THARGELIA. HTPOBARATHRA. 



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postmcdial line very hij^hly and irregularly dentate, interrupted by 

 the reuiform ; subterminal line represented by a series of dentate 

 black and white marks angled outwards at veins 7, 4, 3 ; a 

 terminal series of small black lunulcs ; cilia chequered brown and 

 white. Hind wing white, the veins brownish, the terminal area 



Fig. 34. — ThargeHa distincta, (^ . \. 



irrorated with brown, a brown terminal line ; the underside white, 

 the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a discoidal spot 

 and postmedial series of short streaks on the veins. 



Hab. W. Turkestan, Turcomania; E. Turkestan, Kungess, 

 1 (S . Ex_p. 46 millim. 



1439. ThargeHa fissilis. 



Scofochrosta fissilis, Christ. Rom. Mem. i. p. 125 (18S4); 

 Mem. ix. p. 217, pi. 8. f. 9 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 1(51. 



Alph. Rom. 



c? . Head and thorax grey mixed with fuscous ; tarsi with dark 

 rings. Fore wing grey thickly irrorated with fuscous ; subbasal 

 line absent ; anteraedial line only traceable near inner margin ; 

 chiviform small defined by black, on inner side produced as a 

 narrow streak to vein 1 near base ; orbicular and reniform small, 

 indistinctly defined by black, the former elongate elliptical, 

 the latter with its lower part produced to points on veins 4, 3 ; 

 postmedial line represented by double striae on costa, then by 

 short streaks on the veins and a striga on inner margin, ex- 

 curved from costa to vein 4, then oblique ; tlie veins of terminal 

 area streaked with black, the postmedial line being represented by 

 indistinct dentate whitish marks defining the veins. Hind wing 

 white ; a discoidal spot and terminal series of stria3 ; the underside 

 with postmedial series of short dark streaks on the veins. 



Hah. W. Turkestan, Transcaspia, 5 J , Turcomania ; E. Turk- 

 estan, Kungess, 1 S • Exp. 38 millim. 



Genus HYPOBARATHRA, nov. 



Type, H. icterias. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, fringed with hair in 

 front ; frons sii\ooth ; eyes large, rounded ; antennjc of male ciliated ; iiead 

 and thorax clothed with hair and scales, the pro- and inetatliorax with 

 spreading crests ; fore tibite with long curved claw on inner side ; abdomen 

 with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing with veins 3 and ."> from near angle 



