16 KOCTtriDiE. 



oblique : claviforra well developed, brown defined by black ; or- 

 bicular and rcniform defined by black, the former elongate elliptical, 

 iiicorapletely defined, the latter with its lower part or ;ilmost 

 entirely filled in with black ; a curved, waved, medial line ; postmedial 

 line dentate and produced to points on the veins, bent outwards 

 below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line 

 white, defined by dark marks on inner side, dentate, angled 

 outwards at vein 7, excurved at middle and to tornus, a dark patch 

 beyond it in discal fold ; a terminal series of black lunules ; cilia 

 chequered oclireous and fuscous. Hind wing white ; the veins and 

 terminal area suffused with fuscous brown ; a terminal series of 

 dark lunules ; the underside Avith the costal and terminal areas 

 slightly irrorated with brown, a discoidal point and postmedial 

 series of stria) on the veins showing through to upperside. 



Hah. U.S.A., Washington, Colorado, Californiaj 2 S type. Exp. 

 38 millim. 



1138. Discestra eremistis. (Plate LXXVIII. fig. 24.) 

 Mamestra eremistis, Pung. See. Ent. xix. p. 130 (1904). 



S • Grey-white tinged with brown and mixed -nith fuscous : 

 patagia with a few black scales near upper edge ; tarsi banded 

 with black ; ahf'omcn whitish irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing 

 whitish, tinged with reddish brown and slightly irrorated with 

 black ; subbasal line represented by double black striae from costa 

 and cell ; antemedial line with double black striae at costa, then 

 indistinct, waved, angled inwards on vein 1 ; hardly a trace of a 

 minute claviform ; orbicular and reuiform large, whitish, very 

 ill-defined, the former round, the latter prominently defined by 

 black below ; medial line represented by a dark striga from costa, 

 then indistinct, oblique ; postmedial line with double black striae at 

 costa, bent outwards below costa, dentate, excurved to vein 4, then 

 incurved ; subterminal line indistinct, pale, defined on inner side 

 by minute dentate fuscous marks, angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 excurved at middle ; a terminal series of small black lunules. 

 Hind wing white tinged with fuscous, especially on the veins and 

 terminal area ; an indistinct sinuous postmedial line ; cilia white : 

 the underside white slightly irrorated with black, a discoidal lunula 

 and some small lunules on termen. 



Ab. 1. Whiter and less tinged Avith brown. — Hi. 



tiah. W. TuRKKSTAx, Merv, type f in Coll. Piingeler, Transcaspia, 

 1 c? ; E. Turkestan, Hi. Exp. 32-38 millim. 



1139. Discestra arenaria, n. sp. (Plate LXXVIII. fig. 25.) 



Head whitish ; thorax and abdomen whitish tinged with ]oale 

 ochreous brown ; tarsi ringed with fuscous. Fore wing whiiish, 

 tinged with pale ochreous brown and irrorated with fuscous ; 

 subbasal line double, Avaved, from costa to vein 1 : antemedial line 

 indistinct, double, waved ; claviform moderate, defined by black ; 



