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NOCTUID^. 



median nervure ; traces of a waved medial line ; postmedial line 

 double filled in with white, minutely dentate, bent outwards below 

 costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; veins 3, 4, 6, 7 with 



Fig. 36. — Onychestra siccanorum, (^ . 



dark streaks usually defined by white but not indenting the white 

 subterminal line, which is angled outwards at vein 7 and incurved 

 at submedian fold, with a series of small dentate dark marks before 

 it at middle ; a terminal series of small dark lunules ; cilia 

 chequered brown and white. Hind wing white with an ochreous 

 tinge, the veins towards termen with slight dark streaks, a fine 

 terminal line ; the underside with the costal and terminal areas 

 irrorated with brown, a discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. 



Hub. S. Russia, Sarepta {Christoph), 3 c? ; W. Turkestan, 

 Issyk-kul, 2 d • Exp. 30 millim. 



Genus PRONOTESTEA, nov. 



Type, P. dlenides. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, fringed with hair ; frons with 

 truncate conical promiueuce with vertical ridge at middle and corneous plate 

 below it, produced to a point in front ; eyes large, rounded ; antennse of male 

 serrate and fasciculated ; thorax clothed with scales, the pro- and metathorax 

 with spreading crests ; fore tarsi with the joints shortened and with curved claw- 

 like spines on outer side ; abdomen with dorsal crest on 1st segment. Fore wing 

 with veins ?> and 5 from near angle of cell ; (i 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 ; 5 obsolescent from just below angle of disco- 

 cellulars ; G, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base 

 only. 



1443. Pronotestra silenides. 



Mamestra silenides, Staud. Iris, vii. p. 273, pi. ix. f. 14 (1894) ; id. Cat. 

 Lep. pal. p. 160. 



S . Head ochreous, the frons with blackish bar above ; thorax 

 grey-white mixed with rufous, the patagia with some black scales 

 above ; tarsi black with ochreous rings ; abdomen grey mixed with 

 brown, the anal tuft ochreous. Fore wing red-brown, the area 

 before the antemedial line, the inner medial area, and the terminal 

 area suffused with blue- white ; a slight blackish streak in base of 

 submedian fold ; snbbasal line double, waved, from costa to sub- 

 median fold ; antemedial line double, slightly angled inwards below 

 costa and strongly on vein 1 ; claviform defined by black, pointed 



