224 



NOCTUID^. 



median ncrvure ; traces of a waved medial line ; postraedial line 

 double filled in with white, minutely dentate, bent outwards below 

 costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; veins 3, 4, 6, 7 with 



Fig. CO. — Onychestni siccanorum, c?. }. 



dark streaks usually defined by white but not indenting the white 

 subterminal line, which is angled outwards at vein 7 and incurved 

 at submedian fold, with a series of small dentate dark marks before 

 it at middle ; a terminal series of small dark lunules ; cilia 

 chequered brown and white. Hind wing white with an ochreous 

 tinge, the veins towards termen with shght dark streaks, a line 

 terminal line ; the underside with the costal and terminal areas 

 irrorated with brown, a discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. 



Hah. S. Russia, Sarepta {Chi-istopJi), 3 (5 ; W. Turkestan, 

 Issyk-kul, 2 S • Kxp. 30 millim. 



Genus PRONOTESTRA, nov. 



Type, P. silenidcs. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, fringed with hair ; frons with 

 truncate conical proiuiueuce with vertical ridge at middle and corneous plate 

 below it, produced to a point in front ; eyes large, rounded ; antennae of male 

 serrate and fasciculated ; thorax clothed with scales, tlie pro- and metathorax 

 with spreading crests ; fore tarsi with the joints shortened aud with curved claw- 

 like spines on outer side ; abdomen with dorsal crest on 1st segment. Fore wing 

 with veins ?> aud f) 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 just below angle of disco- 

 cellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base 

 only. 



1443. Pronotestra silenides. 



Mamestra silenides, Staud. Iris, vii. p. 273, pi. ix. i". 14 (1894) ; id. Cat. 

 Lep. pal. p. 160. 



S . Head ochreous, the frons with blackish bar above ; thorax 

 grey-white mixed with rufous, the patagia with some black scales 

 above ; tarsi black with ochreous rings ; abdomen grey mixed with 

 brown, the anal tuft ochreous. Fore wing red-brown, the area 

 before the antemedial line, the inner medial area, and the terminal 

 area suffused with blue-white ; a slight blackish streak in base of 

 submedian fold ; subbasal line double, waved, from costa to sub- 

 median fold ; antemedial line double, slightly angled inwards below 

 costa and strongly on vein 1 ; claviform defined by black, pointed 



