10 KOCTUIDiE. 



oblique; claviforra well developed, brown defined by black; or- 

 bicular and reniform defined by black, the former elongate elliptical, 

 incompletely defined, the latter with its lower part or almost 

 entirely filled in with black ; a curved, waved, medial line ; postmedial 

 line dentate and produced to points on the veins, bent outwards 

 below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line 

 white, defined by dark marks on inner side, dentate, angled 

 outwards at vein 7, excurved at middle and to tornus, a dark patch 

 beyond it in discal fold ; a terminal series of black lunules ; cilia 

 chequered ochreous and fuscous. Hind wing white ; the vjeins and 

 terminal area suff'used with fuscous brown ; a terminal series of 

 dark lunules ; the underside with the costal and terminal areas 

 slightly irrorated with brown, a discoidal point and postmedial 

 series of stria) on the veins showing through to upperside. 



Hah. U.S.A., Washington, Colorado, California, 2 c5' l^ype. Exp. 

 38 millim. 



1138. Discestra eremistis. (Plate LXXVIII. fig. 24.) 



Mamestra eremistis, Piing. Soc. Ent. xix, p. 130 (1904). 



c? . Grey-white tinged with brown and mixed with fuscous ; 

 patagia with a few black scales near upper edge ; tarsi banded 

 with black ; abdomen whitish irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing 

 whitish, tinged with reddish brown and slightly irrorated with 

 black ; subbasal line represented by double black strise from costa 

 and cell ; antemedial line with double black striiE at costa, then 

 indistinct, waved, angled inwards on vein 1 ; hardly a trace of a 

 minute claviform ; orbicular and reniform large, whitish, very 

 ill-defined, the former round, the latter prominently defined by 

 black below ; medial line represented by a dark striga from costa, 

 then indistinct, oblique ; postmedial line with double black strife at 

 costa, bent outwards below costa, dentate, excurved to vein 4, then 

 incurved ; subterminal line indistinct, pale, defined on inner side 

 by minute dentate fuscous marks, angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 excurved at middle ; a terminal series of small black lunules. 

 Hind wing white tinged with fuscous, especially on the, veins and 

 terminal area ; an indistinct sinuous postmedial line ; cilia white ; 

 the underside white slightly irrorated with black, a discoidal lunula 

 and some small lunules on termen. 



Ab. 1. Whiter and less tinged with brown. — Hi. 



JJab. W. Turkestan, Merv, type t in Coll. Piingeler, Transcaspia, 

 1 (5 ; E, Turkestan, Hi. Exjj. 32-38 millim. 



1139. Discestra arenaria, n. sp. (Plate LXXVIII. fig. 25.) 



Head whitish ; thorax and abdomen whitish tinged with pale 

 ochreous brown ; tarsi ringed with fuscous. Fore wing whitish, 

 tinged with pale ochreous brown and irrorated with fuscous ; 

 subbasal line double, waved, from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line 

 indistinct, double, waved ; claviform moderate, defined by black ; 



