JV^cw PaJxardic Pyralidx. 379 



ti'aces of a line tlirongh tlio cilia whieli are mixed with 1>]ack at 

 middle. 



Expanse 18 millim. 



Type in Coll, Staiulinger. 

 Hah. Syria, Jordan, 



(3a.) Constantia pcrsinualis, n. sp. 



Head, thorax and abdomen fulvous mixed with white. Forewing 

 white suffused with pale fulvous ; the antemedial line black defined 

 by wjiite on outer side, oblique from costa to submedian fold where 

 it is angled, then erect ; the costa between the lines white irrorated 

 with fuscous ; a white patch and fuscous point at upper angle of cell ; 

 the postmedial line white, inciirved l^elow costa, sinuous to sub- 

 median fold, then retracted to origin of vein 2, strongly dentate 

 on outer side in submedian fold, and with fuscous-irrorated white 

 suffusion on its inner side from vein 6 to inner margin forming a 

 large patch in the sinus and on inner mai^gin extending to ante- 

 medial line ; cilia chequered fuscous and white, their tips fuscous. 

 Hindwing white with slight brown subterminal and terminal marks 

 at vein 2. 



Expanse 26 millim. 



Type in Coll. Staudinger. 

 Rah. Syria, Jordan, 



(4a.) * Constantia sanctalis, n. sp. (Stg-r. MS.) 

 (Plate III, fig. 15.) 



(^ White strongly irrorated with fuscous-brown. Forewing with 

 the antemedial line arising from median nervure, strongly angled out- 

 wards in submedian fold, and oblique from vein 1 to inner margin ; 

 an ill-defined patch of dark scales in middle of cell ; the postmedial 

 dark line oblique, dentate on outer side and diffused on inner side 

 from costa to vein 3, then bent inwards, "fine and indistinct ; a fine 

 terminal black line and line through the cilia. Ilindwing white 

 suffu-sed and irrorated with pale brown, the cilia white. 



Expanse 18 millim. 



Type in Coll. Staudinger. 

 Hah. Syria. 



(5a,) Constantia caidalis, n. sp. (Stgr. MS.) 

 $ Head, thorax and abdomen white tinged with ochreous and 

 irrorated with dark brown. Forewing white tinged with reddish- 

 ochreous and strongly irrorated with dark Ijrown ; the antemedial 



