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AMPH1PYRA. By W. Warren. 
without crests; abdomen dorsally flattened, without crests, but laterally fringed with hair; fore legs of 
shaggy with hair; forewing with blunt apex and evenly curved termen; neuration normal. Type P. san- 
guinipuncta Ouen. 
The genus contains only one species, stout and strongly built, from Australia. 
snnguini- P. sanguinipuncta Guen. (= trilineata Walk.) (15 a). Forewing smooth, purplish fuscous slightly 
pimcla. var j ec [ w jp,h. pale scales; subbasal, inner, and outer lines pale yellowish white, conspicuous, rarely clouded 
with fuscous; the subbasal and outer edged internally, the inner externally with black, the subbasal and 
inner accompanied by blood red scaling on the folds; a blood red spot at base of cell and a black 
red-tipped spot between subbasal and inner lines on each fold; claviform stigma triangular, black, tipped 
with red; orbicular and reniform black, subquadrate, with blood red spots; outer line lunulate den¬ 
tate; subterminal interruptedly yellowish, preceded by broad black wedge shaped marks, sometimes 
confluent, and followed by reddish scales; terminal lunules black inwardly tipped with red, followed by a 
yellowish terminal line swollen on the veins; fringe glossy fuscous; hindwing glossy fuscous, paler, some¬ 
times ochreous, towards base; fringe pale ochreous, fuscous at apex. A slightly smaller and paler form 
pallidior. occurs, —- ab. pallidior ab. nov. (15 b) —• with the ground colour of forewing lightened by the admixture 
of pearly grey scales, so that the dark markings stand out more conspicuously; the outer line is more 
strongly bent outwards above and incurved below on submedian fold; the veins towards termen are more 
decidedly pale, while the white cross lines are all duller; the hindwing is much paler, ochreous grey, 
with the fringe whitish except just at apex. Victoria, Australia, and Tasmania. Larva dull yellow above, 
tawny brown at sides; dark dorsal and subdorsal stripes, the area between them dull yellow, with fine 
waved interrupted dark lines, which are broader in front; spiracular lines white enclosing the black spir¬ 
acles on the three anal segments; prolegs fuscous, marked with yellow on outer side; head very small; 
feeding on Urtica, and turning to a red brown pupa. Recorded from Victoria, N. S. Wales, and Tasmania. 
4. Genus: Ampliipyra Tr. 
Differs only slightly from Pyrois Him., the second segment of palpi being smoothly scaled like the 
terminal, instead of fringed with hair, and the terminal longer, more pointed. Larva as in Pyrois. 
but only emerging from the egg in spring. Type A. tragopoginis L. 
magna. A. magna Walk. (— clialcoptera Fldr.) (15 a). Forewing redbrown and dark brown, mixed with 
whitish; outer half of median area dark purplish brown; veins in terminal area streaked with dark 
brown; inner and outer lines blackish, double, filled in with whitish, the inner strongly waved, erect; 
the outer excurved and dentate; subterminal line whitish, with dark brown w'edgeshaped marks before 
it and dark streaks beyond; a terminal row of dark lunules edged with white; fringe red brown mixed 
with whitish and with a dark line through it; orbicular stigma elongate, with a whitish ring defined 
by dark brown; reniform shown only by a few pale scales on cliscocellular; a waved obscurely marked 
median line bounding the dark area; hindwing cupreous red, the costa pale red brown; fringe red- 
brown towards apex. Occurs ha the Punjab, N. India, Kulu, Sultanpur, Thundiani, and Dharmsala. 
Distinguished by the neater and more regular markings. 
monolitha. A. monolitha Guen. (— surnia Fldr.) (14 k). Like pyramidea but much larger; the groimd colour 
darker, more uniformly brownish fuscous; outer half of median area generally forming a well marked 
blackish fascia across wing; the outer line is edged with white, which sometimes forms a broad diffused 
strigata. space reaching nearly to submarginal line; in ab. strigafa Warr. (14 k) from N. India, there is no blackish 
fascia across the wing, but a thick black streak from orbicular along cell to outer line; on the other hand 
obftcura. in the ab. obseura Oberth. (= obliquilimbata Graes.) (Vol. 3, pi. 38b), a form known at present only 
from Amurland, the dark tints are intensified, while the hindwing is darker and deeper red. Guenee’s 
type came from Sylhet, Assam, North India; it occurs also in Sikkim and the Punjab, and in the 
Goorais Valley, Kashmir. The insect is common in Japan, W. China, and Amurland. 
tragopo- A. tragopoginis L. (= luciola Hufn., repressus Grote) (14 i). Forewing dull brown dusted with 
gims. p a ( er sca l e g 5 varying from pale to blackish brown; submarginal line only visible, indicated by a paler 
tinge preceded by a darker shade; orbicular stigma a blackish dot; reniform represented by two clots, one 
above the other, at end of cell; hindwing rufous fuscous, paler towards base; — the blacker forms are separ- 
nigrescens. ated as ab. nigrescens Spul. (— tetra Haw. nec F.) Larva green: dorsal and subdorsal lines yellowish 
or white; spiracular yellowish; spiracles black; feeds on a variety of low growing plants. This common 
Palaearctic and N. American species is found in the Punjab, North India, where many other Kashmir 
insects occur. 
corvina. A. corvina Motschl. (Vol. 3, pi. 38 c). Larger than Uvula F ., the forewing more purple, the hind- 
