TALEEIA. 353 



-Sect. Y. {Si/nvalerla). Antennse in both sexes almost simple. 



A. Fore wing with the terminal area white sauberi. 



B. Fore wing with the terminal area not white. 



a. Fore wing with large white tooth in subterminal line 



running inwards below yein 3 Jaspidea. 



b. Fore wing without white tooth in subterminal line pardaria. 



^2525. Valeria sauberi. (Plate CIV. fig. 20.) 



Valeria sauberi, Gr£es. Berl. ent. Zeit. 1892, p. 223 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. 

 pal. p. 168. 



2 . Head and thorax white ; sides of palpi and frons black ; a 

 black bar above frons ; vertex of bead with some black hair 

 tegulse with black stripe at middle ; patagia edged with black 

 vertex of thorax mostly black ; tibiae and tarsi banded with black 

 abdomen black-brown mixed with some whitish. Pore wing white 

 with a slight olive tinge, the basal area slightlj- irrorated with 

 black, the medial area almost wholly sufifused and irrorated with 

 black ; subbasal line represented by strong black striae from costa 

 and cell; antemedial line strong, black, connected with the subbasal 

 line at costa, oblique and sinuous to submedian fold, angled inwards 

 on vein 1, excurved and with black lunule before it above inner 

 margin ; claviform very large, whitish strongly defined by black 

 except at base, extending to median nervure ; orbicular and reniform 

 large, whitish defined by black, the fermer round, the latter slightly 

 angled inwards on median nervure ; postmedial line strong, black, 

 arising from below costa, slightly incurved at discal fold, then 

 minutely dentate, slightly angled outwards at vein 4, then oblique, 

 incurved in submedian interspace where there is a short oblique 

 black streak from just beyond it to above tornus ; the postmedial 

 area with blackish patch on costal area with two white points on 

 costa ; subterminal line absent ; a terminal series of small black 

 lunules ; cilia with series of black lunules at tips. Hind wing 

 blackish brown ; cilia white slightly chequered with brown ; the 

 underside grey-white suffused in parts with brown, a diff'used 

 oblique antemedial line, a discoidal spot, a diffused slightly sinuous 

 postmedial line curved inwards to costa, a difl^used subterminal 

 band on costal area, and some small spots and striae on termen. 



Hab. E. SiBEEA, Amurland, Pokrofka, type f $ in Coll. Piingeler. 

 Ucep. 38 millim. 



2526. Valeria jaspidea. 



Noctua jaspidea, Vill. Linn. Ent. ii. p. 284, pi. 5. f. 28 (1789) ; Donz. Ann. 

 Soc. Ent. Fr. x. p. 211, pi. 4. f. 1 ; Dup. Lep. Fr., Suppl. iv. p. 90, 

 pi. 58. f. 3 ; Herr.-Schaif. Eur. Sehmett., Noct. f. 426 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. 

 pal. p. 168. 



Head and thorax red -brown mixed with blackish, grey, and 

 greenish scales ; tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen red-brown 

 mixed with greyish. Fore wing red-brown mixed with greyish 

 and irrorated with black scales, the veins streaked with sap-green 



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