. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 130 NOCTUID^. hind wing tinged with green, especially towards costa; the veins brown. Ab. 1. alhivitta. Fore wing with a white streak in basal half of submedian fold, and sometimes also a small spot in middle of cell. Ab. 2, viridissima. Fore wing without the white spot; hind wing paler. Hah. SiBEKiA; E, Turkestan, Kuldja, 1 S ; Tibet, Kuku Nor; Kashmir, Deosai plains 12,000 ft. {Leech), 3 5 , type fuscovirens. Exp. 42-50 millim. 229. Isochlora grumi. Isochlora grumi, Alph. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. xxvi. p. 448 (18
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 130 NOCTUID^. hind wing tinged with green, especially towards costa; the veins brown. Ab. 1. alhivitta. Fore wing with a white streak in basal half of submedian fold, and sometimes also a small spot in middle of cell. Ab. 2, viridissima. Fore wing without the white spot; hind wing paler. Hah. SiBEKiA; E, Turkestan, Kuldja, 1 S ; Tibet, Kuku Nor; Kashmir, Deosai plains 12,000 ft. {Leech), 3 5 , type fuscovirens. Exp. 42-50 millim. 229. Isochlora grumi. Isochlora grumi, Alph. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. xxvi. p. 448 (1892); id. Rom. Mem. ix. p. 42, pi. 1. f. 2; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 223. S . Head and thorax pale ochreous ; antennae fulvous; palpi, tibia, and tarsi pink ; abdomen ochreous Avhite, the ventral surface pink and fuscous except towards extremity. Fore wing pale ochreous ; the costal edge pink; a pink fascia on inner margin from before middle to tornus, emitting slight teeth at position of ante- and postmedial lines; a spot at lower angle of cell; an oblique postmedial series of points from below apex to inner margin incurved below vein 3. Hind wing white, with some fuscous suffusion on median nervure and vein 1. Underside of fore wing with fuscous suffusion along subcostal and median nervures. Hab. Tibet, Amdo, Kuku Nor, 1 c? . Exjp. 40 millim. Genus GRUMIA. Grumia, Alph. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. xxvi. p. 453 (1892). Type. flora. Proboscis fully developed; joalpi porrect, reaching well beyond the frous and fringed with long hair below; frons smooth, without prominence ; eyes small, reniform, ovei'hung by long cilia; antennse of male bipectinate, with short branches ; head and thorax clothed with long rough hair; all the tibiaj spined. Fore wing rather narrow ; the apex rectangular ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of disco
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