670 



NOCTTJID.'E: 



black ; reniform grey-white, open above, its outer edge excised ; 

 an indistinct waved medial line, oblique from costa to below cell ; 

 postmedial line double filled in with grey, the outer line indistinct, 

 slightly bent outwards below costa, oblique to vein 5, then in- 

 wardly oblique, some minute whitish points beyond it on costa ; 

 subterminal line grey defined by black on inner side, angled out- 

 wards at veins 7, 6, 4, 3, 2 ; a fine waved dark tei'minal line ; cilia 



Fig. n 3.— Puli/phisnis sitbsericata, c^. \. 



fuscous and grey with a whitish line at base. Hind wing blood- 

 red with a black terminal band, broad at apex, narrowing to a point, 

 at tornus, the termen with slight reddish marks except towards apex ; 

 cilia white with a series of fuscous poiuts ; the underside paler, the 

 costal area white irrorated with brown, some white on termen. 



Bab. Ehodes ; Cyprus (Miss Bate), 1 6 ; Asia Minok, Pontus, 

 Taurus. Ex2y. 48 millim. 



Sect. IV. {Trijjlicenopsis). Antennce of male ciliated. 

 A. Palpi' with the 3rd joint very long and porrect. 



3566. Polyphsenis pulcherrima. 



Epilecta pulcherrima, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 54, pi. 6. f. 3; Hinpsn. 



Moths Ind. ii. p. 219. 

 Folyphfenis largetaui, Oberth. Et. Ent. vi. p. 19, pi. viii. f. 4 (1881). 

 Epilecta opuhnta, Bntl. P. Z. S. 1883, p. 160. 



Head and thorax brown tinged with grey and mixed with olive- 

 green ; palpi brown irrorated with whitish, whitish at base ; 

 tegula3 and patagia with olive-green patches ; pectus and legs grey 

 mixed with brown ; abdomen grey suffused with fuscous leaving 

 slight pale segmental lines, the crests dark, the anal tuft reddish 

 ochreous with dark spot above. Fore wing black-brown mixed 

 with olivcrgreen and some reddish ; subbasal line black defined by 

 olive-green on outer side, waved, from costa to submedian fold : 

 anternedial line black defined by green on inner side, oblique, 

 waved ; orbicular green defined by black and with black centre, 

 small, round ; reniform an ill-defined green patch, its centre tinged 

 with reddish ochreous and defined by black on inner side and below 

 a waved blackish medial line, oblique from costa to below cell ; 

 postmedial line "black defined by green lunules on outer side, bent 

 outwards below costa, then waved, incurved at discal fold and 

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



