410 PSYRA; LOXASPILATES. ByL. B. Prout. 



163. Genus: Psyra Walk. 



Differs from Loxaspilates in having the face not tufted, the palpus rather short, with 3rd joint small 

 and concealed; wings broader; 2nd radial of forewmg more normally placed than m most Loxaspilates, 1st sub- 

 costal usually anastomosing with costal. Range; India to Japan. 



rufolmearia. P. rufolinearia Leech (24 f ). Distinguished by its large size, sinus in distal margin of forcTvdng between 



apex and 3rd radial, lines marked by black dots on the veins but without black blotches, median line 

 fine and reddish brown, placed rather far distally to the discal dot. Mou-pin, W. China, only the type ($) known. 

 Probably nearest diplotata Feld from India. 



bluethgeni. P. bluethgetii Piing. Distal margin of forewing without excision, slightly bent at 3rd radial; mixed 



whitish and bro%vn with straight antemedian and median brown lines, the latter the sharper, faintly curved 

 postmedian and whitish subterminal; on the latter stand small black wedge-shaped spots between 5th subcostal 

 and 3rd radial and a bent mark between 2nd median and hmdmargin. Japan: Nikko. 



indica. P. indica Btlr. (24 g). Vinous browir, forewing with faint, slightly sinuous lines arising from black 



costal spots, a subterminal sinuous black luie also marked with small black spots from costa to 3rd radial. 

 Hindwing with fuscous suffusion between the median and postmedian lines. Dharmsala. 



ungalifera. P. angulifera Walk. (24 g). Purplish grey with the lines represented by vague brownish shades but 



marked with deep black, yellow-edged, mostly wedge-shaped spots. Dharmsala, etc. 



cuneaia. P. cuneata Walk. (25 1). Variable, sometimes exceedingly like angulifera but always distinguishable 



by its light yellow-brown ground-coloru". N. W. Himalayas to Japan and Formosa. 



boarmiaria. P. boarniiaria Gh-aes. (24 g). Smaller than cuneata, rather lighter still, the black marks at inner margin 



reduced, not wedge-shaped, etc. Apex of forewing not produced. Radde, Central Amm-land. 



164. Genus: lioxaspilates Warr. 



Face with slight or strong projecting tuft. Palpus rather elongate, with 3rd joint distinct. Antenna 

 in (J nearly simple. Femora glabrous. Hindtibia in cJ dilated. Forewing without fovea; rather narrow, with 

 acute apex and oblique distal margin ; 1st subcostal usually free; 2nd from stalk of 3rd- — 5th; 2nd radial usually 

 arising before the middle of the angled discocellulars. Range: N. India, Tibet and China. 



graeseri. L. graeseri (Piing. in lift.) noni. nov. (= boarmiaria Piing. nee Chaes.) (24 g). Remarkably like Psyra 



ftoarwiwn'a but distinguished by the structural characters (longer palpus, straight, oblique distal n argin and free 

 1st subcostal vein of forewing), the more miiformly sized black spots and the whiter, weakly marked hindwing, 

 with more conspicuous black cell-dot. Tibet: Koko-Nor. Evidently near the following. 



hasUgem. L. hastiger'a Btlr. (25 k). Forewing pale straw-yellow, clouded with smoky brownish near base and 



distally to the postmedian and subterminal lines, which are represented by strong black wedges; very charac- 

 punctigem. teristic are the still longer antemedian wedges. N. W. Himalayas : Dharmsala and Rala. — putictigera subsp. 

 nov. has clearer, brighter yellow forewing, with the wedges reduced to dots (the postn:edian tending to form 

 very shorts dashes), the hindwmg pnvev \^'hitc. Kashmir: Sonamarg, type in coll. Brit. Mus.; a second example 

 from the Scind Valley. Perhaps a separate species. 



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 obliquarifi. L. obliquaria Moore (= subfalcata Pouj.) (25 b). Variable, straw-colour or more ochreous, with or 



without Jdecided darker irroration, best recognized by the arched costal margin and slightly falcate apex and 

 the nearly straight postmedian line, parallel with the distal margin or slightly more oblique; the subterminal 

 blackish dots vary much in development. Afghanistan and N. W. Himalayas to W. China. 



ficcseni. L. fixsetli Alph. (25 k) seems (from the figure) doubtfully distinct from obliquaria, but the postmedian 



Ime of the forewing shows an angle close to the costal margin, the subterminal line is perhaps m.ore sinuous, 

 edged distally by a more regular brown line, without black spots and the postmedian line of the hindwing 

 extends further anteriorly. Amdo district. 



arrizarmria. L. arrizanaria Bastelh. (25 k) differs from the more brownish yellow forms of obliquaria in that the 



postmedian line is more oblique, running nearly into the apex, and on the irnier margm makes a curve base- 

 wards. The incomplete line of the hindwing is more proxmiallj' placed. Described from Formosa, where 

 it is constantly smaller than obliquaria, but I have before me 3 large specimens fiom AV. China (Pu-tsu-fang 

 and Ta-chien-lu), which should pi-obably be treated as a separate race. 



