AMrniPTEA. -^i 



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

 discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 3 anastomosing with the cell near base 

 only. 



A. Hind wing cupreous red. 



a. Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines present, 

 a'. Fore wing with strong dentate dark marks in the inter- 

 spaces before subterininal line and streaks beyond it... magna. 



6'. Fore wing with the dentate marks before subterminal 

 line and streaks beyond it slight. 

 a'-^. Fore wing with the postmedial line erect from below 



costa to vein 6 pyramidea. 



b". Fore wing with the postmedial line oblique from 



below costa to vein 6 pyrarnidoides. 



b. Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines absent. 



a'. Hind wing deep cupreous red ; size large cupreipcmiis. 



fti. Hind wing pale cupreous red ; size moderate livida. 



B. Hind wing not cupreous red. 

 a. Fore wing black. 



a'. Fore wing without ante- and postmedial white bands... atromtens. 



b^. Fore wing with ante- and postmedial white bands tripartita. 



h. Fore wing with the ground-colour fuscous brown to whitish. 

 a^. Fore wing with the medial area suffused with black. 

 a^. Fore wing with the subterminal line excurved below 

 vein 7 and at middle. 

 a?. Fore wing with the basal area suffused with black, jancousoi. 

 b^. Fore wing with the basal area not suffused with 



black erebina. 



b'^. Fore wing with the subterminal Hne dentate perflua. 



6'. Fore wing with the medial area not suffused with black. 

 a^. Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines absent. 

 a^. Fore wing without whitish subterminal line. 



a*. Fore wing without black points in middle of cell 



and on discocellulars tdra. 



b*. Fore wing with black points in middle of cell 



and on discocellulars tragopoginis. 



b^. Fore wing with whitish subterminal line sty,v. 



b^. Forewing with the ante- and postmedial lines present. 



a^. Fore wing with the terminal area not whitish. 



a*. Fore wing with the antemedial line single. 



ff.5. Fore wing slightly irrorated with grey schrenci. 



b^. Fore wing strongly irrorated with grey s'ub?-igua. 



¥. Fore wing with the antemedial line double. 



fl5. Hind wing wholly suffused with brown micans. 



b^. Hind wing whitish, the terminal area suffused 



with brown molybdea. 



b^. Fore wing with the terminal area whitish. 



«*. Fore wing with the orbicular .and reniform 

 indistinctly defined. 



a'. Hind wing tinged with fulvous alpheraci. 



6'. Hind wing not tinged with fulvous glabella. 



b*. Fore wing with the orbicular and reniform 



defined by fine white lines sergci. 



2755. Amphipyra magna. 



Amphipyra magna, Wlk. xxxiii. 868 (1865) ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 191. 

 Amphipyra ckalcoptera, Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 112. f. 18 (1874). 



Head and thorax dark red-brown mixed with ochreous ; palpi 

 darker slightly irrorated with white ; pectus and legs brown mixed 



