406 PANGPAPTA. By W. WarebN. 



line ; fringe dark grey with pale basal line ; hindwing with inner, outer, and subterminal lines, the last angled 

 on vein 5, preceded by a black 6hade and followed by a fuscous line; underside with white dark-edged 

 lunules on discocellular of each wing. A mediterranean species, found in Spain, Algeria, Corsica, Sardinia, 

 Croatia, Greece, Asia Minor, and Palestine. 



propinquus. Z. propinquus Christ. Differs from insularis in having tbe termen of forewing even, not elbowed at 



vein 4. Forewing violet grey; the basal area, the median field, arid a blotch on costa before apex blackish; 

 the lines whitish ; the inner straight and outwardly oblique ; the outer twice angled, concave between, f ollow- 

 ed on costa by a large and on inner margin by a smaller dark blotch; the hindwing paler, with traces of 

 two lines on inner margin before anal angle, the outer darker and edged with whitish. Lagodekhi, Trans- 

 caucasia. Described from a single $. 



86. Genus : Pangrapta Hbn. 



Allied to Zethes, but both wings longer and narrower; variable in contour; in some species approach- 

 ing Zethes, with well-marked angle at vein 4 and the termen even; more often with the termen more or less 

 strongly crenulate and the angle rounded off; many of the species are very much alike; mainly a tropical 

 genus, but largely developed in China and Japan. Type P. decoralis Hbn. from N. America. 



trimantesa- P- trimantesalis Walk. (71 f). Forewing fuscous dusted with grey and with a more or less prominent 



ft* reddish brown flush; a slight subbasal line; the dark inner line diffuse; reniform stigma indistinct; outer 

 line sinuous, excurved beyond cell, followed on costa by a large grey triangular blotch; subterminal line 

 dentate, indistinct; hindwing with obscuie inner line, the median slightly angled beyond cell, and traces of 

 a dentate subterminal ; a slight rufous suffusion on disc of both wings. An Indian species, recorded by Leech 

 from China, Corea, and Kiushiu. 



mandarina. P. mandarina Leech. (74 d). Forewing grey sparingly dusted with fuscous ; a pale grey costal blotch towards 



apex; inner and outer lines blackish; the former curved and indented below costa, the outer oblique 

 outwards to lower edge of costal blotch, then obliquely waved inwards; the space between it and median line 

 chocolate brown; subterminal line also blackish, waved, and black-dotted; stigmata obscurely outlined with 

 brown; hindwing with oblique dusky inner line and waved black outer line, the latter with a bend about 

 middle and followed by a blackish shade; subterminal line wavy, marked by dots in its lower hah; cellspot 

 dark in a white ring; allied to trimantesalis Walk, but greyer, with the lines differently placed. Described 

 from a pair, the $ from Ichang, the $ from Chow-pin-sa, Central and Western China. 



carta. P. cana Leech (71 g). Forewing leaden grey, with a lilacine tinge towards termen; inner and outer 



lines fuscous, the former curved and indented below costa, the outer excurved above round cell and sinuous 

 inwards; subterminal line wavy, marked by black points and edged towards costa with partially connected 

 creamy spots; a lilacine whitish triangular costal blotch before apex and a similar coloured spot at apex; 

 below the costal triangle is seen a rufous cloud ; reniform stigma with a dark lunule at centre edged with creamy 

 white, and outlined, like the orbicular, with brown; hindwing with fuscous inner and outer lines, the outer 

 broadly suffused with brown; subterminal line serrate, whitish, interrupted, with dark dots and specks on it; 

 underside brown, the fore whig white along costa; the lines fuscous; the stigmata whitish; subterminal line 

 of hindwing formed of two series of creamy Avhite lunules, followed by yellower spots towards anal angle. From 

 Kiukiang and Ningpo, Eastern and Central China. 



Irilineata. P. trilineata Leech (71 g). Forewing grey brown, towards termen tinged with lilacine; lines distinct; 



the inner and median fuscous, the former curved and twice bent, the latter sinuous and straight; outer 

 line blackish, elbowed beyond cell; subterminal line wavy, but indistinct, edged towards costa with luteous 

 and preceded by a rufous brown patch; costal triangle grey dusted with fuscous; an apical spot of same 

 colour; orbicular and reniform stigmata outlined in brown, the latter with a brown centre; hindwing with 

 inner line oblique, outer line elbowed, the latter blackish; subterminal line dentate, pale-edged; cellspot 

 blackish edged with pale; Recorded from Kiukiang, Ningpo, and Kweichow, Central, Eastern, and Western 

 China. Nearest to flavomacula Stgr., but darker; the cross lines stronger, shaped differently on the hindwing. 



