408 NOCTPID.3E. 



black, t lie former white, small, narrow, oblique, the latter grey, 

 angled inwards on median nervine, large; postmedial line black 

 defined on outer side by white, bent outwards below costa, oblique 

 to vein 6, then dentate and oblique below vein 5, some white 

 points beyond it on costa ; postmedial area whiter except at costa ; 

 subterminal line defined on inner side by small dentate black 

 marks below vein S and at middle and blackish streaks beyond it 

 in the interspaces, angled outwards at vein 7 and to termen at 

 veins 4, 3 ; a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia brownish 

 white mixed with black. Hind wing white, the veins and terminal 

 area slightly tinged with brown ; the underside with the costal 

 area slightly irrorated with fuscous. 



Ab. 1. Corsica. A grey form suffused with fuscousbrown. — Corsica. 



Ab. 2. sicula. A grey form more uniformly suffused with brown, 

 the medial area suffused with black in male. — Sicily. 



Ab. 3. sarJoa. A grey form suffused with brown and the medial 

 area with black. — Sardinia. 



Hob. Corsica; Sardinia; Sicily, 1 J. Exp. 44 millim. 



*2823 b. Parastichtis ribbei. (Plate CXLVII. fig. 18.) 



Hadena ribhei, Piiug. Iris, xix. p. 77, pi. v. f. 3 & vi. f. 1 (1906). 



Head and thorax grey-white mixed with red-brown and black ; 

 frons with black bar above : antennae black ; tegulae with black 

 medial line ; tarsi fuscous with pale rings ; abdomeu grey suffused 

 with reddish brown, the crests with some black scales. Pore wing 

 white irrorated with red-brown and some black scales : a sinuous 

 black streak in base of submedian fold ; subbasal line slight, black, 

 waved, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line black defined 

 on inner side by white, angled outwards below costa, then oblique 

 and waved below submedian fold ; the medial area suffused with 

 bright rufous from below costa to vein 1 except beyond the reni- 

 form and with a diffused black streak above vein 1 ; orbicular 

 white defined by black, small, oblique ; reniform with faint white 

 annulus defined on inner side b) r black, its outer edge hardly 

 traceable ; a faint blackish medial shade from costa to reniform ; 

 postmedial line blackish, indistinctly double filled in with white, 

 bent outwards below costa, then slightly waved, excurved to vein 5, 

 then oblique, some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal 

 line represented by very faint whitish lunules with small dentate 

 black marks before them above and below vein 4 ; faint triangular 

 dark shades from termen at discal and submedian folds ; a terminal 

 series of small triangular black spots ; cilia chequered reddish 

 brown and white. Hind wing white faintly tinged with brown, 

 the veins and terminal area browner ; a faint dark discoidal spot 

 and terminal series of slight lunules ; cilia white ; the underside 

 white, the costal area slightly irrorated with brown, a faint 

 discoidal lunule and curved subterminal line. 



Hah. Sfain, Andalusia, Sierra de Alfacar, type f 6 , $ in Coll. 

 Piingeler. Exjp. 36 millim. 



