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brown. Fore wing dark brown with a cupreous gloss and slight 

 grey irroration ; subbasal line represented by a faint dark striga 

 from, costa ; traces of an erect waved dark antemedial line ; reni- 

 form represented by some whitish scales on discocellulars ; a faint 

 diffused dark medial shade; postmedial line indistinct, defined on 

 outer side by some white scales especially towards costa, slightly 

 bent outwards below costa, then minutely waved, somewhat incurved 

 at discal fold, incurved below vein 4 and angled outwards at vein 1, 

 some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line hardly 

 traceable, with a white striga from costa : cilia brown at base, 

 white at tips with brown patches between veins 4 and 2 and at 

 tornus. Hind wing dark brown with a cupreous gloss ; cilia brown 

 at base, white at tips ; the underside with the costal area faintly 

 irrorated with grey. 



Ilab. Greece, Zeller, d'Emmick, and Leech Colls. ; Asia Minor, 

 Lydia. Exp. 22-24 millim. 



Genus AXENUS. 



Type. 

 Axenus, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. i. p. 152 (1873) arvaiis. 



Proboscis fully developed; palpi obliquely porrect, extending to just beyond 

 frons and fringed with long hair below ; frons with truncate prominence with 

 raised edges, its lower edge produced to a long shovel-shaped process, a 

 corneous plate below it; eyes small, reniform ; antennae of male minutely 

 ciliated ; thorax clothed with rough hair only and without crests ; tibia? fringed 

 with long hair; abdomen sparsely clothed with hair and without crests. Fore 

 wing with the apex somewhat produced, the termen obliquely curved and not 

 crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 

 10 anastomosing with 8 to form theareole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with 

 veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from just below middle of disco- 

 cellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



4956. Axenus arvaiis. 



Axenus arvaiis, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. i. p. 152, pi. iv. f. 8 



(1873) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 291. 

 Axenus ochraceus, H. Edw. Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci. vi. p. 136 (1875). 

 Axenus ampin's, II. Edw. Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci. vi. p. 136 (1875). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen dark olive-brown mixed with some 

 grey ; antennae ringed with white ; palpi below, pectus, legs, and 

 abdomen mostly grey ; tarsi with slight pale rings. Fore wing 

 dark olive-brown largely suffused and irrorated with grey ; a gmy 

 antemedial band, broad from costa to median nervure, then 

 narrower, defined by the obscure brown antemedial and medial 

 lines ; a grey discoidal spot conjoined to a mark on costa ; post- 

 medial line obscure, brown, slightly excurved from costa to vein 4, 

 then oblique ; postmedial line somewhat diffused, whitish, slightly 

 excurved from costa to vein 4, then oblique ; subterminal line some- 

 what diffused, whitish, slightly incurved at discal and subniedian 



