234 NOCTtriD^E, 



on inner side by dentate black marks below costa and at middle, 

 angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate to termen on veins 4, 3 ; 

 a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia brown intersected 

 with white. Hind wing pale suffused witli brown, the veins and 

 terminal area brown ; a white mark on termen below vein 2 ; cilia 

 white, with a brown liiie through them ; the underside whitish 

 irrorated with brown, an indistinct sinuous postmedial line. 



Hah. S. Fkance ; Spain ; Sicily ; Hungart, Leech Coll. ; 

 Greece ; Armenia ; Syria, "Mardin. E.vp. 34 millim. 



1456. Epia christophi. (Plate LXXXIV. fig. 21.) 



Dianthatcia christophi, Moschl. Wien. eiit. Mon. 1862, p. 235; Staud. 



Cat. Lep. pal. p. 163. 

 Diant/ioecia corrwpta, Herz. Iris, xi. p. 25G (1898). 



Head and thorax white slightly tinged with brown ; palpi fuscous 

 at sides ; frons and vertex of head Avith fuscous bars ; teguloe with a 

 black medial lino : patagia edged with black ; abdomen white 

 slightly tinged with fuscous. Fore wing white, slightly tinged and 

 irroi'ated. with brown ; subbasal line black, defined by white on 

 outer side, waved from costa to submedian fold and bisecting a 

 black streak below base of cell ; antemedial line double, waved ; 

 claviform moderate, strongly defined by black ; orbicular and reni- 

 form with slight brown centres and prominent white annuli defined 

 by black, the former round ; a waved medial line ; postmedial line 

 double, minutely waved, bent outwai'ds below costa, excurved to 

 vein 4, then strongly incurved ; some white points on costa towards 

 apex ; subterminal line white, with dentate black marks before it at 

 middle, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at veins 4, 3 ; the 

 apex suft'used with white ; a terminal series of black lunules ; cilia 

 intersected with white. Hind \\ing white slightly tinged with 

 brown ; the veins, a sinuous postmedial line, and diffused sub- 

 terminal band brown ; a terminal series of black lunules ; cilia 

 fuscous, whitish at tips ; the underside white, the costal area 

 irrorated with brown, a discoidal lunule, the postmedial lino and 

 subterminal band more prominent. 



Ab. 1. corrupta. Darker, especially the hind wings. 



Huh. llussiA, Sarepta, 1 §; Siberia, Altai; W. Turkestan, 

 Uliassutai, 1 cj' , 1 $ , Pamirs ; Mongolia, Urga ; Tibet, Amdo ; 

 Amurlani), Ussuri. Exp. 34 millim. 



Larva. Yellowish white, with white dorsal, subdorsal, and lateral 

 stripes. 



Genus CARDEPIA, nov. 



Type, C. irrisor. 



I'roboscis fully developed ; palpi oblique ; frons with truncate reniforra 

 proniiuence, excised below ; eyes large, rounded ; antenna of male ciliated ; 

 thorax clothed chiefly with scales, the pro- and luetathorax with spreading 

 crests; fore tarsi with curved claw-like spines on outer side of 1st joint; 

 abdomen with dorsal crest on basal segment. Fore wing with veins 3 and 5 

 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 



