AN03I0GYNA. XESXIA. 



593 



Ab. 1. meresl. Browner; fore wing without the pinkish patch 

 on the reniform : hind Aving more irrorated with brown. 



Hah. Norway, Varanger, Bergen, 1 S , Zeller Coll. ; Sweden, 

 Jemtland, tj-pe t 6 mevesi in Mus. Stockholm, Lapland ; ^S". Siberia, 

 Yerkhoiansk, 1 S . Exj). 4G millim. 



Genus XESTIA. „ 



Type. 



Xcstia, Hiibn. Verz. p. 232 (1S27) ochrcago. 



Hiptella, Guen. Noct. i. p. 399 (1852) ochreatjo. 



Eicomorpha, Stand. Stett. cnt. Zeit. xlix. p. 24 (1888) antiqua. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint fringed with bair 

 in front ; eyes large, rounded ; frons smooth ; liead and thorax clothed with 

 hair only ; the prothorax with ridge-like crest, the nietathorax with shght crest; 

 tibiaj spined and fringed witli long hair on outer side. Fore wing with the apex 

 somewhat produced and acute and the termen excised below it ; veins 3 and b 

 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 

 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of 

 cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; (i, 7 from upper angle ; the 

 termen excised below apes. 



Sect. I. Antenna of male bipectinate, with moderate branches to near apex. 



A. Fore wing with the ground-colour grey-brown. 



a. Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines obsolete antiqua. 



b. Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines well- 



developed coppcni. 



B. Fore wing with the gro\ind-colour ochreous ochreayo. 



1032. Xestia antiqua. 



Eicomorpha antiqua, Staud. Stett. eut. Zeit. xlix. p. 24 (1888) ; Alph. Eom. 

 Mem. ix. pi. 7. f. 5 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 154. 



S • Grey ; the vextex of head and thorax tinged with brown. 

 Fore wing with the subbasal line represented by some brown scales 

 below costa and cell ; some brown suffusion along vein 1 ; a small 

 brown spot at lower angle of cell; the subterminal line represented 

 by a slight brown patch on costa, and very indistinct excurved 

 part at median nervules. 



Hab. W. Tcrkestan, Turcomania, Sarawschan, Ferghana, 1 S • 

 Exp. 46 millim. 



1033. Xestia coppeni. 



Eicomorpha. IdJppeni, Alph. Iris, vi. p. 341) (1896) ; id. Eom., Mem. ix. 

 p. 211, pi. 7. f. 6 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 1.54. 



(5 . Head and thorax pale brown and whitish, with some fuscous 

 on middle of tegultc and base of patagia ; abdomen pale grey-brown. 

 Fore wing pale grey-brown, whitish at base ; the subbasal line repre- 

 sented by slight strite from costa, the antemedial line oblique, waved, 

 sometimes with a striga beyond it on costa ; traces of an oblique 

 elliptical orbicular stigma ; reniform small, indistinct, with a striga 

 above it on costa ; postmedial line dentate and produced to points on 

 the veins, slightly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then 



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