white ; abdomen fuscous brown, the ventral surface black irrorated 

 with grey. Fore wing pale or deep purple-brown ; the basal and 

 costal areas irrorated with grey-green and sometimes also vein 1 

 and the postmedial line ; a double, waved, subbasal line from costa 

 to submedian fold ; a double, waved, antemedial line ; upper and 

 outer edges of claviform defined by black ; orbicular and reniform 

 pale brown, defined by black with some grey-green on them, the 

 cell before and between them black, the former nearly round, the 

 latter large ; a waved medial shade from lower angle of cell to 

 inner margin ; the postmedial line dentate, produced to short streaks 

 on the veins, sometimes double, bent outwards below costa, excurved 

 to vein 4, then incurved ; an irregularly waved subterminal line ; 

 the terminal area paler wdth crenulate black terminal line. Hind 

 wing yellow, with the costal area and a rather narrow terminal 

 band fuscous, the latter narrowing to torniis ; the underside with 

 the costal area grey irrorated with black, crossed by a postmedial 

 bar. 



Hub. N.W. Himalayas, Ladak, Pangi; Tibet, Yatung {Hohson), 

 2 $ ; SiKHiM. Eap. 46-48 millim. 



Genus TRIPH^NA. 



Type. 



Iriphcena, 'H.xxhn. "V evz. ]-). 221 (1827) ..., interjccta. 



Larapra, Hiibn. Verz. p. 221 (1827) fimbria. 



Euschesis, Hiibn. Verz. p. 221 (1827) janthina. 



Ahagrotis, Smith, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. 38, p. 49 (1890) erraUca. 



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

 hair, produced to a point at extremity, the 3rd joint short, porrect, and slightly 

 fringed with hair below ; frons smooth ; eyes large ; head and thorax clothed 

 with hair and scales, the pro- and metathorax with slight spreading tufts ; 

 tibias fringed with hairs above, the mid and hind tibias spined ; abdomen 

 dorsally flattened and fringed with hairs at sides. Fore wing with the margins 

 subparallel, the apex rounded ; veins 3 and 5 from close to angle of cell ; 

 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 

 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent 

 from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle. 



