ARKNOSTULA. 289 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 120; Barrett, Lep. Brit. v. p. 103, pi. 197. f. 2. 



AYhitish ochrcous tinged with pink : subdorsal and spiracular 

 lines brownish ; head and thoracic plate pale brown. Food-plant, 

 the lower part of stem of Car-ex paludosa. 6-7. 



*4693. Arenostola mabillei. (Plate CXLIII. fig. 20.) 



Tapinostola mabillei, Lucas, Bull. Soe. Eut. Fr. 1907, p. 342. 



5 . Head and thorax ochreous white slightly raised with fuscous ; 

 abdomen ochreous white irrorated with black. Fore wing ochreous 

 white tinged with flesh-pink and irrorated with black, a blackisn 

 streak on median nervure and on the veins beyond the cell ; a post- 

 medial series of black points, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; 

 traces of a snbterminal series of black points. Hind wing ochreous 

 white irrorated with fuscous. Underside of fore wing with patches 

 of fuscous suffusion below and beyond lower angle of cell and 

 beyond upper angle. 



Hub. Algeria, Le Tarf, type t 5 in Coll. Lucas. Exp. 26 rnillim. 



*4694. Arenostola mollicella. (Plate CXLIII. fig. 21.) 



Tapinostola mollicella, Tung. Iris, xix. p. 222, pi. vii. fig. 17 (1907). 



cS . Head and thorax grey-white irrorated with dark brown ; 

 palpi with the 2nd joint blackish at sides ; tarsi blackish ringed 

 with white ; abdomen white. Fore wing pale cupreous brown 

 thickly irrorated with white especially on costal area ; subbasal 

 and antemedial lines represented by slight dark striae from costa 

 defined by white ; a white point in cell near base followed by four 

 pairs of white points in the cell ; an antemedial point on vein 1 ; 

 postmedial line represented by two black striae from costa, bent 

 ontw r ards below costa, then represented by a rather oblique series 

 of blackish points on the veins followf d by white points, with white 

 and black striae on costa beyond them; traces of a subterminal 

 series of blackirdi points on the veins; a terminal series of black 

 points with white points before them. Hind wing pure white; 

 the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown, a slight 

 discoidal spot and a terminal series of black points from apex to 

 vein 2. 



Hah. Tibet, Kuku Nor, type t J in Coll. Piingeler. Exp. 

 22 rnillim. 



4695. Arenostola modesta. (Plate CXLIII. fig. 22.) 



Calamia viodesta, Stand. Iris, xii. p. 372 (1900) ; id. Cat, Lep. pal. p. 190. 



2 . Head and thorax ochreous whitish tinged with brown ; 

 abdomen whitish tinged with brown. Fore wing pinkish white 

 tinged with brown and with dark irroration. Hind wing ochreous 

 whitish suffused with brown, the cilia whiter ; the underside 

 whitish tinged and irrorated with brown. 

 Hub. Palestine, 1 5- Exp. 38 millim. 



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