banded with red-brown. Fore wing white, some brown and fuscous 

 suffusion above basal half of inner margin ; subbasal line oblique, 

 slightly waved, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial area 

 rufous, with some fuscous and grey irroratiou from costa to sub- 

 median fold ; antemedial line blackish defined by white on inner 

 side, minutely waved, from costa to submedian fold ; claviform 

 small, white defined by red-brown and fuscous : orbicular and reni- 

 form rufous slightly defined by fuscous and with some white in 

 centres, the former round with fuscous and rufous patch above it 

 on costa, the latter with rufous patch beyond lower angle of cell; 

 a rather diffused curved brown medial line from cell to inner 

 margin ; postmedial line rufous and fuscous, bent outwards below 

 costa, then erect and minutely waved, defined by white on outer 

 side except between veins 5 and 3 ; postmedial area rufous irrorated 

 with fuscous, with two slight white striae from costa ; an irregular 

 subtermiual white patch from apex to vein 6, narrowing below and 

 followed by a series of lunulate white spots with small black spots 

 on their outer side between veins 6 and 2 ; terminal area rufous 

 and greyish ; cilia rufous mixed with some fuscous, and with series 

 of small white spots from apex to vein 2. Hind wing fuscous 

 brown, the basal area yellowish, the terminal area darker ; a 

 diffused brown medial band followed by two confluent pale yellow 

 patches between veins 4 and 1 ; cilia pale yellow ; the underside 

 pale yellow, the costal area whitish, a broad brown terminal band 

 with white patch at apex and strongly sinuous inner edge, a 

 diffused medial band. 



Ab. 1. 'Fore wing tinged with yellow, the dark areas brown 

 instead of rufous. 



Hab. E. Siberia, Amurland, 2 $ , Blagoveschensk, 2 5 ; IJssuri. 

 Eivjy. 30 millim. 



3555. Aucha flavomacnlata. 



Acontiaflavomaculata, Oberth. Diag. Lep. Askold. p. 16 (1879) ; id. Et. 

 Ent. v. p. 82, pi. 3. f. 8 (1880) ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 203. 



c? . Head and thorax reddish brown mixed with white ; abdomen 

 brown with pale yellow bands ; anal tuft tinged with rufous, the 

 ventral surface whitish irrorated with brown. Pore wing yellowish 

 tinged with grey and thickly irrorated with brown, the terminal 

 area wholly suffused with broAvn ; a white mark at base of costa 

 bounded by the dark subbasal line defined by white on outer side, 

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

 defined by whitish on inner side at costa and below subracdial 

 fold, curved, slightly incurved above vein 1, a lunulate yellowish- 

 white patch beyond it above vein 1 ; claviform small, faintly defined 

 by brown ; orbicular and reniform very indistinct, yellowish, faintly 

 defined by brown, the former round ; postmedial line brown, defined 

 by white on outer side towards costa and below submedian fold, 

 and slightly by yellowish at middle, bent outwards below costa, 

 then minutely waved, slightly incurved at discal fold aud incurved 



