HADULA. 



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brown ; tarsi brown with pale rings. Fore wing grey, tinged in 

 parts with ochreous and irrorated with dark brown, the medial 

 area slightly darker ; siibbasal line represented by slight dark striae 

 from costa ; antemedial line waved ; claviform with its extremity 

 defined by dark brown ; orbicular and reniform large, whitish 

 slightly defined by brown, the former round, the latter quadrate ; 

 postmedial line indistinct, dentate, bent outwards below costa, 

 excurv'ed to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal lino indistinct, 

 whitish defined by fuscous on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7, 

 excurved at middle and bent outwards to tornus ; a terminal series 

 of slight dark lunules. Hind wing whitish suffused with brown, 

 especially on terminal area ; a curved postmedial line showing 

 through from underside ; cilia whitish ; the underside white irro- 

 rated with brown, some slight dark streaks on postmedial line. 



Hah. E. Turkestan, Kashgar, type f in Coll. Piingclcr. Exy. 

 44 millim. 



Sect. IV. Antenna; of male with long cilia. 



A, Fore wing without brown centres to orbicular and reniform. 



a. Fore wing with the orbicular and reniform whitish defined 



by black sabulorum. 



b. Fore wing with the orbicular and reniform grey defined by 



brownish insolita. 



B. Fore wing with brown centres to orbicular and reniform . . . impia. 



1477. Hadula sabulorum. 



Mamestra sabulorum, Alph. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. xvii. p. 69, pi. 3. f. 58 



(1882) ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 15(x 

 Mamestra distincia, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1889, p. 35. 

 Mamestra rhodina, Christ. Iris, vi. p. 91 (1893). 



Head and thorax ochreous grey mixed with brown, a few black 

 scales on edges of patagia; tarsi ringed with black; abdomen brownish 

 grey. Fore wing ochreous grey irrorated with brown and black ; the 

 subbasal line represented by double black striae from costa and cell ; 

 antemedial line rather indistinct, double, oblique, waved, arising from 

 black points on costa ; claviform small, defined by black ; medial 



Fig. 44. — Hadula sabulorum, c? . \. 



line indistinct, curved, waved, arising from a black point on costa ; 

 orbicular and reniform with a whitish tinge, large, defined by 

 black, the former round ; postmedial line dentate and produced to 

 black and grey streaks on the veins, double at costa, bent outwards 

 below costa and incurved below vein 4, some pale points beyond 



