1921.] 215 



light ferruginous, yellowish at the base, scarcely aunulated. Prothorax longer 

 than broad, with two median fuscous lines broader posteiiorly and separated 

 by a distinct paler line ; a fuscous streak ou either side starting- from a black 

 dot on the anterior transverse sulcus ; lateral margins narrowly fuscous. Meso- 

 and metanota variegated with yellowish and fuscous markings, those on former 

 apparently consisting of two narrow median lines with three more or less 

 interrupted lines on either side. Legs yellowish with whitish hairs ; anterior 

 femora fuscescent, tibiae of two anterior pairs with a dark median and apical 

 anuulution ; tarsi annulated with blackish. 



Wings : fore wings near the base with about six of the costal cellules sub- 

 divided by a cross-vein. Venation white variegated with blackish ; costa pale, 

 costal veinlets pale but black at the margin and sometimes with dark dots in 

 the middle, pterostigma whitish; subcosta marked with black at the insertion 

 of the costal veinlets ; radius pale marked with long black dashes at wider 

 intervals; radial sector towards the apex nearly continuously dark ; posterior 

 oblique line hardly marked, subapical short but distinct (in both wings) ;, 

 gradate veinlets in apical portion of wing mostly dark, and the axillae of the 

 apical forks and of some of the veins also dark. The hind wings have the 

 venation less marked with blackish except in the apical third; a few of the 

 veinlets running from the oblique stria to the margin being narrowly shaded 

 with fuscous. (Plate II, fig. 3.) 



Length of fore wing 25 mm. 



1, Qurnah, 17. v. IS {Suxton). 



Creafjris plumhea Oliv. 



7, Kurnah, 17.v. ; Kut-el-Amara, 7-S.viii., Amara, 14,vi, 20-31. vii, 

 S.ix.lS {Buxton). 



8, Amara, 30.X.17, 16.v., 21.vii, 5-31.Viii (at light), ll.ix.18 (on 

 dead vegetation in dried-up marsh 12 miles below Amara) {Evans). 



2, Baiji, 3.V, Baghdad, 21.ix.20 {Peile). 



7, Kazvin, 17, 20, Sl.vii, B.viii, 7.ix ; Enzeli, 30.vi.l9 {Buxton). 



This long series is not quite homogeneous. Tliose from N. W. Persia 

 and those from Mesopotamia differ from each other in facies, the former* 

 generally partaking more of the European character and having the 

 venation pale reddish with the darker interruptions often faint, while 

 those from Mesopotamia in fully mature examples have the pale parts of 

 the venation wdriter with the dark interruptions standing out in stronger 

 contrast. The raarkings on the pronotum are variable. In the best 

 marked Mesopotamian specimens the median lines are well defined, 

 separate, strongly bulged outwards behind the anterior transverse sulcus 

 with anterior and posterior prolongations turned outwards ; from the 

 latter a small dash directed upwards and inwards (apparentl}^ on the line 

 of a short diagonal sulcus) ; on the anterior transverse sulcus a rounded 



