234 NOCTUID^. 



on inner side by dentate black marks below costa and at middle, 

 angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate to termen on veins 4, 3 ; 

 a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia brown intersected 

 with white. Hind wing pale suffused with brown, the veins and 

 terminal area brown ; a white mark on termen below vein 2 ; cilia 

 white, with a brown line through them ; the underside whitish 

 irroratcd with broA\'n, an indistinct sinuous postmedial line. 



Hah. S. France ; Spain ; Sicily ; Hungaet, Leech Coll. ; 

 Greece ; Armenia ; Syria, Mardin. Exp. 34 millim. 



145G. Epia christophi. (Plate LXXXTT. fig. 21.) 



Dianthacia christophi, MiJschl. Wien. ent. Mon. 1862, p. 235; Staud. 



Cat. Lep. ]ial. p. 163. 

 Bianthcecia corrupta, Herz. Iris, xi. p. 250 (1898). 



Head and thorax white slightly tinged with brown ; palpi fuscous 

 at sides ; frons and vertex of head with fuscous bars ; tegulae with a 

 black medial line ; patagia edged with black ; abdomen white 

 slightly tinged with fuscous. Fore wing white, slightly tinged and 

 irrorated with brown ; subbasal line black, defined by white on 

 outer side, waved from costa to submedian fold and bisecting a 

 black streak below base of cell ; antemedial line double, waved ; 

 claviform moderate, strongly defined by black ; orbicular and reni- 

 form with slight brown centres and prominent white annuli defined 

 by black, the former round ; a waved medial line ; postmedial line 

 double, minutely waved, bent outwards below costa, excurved to 

 vein 4, then strongly incurved ; some white poiuts on costa towards 

 apex ; subterminal line white, with dentate black marks before it at 

 middle, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at veins 4, 3 ; the 

 apex suffused with white ; a terminal series of black lunules ; cilia 

 intersected with white. Hind wing white slightly tinged with 

 brown ; the veins, a sinuous postmedial line, and diffused sub- 

 terminal band brown ; a terminal series of black lunules ; cilia 

 fuscous, whitish at tips ; the underside white, the costal area 

 irrorated with brown, a discoidal lunule, the postmedial line and 

 subterminal band more prominent. 



Ab. 1. corrupta. Darker, especially the hind wings. 



Hah. IlussiA, Sarepta, 1 $ ; Siberia, Altai ; W. Turkestan, 

 Uliassutai, 1 c? , 1 5 , Pamirs ; Mongoua, Urga ; Tibet, Amdo ; 

 AMrnLAND, Ussuri. Exp. 34 millim. 



Larva. Yellowish white, with white dorsal, subdorsal, and lateral 

 stripes. 



Genus CARDEPIA, nov. 



Type, C. irrisor. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi oblique ; frons with truncate reniform 

 promiDence, excised below ; eyes large, rounded ; antennas of male ciliated ; 

 thorax clothed chiefly vrith scales, the pro- and metathorax with spreading 

 crests; fore tarsi with curved claw-like spines on outer side of 1st joint; 

 abdomen with dorsal crest on basal segment. Fore wing with veins 3 and n 

 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 



