220 NOCTUID.E. 



represented by two brown strife from costa, with an oblique black 

 streak across cell just beyond them ; antemedial line double at 

 costa, then single, oblique to submedian fold and angled inwards 

 on vein 1 ; claviform elongate, slightly defined by black ; orbicular 

 round, white defined by black and with brown centre; reniform. 

 whitish, defined on inner side by a black bar, undefined on outer ; 

 a diffused medial brown line excurved in cell; postmedial line 

 indistinct, bent outwards below costa, bent inwards at vein 4 to 

 below lower edge of reniform, then black and prominent, some 

 white points beyond it on costa, and slight black streaks on the 

 veins ; subterrainal line whitish, slightly defined by rufous on 

 inner side, and with rufous patch before it on costa, slightly angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, with slight dark streaks 

 beyond it on the veins ; a terminal series of small black lunules ; 

 cilia tinged with pale rufous and Avith dark line through them. 

 Hind wing Avhitish suffused with pale red-brown ; cilia white ; the 

 underside white, the costal area suffused with red, a small discoidal 

 spot, sinuous postmedial line, and slight diffused subterminal band. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the basal half suffused with red-brown. 



Ab. 2. ohscura. Verj^much darker and suffused with grey-brown 

 or black-brown ; fore wing witfi the markings indistinct. 



Ab. 3. asiatica. Grey and fuscous without any brown tinge. — 

 Siberia. 



Ilab. Britain, Leech Coll. (Barrett) ; Feance ; Geemant, Zeller 

 and Leech Colls. ; Austria, Zeller and Frey Colls. ; Hungary ; 

 Switzerland, , Zeller and Frey Colls.; N. Italy; Scandinavia; 

 EussiA, Livonia, Zeller Coll, ; Armenia ; W. Siberia, Sajan, 1 c? , 

 1 2 1 Altai ; E. Siberia, Kentei, Amurland. Eay. 30-34 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 53 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p.oiO, pi. 171. f. 2. 



Whitish green ; dorsal, subdorsal, and spiracular lines white, 

 indistinct. Food-plant, SaliA\ 5-6. 



Genus BEACHYLOMIA, nov. 



Type, £. populL 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi poiTect, hardly reaching beyoud frontal tuft 

 and fringed with long hair below; frons sniooth ; eyes rather small, some- 

 what reniform ; antenna; of male strongly serrate, the apical part simple ; head 

 and thorax smoothly clothed chiefly with scales, the pro- and metathorax with 

 slight spreading crests ; pectus clothed with long hair; abdomen with dor.^al 

 crest at base only and with tufts of hair from lateral stigmata. Fore wing 

 rather short and broad, the apex rectangular, the termen curved ; veins 3 and 5 

 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper auL'le ; 9 from 10 anastomosing witli 

 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of 

 cell ; 5 obsolescent from just below middle of discocellulars ; G, 7 from ujiper 

 angle ; 8 anastomosing witii the cell near base only. 



A. Fore wing with the postmedial line excurved to well be- 



yond reniform. 

 a. Fore wing with the subterminal line defined by fuscous 



on outer side po2mIi. 



h. Fore wing with the subterminal line defined by fuscous 



on inner side rccllfa^cia. 



B. Fore wing with the postn)edial line ap])roximated to 



outer edfre of reniform discolor. 



