THARGELIA. HTPOBARATHRA. 



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postmcdial line very highly and irregularly dentate, interrupted by 

 the reniform ; subterminal line represented by a series of dentate 

 black and white marks angled outwards at veins 7, 4, 3 ; a 

 terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia chequered brown and 

 white. Hind wing white, the veins brownish, the terminal area 



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Fig. 34. — Thargelia distincta, (5". \. 



irrorated with brown, a brown terminal line ; the underside white, 

 the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a discoidal spot 

 and postmedial series of short streaks on the veins. 



Hab. W. Turkestan, Turcomania; E. Turkestan, Kungess, 

 1 c? . Exj). 46 millim. 



1439. Thargelia fissilis. 



Scotochrosia fissilis, Christ. Rom. Mem. i. p. 125 (1884); Alph. Rom. 

 Mem. ix. p. 217, pi. 8. f. 9 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. IGl. 



J . Head and thorax grey mixed with fuscous ; tarsi with dark 

 rings. Fore wing grey thickly irrorated with fuscous ; subbasal 

 line absent ; antemedial line only traceable near inner margin ; 

 claviform small defined by black, on inner side produced as a 

 narrow streak to vein 1 near base ; orbicular and reniform small, 

 indistinctly defined by black, the former elongate elliptical, 

 the latter with its lower part produced to points on veins 4, 3 ; 

 postmedial line represented by double striae on costa, then by 

 short streaks on the veius and a striga on inner margin, ex- 

 curved from costa to vein 4, then oblique ; the veins of terminal 

 area streaked with black, the postmedial line being represented by 

 indistinct dentate whitish marks defining the veins. Hind wing 



white ; a discoidal spot and terminal series of striae ; the underside 

 with postmedial series of short dark streaks on the veins. 



Hah. W. Turkestan, Transcaspia, 5 (5 » Turcomania ; E. Turk- 

 estan, Kungess, 1 c5" • Exp. 38 millim. 



Genus HYPOBARATHRA, nov. 



Type, H. icterias. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, fringed with hair in 

 front ; frons smooth ; eyes large, rounded ; antennse of male ciliated ; head 

 and thorax clothed with hair aud scales, the pro- and metathorax with 

 spreading crests ; fore tibia with long curved claw ou inner side; abdomen 

 with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing with veius 3 and 5 from near angle 



