ALA. 



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1. Ala picteti. 



Ala picteti. Stand. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1882, p. 49; Alpb. Hor. Soc. Ent. 

 Eoss. xvii. p. 89, pi. 3. f.()l ; Stand. Gat. Lep. pal. p. 220. 



(S . Head and thorax black-brown mixed with grey; abdomen black 

 with some grey hairs. Fore wing brown, almost entirely suffused 

 with grey but leaving the inner margin dark ; a curved dark sub- 

 basal line from costa to submedian fold ; the antemedial line curved, 

 with the more or less developed black-brown claviform on its outer 

 edge and sometimes also a small elliptical grey-centred orbicular 

 stigma : reniform with greyish centre defined by black-brown, its 

 inner edge angled inwards on median nervure, placed on a distinct 



Fig. 3.— Ala picteti, J . }. 



brown medial shade ; postmedial line indistinct, grey, oblic^ue from 

 costa to vein 6 where it is angled, incurved below vein 4 : subter- 

 minal line grey, slightly defined by brown on inner side and the 

 area beyond it rather browner, minutely waved, angled iuAvards 

 below costa and in submedian fold, slightly incurved at discal fold ; 

 cilia whitish at tips. Hind wing white, irrorated with fuscous 

 especially towards base ; veins and a discoidal lunule fuscous ; the 

 inner area and a broad terminal band fuscous black, the latter with 

 its inner edge sometimes incurved at discal fold ; cilia white. 

 Underside white irrorated with fuscous, both wings with dark 

 discoidal lunule and broad terminal band. 



Hah. W. Ttjkkestan, Turcomania, 1 S , Ala Tan, Issyk-kul, 2 S ; 

 E. Tdekestan, Kuldja, Korla. Exp. 26-28 millim. 



*2. Ala pretiosa. 



Ala pretiosa, Alph. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ros.s. xxvi. p. 453 (1892); id. Rom. 

 Mem. ix. p. 38, pi. 3. f. 8 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 220. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen black-brown mixed with olive and 

 grey hair. Fore wing grey irrorated with olive, the basal, costal, 

 and inner areas dark olive-brown ; stigmata black-brown defined l)y 

 whitish, the orbicular and claviform small, round, obliquely placed, 

 the reniform large ; the postmedial line excurved from costa to vein 

 4, then incurved, the area beyond it dark brown with a i)ale 

 obliquely curved subterminal band with waved edges expanding 

 towards costa. Hind wing white ; the basal half suffused with 

 fuscous ; a dark discoidal lunula conioined to a streak from base 



