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black marks on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved 



at middle ; cilia chequered white and black. Hind wing black- 

 brown with traces of a whitish postmedial line ; the cilia white at 

 tips ; the underside white irrorated with brown, a discoidal point, 

 sinuous postmedial line, and terminal sliade. 



Ab. 1. altaica. Rather larger ; fore wing with a very slight 

 yellowish tinge, the black marks before subterminal line larger. 



Hah. jS^oeway, Saltdalen, Dovretjeld (StaucUnger), 1 (S , 1 2 ■> 

 (ffamjysoii) 2 c?, 1 ? ; W. Siberia, Altai, 1 d • Kv2i. 34-36 

 millim. 



Subsp. 1. centeana. 



Dianthcecia kenteana, Staud. Iris, v. p. 366 (1892). 

 Dianthoecia mongolica, Staud. Iris, ix. p. 257 (189G). 



Hind wing white, with broad dark terminal baud ; underside of 

 both wings with broad dark terminal band. 



Ab. 1. mongolica. Underside of both wings without terminal 

 band. 



Hah. Mongolia, Uliassutai ; S.E. Siberia, Kentei, 1 $ . 



1194. Lasiestra elvesi. (riate LXXIX. fig. 22.) 

 Hadena elwesi, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 200 (1894). 



Head and thorax violacous grey mixed with black ; tegulaj and 

 patagia edged with black ; tarsi with white rings ; abdomen 

 fuscous brown slightly irrorated with grey. Pore wing violaceous 

 grey, thickly irrorated and in places suffused with black ; subbasal 

 line represented by double striae from costa and cell ; antemedial 

 line double, waved ; claviform defined by black below and at 

 extremity ; orbicular and reuiform greyish indistinctly defined 

 by black, the former rather quadrate, open above and below ; 

 postmedial line indistinct, dentate, and produced to slight streaks 

 on the veins, slightly bent outwards below costa and oblique 

 below vein 4 ; subterminal line excurved below costa and at 

 middle and angled inwards in discal and submedian folds ; a 

 terminal series of small triangular black spots. Hind Aving dark 

 fuscous brown, with very indistinct greyish subterminal line ; the 

 underside irrorated with grey, a small discoidal spot and sinuous 

 postmedial line. 



Hab. SiKHiM Tibet, Yatung (Hobson), 1 5 ; Sikhim:, 10,000 ft. 

 (Elwes), typo f in Coll. Elwes ; Bhutan (Dudgeon), 1 (S • E.vp. 

 36 millim. 



1195. Lasiestra deliciosa. 



Dianthcecia deliciosa, Alph. Hor. See. Ent. Eoss. xxvi. p. 446 (1892) ; id. 

 Kom. Mem. ix. p. 18, pi. 3. f. 3 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 162. 



Head and thorax olive-grey mixed with some black ; tegulae 

 whitish, edged with black; tarsi with whitish rings; abdomen 

 olive-grey. Fore wing olive-grey irrorated with fuscous, the 

 markings blackish irrorated with yellowish scales ; subbasal line 



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