and submedian folds to posfcmedial line; a terminal series of small 

 black limules ; cilia rufous and black intersected with greyish. 

 Hind wing pale ochreous suffused with fuscous brown especially 

 towards termen ; cilia reddish ochreous with a dark line through 

 them ; the underside pale ochreous, the costal and terminal areas 

 tinged with purplish pink and irrorated with fuscous, a discoidal 

 spot and sinuous postmedial line with minute black streaks on the 

 veins. 



Ab. 1. alopecura. Fore wing with the ground-colour uniform 

 red-brown. 



Ab. 2. exstincta. Much paler ; fore wing uniform reddish 

 grey. — W. and E. Turkestan. 



Ilab. Britain, Leech Coll. ; France ; Denmare, Leech Coll. ; 

 Germant, Zeller, Frey, and Leech Coils. ; Austria ; Hungary ; 

 Sayitzerland, Zeller and Frey Colls. ; N. Italy ; Russia, Livonia, 

 Zeller Coll. ; Armenia : AV, Siberia. Altai ; W. Turkestan, Issyk 

 Kul ; E. Turkestan, Kashgar, Korla ; Tibet, Kuku-nor, Amdo ; 

 E. Siberia, Amurland, Ussuri ; Japan, Yokohama (Leivis), 1 5 ; 

 W. China, Ta-chien-lu (Pratt), 1 $ . Exj). 42-46 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 131 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 370, pi. 179. 



Pale rosy grey to reddish brown ; dorsal line ochreous whitish, 

 dark-edged ; subdorsal line pale ; spiracular line broad, pale greyish 

 ochreous, dark-edged above ; head reddish brown or dark brown ; 

 thoracic plate blackish with whitish lines. Food-plants : Grasses, 

 Primula, Rumex, etc. 9-4. 



2840. Farastichtis vultuosa. (Plate CX. fig. 8.) 



Hadena vultuosa, Grote, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1875, p. 420 ; Smith, 

 Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 134. 



Head ochreous, the frons fuscous mixed with grey ; antennae 

 black slightly ringed with grey; teguhe ochreous with black medial 

 line and fuscous and grey tips ; patagia blackish edged above by 

 purplish red ; dorsum of thorax ochreous and grey ; pectus 

 ochreous ; tibice and tarsi blackish with pale rings ; abdomen 

 ochreous more or less tinged with fuscous, the crests blackish. 

 Fore wing ochreous suffused in parts with rufous and irrorated 

 Avith black especially on costal area; subcostal aud median nervures 

 streaked with black; a wedge-shaped black mark above inner 

 margin near base ; subbasal line represented by two oblique striae 

 from costa and two points on median nervure ; antemedial line 

 double at costa, angled outwards below costa to two white points 

 on subcostal nervure, then oblique, waved and angled inwards to 

 double black points on the veins, bent inwards to inner margin ; 

 claviform absent ; orbicular and reniform with fuscous centres and 

 ochreous annuli slightly defined by blackish, the former very oblique 

 and pointed below, the latter constricted at middle and with white 

 points above and on lower inner edge ; traces of a medial line 

 oblique from costa to vein 2, then dentate ; postmedial line double 



