402 NOCTTJID^. 



*3231. Agroperina fervida, n. sp. (Plate CXVIII. fig. 12.) 



HyperiKsnia violacca, Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 200 (nee Butl.). 



<S . Head, thorax, and abdomen dark red-brown slightly mixed 

 with grey ; palpi whitish at tips ; antennae with the basal joint 

 whitish in front; tarsi ringed with oehreous. Fore wing dark red- 

 brown slightly mixed with grey ; traces of a waved subbasal line 

 from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line very indistinct, dark, 

 oblique from costa to submedian fold, then angled inwards on 

 vein 1 ; claviform faintly defined by black ; orbicular and reniform 

 with slight whitish annuli faintly defined by blackish, the former 

 oblique elliptical, the latter with slight white point on inner side 

 below and two at outer side ; postmedial line indistinct, blackish, 

 defined on outer side by pale olive, bent outwards below costa, then 

 minutely dentate, oblique below vein 5, some white points beyond 

 it on costa ; subterminal line pale olive, excurved below vein 7 and 

 at middle ; a terminal series of slight blackish lunules ; cilia with 

 fine pale lines at base and middle. Hind wing greyish uniformly 

 suffused with reddish brown ; a fine dark terminal line ; cilia 

 brownish white with a dark line through them ; the underside with 

 slight discoidal bar and traces of curved postmedial line. 



Bab. Tibet, Kuku-noor (Eiicl'beil), type f in Coll. Piingeler. 

 Eivj). 50 millim. 



3232. Agroperina conradi. (Plate CXVIII. fig. 13.) 



Orthosia conradi, Grote, Bull. U.S. Geol. Geogr. Surv. Terr. v. p. 203 



(1879); Smith, Cat.Noct. N. Am. p. 219. 

 Orthosia citima, Grote, Papilio, iii. p. 74 (1883) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. 



p. 219. 



Head and thorax greyish white tinged with rufous or brown ; 

 abdomen grey tinged with oehreous, the anal tuft with rufous. 

 Fore wing whitish irrorated with reddish brown, the medial and 

 terminal areas rather darker, the postmedial area whiter except 

 towards costa ; traces of a subbasal line from costa to submedian 

 fold ; antemedial line defined by grey on inner side, waved, oblique 

 from costa to submedian fold ; claviform slightly defined by brown ; 

 orbicular whitish defined by brown, small, oblique, rather quadrate ; 

 reniform with brownish centre and white annulus defined by brown, 

 some fuscous brown in lower part, angled inwards on median 

 nervure ; traces of a medial line oblique below the cell; postmedial 

 line defined by whitish on outer side, bent outwards below costa, 

 then dentate and produced to black points on the veins, oblique 

 below vein 4, some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal 

 line whitish defined by brown on inner side, slightly angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a slight pale line at 

 base of cilia. Hind win"; whitish tinged with brown, the veins and 



