O/Z NOCTDIDiE. 



h'^. Hind wing without discoidal striga, a slight 



postinedial line from vein 6 to inner margin, inepta. 



h^. Fore wing with white annulus to orbicular postfiava. 



I)-. Hind wing with the inner area not brown. 



d\ Fore wing uniform dark brown indica. 



P. Foi'e wing with the terminal area grey ditata. 



3567. PolyphsBnis ol)ertliuri. 



Toliiflimnis jiulcliernma, Oberth. Et. Ent. x. p. 22, pi. 2. f. 11 (nee Moore). 

 Poii/phcBnis ohertlmri. Stand. Eom. Mem. yi. p. 464 (1892); id. Cat. Lep. 

 pal. p. 184. 



Head and thorax olive-green mixed with black ; palpi black 

 irrorated with white, whitish at base ; tegulge with green patches ; 

 pectus and legs grey mixed with brown, the tarsi black ringed 

 with white ; abdomen black-brown with slight orange segmental 

 bands, the ventral sui"face grey irrorated with brown. Fore wing 

 olive-green irrorated with black ; subbasal line double, black filled 

 in with pale green, minutely waved, from costa to submedian 

 fold ; antemedial line double filled in with green, waved, angled 

 inwards on vein 1 and outwards above inner margin ; claviform 

 elongate, very indistinctly defined by black scales ; orbicular 

 defined by black and with brownish centre ; reniform defined 

 by black on inner side and below, with some reddish ochreous in 

 centre and blackish mark below it ; a black medial line oblique 

 from costa to vein 2, then waved ; postmedial line double, 

 the two lines widely separated at costa, bent outwards below 

 costa, then minutely waved, oblique to vein 4, then incurved, 

 filled in with whitish at inner margin, some white points beyond 

 it on costa ; sabterminal line green defined on inner side by black 

 sufi'usion and by dentate black marks at middle, some black 

 beyond it at costa and discal fold, angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 inwards at discal fold ; a terminal series of slight black lunules. 

 Hind wing orange, the inner area blackish brown with obhque 

 sinuous upper edge and orange fascia below vein ] ; a broad black 

 terminal band with sinuous inner edge incurved at discal fold, 

 then strongly excurved ; the termen narrowly and cilia yellow 

 with blackish patches between veins 4, 3 and towards tornus, with 

 slight yellow points on them. Underside of fore wing pale yel- 

 lowish with obliquely curved blackish band from below middle of 

 costa where it is broad, narrowing to the diff'used subterminal band 

 below vein 2, the subterminal band expanding into a large patch 

 towards costa, the termen greyish ; hind wing orange, the costal 

 area irrorated with red-brown, the terminal area as above. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with prominent white patch on and beyond 

 reniform and sometimes a white point in orbicular and some 

 whilish beyond inner half of postmedial line, some black suffusion 

 on inner half of medial area. 



Hah. E. Siberia, Ussuri ; Corea, Gensan {Ito), 2 $ ; W. China, 

 Chang-yang {Pratt), 2 S , Omei-shan, 1 $ , Washan (Pratt), 1 c? , 

 Chia-kou-ho {Pratt), 2 S , Ta-chien-lu (Pratt), 1 d , Hou-kou, 1 J . 

 Exj). 4G-5G millim. 



