XESTIA. KICHIA. 595 



abdomen pale brownish ochreous, tlie ventral surface with, a pink 

 tinge. Fore wing pale ochreous brown tinged with pink ; an 

 oblique whitish antemedial line, slightly excurved below costa and 

 angled outwards above inner margin : orbicular and reniform slightly 

 defined by whitish, the former oblique, elliptical, the latter with its 

 centre more or less tinged with fuscous ; a whitish postmedial line 



Fig. 100. — Xcstia miniago, S • \- 



excurved from costa to vein 4, then incurved, and with a series of 

 black points on the veins beyond it: an indistinct pale subterminal 

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

 sometimes with slight fuscous points on its inner side. Hind wing 

 white. 



Ab. 1. Antennae pale brown ; fore wing with diffused black 

 medial shade. 



Ab. 2. variago. Head, thorax, and fore wing darker and irrorated 

 with fuscous. 



Bab. S. Russia, Sarepta, Zeller Coll. ; Asia MiNOR, Pontus ; 

 W. Siberia, Altai; W. Titekestan, Ferghana, Tarbagatai Mts., 

 Issyk-kul ; E. Tukkestan, Thian-Shan Mts. ; ? E. Siberia. Ea^). 

 36-42 millim. 



Genus RICHIA. 



Type. 



Bichia, Grote, Can. Ent. xix. p. 44 ( 1887) cJiorialis. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi oblique, the 2nd joint fringed with hair in 

 front, the 3rd moderate ; Irons smooth ; eyes large, rounded, smooth ; antenna; 

 of male typically minntely serrate and fasciculate ; head and thorax 

 clothed witii hair and scales, the prothorax with sharp ridge-like crest, the 

 metathorax witii slight crest ; tibite strongly spined ; abdomen smoothly scaled. 

 Fore wing with yeins ?> and 5 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 ; 

 f), 7 shortly stalked or from angle. 



Sect. I. Antennas of male minutely sen-ate and fasciculate. 



A. Fore wing with the ground-colour ochreous. 

 a. Hind wing uniformly suft'used witii fuscous. 



«'. Fore wing with the subterminal line almost straight, curvipkiia. 

 1^. Fore wing with the subterminal line excurved below 



costa and at middle xestiodes. 



h. Hind wing ochreous, tinged with fuscous towards 

 term en. 



((} . Fore wing with the postmedial lino not dentate fvscmgnata. 



//. Fore wing with the postmedial line dentate hruniieago. 



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