14 LEPIDOPTERA. 



Biili^'aria, Southern Russia. Hitliynia, I^ydia, Syria, and 

 Xorthern I'ersia ; also in .Afadeira, wliere it varies to a form 

 lia\ iug on each wIul;' a broad sinoky-l)lack l)and. 



5. A. bisetata, liork. — E.xpanse \ incli. Wings rather 

 narrow, silky brownish-white, with small black central dots 

 and slender transverse lines, but the outer portion of each 

 wing either faintly, or distinctly, occupied by a broad, 

 irregularly divided band of smoke colour. 



Antennjo of the male slender, notched, ciliated, brownish- 

 white ; palpi small, divergent, dark brown ; tongue well 

 developed ; eyes glistening, dark brown ; face convex, dark 

 purple-brown; u])per part of the head dingy white; at its 

 back is a thin brown neck-ridge ; thorax very narrow, shining, 

 dirty white ; abdomen long and very slender, brownish- 

 white ; lateral tufts broad, rather browner; anal tuft narrow 

 and compressed. Fore wings slightly elongated; costa 

 straight to the middle, thence arched to the apex, which is 

 bluntly angulated ; liiiid margin smoothly and very gently 

 curved; dorsal margin faintly filled out, strongly ciliated; 

 colour brownish-white ; first line very slender, rather oblique 

 but bent back at the costa, smoky-brown, sometimes hardly 

 indicated ; second line more visible, smoky-brown, slender, 

 placed as a series of iiat curves between the nervures. and 

 forming the inner edge of a broad smoke-coloured stripe 

 which sometimes fills the whole hind marginal space, l)ut is 

 divided by a sinuous wliitish subterminal line ; more fre- 

 quently it is only of one-half that breadth, or is obliterated 

 except its margins ; central shade or line very slender and 

 faint, gently curved, smoky-brown, exactly crossing the 

 small black discal dot ; extreme hind margin faintly dotted 

 with pale luown ; cilia silky, brownish-white. Hind wings 

 rather long, rounded behind ; colour and markings almost 

 exactly as in the fore wings, but the central dot smaller and 

 the central line placed Irfmr it. Female very similar, the 

 body shorter and the antenme threadlike. 



