TEACHEA. 151 



iuner edge ; an indistinct curved waved medial line ; postmedial 

 line black strongly defined by violaceous grey on outer side, bent 

 outwards below costa, then dentate, very oblique below vein 4, some 

 white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line greenish white, 

 angled outwards at veins 7, 6, excurved at middle and strongly 

 incurved in submedian interspace ; a terminal series of black 

 lunules ; cilia fuscous and whitish intersected with white and with 

 blackish lines at middle and tips. Hind wing ochreous whitish 



suffused with brown, the terminal area fuscous brown ; cilia 

 ochreous white with a dark line near base ; the underside whitish, 

 the costal area irrorated with fuscous, a black discoidal spot and 

 curved postmedial line with diffused brown band beyond it. 



Ab. 1. similis. Fore wing irrorated with olive-green and spotted 

 with ochreous-yellow. 



Ab. 2. "Without any green markings. 



Hah. Beitain, Leech Coll. ; Feancb, Sand Coll. ; Germany, Zeller 

 and Leech Colls. ; Austria ; Hungary ; Switzerland, Trey Coll. ; 

 Spain, Bilboa ; Italy ; Balkan States ; Scandinavia ; Russia, 

 Livonia, Zeller Coll. ; Armenia ; Asia Minor, Bithynia ; ? W. Turk- 

 estan, Turcomania ; E. Siberia, Ussuri ; Japan, Oiwake (Pryer), 

 1 2 , Gifu (Pryer), 1 $ , Nikko (/to), 1 $ , Yokohama {Jonas, Maries, 

 Pryer), 2 cT , 3 2 , type gnoma. Exp. 42-56 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 128 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. v. p. 43, pi. 189. f. 3. 



Green or reddish brown ; dorsal and subdorsal lines darker, inter- 

 rupted, dotted with white ; spiracular line pinkish, sometimes dark- 

 edged above, the margins sometimes whiter ; head pale ochreous. 

 Food-plants : Atriplex, Rumecc, Polygonum, &c. 8-9. 



2901. Trachea auriplena. 



Trachea atriflicis, Koll. Hiigel's Kaschmir. iv. p, 479 (ncc Linn.). 



Eurois aioriplena, Wlk. xi. 557 (1867) ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 37, pi. 148. 



f. 2 ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 214. 

 Hadenalucia, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) i. p. 195 (1878); id. 111. Het. B. M. 



iii. p. 17, pi. 45. f. 2; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 184. 



Head and tegulse olive-green mixed with dark brown, the latter 

 with some white scales ; palpi and lower part of frons dark and 



