POLTPH^IflS. 677 



3573. Polypligenis inepta. 



TripJimwpsis inepta, Biitl. 111. Het. B. M, vii. p. 5;"), pi. 127. ff. G, 7 (1889) ; 

 Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 218. 



c5 . Head and thorax whitish suffused with red-brown and mixed 

 with fuscous : palpi hlacl\ish ; tegulas with black medial line ; pectus 

 whitish ; tarsi black ringed with white ; abdomen whitish, dorsally 

 suffused witli fuscous, the crests blackish, the anal tuft pale rufous. 

 Fore wing with the basal half red-brown suffused with black, the 

 terminal half ochreous grey tinged with rufous, the terminal area 

 fuscous grey except at apex ; a wedge-shaped black mark above 

 base of vein 1; subbasal line double, waved, from costa to sub- 

 median fold ; anfcemedial line slightly defined by rufous on inner 

 side, double at costa, oblique, waved, angled outwards below costa ; 

 the medial area with diffused black streak above vein 1 ; claviform 

 defined by hlack ; orbicular with slight pale annulus defined by 

 black, oblique elliptical ; reniform whitish tinged with rufous, 

 defined by black on inner edge and its centre by rufous, its outer 

 edge waved ; a.n indistinct medial line oblique from costa to below 

 cell, then waved ; postmedial line defined by grey on outer side, 

 beut outwards below costa, then minutely waved, excurved to 

 vein 4, then incurved, some pale points beyond it on costa ; sub- 

 terminal line pale slightly defined by brown on inner side, excurved 

 at vein 7 and middle ; a terminal series of small black iunules ; 

 cilia with a fine ochreous line at base. Hind wing fuscous with 

 broad oblique yellowish-white band beyond the cell from costa to 

 vein 2, its inner edge slightly angled inwards below the cell : a 

 slight sinuous postmedial line defined by whitish on outer side ; 

 some yellow on termen at submedian interspace ; cilia yellow with 

 slight fuscous striae at middle. Underside of fore wing greyish 

 fuscous, the basal area whitish, a whitish patch beyond the cell, 

 postmedial line whitish, terminal area whitish except at apex; 

 hind wing yellowish white, the costal area yellow irrorated with 

 brown, a fuscous discoidal lunule, waved postmedial line, and broad 

 subterminal band not reaching tornus. 



$ . Fore wing with the reniform entirely filled in with white. 



Hdb. Punjab, Dharmsala {Hochiny), 2 c? , 1 $ type. Exjj. 46 

 millim. 



3574. Polyphsenis postfiava. (Plate CXXIII. fig. 13.) 



Agroiis jjosfflava, Leech, Trans. Ent. S(;c. 1900, p. 31. 



Head and thorax white mixed with some red-brown ; palpi 

 mostly brown at sides ; tegulte with lateral black patches ; patagia 

 with some black scales on upper edge; tarsi brown with whitish 

 rings ; abdomen yellowish suffused with brown, the crests blackish. 

 Fore wing yellowish white almost wholly suffused with brown and 

 irrorated with black, the medial area rather darker ; subbasal line 

 double, black, slightly waved, from costa to submediau fold, a 

 blackish patch beyond it above vein 1 ; anten}edial line double, 

 filled iu with greyish, the inner line indistinct, oblique, angled 



