32 JJOCTUIDJf. 



2761. Amphipyra tripartita. 



Amphiprjra tripartUa, Eutl. A. M. N. H. (f)) i. p. 288 (1878); id. 111. Het. 

 B. M. ii. p. 36, pi. 32. f. 4. 



Head and thorax glossy black-brown with a few whitish scales 

 on tegul^ ; palpi with fine white streak in front ; frons edged with 

 white ; antennae white at base in front ; tibiae and tarsi black 

 ringed with white ; abdomen dark grey-brown with a reddish tinge, 

 the ventral surface whitish at base. Fore wing glossy black-brown ; 

 a white point at base below the cell ; subbasal line represented by 

 an oblique white striga from costa ; an erect white antemedial band 

 slightly bent inwards to costa and inner margin ; stigmata absent ; 

 a white postmedial band, oblique from costa to vein 5, then erect to 

 inner margin near tornus, with bright rufous beyond it except 

 towards costa ; subterminal line formed by silvery white scales from 

 costa to vein 3, excurved between veins 7 and 5 and slightly angled 

 outwards at veins 4, 3, an incurved white line from vein 3 to 

 tornus, a series of faint black marks beyond it in the interspaces 

 except towards apex and tornus ; a series of silvery white strias 

 just before termen ; cilia with a fine whitish line at base. Hind 

 wing fuscous brown with a reddish tinge ; cilia pale brown with a 

 whitish line at base ; underside of fore wing grey suffused with 

 fuscous, the postmedial band greyish with white spot at costa ; 

 hind wing grey suffused with fuscous brown, the basal and inner 

 areas paler, a slight dark discoidal spot, a diffused curved postmedial 

 band diffused inwards on costa to near base and a terminal baud. 



Hah. Japan, Kiushiu, 1 c? , 6 § , Yokohama (Jonas), 1 J, 1 $ 

 type ; Centr. China, Chang-yang {Pratt), 1 J . Exp. 52-60 millim. 



2762. Amphipyra janconsci. 



Amphipyra jankowsJcii, Oberth. Et. Ent. x. p. 27, pi. 2. f. 8 (1884) ; Stand. 

 Oat. Lep. pal. p. 201). 



Head and thorax fuscous brown mixed with some grey ; palpi 

 with the 2nd joint whitish in front and with white rings at ex- 

 tremities of the joints ; pectus grey tinged with brown, the tibiae and 

 tarsi blackish ringed with white ; abdomen whitish suff'used with 

 brown, the anal tuft tinged with ochreous, the ventral surface 

 whitish tinged with ochreous. Fore wing fi;scous irrorated with 

 whitish to postmediiil line, then whitish tinged with brown and 

 with fuscous patch on costa before the subterminal line, the base of 

 inner margin whitish; subbasal line whitish, waved from costa to 

 Kubmedian fold ; antemedial line blackish defined by whitish on 

 inner side, erect, waved ; orbicular a small white spot defined by 

 l)lackish ; reniform absent ; postmedial line blackish defined by 

 white on outer side, minutely dentate, oblique from costa to vein 4 

 and slightly incurved at discal fold, tlien erect and slightly incurved 



