AUCHA. 663 



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

 line with two small white spots below costa and two above inner 

 margin, between those points brown, diffused, slightly waved ; cilia 

 brown with yellowish line at base and series of white jwints. 

 Hind wing fuscous brown, the basal area greyish ; traces of a 

 diffused dark medial band with two faint confluent grejdsh patches 

 beyond it between veins 4 and 1 ; cilia white, brownish at tips 

 from apex to vein 4; the underside with the basal half whitish 

 suffused with brown, the terminal half brown with white patch 

 at apex, a diffused whitish medial band expanding into a patch 

 between veins 4 and 2. 



Hah. E. Siberia, Amurland, 3 S , L'ssuri. Ex^). 28 millim. 



This is probably the cS of A. variegata. 



*3556. Aucha tenebricosa. 



Triphcena tenebricosa, Saahii. Lep. Madag. p. 288, f. 174 (1891). 



$ . Head and thorax olive-brown ; abdomen rufous. Fore wing 

 olive-brown with a greyish tinge ; suhbasal line double at costa, 

 then waved, extending to inner margin; antemedial line double, 

 waved, oblique ; orbicular defined by brown and with dark point 

 in centre, small, round ; reniform defined by dark brown ; a waved 

 medial line; postraedial line double, slightly bent outwards bflow 

 costa, then oblique, dentate; subterminal line defined by brown 

 suffusion on inner side, dentate, escurved below vein 7 and at 

 middle ; a fine dark terminal line. Hind wing reddish ochrcous, 

 the costal and terminal areas suffused with brown ; a brown 

 discoidal lunule ; cilia yellowish. 



Hah. Madagascar, ^ossibe. Exi:). 34 millim. This species is 

 unknown to me. 



3557. Aucha triphaBnoides. (Plate CXXITI. fig. 7.) 



Briarda trlphmnoides, Wlk. xxxiii. 895 (1865). 



Head and thorax grey-brown slightly irrorated with dark brown ; 

 palpi whitish at base ; pectus and legs whitish tinged with brown, 

 the fore tibiae and tarsi banded with fuscous ; abdomen p;ile dull 

 orange-red, the ventral surface whitish. Fore wing grey-brown 

 thickly irrorated and suffused with black ; subbasal line repre- 

 sented by a minute V-shaped blackish mark in base of cell; antc- 

 medial line indistinct, double from costa to subraedian fold ; 

 irregularly waved ; orbicular slightly tinged with fulvous, indis- 

 tinctly defined by blackish and with blackish point in centre, small, 

 round ; reniform narrow, faintly tinged with fuivous, shghtly 

 defined by blackish on inner side and with two black points on 

 outer; an indistinct diffused sinuous medial line, oblique from costa 

 to lower angle of cell, then inwardly oblique; postmedial line 

 diffused towards costa, then double, waved, interrupted between 

 veins 5 and 2, then oblique ; subt-erminal line greyish, defined on 

 inner side by fuscous suffusion, excurved at vein 7 and middle ; a 



