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Ajrotis ignipeta, Oberth, Et. Ent. 1, p. 45, pi. 4, f. 4 (1876). 



Spcelotis undidans, Moore A. M. N. H. (5) 1, p. 233 ; id. 2nd Yarcand 



Mission, pi. 1, f. 10. 

 Agrotu obscurior, Staud. Stett, Ent. Zeit 1889. p. 27. 

 „ Candida, Staud. Stett. Ent. Zeit 1889, p. 27. 

 „ obumbrata, Staud. Stett. Ent. Zeit 1889, p. 28. 

 Habitat. — Algeria ; Syria ; W. Tukkistan ; E. Turkistan ;S. Afghanistan; 

 Scinde, Karachi. 



Genus Richia. Type. 



Bichia. Grote, Can. Ent. xix., p. 44 (1887) ........ chortalis. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi oblique, the 2nd joint fringed with hair in 

 front, the 3rd moderate : frons smoo h, eyes large, rounded, antennae of male 

 rainitely serrate and fasciculate, head and thorax clothed with hair and scales, 

 the prothorax with sharp ridge-'ike crest, the metathorax with slight crest, tibiae 

 strongly spined ; abdomen smoothly soiled. Forewing with veins 3 and 5 from 

 near angle of cell ; from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to 

 form the areole ; 4 from cell. H ndwing with veins 3*4 from angle of 

 cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6'7 shortly stalked or from 

 angle. 



A. Hindwing uniformly suffused with fuscous. 



u. Forewing with the subterminal line almost straight, curvipltna. 

 b. Forewing with the subterminal line excurved 



below costa and at middle .. xestiodes. 



B. Hindwing ochreous, tinged with fuscous towards termen. fuscisignata. 

 1G37. Richia curviplena. 



1637a. Richia xestiodes, Hmpsn. Cat. Lep. Phal. B. M. IV ; p. 596, pi. 76, 

 ,.14(1903). 



Head and thorax pale rufous, the scales tipped with grey ; palpi dark rufous. 



paler at tips ; 

 abdomen ochre- 

 ous, dorsally 

 tinged with 

 fuscous, the 

 anal tuft ful- 

 Richia curviplena, $ \. v o u s yellow. 



Forewing ochieous with a violaceous tinge and irrorated with rufous ; a rufous 

 subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; an oblique antemedial line, slightly 

 incurved to costa and excurved above inner margin •, claviform defined by 

 rufous above and at extremity ; orbicular and reniform large, defined by rufous, 

 the former elliptical, the cell before and between them suffused with rufous ; a 

 waved medial shade from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; a waved postmedial 

 line excurved below costa, incurved in discal and submedian folds ; the Bub- 

 terminal line broadly d 'fined by rufous on inner side and slightly on outer, 

 excurved below costa and at middle ; a fine waved terminal line. Hindwing 



