382 noctuid^:. 



with fulvous. Fore whig pale yellow irrorated with a few brown 

 scales ; obliquely placed subbasal brown points on costaand in cell; 

 antemedial line double, red-brown, rather punctiform, oblique from 

 costa to median nervure, then erect, the orbicular represented by a 

 black point just beyond it ; reniform defined by blackish below, 

 very incompletely defined above, constricted at middle ; medial line 

 represented by an oblique red-brown bar from costa and red-brown 

 band from cell to inner margin on inner side of the postmedial line, 

 which is double, excurved below costa, then oblique and almost 

 straight ; postmedial area tinged with brown defining the sub- 

 terminal line, which is slightly excurved below vein 7 and afc 

 middle ; cilia red-brown mixed with yellow, witli a slight yellow 

 line at middle, the tips chequered fuscous and yellow. Hind wing 

 yellow suffused with cupreous brown ; cilia pale yellow with some 

 red-brown at base ; the underside white slightly ringed aud irro- 

 rated with red-brown, traces of a minutely waved brown postmedial 

 line from costa to vein 5. 



Hob. Stria, Diabekir, 1 $ , Mardin. Exp. 28 millim. 



4836. Mgle subfiava. (Plate CXLV. fig. 16.) 



Metoponia suhfiava, Ersch. Fedtach. Reis. p. 52, pi. 3. f. 15 (1874) ; St aud. 

 Oat. Lep. pal. p. 233. 



Head and thorax yellowish white ; legs tinged with brown ; 

 abdomen white tinged with ochreous except at base and extremity. 

 Fore wing yellowish white sparsely irrorated with reddish brown, 

 the costal edge brown towards base ; a faint brown antemedial 

 line, very oblique from cell to vein 1 and bent outwards to inner 

 mai'gin ; a diffused rufous patch in end of cell and a whitish dis- 

 coidal mark ; postmedial line rufous, arising from costa towards 

 apex, excurved below costa, then very oblique and slightly excurved 

 at median nervules, a triangular rufous patch beyond it on costa ; 

 a diffused rufous subterminal band from vein 5 to inner margin ; a 

 diffused rufous terminal line ; cilia yellowish white with rufous 

 lines at middle and tips. Hind wing whitish suffused with red- 

 brown especially on terminal area ; cilia white with slight brown 

 line through them on costal half. Underside of fore wing suffused 

 with brown, the costa white expanding beyond middle and ending 

 in a point before apex, a triangular white patch on apical part, of 

 termen ; hind wing wholly white. 



Hab. W. Turkestan, Turcomania (Ersehoff), 1 $ , Tedschen Oasis 

 (Hauser), 2 J, Sarawschan, Issyk-Kul. Exp. ^ 26, 2 30miliim. 



*4837. iEgle agatha. 



Metoponia agotha, Stand. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1801, p. 2S9 ; Mill. Iconeg, 

 i. pi. 38. ff. 1, 2; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 233. 



cJ . Head and thorax orange-yellow, the latter with some white 

 on vertex ; antenna} blackish towards tips ; pectus and legs whitish, 



