420 NOCTUIDiE. 



wings whitish, with the terminal area broadly fuscous leaving sonae 

 whitish at apex of fore wing beyond a dark bar from costa ; both 

 wings with large oblong black discoidal spot. 



Ab. 1. Jiaberhaueri. Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial 

 lines defined by brown on medial area, approximated below sub- 

 median fold and conjoined into a brown band. 



Ab. 2. pamira. Fore wing more uniform red-brown, the ante- 

 and postmedial lines more approximated below submedian fold ; hind 

 wing with the basal and inner areas more suffused with brown 

 leaving the discoidal spot on a white patch. 



Ab. 3. Hind wing with the inner edge of terminal area less 

 incurved at middle and well separated from the discoidal spot. 



Ab. 4. Fore wing with the medial area suffused with red-brown; 

 hind wing with the discoidal spot forming a narrow lunule well 

 separated from the inner edge of terminal band which is excurved, 

 not angled at discal fold. 



Hah. W. TuKKESTAN", Turkomania, 6 S , Ferghana, Marghilan, 

 1 S J ^la Tau, Issyk Kul, Pamirs ; E. Turkestan, Kaschgar ; 

 Kashmir, Deosai Plains {Leech), 1 S , Groorais Valley (Leech), 1 J , 

 Skoro La (Leech), 1 c? . -Ewj}. 24-30 millim. 



2617. Hypsophila grnmi. (Plate CVI. fig. 2.) 



Hy2)sofhila grumi, Alph. Hor. Ent. Soc. Eoss. xxvi. p. 454 (1892) ; Staud. 

 Cat. Lep. pal. p. 220. 



Head and thorax grey-brown ; fore and mid tarsi brown with 

 pale rings ; pectus and hind legs clothed with white hair ; 

 abdomen clothed with grey-white hair. Fore wing grey- 

 brown slightly irrorated with dark brown, the outer half of 

 medial area dark brown ; subbasal line represented by black 

 striae from costa and cell ; antemedial line indistinct, waved, inter- 

 rupted, somewhat oblique, forming small black spots on costa and 

 in cell ; claviform only represented by some whitish scales at 

 extremity ; orbicular and reniform moderate with traces of whitish 

 annuli, defined by brown at sides, the former round, with dark 

 patches between them and beyond the reniform ; a slight waved 

 medial line forming the inner edge of darker area ; postmedial line 

 forming two dark marks on costa, then indistinctly double, dentate, 

 incurved below vein 4 ; subterminal line formed of slight whitish 

 lunules, defined on inner side by small, rather diffused dentate 

 blackish marks, angled outwards at vein 7 and middle ; a terminal 

 series of small black spots ; cilia pale rufous. Hind wing black- 

 brown, the basal and inner areas with a greenish-grey tinge ; cilia 

 pure white. Underside of both wings blue-white with broad 

 curved black postmedial band and broad terminal band, on fore 

 wing slightly intersected by whitish streaks on the veins. 



Hah. Tibet, Kuku Noor, 2 c? , 2 $ , Amdo. Exp. 30-34 millim. 



