220 NOCTUID.I:. 



and reniform "whitish defined by black, the former very narrow and 

 elongate, the latter with some fuscous in upper part, angled inwards 

 on median nervure and its lower extremity produced ; postmedial line 

 represented by a striga irom costa ; traces of a dentate subterminal 

 line, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; the veins 

 of terminal area with dark streaks ; cilia chequered brown and 

 white. Hind wing white, the veins and terminal half streaked 

 with fuscous ; cilia white ; the underside white irrorated with 

 fuscous, a slight discoidal lunule and postmedial series of short 

 streaks on the veins. 



5 . Fore wing more ochreous, more or less developed black 

 streaks before and beyond the claviform; the antemedial line 

 sometimes more developed on inner area and strongly angled 

 inwards on vein 1 ; orbicular confluent or nearly confluent with 

 reniform, which is bidentate at lower extremity ; subterminal line 

 more distinct, dentate, with some black streaks beyond it in the 

 interspaces. 



Hah. W. TxjEKESTAN, Merv, type t in Coll. Pungiiler, Tedschen 

 oasis (Haiiser), 2 $ . E.V2^. 48 millim. 



Genus THARGELIA. ^ 



Thargelia, Piing. Iris, xii. p. 104 (1899) distincta. 



Proboscis aborted, small ; palpi obliquely porrect, fringed with hair below ; 

 frons with rounded prominence ; with triangular corneous plate below it ; eyes 

 large, rounded ; antenna; of male minutely serrate and fasciculate ; thorax 

 clothed chiefly with scales ; the pro- and nieiathorax with spreading crests ; 

 fore tibia? with small claw at extremity ; abdomen with dorsal crest at base 

 only. Fore wing with veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper 

 angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. 

 Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; o obsolescent from below angle 

 of discqcellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near 

 base only. 



A. Fore wing with the stigmata large and prominently defined ... distincta. 



B. Fore wing with the stigmata small and rather indistinctly 



defined fissilis. 



1438. Thargelia distincta. 



Scofochrosta distincta, Christ. Eom. Mem. i. p. 124, pi. 8. f. 3 (1884) ; Stand. 

 Cat. Lep. pal. p. 161. 



(5 . Head and thorax grey-white mixed with brown and black ; 

 palpi blackish at sides except at base ; tegulae with black medial 

 line ; abdomen brownish grey, the dorsal crest and anal tuft with 

 some black. Fore wing grey-white irrorated with brown ; subbasal 

 line represented by double oblique black strite from costa ; an 

 irregular black streak below base of cell to the claviform which is 

 elongate and defined by black; orbicular and reniform defined by 

 black, the former elongate elliptical, the latter open above, its 

 lower part produced to two points on outer side and one on inner ; 



