AREN0ST0LA. 



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a postmedial series of black points on the veins, bent outwards 

 below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; a terminal series of 

 dark stria?. Hind wing ochreous white suffused with brown, the 

 cilia yellowish white. Underside white irrorated with brown ; 

 fore wing with the disk tinged with brown ; hind wing with oblique 

 black sfcriga on upper discocellular. 



Hab. Britain, Stephens Coll. } Germany; Austria; Hungary; 

 Russia, Urals ; Persia (Haberhauer), 1 cJ ; E. Turkestan Hi. 

 Exp. 28 millim. 



*4699. Arenostola sohn-retheli. (Plate CXLIII. fig. 24.) 

 Tapinostola Sokn-Retkeli, Piing. Iris, xix. p. 222, pi. vii. f. G (1907). 



o . Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous white ; palpi fuscous ; 

 antennae and legs tinged with fuscous, the tarsi slightly ringed with 

 white. Pore wing glossy white with a faint ochreous tinge and 

 very slightly irrorated with brown, the apex slightly tinged with 

 brown ; a terminal series of slight dark striae ; cilia white mixed 

 with brown and with faint dark line near base. Hind wing glossy 

 white slightly tinged with fuscous especially on termen ; cilia white 

 with a faint dark line through them. Underside of fore wing 

 suffused with fuscous brown except terminal area which is slightly 

 irrorated with fuscous ; hind wing with the costal and terminal 

 areas slightly irrorated with fuscous. 



Hab. C. Italy, Abruzzi, Pescacostanzo, type t S in Coll. Pi'tngeler. 

 Exp. 32 millim. 



Genus SPHETTA. 



Type. 



Sphetta, Wlk. xxxii. 457 (1SC5) apicalis. 



Proboscis absent; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to 

 vertex of head and broadly fringed with hair in front, the 3rd long; Irons 

 smooth, with large tuft of hair above and a ridge of hair between antennas; 

 eyes large, round; antennas of male minutely ciliated; thorax clothed with 

 rough hair, but without crests ; tibise fringed with long hair ; abdomen 

 elongate and rather slender, some rough hair at base but without crests. Fore 

 '.vini; with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved, erenulate ; vein 3 from 

 well before angle of cell; 5 from just above angle; 6 from just below upper 

 angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind 

 wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of disco- 

 cellulars ; (i, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



4700. Sphetta apicalis. 



Sphetta a /limits, Wlk. xxxii. 4">7 (1855); Moor^. Lep. C'evl. ii. "p. 114, 



pi. 121. if. 2. 2 a ; Hmpsn. Moths Tnd. ii. p. 107. 

 Sphetta biocelluta, Moore' P. Z. S. 1879, p. 4U5. 



$ . Head and thorax dark reddish brown mixed with pale 

 ochreous, the vertex of head paler ; tarsi black-brown, the mid aud 

 hind tarsi with pale rings; abdomen greyish brown. Fore wing 



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