HABULA. 



245 



1473. Hadula turpis. 



Phabophilus turpis, Staud. Iris, xii. p. 341, pi. 7. f. 8 (1900) ; id. Cat. Lep. 

 pal. p. 177. 



S . Head and thorax grey- white slightly tinged with pale brown, 

 the crests on metathorax and 1st segment of abdomen with fuscous ; 

 abdomen grey-white. Fore wing grey-white slightly tinged with 

 red-brown and irrorated with fuscous ; the subbasal line repre- 

 sented by blackish marks below costa and cell ; the antemedial line 

 rather indistinct, waved ; claviform moderate, defined by fuscous; 

 orbicular and reniform large, incompletely defined by fuscous, the 



Fig. 42. — Hadula turpis, J . 



former round, the latter with some fuscous in its lower part ; post- 

 medial line indistinct, somewhat dentate, slightly bent outwards 

 below costa and oblique below vein 4 ; subterminal line very indis- 

 tinct, pale defined on inner side by smaU indistinct dentate brown 

 marks, angled outwards at veins 7, 4, 3 ; a terminal series of small 

 black lunules ; cilia chequered fuscous and grey. Hind wing 

 brownish grey suffused with fuscous ; the cilia ochreous white ; the 

 underside grey irrorated with fuscous, traces of a discoidal point and 

 sinuous postmedial line. 



Bab. E. Turkestan, Thian Shan 3Its., 1 J . Ex2^. 46 millim. 



*1474. Hadula optima. 



Haderonia optima, Alph. Rom. Mem. ix. p. 236, pi. xii. f. 7 (1897) ; Staud. 

 Cat. Lep. pal. p. 161. 



(S . Head and thorax grey-white mixed with brownish fuscous ; 

 abdomen grey-white irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing pale grey 

 tinged with brown and slightly with ochreous and thickly irrorated 

 with fuscous, the medial area slightly darker ; the subbasal line 

 represented by indistinct double striae from costa and cell ; ante- 

 medial line slightly waved, oblique from costa to submedian fold, 

 then angled inwards on vein 4 ; claviform small, very indistinctly 

 defined ; orbicular and reniform large, pale grey, ill-defined, the 

 former irregularly rounded ; traces of a medial line ; postmedial 

 line indistinct, obscurely and minutely dentate, bent outwards 

 below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line 

 whitish defined by brown on inner side, dentate to near termen on 

 veins 7, 6, 4, 3 ; a terminal series of small dark lunules ; cilia 



