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postmedial line double filled in with whitish, bent outwards below 

 costa, then minutely dentate and produced to black and white points 

 on the veins, incurved at discal fold and oblique below vein 4, some 

 white points be3-ond it on costa ; subterminal line whitish, defined 

 on inner side by slight dentate black marks, angled outwards at vein 

 7 and somewhat dentate at veins 4, 3 ; a terminal series of small 

 black lunules ; cilia with fine whitish line at base. Hind wing 

 cupreous brown, the terminal area rather darker ; cilia whitish with 

 a brown line through them ; the underside whitish irrorated with 

 brown, a dark diseoidal lunula, curved, minutely waved postmedial 

 line, and broad diffused subterminal band. 



Hah. W. China, Omei-shan, 1 (3 t\pe. Exp. 50 millim. 



2834, ParasticMis flavistigma. (Plate CX. fig. 5.) 



Xylophasia fiavistigma, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 50; Hiupsn. Moths Lid. 



ii. p. 209. 

 Apamea basalis, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 346. 

 Ajpamea denticulosa, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 109, pi. 4. f. 13 (1882), 



Head and thorax black tinged with leaden grey and mixed with 

 some rufous, the dorsal crests rufous ; frons with lateral black bars; 

 tegulae with black medial line ; patagia with black line near up]jer 

 edj,e ; pectus ochreous tinged with red ; tibiae and tarsi black with 

 pale rings ; abdomen fuscous, the base and ventral surface yellowish. 

 Pore wing deep leaden grey irrorated with black, the submedian 

 fold and inner margin with rufous streaks ; subbasal line double, 

 waved, from costa to submedian fold ; a sinuous black streak in 

 base of submedian fold ; antemedial line double, oblique, waved ; 

 claviform defined by diffused black below and at extremity ; 

 orbicular and inner side of reniform with slight rufous annuli 

 defined by black, the former round, tho latter with yellow lunule 

 on its outer side and some rufous beyond it ; an indistinct medial 

 line oblique from costa to vein 2, then minutely waved ; postmedial 

 line double at costa, then obsolescent, bent outwards below costa, 

 then dentate, angled outwards at vein 5, then incurved ; the post- 

 medial area yellow except towards costal and before subterminal 

 line, with some pale points on costa; subterminal Hue rufous, 

 defined on inner side by dentate dark marks, angled outwards at 

 vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of small black 

 spots ; cilia black mixed with grey. Hind wing yellowish more 

 or less tinged with fuscous, the terminal area suft'used with greyish 

 fuscous ; cilia yellowish with a fuscous line through them ; the 

 underside yellowish, the costal and terminal areas suff'used with 

 fuscous, a small diseoidal spot, sinuous postmedial line, and difi'used 

 subterminal band. 



Ab. 1. hasalis. Fore wing with the postmedial aiea less dis- 

 tinctly yellowish. — Punjab. 



Hah. Punjab, Dalhousie, 1 c? type basalis, Simla (Harford), 

 1 § ; SiKHiM (Atkinson, Moller, Dudgeon), 3 S , 2 § , " type. 

 Exj}. 44-48 millim. 



