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at submedian fold, some white points beyond it on costa on the dark 

 patch ; subterminal line indistinct, whitish, defined on inner side 

 by slight wedge-shaped blackish marks at middle, escurved below 

 vein 7 and at middle, then incurved ; a terminal series of slight 

 brown lunules defined by whitish striae on inner side ; cilia brown 

 with series of whitish points at base. Hind wing white tinged with 

 reddish brown especially on terminal area ; cilia white tinged with 

 rufous at base ; the underside white, the costal area tinged with 

 rufous and the termen with brown from apex to vein 2, a dark 

 discoidal spot and indistinct maculate postmedial line from costa to 

 vein 2 bent inwards to costa. 



Hah. E, Siberia, Amurland, 2 c? , Ussuri ; Corea, Gensan {Ito), 

 1 $ . Exp. 44-50 millim. 



2763. Amphipyra erebina. 



Amphipyra erebina, Bufcl. A. M. N. H, (5) i. p. 287 (1878) ; id. 111. Het. 



B. M. iii. p. 23, pi. 46. f. 12 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 200. 

 Am2}hipyra perjlua, Leech, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1900, p. 46, nee Fabr. 



Head and thorax bright rufous mixed with dark brown ; tarsi 

 black ringed with white : abdomen grey-brown with a reddish 

 tinge. Fore wing bright red- brown with some dark irroration, the 

 outer half of medial area suff'used with black-browu, the terminal 

 area paler and irrorated with whitish ; subbasal line double, waved, 

 from costa to submedian fold ; antemediai line double, strongly 

 waved, erect ; orbicular small, round, with dark brown centre and 

 slight whitish annulus ; reniform represented by a minute rufous 

 mark at upper angle of ceil ; traces of a sinuous medial line 

 bounding the dark area, oblique from costa to lower angle of cell ; 

 postmedial line black defined by ochreous white on outer side, 

 slightly bent outwards below costa, oblique to vein 4 and slightly 

 incurved at discal fold, then erect, minutely waved, some pale points 

 beyond it on costa ; subterminal line whitish slightly defined by 

 brown on inner side and with blackish patch before it on costa, 

 slightly excurved below vein 7 and at middle, then incurved ; a 

 terminal series of slight blackish lunules with whitish strife before 

 them; cilia rufous mixed with some dark brown. Hind wing 

 -red-brown ; cilia whitish tinged with rufous and with slight brown 

 line through them ; the underside grey tinged with red-brown and 

 irrorated with dark brown, a large blackish discoidal spot, rather 

 diffused sinuous postmedial line, and diff'used terniinal band. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the orbicular and reniform absent. — 

 Centr. China. 



Hah. E. Siberia, Ussuri ; Japan, Yesso {Mrs. White, Andrews), 

 1 c? , 1 $ , Fushiki {Leech), 1 J , 1 $ , Nagahama {Leech), 1 5 , 

 Ghiuzenji {Lewis), 1 5, Tokio {Maries), 2 J , Yokohama {Jonas, 

 Fryer), 2 $ type ; Corea, Gensan {Leech), 3 $ ; Centr. China, 

 Chang-yang {Pratt), 2 c? , 3 $ . Exp. 46-52 millim. 



