368 NOCTTJID^. 



•Sect. III. Antennae of male ciliated, with slight tufts of scales at the joints. 



A. Fore wing with small yellow marks on subterminal line. 



«. Fore wing greyish suffused with olive-browji illecehrosa. 



h. Fore wing whitish suffused and irrorated with fuscous, nigrocincta. 



B. Fore wing with small whitish marks on subterminal line. 

 a. Fore wing without black streak between claviform and 



postmedial line. 

 a? . Fore wing with the medial area paler than the ante- 



and postmedial areas hostilis. 



h^. Fore wing with the medial area darker than the ante- 

 and postmedial areas. 

 a^. Fore wing with tiie cilia yellow tinged with pink; 



hind wing fuscous , calchhergi. 



Jr. Fore wing with the cilia white and fuscous ; 

 hind wing white. 

 a,^. Fore wing with the basal and terminal areas 



thickly ir rorated with black jonis. 



6'. Fore wing with the basal and terminal areas 



slightly irrorated with fuscous siida. 



h. Fore wing with black streak between claviform and 



postmedial line chi. 



*2544. Antitype illecelsrosa. (Plate CIY. fig. 30.) 



Antitype illecehrosa, Pilng. Iris, xix. p. 93 (1906). 



$ . Head and thorax dark brown mixed with grey ; palpi with 

 "blackish streak at sides ; frons and vertex of head with blackish 

 bars ; tegulte with black line near tips ; tarsi with whitish rings ; 

 abdomen dark brown mixed with grey. Fore wing grey suffused 

 with dull olive-brown and slightly irrorated with black, the post- 

 medial area greyer except towards costa ; subbasal line double filled 

 in with whitish, waved, from costa to submedian fold ; an orange 

 streak in base of submedian fold ; antemedial line double filled in 

 with whitish, oblique, waved ; claviform moderate, grey with 

 orange outline slightly defined by brown ; orbicular and reniform 

 greyish with incomplete orange annuli slightly defined by brown, 

 the former elliptical, open above, the latter open above and below ; 

 postmedial line indistinctlj- double filled in with grey except from 

 below costa to vein 4, bent outwards below costa, then dentate and 

 produced to black and white points on the veins, incurved below 

 vein 4, some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line 

 whitish with orange scales on it and slightly defined by brown on 

 inner side, excurved below vein 7, angled inwards in discal fold, 

 slightly dentate inwards below veins 4 and 3, then incurved, the 

 area beyond it suff'used with brown ; a terminal series of small 

 black lunules ; cilia whitish, with series of blackish lunules and 

 blackish tips. Hind wing uniform fuscous brown ; the cilia pale 

 brownish with slight brown line through them; the underside greyish 

 suffused and thickly irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal lunule 

 and traces of a curved postmedial line. 



Hah. Tibet, Kuku-jSCoor, type t $ in Coll. Piingeler. Exp. 

 40 millim. 



