PRONOTESIE.V. — AGLOSSESTRA. 



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at extremity and reactiing postmedial line ; orbicular and reniform 

 large, blue-white defined by black, the former round ; a medial 

 line oblique from costa to iower angle of cell, then incurved and 

 waved ; postmedial line double, dentate, bent outwards below costa 

 and strongly incurved below vein 4 ; subterminal line indistinct, 

 white, defined on inner side by a brown patch at costa and dentate 

 black marks between veins 5 and 2, angled outwards at vein 7 

 and dentate at veins 4, 3 ; a waved black terminal line with short 



Fig. 37. — Tronotexfra silenides, ^ . \. 



black streaks before it at middle and longer streak above vein 3 ; 

 cilia with a waved black line through them. Hind wing grey, 

 uniformly suffused with fuscous ; the cilia pale, with a dark line 

 through them ; the underside white irrorated with brown, a 

 discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. 



Ab. 1, Paler ; fore wing less suffused with red-brown. 



Hah. Spain, Andalusia ; Algiers, 1 S ; Tunis, 1 $ ; SrRiA, 

 Jerusalem, in Coll, Piingeler, Erp. 34 millim. 



Genus AGLOSSESTRA, nov. 



Type, A. deserticola. 



Proboscis aborted, small; palpi obliquely porrect and fringed with hair; 

 frons with truncate conical prominence with corneous plate below it; eyes 

 large, rounded ; antennae of male bipectinate, with moderate branches; head, 

 and thorax clothed with scales and hair, the crests slight ; fore tarsi with the 

 joints sliort, with lateral series of curved claws longer at extremity of joints; 

 abdomen with dorsal crest at base. 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 with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 

 5 obsolescent from below angle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 

 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



1444. Aglossestra deserticola, n. sp. 



(S . Head and thorax red-brown mixed with white ; tarsi with 

 dark bands ; abdomen white slightly irrorated with red-brown. 

 Fore wing white, mostly suffused and irrorated with red-brown ; 

 subbasal line defined by white on outer side, waved, from costa to 

 submedian fold ; antemedial line oblique, waved, defined by white 

 on inner side ; claviform slightly defined by red-brown ; orbicular 

 and reniform white defined by red-brown, the former small, round, 

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