64 RHYNCHAGROTIS; 1SOCHLORA. By W. Wabren. 



patricia. E. patricia Stgr. (15b). Forewing pale brown with deep brown suffusion; the inner and outer 



lines, especially at eosta, paler; sometimes the whole basal area; median area dark, especially above middle; 

 upper stigmata dark, the black annuli mixed with ochreous scales; claviform quite small; hindwing fuscous; 

 antennae of <? with pedicellate fascicles of cilia. Amdo and Kuku-Nor, Tibet. 



agathina. E. agathina Dup. (= lidia Bsd. nee Cram., albimacula Stph., leucographa Stph.) (15 b). Forewing 



greyish rufous; costal area paler for 2 /3, edged below at base by a fine dark streak; claviform stigma small 

 and obscure; cell black brown; the two stigmata pale, orbicular variable, sometimes large, sometimes 

 contracted to a white spot; hindwing dark grey; antennae of o 71 serrate, with sessile fascicles of cilia. A 

 hebridicola. heath-frequenting species, found in Britain, France, Belgium and Spain. In the form hebridicola Stgr., 

 scopariac. from the Hebrides, the forewing becomes paler and loses the red tinge; in scopariae Mill, from France 

 the red tinge is overpowered by black suffusion. - - Larva green, with pale dark-edged lines, the spiracular 

 broad and conspicuous; on Calluna. 



40. Genus: Rliyiichagrotis Smith. 



Differs from Eueretagrotis in the much less hairy palpi, pectus, and femora; terminal segment of 

 palpi straight, not depressed. 



Type B. gilvipennis from N. America. 



diardinyi. R. chardinyi Bsd. (= hetaera Ev., fuchsii Wendl.) (15 b). Forewing olive grey with the shadings 



darker and tinged with In-own, especially along costa; no claviform stigma; the other two with pale edges; 

 a dark marginal line; hindwing orange with a broad black border and the base rayed with fuscous; fringe 

 yellow. A local species occurring in Germany and Central Russia, in the Altai Mts. W. Siberia, Mongolia, 

 and Amurland. Some examples have the basal half of costa and edges of stigmata white. 



41. Genus: Xsoclilora Stgr. 



Frons smooth; foretibiae fringed with hair, without spines; mid and hindtibiae spined; forewing 

 elongate, the apex produced; either green, without markings, or yellowish, with slight and simple markings; 

 antennae of d* bipectinate, of ? more shortly bipectinate, or merely serrate. 



Type Isochlora viridis Stgr. 



Section I: Antennae of ? bipectinate. 



maxima. I. maxima Stgr. (15b). Forewing and fringe bright deep green; costal edge white; hindwing dirty 



greenish fuscous, only the termen and fringe pale green; abdomen whitish, the dorsum dark grey; antennae 

 fulvous. — E. Turkestan and Mongolia. 



diloroptera. I. chloroptera Hamps. (15b). Forewing pea green; the costal edge and tips of cilia white: hind- 



wing white with a greenish flush; abdomen white, with middle segments green; Kashmir, Deosai plains. 



grumi. I. grumi A/p/i. (15c). Forewing very pale sulphur yellow; costal edge narrowly and inner margin 



more broadly rosy, the latter with slight projections at the place of inner and outer lines; a rosy spot at 

 lower end of cell; sometimes a submarginal row of dull rosy spots: hindwing white, with grey discal lunule. 

 and sometimes the base and inner margin tinged with dull grey; head, thorax, and abdomen pale sulphur: 

 venter, legs, and palpi rosy; antennae of? pectinated. — Kuku-Nor and Amdo, Tibet. 



xanthiana. I. xanthiana Stgr. (15c). Forewing pale greyish yellow; the lines and a broad median shade, 



ferruginous; outer line lunulate-dentate ; orbicular stigma a brown point; reniform a diffused fuscous blotch; 

 fringe ferruginous; hindwing paler; palpi and legs, pectus and venter ferruginous. — Amdo, Tibet. The <f 

 only is known. 



herbacea. I. herbacea Alph. (15 c). Smaller than viridis Stgr., differing in having the discoidal lunule black, 



and indications of a dusky outer line excurved round cell; hindwing white, uniformly suffused with fuscous; 

 the fringe pure white. — Changhai Mts., Mongolia. 



Section II: Antennae of ? serrate only. 



viridis. I. viridis Stgr. (— fuscovirens Ilamps.) (15c). Forewing pea green; fringe green; costal edge and 



discoidal lunule white; hindwing whitish green with base and inner margin smoky grey; abdomen white; - 

 viridissima. in viridissima Stgr. the white lunule of the forewing is absent, and the hindwing is paler. — Siberia, 

 Turkestan, Tibet, Kashmir. 



albivitta, I. albivitta Alph. (15 d). Resembles viridis Stgr., but the forewing bears a white basal streak along 



the submedian fold, and sometimes an additional spot in the cell. — Tibet. 



