iiirniPYRi. 29 



defined on inner side by somewhat dentate blackish marks from 

 costa to vein 3, then an incurved diffused yellowish-white line, 

 slightly excurved at vein 7, the interspaces beyond it with blackish 

 streaks with series of yellowish- white points just before termen ; 

 cilia brown mixed with some ochreous white and with dark line 

 through them. Hind wing cupreous red, the costal area yellowish 

 to beyond middle, then pale red-brown ; cilia cupreous red at base, 

 yellowish at tips ; the underside yellowish tinged with red, the 

 costal area irrorated with brown, a brown discoidal spot and diffused 

 curved postmedial line rather near termen. 



Ab. 1. monolitJia. Larger ; fore wing without dark centre to 

 orbicular. 



Ab. 2. Head, thorax, and fore wing much redder, the last with 

 the reniform represented bj^ a whitish point, the black suffusion in 

 and beyond cell only prominent and extending to subterminal line. 

 — Murree. 



Ab. 3. ohscura. Fore wing with the dark fascia in cell extending 

 to base and subterminal line, the inner margin with some dark 

 suffusion ; hind wing with the veins and inner and terminal areas 

 broadly suffused with dark brown. 



Hah. Bkitain, Leech Coll ; France ; Gebmant, Zeller and Leech 

 Colls. ; Austria, Zeller Coll. : Hungary ; Switzerland, Frey Coll. ; 

 Spain ; Italy ; Greece ; Ealkan States ; Scandinavia ; Eussia ; 

 Armenia ; Asia Minor, Bithynia, Pontus. Amanus Mts., Eybiz, 1 (S ; 

 Persia; W. Turkestan, Turcomania ; E.Siberia, Ussuri; Japan, 

 Hakodate {Fletcher), 1 c? , Oiwake (Pri/e?-), 1 c? , Tsuruga (Leech), 1 (^ , 

 Tokio {Maries), 2 5 , Yokohama {Jonas, Lewis, Fryer), 1 (J , 3 $ ; 

 Centr. China, 'Kmki{ing{Fiy er, Fratt),2 2 , Chang-yang(P?-rt«),l j ; 

 W. China, Omeishan, 1 5 , Pu-tsu-fang, 1 c? , 1 $ , Ta-chien-lu ( Fratt), 

 1 2 '•> Kashmir, Goorais Valley (Leech), 1 2 : Punjab, Murree 

 (Harford), 3 c?, 1 § , Dharmsala (Hocking), 2 6, 2 $ ; Sikhim ; 

 Assam, Sylhet (Badgley), 4 $ . Exp. 50-70 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 114; Barrett, Lep. Brit. t. p. 251, pi. 218. f. ]. 



Green; dorsal line white; subdorsal line yellowish white, inter- 

 rupted ; spiracular line greenish white ; dots yellowish white ; head 

 green ; 12th somite with a large conical prominence directed 

 obliquely backwards, the apex horuv, red-brown. Food-plants : 

 Oak," Birch, Elm, &c. 5-6. 



2757. Amphipyra pyramidoides. (Plate CYIIL fig. 11.) 



Amphipyra fyramidoides, Guen. Noot. ii. p. 413 (1852) ; Rilej', Am. Ent. 



ii. p. '26, f. 23; Druce, Eiol. Centr.-Ain., Het. ii. p. 507 ; Smith, Cut. 



Noct. K Am. p. 197. 

 AmpMpyra inornata, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. iii. p. 86 (1864). 

 AmpMpyra conspersa, Riley, 3rcl Kept. Ins. Miss. p. 75 (1871). 



Head and thorax dark purplish brown mixed with ochreous 

 white ; palpi with whitish streak in front ; tarsi blackish ringed 

 with white ; abdomen grey-brown tinged with purplish towards 

 extremity and with whitish segmental rings, tlie anal tuft and 



