594 



NOCItriD^. 



oblique ; subtcrminal line pale, defined bj- slight fuscous suffusion on 

 inner side, more prominent at costa, angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 excurved at middle ; a dark terminal line. Hind wing pale fuscous, 

 with indistiiict dark discoidal lunule and dark terminal line ; cilia 

 pale, with a brown line through them. 



Hah. W. TuKKESTAN^, Turcomania, 8arawschan, Askabad, 1 S • 

 E;cp. 52 millim. 



1034. Xestia ochreago. 



Koctua ochreago, Hiibu. Samml. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 431 (1827) ; Diip. 



Lep. Fr. vii. p. 284, pi. 117. f. 8 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 202. 

 Xestia ochrqjois, Hilbn. Verz. p. 233 (1827). 

 Xanthia rubecula, Tveit. Schmett. Eur. v. p. 353 ; Herr.-Schaff. Eur, 



Schmett. ii. p. 70, ff. 437, 438 (1837). 



Head and thorax ochreous tinged with red-brown ; abdomen 

 greyish tinged with red-brown. Fore wing ochreous suffused with 

 red-brown ; an indistinct, waved, brown subbasal line from costa to 

 submedian fold ; a waved antemedial line, slightly angled outwards 

 below costa ; claviform rather small, defined by brown ; orbicular and 

 reniform large, defined by brown, the former oblique, elliptical, the 



Fig. 99.- 



-Xestia ochreago, (^ . 



latter with some black in its lower part ; traces of an oblique waved 

 line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; a minutely dentate 

 postmedial line bent outwards below costa, angled inwards in diseal 

 fold, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; a subterminal somewhat 

 diffused line, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at 

 middle ; a tine dark terminal line. Hind wing ochreous, tinged 

 with rufous and suftused with fuscous except at termen. Underside 

 of fore wing with some fuscous sufi'usion on disk and curved post- 

 medial line. 



Hah. Fe.^nce ; SwiTZEELAND, Zeller & Frey Colls. ; Italy ; 

 Armenia. Exp. 38 millim. 



Sect. II. Antenna; of male bipectinate, with very sliort fasciculate branches, 

 the apical part serrate. 



1035. Xestia miniago. 



Xanthia oniniago, Frev. Neu. Beitr. Schmett. ix. pi. 304. f. 4 (1839) ; Herr.- 

 Schaff. Eur. Schmett., Noct. p. 201, f. 113 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 202. 



Hiptelia variago, Stand. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1882, p. 44 ; id. Cat. Lep. pal. 

 p. 202. 



Head and thorax brownish ochreous with a pink tinge ; palpi 

 rufous, whitish at tips ; sides of frons and shaft of antennce whitish ; 



