290 NOCTUIDJ5. 



4600. Arenostola deserticola. (Plate CXLIII. fig. 23.) 



Calamia deserticola, Stand. Iris, xii. p. 371, pi. 5. f. 10(1900); id. Cat 

 Lop. pal. p. 190. 



cf . Head and thorax brown mixed with whitish ; tarsi brown 

 ringed with whitish ; abdomen grey-brown. Pore wing pale flesh- 

 colour with a brownish tinge. Hind wing grey-brown ; cilia 

 whitish tinged with flesh-colour ; the underside whitish tinged 

 with brownish flesh-colour. 



Hah. Algeria, Biskra, Hammam-es-salahin (Walsiiigham), 1 $ . 

 Exp. 36 millim. 



4097. Arenostola bondi. 



Konagria bondii, Knaggs, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1861, Proc. p. 133 ; Mill. Icones, 



ii. pi. 87. f. 1 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 189. 

 Tapinostola morrisii, Tutt, Ent. Eec. iv. p. 72, pi. C. f. 1 (1893), nac Dale. 



Head and thorax white faintly tinged with brown ; palpi at sides 

 and legs suffused with brown ; abdomen ochreous white tinged with 

 reddish brown. Pore wing brownish white irrorated with a few 

 black scales; the costal edge brown towards base; subhasal line 

 represented by slight black points on costa and below cell ; traces 

 of a dentate antemedial line ; traces of a minutely dentate post- 

 medial line with slight black points on the veins, slightly bent 

 outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique. Hind 

 wing ochreous white suffused with brown, leaving slight pale 

 streaks on the veins of terminal area ; traces of a curved postmedial 

 line; cilia white. Underside of fore wing suffused with brown 

 except marginal areas ; hind wing white irrorated with brown 

 especially on costal area and terminal area to vein 2, a black dis- 

 coidal point and indistinct curved postmedial line. 



Flab. Britain- ( Doublalay), Leech Coll. ; Germany, llugen I. ; 

 ? Italy, Aquila ; Greece. Exp. 30 -34 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 121 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. v. p. 110, pi. 198. f. 2. 



Dirty white, the 1st and anal somites brownish ; dorsal line 

 faint, pale ; head brownish ; a black point on each prolog. Pood- 

 plant, Festuca arundinacea. 8. 



469S. Arenostola extrema. 



Noctua extrema, Hiibn. Eur. Selimett., Noct. f. 412 (1808)'; Stand. Cat. 



Leu. pal. p. 189. 

 Nonagria concolor, Guen. Noct. i. p. 103 (1852) ; Tutt, Ent. Rec. iv. p. 72, 



d1. C. f. 3; Mevr. Brit. Lep. p. 121; Barrett, Lep. Brit. v. p. 105, 



pi. 197. f. 3. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen white tinged with ochreous, the 

 palpi and legs with brownish. Fore wing white tinged with 

 ochreous and irrorated with a few blackish scales, the veins slightly 

 paler ; antemedial line represented by black points on the veins ; 



