868 CATALOG DE OF 



Fam. AMPHTPYRXDiE, C. L. H. xiii. 101 1. 

 Genus AMPHIPYEA, C. L. H. xiii. 1014. 

 Amphipyra Schrenkii. 

 Schrenkii, Men. Bull. Acad. Sci. St. Pet. Mel. Biol. iii. 109. 

 Amoor Region. 



Amphipyra micans. 

 micans, Ld. Wien. Mon. 1857, 94. 



Amphipyra magna. 



Foem. Fusca, nigro conspersa ; alee anticce fuscescenie-cinerete, 

 fascia media lata dentata lineaque exteriore nigricantibus, 

 tinea ante media nigra undulata duplicata, orbiculari e annulo 

 cinereo elliptico, reniformi subobsoleta, spatio marginali fusco 

 strigas nigras lineamque cineream dentatam includente ; 

 posticce cupreo-rufce . 



Female. Brown, speckled with black, cinereous-brown beneath. 

 Palpi nearly erect, rising a little higher than the vertex; third 

 joint lanceolate, less than half the length of the second. Abdomen 

 cinereous-brown, extending much beyond the hind wings. Fore wings 

 brownish cinereous, with a broad blackish middle band, which along 

 its outer side is dentate, and is parallel to an approximate 

 blackish line ; a double undulating black line at half the distance 

 between the base and the band ; orbicular mark forming an elliptical 

 cinereous ringlet; reniform mostly or wholly obsolete, as is also the 

 orbicular occasionally; marginal space brown, partly including a 

 row of black streaks, which are traversed by a cinereous dentate 

 line ; marginal lunules dark brown, bordered with cinereous. Hind 

 wings cupreous-red. Length of the body 13 lines ; of the wings 

 32 lines. 



a. North Hindostan. Presented by the Secretary of the India 



Board. 

 6, c. North Hindostan. Presented by Capt. Strachey. 



