LASIESTEA. — LABIONTCTA. 53 



antemedial line double, slightly ■waved, oblique from costa to 

 submedian fold, then angled inwards on vein 1 ; claviform small, 

 defined by black ; orbicular and reniform greyish defined by black, 

 the former round ; traces of a waved medial line ; postmedial line 

 rather strongly dentate, bent outwards below costa and incurved 

 below vein 4, some pale points beyond it on costa ; subterminal 

 line yellowish white, defined on inner side by somewhat dentate 

 dark marks, excurved at vein 7, somewhat dentate at veins 4, 3, 

 and angled inwards in submedian fold ; a terminal series of small 

 dark lunules ; cilia yellowish, with a dark line through them. 

 Hind wing grey uniformly suffused with brown, the cilia whitish 

 with a brown line near base ; the underside pale brownish grey, 

 with traces of a curved postmedial line. 



Hah. N. Persia, Demavend, in Coll. Piiugeler. Eap. 36 

 millim. 



Genus LASIONYCTA. 



Type. 



Lasionycta, Auriv. Ent. Tyd. xviii. p. 285 (1892) scrcBlhujia. 



Proboscis fully developed : palpi upturned, the 2nd joint clothed with long 

 rough hair; frons smooth; eyes large, rounded, overhung by long cilia; 

 antennte of male serrate and fasciculate; head and thoi-ax clothed with hair 

 and hair-hke scales, the pro- and metathorax with spreading crests; abdomen 

 with dorsal series of crests. Fore wing with veins 3 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 witli veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from 

 middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 shortly stalked; 8 anastomosing with the cell 

 near base only. 



A. Fore wing with the cell filled in with black between the 



stigmata. 

 o. Fore wing with the medial area darker than the ground- 

 colour, 

 a^. Fore wing with the subterminal line represented by a 

 series of whitish lunules with dentate black marks 



before them rainieri. 



b^. Fore wing with the subterminal line ill-defined, grey, 



with obscure dentate dark marks before it inconcinna. 



b. Fore wing with the medial area not darker than the 



ground-colour conjugata. 



B. Fore wing with the cell not filled in with black between the 



stigmata. 



a. Fore wing olive-yellow mixed with grey and black bryoptera. 



b. Fore wing brown suffused with olive-yellow ; hind wing 



yellow lurida. 



c. Fore wing fuscous irrorated with grey scrmliiiffia. 



d. Fore wing with the ground-colour grey. 



a^. Fore wing with the orbicular grey with brownish 



centre sufifiiscula. 



b^. Fore wing with the orbicular whitish scdllis. 



e. Fore wing with the ground-colour whitish. 



a^. Fore wing tinged with bluish altaica. 



h^. Fore wing tinged with yellow in parts. 



d^. Fore wing with the claviform minute arieUs. 



b'^. Fore wing with the claviform well-developed ochracea. 



