PARASTICHTIS. S5 



line at base. Hind wing pale ochreous, the veins darker, a slight 

 discoidal bar, curved postmedial line, and diffused subterminal band; 

 a dark terminal line and fuscous line through the cilia ; the under- 

 side with the costal area irrorated with brow^n, a black streak in 

 middle of cell, discoidal spot, waved postmedial line from costa to 

 vein 2, and slight diffused subterminal line. 



Hab. W. China, Chia-kou-ho (Pratt), 1 J tyi)e. £'.rp. 42 millim. 



2837. Parastichtis hepatica. 



Koctua hepatica, Linn. Sysfc. Nat. ed. xii. p. 853 (1767) ; Clei-ck, Icoiies. pi. 8. 



f. 3 ; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. Text, p. 182 (1827) ; Dup. Lep. Fr. 



vii.pt. i. p. 204, pi. 113. f. 4; Fit. Beitr. iv. pi. 310; Stand. Cat. Lep. 



pal. p. 174. 

 Nociua characterca, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 133-638 (1802). 

 Noctua temera, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett, Noct. f. 393 (1808). 

 Noctua epomidion, Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 170 (1809); Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., 



Haust. ii. p. 178. 

 Noctiia implexa, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 639 (1822). 

 Hadena discrepans, Stand. Rom. Mem. v. p. 440 (1892). 



Head and thorax purplish red mixed with grey and fuscous ; 

 palpi black at sides ; frons vpith lateral black bars ; tegulae with 

 medial black line ; patagia with black line near upper edge ; tarsi 

 black ringed with white ; abdomen ochreous tinged with purplish 

 red and dark brown except at base, the dorsal crests dark, the anal 

 tuft and ventral surface rufous. Fore wing ochreous snffused in 



parts with purplish red ; a diffused black streak below base of cell 

 and a streak above inner margin near base ; subbasal line repre- 

 sented by slight double dark striiB from costa ; antemedial line 

 indistinctly double, waved, oblique ; claviform moderate or small, 

 defined by black ; orbicular large, deiined by black except above, 

 oblique elliptical ; reniform large, defined by black on inner side 

 and below, and with some blackish in lower part, its inner edge 

 straight ; an indistinct minutely dentate curved medial line ; post- 

 medial line bent outwards below costa, then dentate and produced 

 to black and white points on the veins, excurved to vein 4, then 

 oblique, some white points beyond it on costa ; snbterminal line 

 ochreous, defined on inner side by some fuscous suffusion, angled 

 inwards at discal and submedian folds and excurved below vein 7 



