38 JJOCTUID.E, 



and before the postmedial line to inner margin, and the terminal 

 area snfFused with dark brown ; a small tnft of white scales at base; 

 subbasal line black, double filled in with whitish at costa, waved, 

 from costa to submedian fold^ in which there is a black streak from 

 it to antemedial line, which is double filled in with whitish at costa 

 and inner margin, obliqne, waved, angled outwards below costa ; 

 orbicular a small pure white spot defined by black, rather oblique 

 elliptical ; reniform a very ill-defined blackish mark with some 

 white scales on its lower inner extremity ; medial line blackish, 

 diffused, oblique from costa to below cell, then sinuous, with some 

 rufous before and beyond it on costa ; postmedial line black defined 

 by whitish on outer side, slightly bent outwards below costa, then 

 sinuous, incurved at discal fold and below vein 4, some whitish 

 points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line very indistinct, pale 

 with wedge-shaped black marks before it from below costa to 

 vein 1, then with black streaks beyond it to vein 2, excurved below 

 vein 7 5 a terminal series of small black lunules, with whitish 

 points on their inner side; cilia chequered fuscous and rufous. 

 Hind wing pale suffused with red-brown, the terminal area slightly 

 darker ; a slight brown terminal line ; cilia whitish tinged with 

 rufous and with diffused brown line through them ; the underside 

 white tinged with reddish, the costal and terminal areas irrorated 

 with brown, a black discoidal spot and waved postmedial line bent 

 inwards to costa. 



Hah. HtJNGAKY; Bulgakia; Asia Minok, Pontus, Taurus ; Sykia, 

 1 d , 1 ? . E.cp. 32 millim. 



2771. Amphipyra molybdea. (Plate CIX. fig. 2.) 



Amplnpyra rnolybdea, Christ. Stett. enL Zeit. 1867, p. 235 ; Staud. Cat, 

 Lep. pal. p. 200. 



2 . Head and thorax dark brown mixed with ochreous ; tarsi 

 black ringed with white ; abdomen wliitish irrorated with brown. 

 Fore wing ochreous white almost entirely suffused with brown and 

 irrorated with fuscous, the terminal area wholly suffused with 

 brown ; subbasal line represented by slight double dark striae from 

 costa ; antemedial line indistinctly double filled in with whitish, 

 waved, almost erect ; orbicular small, round, white slightly defined 

 by black ; reniform small with slight whitish annulus, open below ; 

 a blackish mark in cell between the stigmata ; a faint diffused 

 waved medial line 5 postmedial line black slightly defined by whitish 

 on outer side and by whitish spots at costa and submedian fold, 

 bent outwards below costa and strongly incurved in discal fold and 

 below vein 4, some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal 

 line represented by a few whitish scales towards costa ; a terminal 

 series of slight black lunules with minute white striga before the 

 lunule in submedi-an fold ; cilia with a sHght pale line at base. 

 Hind wing glossy ochreous white faintly tinged with brown, the 

 terminal area suffused with brown ; cilia brownish with pale line at 

 base from apex to vein 2. whitish towards tornus ; the underside 



