LASIESTRA. — LA6I0NYCTA. 53 



antemedial line double, slightly waved, oblique from costa to 

 submedian fold, then angled inwards on vein 1 ; claviform small, 

 defined by black ; orbicular and reniforra greyish defined by black, 

 the former round ; traces of a waved medial line ; postmedial line 

 rather strongly dentate, bent outwards below costa and incurved 

 below vein 4, some pale points beyond it on costa ; subterminal 

 line yellowish white, defined on inner side by somewhat dentate 

 dark marks, excurved at vein 7, somewhat dentate at veins 4, 3, 

 and angled inwards in submedian fold ; a terminal series of small 

 dark lunules ; cilia yellowish, with a dark line through them. 

 Hind wing grey uniformly suffused with brown, the cilia whitish 

 •with a brown line near base ; the underside pale brownish grey, 

 with traces of a curved postmedial line. 



Hah. jN". Persia, Demavend, in Coll, Piingeler. E.ip. 36 

 millim. 



Genus LASIONYCTA. 



Type. 



Lasionycta, Auriv. Ent. Tyd. xviii. p. 285 (1892) scnelinriia. 



Proboscis fully developed .; palpi upturned, the 2ik1 joint clothed with long 

 rough hair; frons smooth; eyes large, rounded, overhung by long cilia; 

 antennteof male sernite and fascieubite ; head and thorax clothed with hair 

 and hair-like scales, the pro- and metathorax with spreading crests ; abdomen 

 with dorsal series of crests. Fore wing with veins 3 and b from near angle of 

 cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 

 II from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from 

 middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 shortly stalked; 8 anastomosing with the cell 

 uear base only. 



A. Fore wing with the cell filled in with black between the 



stigmata. 



a. Fore wing with the medial area darker than the ground- 



colour. 



a}. Fore wing with the subterminal line represented by a 

 series of whitish lunules with dentate black marks 

 before them raiiiieri. 



b^. Fore wing with the subterminal line ill-defined, grey, 



with obscure dentate dark marks before it inconcinna. 



b. Fore wing with the medial area not darker than the 



ground-colour coiijui/aia. 



B. Fore wing with the cell not filled in with black between the 



stigmata. 



a. Fore wing olive-yellow mixed with grey and black bri/opfcra. 



b. Fore wing brown suffused with olive-yellow ; hiud wing 



yellow hirifla. 



c. Fore wing fuscous irroratod with grey scr(e/uif/ia. 



d. Fore wing with the ground-colour grey. 



a'. Fore wing with the orbicular grey with brownish 



centre •"* n^'fimcida. 



b^. Fore wing with the orbicular whitish firdilis. 



e. Fore wing with the ground-cohnir whitish. 



a}. Fore wing tinged with bhiish altaica. 



b^. Fore wing tinged with yellow in parts. 



a'^. Fore wing with the claviform minute arietis. 



b'^. Fore wing with the claxiform well-developed ochmcca. 



