JANTHINEA. — STEMMAPHORA. 485 



to lower angle of cell ; hind wing with pink patch on costal area 

 before the broad white medial band with dark striga on it at upper 

 augle of cell, the terminal area pink from apex to vein 2. 



Hah. Armenia; Asia Minor, 2 cf, 5 $, Pontus, 1 rf , 1 § , 

 Bithynia ; ? W. Turkestan, Turcomania. Exp. 24 millim. 



*4973. Janthinea dos. 



Heliothis dos, Fit. NeueBeitr. iii. p. 98, pi. 263. f. 4 (1838); Herr.-Schatf. 

 Eur. Schmett., JVoct. ff. 274, 27o ; Slaud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 221. 



Head and thorax brown tinged with green ; abdomen black with 

 slight whitish segmental lines and lateral fringes of ochreous hair. 

 Fore wing brown tinged with green on basal half and olive on 

 terminal half ; a dark terminal line ; cilia white. Hind wing black, 

 the inner area with some greenish hair; a medial white band from 

 below costa to vein 1, rounded above and narrowing below; cilia 

 white. Underside of fore wing with white medial band not 

 reaching costa ; hind wing with the apical area olive. 



Hah. Asia Minor, Pontus, Lydia. Exp. 22 millim. This species 

 is unknown to me. 



Genus STEMMAPHORA. 



lype. 



Stemmapkora, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 43 viola. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint reaching 

 about to middle of frons and fringed with long hair in front, the 3rd small ; 

 frons with long trilobate corneous process from middle and corneous plate 

 below it; eyes small, reniform ; antennas of male almost simple ; thorax clothed 

 with rough hair only and without crests ; tibiae fringed with long hair ; abdo- 

 men clothed with rough 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 the areole ; 1 1 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle 

 of cell; 5 obsolescent from below middle of discocellulars ; G, 7 from upper 

 angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



4 974. Stenmiaphora viola. 



Stevunaphora viola, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 43; Christ. Rom. 

 Mem. v. p. 38, pi. 2. f. 8 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 220. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen reddish brown mixed with grey- 

 white ; antenna? white towards base, blackish towards tips ; palpi 

 white except at base; pectus and legs mostly white, the mid and 

 hind tibiae with some pink hair, the tarsi blackish ringed with 

 white. Fore wing rufous mostly suffused with purplish white and 

 irrorated with some black scales ; an oblique diffused rufous band 

 from middle of costa to inner margin near tornus, angled inwards 

 below the cell to near base, with an olive-yellow streak before it in 

 cell and its outer edge indented by an olive-yellow patch in sub- 

 median interspace ; an oblique rufous fascia from apex to vein 5 



