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to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of 

 cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 shortly stalked ; 

 8 anastomosing with cell near ?;>ase only. 



A. Head, thorax, and fore wmg not tinged with rufous irrisor. 



B. Head, thorax, and fore wing tinged with rufous nova. 



1457. Cardepia irrisor. 



Mamestra irrisor, Ersch. Fedtsch. Eeis. p. 42, pi. 4. f. 53 (1874) ; Staud. 



Cat. Lep. pal. p. 158. » 



Mamestra albipkta, Christ. Eom. Mem. i. p. 119, pi. 8. f. 1 (1884). 



Head and thorax white mixed with dark brown ; antennae 

 ringed with black ; abdomen ochreous white. Fore wing grey- 

 white, often slightly tinged with rufous and thickly irrorated with 

 pale brown and fuscous ; subbasal line represented by double black 

 strijB from costa and cell ; antemedial line double, waved, angled 

 inwards on vein 1 ; claviform small, defined by black ; orbicular 

 small, round, whitish defined by black ; reniform large, with 

 whitish annulus defined by black, its lower part filled in with 

 fuscous ; a faint medial shade ; postmedial line defined by white on 

 outer side, dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, 

 then oblique, some white points beyond it on costa; subterminal 

 line white, defined by small fuscous dentate marks on inner side, 

 angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate on veins 4, 3 ; a terminal 

 series of small black lunules. Hind wing white slightly tinged 

 with fuscous, the veins and terminal area suffused with fuscous, 

 leaving a white patch on termen near tornus ; cilia white ; the 

 underside white irrorated with fuscous, a discoidal lunule, sinuous 

 postmedial line, and diffused subterminal band. 



Ab. 1. deserticola, Bang-Haas, ined. Fore wing rather more 

 ochreous ; hind wing white, the veins and medial part of terminal 

 area slightly tinged with fuscous. — Syria. 



The claws on fore tarsi small, larger towards extremity of joints. 



Ilab. S.E. Russia ; Stria, Jordan, 1 c? , 1 2 ; Kikqhistaw ; 

 W. Turkestan, Tekke, 3 cJ , 1 § , Turcomania, Ferghana, Sarawschan, 

 Issyk-kul ; E. Turkestan, Euldja, 1 J , 1 $ . Ex/). 30-34 

 millim. 



1458. Cardepia nova. 



Trichoclea nova. Smith, Trans. Am. Ent, Soc. sxix. p. 198. 



Head and thorax rufous mixed with white ; abdomen whitish 

 irrorated with brown ; tarsi with fuscous bands. Fore wing 

 whitish thickly irrorated with rufous and in part suffused with 

 fuscous ; subbasal line represented by double striae from costa and 

 cell; antemedial line double, distinct at costa, then indistinct, 

 oblique, waved ; claviform minute, fuscous defined by black ; orbi- 

 cular and reniform with pale annuli defined by black, the former 

 small, round, the latter with its lower part filled in with fuscous ; 

 a medial shade, oblique from costa to lower angle of cell, then 

 dentate ; postmedial line double at costa, bent outwards below costa. 



