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NOCTUID.'E. 



line p;rcy, deflnecl on inner side by blackish brown, becoming slight 

 dentate marks at middle and a more prominent patch at submedian 

 fold, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; 

 a terminal scries of black lunules. Hind wing fuscous brown ; 

 cilia ochreous, with dark medial line and whitish tips; the under- 

 side grey irrorated with fuscous, a small discoidal spot and rather 

 diffused postmedial line with darker streaks at the veins. 



2 . Fore wing more uniform grey, with the dark markings 

 reduced. 



Hah. W. Turkestan, Turcomania, 1 S •, Issyk-kul, Ferghana; 

 E. TuiiKESTAN, Kuldja, 3 d" , 1 $ . Exjp. 38 millim. 



1211. Polia subarschanica. (Plate LXXX. fig. 3.) 



Hadcna subarschanica, Staud. Iris, viii. p. 3:20, pi. 6. f. li^ (1895); id. Cat. 

 Lep. pal. p. 161. 



(5' . Head and thorax dark brown mixed with whitish grey ; 

 tegula) with dark medial line ; patagia with whitisli patch ; tarsi 

 with white rings ; abdomen brownish grey. Fore wing brownish 

 grey ; a diffused, double, waved subbasal line filled in with white, 

 from costa to submedian fold, a yellowish and black mark below it 

 on inner margin ; a double, waved antemedial line angled inwards 

 on vein 1 ; claviform small, defined by black ; orbicular and reni- 

 form moderate, with whitish annuli defined by black and their 

 centres with fuscous, the former oblique elliptical, the latter rather 

 narrow ; an indistinct waved medial line ; postmedial line double, 

 somewhat dentate and produced to whitish points on the veins, 

 bent outwards below costa, slightly incurved at discal fold and 

 strongly below vein 4, some white points beyond it on costa ; sub- 

 terminal line white, lunulate, defined on inner side by small dentate 

 black marks, two below costa and one in submedian fold larger, 

 slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a 

 terminal series of minute black lunules. Hind wing fuscous brown, 

 with traces of a waved whitish subterminal line ; cilia whitish, with 

 fuscous line through them ; the underside whitish, the costal area 

 irrorated with brown, a small discoidal spot and indistinct curved 

 postmedial line. 



Hah. Tibet, Kuku-noor, 1 J , Amdo. Exp. 36 millim. 



Sect. II. Antennjic of male bipectinate, with short brandies, the apical part 

 serrate. 



A. Hind wing white, the terminal area tinged with fuscous -parvula. 



B. Hind wing wholly tinged with fuscous. 



a. Fore wing with the middle area tinged with rufous. 



a}. Fore wing without black on inner side of the white mark 



on subteiniinal line in submedian fold ccrvina. 



I?. Fore wing with the white mark on subterminal line in 



Bubmediau fold defined by black on inner side hisfralis. 



h. Fore wing with the medial area not tinged with rufous navia. 



