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pale groy. the outer angled on vein 5; elaviform stigma dark; the upper ones pale grey; a conspicuous 

 whitish, externally bifid blotch at base of vein 2; submarginal line as in potanini; hindwing also the 

 same. — Lob Nor. — Described from 2 $$. Possibly the other sex of potanini. 



Division II. Fore tibiae without claws; mid and hind tibiao, in some cases the fore tibiae also, 

 spined; eyes smooth. 



2. Genus: Schoyenia Auriv. 



Tongue present; irons smooth; palpi short, longhaired beneath; antennae of ^ with tuberculate 

 fascicles of cilia; head and thorax roughhaired; all the tibiae spined. Type Schoyenia unifasciata Men. 



S. unifasciata Men. (= arctiea Auriv.). Forewing grey mixed with blackish, with more or less yellow unifasciata. 

 dusting: median area black, the inner and outer lines minutely dentate; elaviform stigma obsolete; orbicular 

 and reniform small, grey; subterminal line and some streaks at base of wing dark; hindwing whitish, washed 

 and dusted with fuscous; fringe white. Nova Zembla. Distinguished by the very narrow wrings, and the 

 large anal claspers of the $. 



S. quieta Hbn. (= schoenherri Zett., constricta Walk., rigida Walk.) (50 a). Forewing grey, densely quieta. 

 dusted with blackish, the folds tinged with olive; inner and outer lines conversely whitish-edged; upper 

 stigmata white and small, the cell black; submarginal line preceded by black blotches at costa, beyond 

 cell, and above anal angle; hindwing whitish suffused with dark fuscous; an indistinct outer pale band; 

 the 5 has the median area darker, with a black dash along submedian fold; in the ab. nigricans Auriv., 

 the whole wing is suffused with black. Norway, Finland, Lapland; also in Arctic America. 



S. ottonis Alph. (48 d). Forewing whitish grey, speckled with dark brown, partly washed with olive oltonis. 

 brown; median area reddish brown; elaviform stigma small, black-edged; orbicular and reniform whitish 

 with black outlines, the former triangular, the latter connected by a black mark with outer line; 

 submarginal line denticulate, preceded by black sagittate marks; hindwing dark fuscous, the fringe white; 

 a curved dark outer line; thorax red brown like median area. Mongolia, — ■ Urga and TJliassatai. 



3. Genus: Orosagrotis Hmps. 



Differs from Schoyenia in the frons bearing a truncate conical prominence instead of being smooth; 

 antennae of q minutely serrate and fasciculate; head, thorax, and pectus hairy; all the tibiae spined. 

 Type Orosagrotis tnontana Morr. from N. America. 



0. amphora Hmps. (50 a). Forewing pale brownish grey, speckled with darker; elaviform stigma amphora. 

 black-edged; orbicular and reniform brown, ringed first with white then with brown, the former pointed 

 externally and touching reniform; the cell dark brown; subterminal line denticulate preceded by black 

 teeth; hindwing fuscous brown, with dark terminal line. Kashmir. 



0. cashmirensis Hmps. (50 a). Forewing blackish brown, with a paler subcostal streak; elaviform eashmtr- 

 stigma black; upper stigmata small, brown with pale rings, the cell blackish; a pale band beyond outer 

 line with the veins dark across it; submarginal line also pale, preceded by black teeth; hindwing paler 

 brown. Kashmir. Like the last species, known only from the single $ type. 



4. Genus: Gruinia Alph. 



Tongue present; frons smooth; palpi porrect, long-haired below; antennae of <J bipectinate, the 

 branches short; head and thorax rough-haired; all the tibiae spined, the fore tibiae without claws; the 

 small eyes overhung by long cilia; abdomen of 5 with long exserted ovipositor. Type G. flora Alph. 



G. flora Alph. (50 a). Forewing deep green, the costa, inner margin, and fringe whitish grey; hindwing flora. 

 dull black; the fringe whitish; head and thorax green; dorsum black, powdered with white; under side of 

 forewing black, with white fringe, bright rosy towards apex; hindwing white with the inner margin broadly 

 black. Kuku Nor, and Amdo, Tibet. 



5. Genus: Oxytrypia Stgr. 



Tongue developed; palpi quite short, long-haired below; frons smooth; antennae of cJ bipectinate 

 to apex with short branches; mid and hind tibiae spined; fore tibiae without spines or claws. Type 

 O. crbiculosa Esp. 



