BOA RMIDA=:—A SPILA TES. 4 1 



Turkey, the Balkan States, Southern and Western Russia, 

 Asia Minor, Persia, Palestine, and the mountain regions of 

 Central Asia. 



2. A. citraria, Hah. ; ochrearia, Stand. Cat. — Expanse 

 male, 1\ inch, female 1 to 1^. Fore wings silky, bright 

 yellow, a curved, narrow, pale purplish-brown stripe before 

 the middle, and a straight oblique one beyond ; hind wings 

 white with a faint cross stripe. 



Antenna) of the male pectinated with oblique, solid, ciliated 

 teeth, the rows rather near together, smoky-lirown, but the 

 back of the shaft yellow ; palpi slender, purple-brown, head 

 yellow and rather smooth, tinged on the lower part of the 

 face with purple ; thorax slender, covered with long, loose, 

 ochreous-yellow scales ; abdomen slender, smooth, shining, 

 pale yellow ; lateral tufts very small, anal tuft compressed. 

 Fore wings rather narrow ; costa nearly straight ; apex 

 bluntly angulated ; hind margin gently curved, and the 

 curve sweeping round into the dorsal margin ; colour clear 

 bright yellow, a little tinged with ochreous at the base of 

 the costa ; first line curved, obscurely purplish-grey or 

 purplish-brown, not attaining the dorsal margin ; second 

 line very oblique and direct, slightly rippled throughout, 

 and reaching the costa just before the apex; of a washed- 

 out purplish-brown shade ; discal spot of the same colour 

 but small and faint ; cilia bright yellow. Hind wings 

 rather elongated, silky, creamy-white ; central spot a 

 minute, faint, blackish ring ; across the middle of the wing 

 is a very faint, purplish-grey shade ; cilia pale yellow. 

 Female smaller but with the body stouter ; antenna; simple ; 

 fore wings pale yellow, rather dusted with brown ; the 

 stripes more distinct, and the cilia spotted with red-brown. 

 Hind wings hardly so white, and the spot and transverse 

 shade broader. 



Underside of the fore wings pale, semi-transparent, pur- 

 plish-grey ; the hind margin and broad apical region yellow ; 



