102 NOCTUIDJE. 



reddish, defined on inner sid.e In' faint dentate dark marks, excurvcd 

 below vein 7 and at middle, the area beyond it rather darker except 

 at apex ; a terminal series of slight black points ; a tine pale line 

 at base of cilia. Hind wing fuscous with a slight greyish tinge ; 

 cilia pale brown at base, with fuscous line at middle and whitish 

 tips; the underside whitish irrorated with fuscous, the costal area 

 tinged with purplish, the terminal area suffused with fuscous, a 

 black discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. Usually redder and with series of white points beyond 

 postmedial line of fore wing. — Japan, China. 



Hah. Holland ; N.W. Gekmany, 1 c? , 1 $ ; E. Sibeeta, TJssuri • 

 Japan, Hakodate, 1 c? , Oiwake {Pnjer), 3 c? , 1 $ , Tokio (Maries), 

 2 2 , Yokohama (Jonas), 1 c? , 1 j ; C. China, Kiukiang (Pratt), 

 1 2 ; W. China, Chang- Yang (Prati), 1 c? , 2 $ , Washan (Pratt), 

 1 cT , Chia-kou-ho (Pratt), ] $ , Ta-chien-lu (Pratt), 3 S : Kashmie, 

 jNTarkunda (McArthur), 1 S ; Punjab, Dharmsala (Hocking), 1 c? . 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 237 ; Hffm. Raup. p. 96. 



Similar to that of P. rurea. Food-plants : Grasses. 



2845. Parastichtis boopis, n. sp. (Plate CX. fig. 12.) 



Head and thorax greyish tinged with red-brown and slightly 

 irrorated with black ; palpi blackish at sides ; frons with lateral 

 black bars ; tegulse with black medial line and black line on pro- 

 thorax ; tarsi black with pale rings ; abdomen grey-brown, the 

 crests tipped with black, the anal tuft and ventral surface rufous. 

 Fore wing red-brown slightly irrorated with dark brown, the costal 

 half on antemedial and medial areas suffused with dark brown, a 

 dark brown costal patch on postmedial area and the terminal area 

 dark brown except at apex ; subbasal line double, waved, from costa 

 to submedian fold ; a slight black streak below base of cell and 

 another above inner margin before the antemedial line, which is 

 indistinct, double, oblique, waved ; claviform moderate, defined by 

 black : orbicular rufous defined by black, round or oblique elliptical ; 

 reniform defined by black on inner side and with large grey lunule 

 on outer edge defined by black on inner side ; an indistinct medial 

 line, oblique from costa to below cell ; postmedial line indistinctly 

 double, slightly bent outwards below costa, then minutely dentate 

 and produced to black streaks with grey points on them on the 

 veins, excurved. to vein 4, then incurved, some pale points beyond 

 it on the dark costal patch ; subterminal lino very indistinct, pale, 

 excurved below vein 7 and at middle and angled inwards at discal 

 and submedian folds ; a fine waved dark terminal line ; cilia 

 chequered greyish and fuscous with punctiform rufous line at base. 

 Hind wing fuscous, the cilia pale rufous ; the underside pale rufous 

 irrorated with brown, a black discoidal spot, sinuous postmedial 

 line, and traces of diffused subterminal line. 



Hah. W. China, Washan (Pratt), 1 2 ; Punjab, Kulu, Sultanpur 

 (G. Young), 1 2 , Dharmsala (Hocking), 1^,4$ type. ATvp, 40- 

 44 millim. 



