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noctcidj:. 



1135. Trichorhiza peterseni. 



Hhhogmmma peterseni, Clii-ist. Rom. Mem. iii. p. 76, pi. iv. f. 3 (1887) ; 

 Stand. Oat. Lep. pal. p. 183. 



S . Head and thorax grey mixed with brown ; tegulce brown at 

 tips ; abdomen grey irrorated Avith brown. Fore wing grey 

 irrorated with reddish brown ; subbasal line represented by brown 

 striag from costa and median nervure ; a black streak with slight 

 brown suffusion below it below the cell from base to the antcmedial 

 line, which is indistinct and angled outwards in submedian fold 

 and above inner margin ; claviform defined by a slight brown line 

 above ; orbicular and reniform small, defined by brown, the former 

 oblique elliptical ; postmedial line unusually near termen, very 

 minutely waved, double, slightly bent outwards below costa, 



Fig. 6. — Trichorhua peterseni, J. f. 



oblique to vein 5, then inwardly oblique ; subterminal line angled 

 outwards at vein 7, retracted to postmedial line at vein 5, dentate 

 to termen at veins 4, 3, then retracted to postmedial line at sub- 

 median fold, the area beyond it brown except at apex and inner 

 margin ; a lunulate terminal black line ; cilia intersected with 

 whitish, Hind wing white, the veins and terminal area tinged 

 with brown ; the underside with the costal and terminal areas 

 slightly irrorated with brown, a postmedial series of points on the 

 Veins. 



Hab. W. Turkestan, Turcomania, 1 c5' , Issyk-kul ; "W. Siberia, 

 Altai, 1 (5 ; E. Turkestan, Kuldja, 1 c? • J^^rp. 38 millim. 



Genus DISCESTRA, nov. 



Type, B. chart aria. 



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

 in front ; frons witb seiuilunate corneous prominence with raised edges ; a 

 corneous plate below frons; eyes large, rounded; antenna; of male ci hated ; 

 head and thorax clothed chiefly with seale.<, the pro- and nietathorax with 

 divided crests ; abdomen with doi-sal series of crests. Fore wing with 

 veins 3, f^ from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 ana.sto- 

 mosing with 8 to ibrin the areole ; 11 from cell. Hmd wing with veins 3, 4 

 from ano-le of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from 

 upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



