246 nocTtJinm. 



whitish with a dark line through them. Hind wing whitish, 

 irrorated and the veins and terminal area suffused with fuscous ; 

 the Underside white irrorated with fuscous, an indistinct sinuous 

 postmedial line with dark streaks at the Veins. 



Hah. E. Turkestan, Altyn Tag, in Coll. Piingeler, Nan Schan 

 Mts. ; W. China. Exj). 38-42 millim. 



Sect. III. Antennte of male serrate and fasciculate. 



A. Fore wing witli ^-mark in subtermiual line prtscipua. 



B. Fore wing without ^-mark in subterminal line longicornis. 



1475. Hadula prsecipua. 



Mamestra pr<sc{pua, Stand. Iris, viii. p. 316 (1895) ; id. Cat. Lop. pal. 

 p. 155. 



c? . Head and thorax broWn ; raetathoracic crest vinous red ; 

 abdomen reddish brown, the anal tuft redder. Fore wing grey- 

 brown with a vinous-red tinge ; a slight black streak below base of 

 cell ; the subbasal line represented by oblique black striae from 

 costa and cell ; a prominent oblique black streak above inner margin 

 before the antemedial line, which is indistinct and strongly angled 

 outwards in submedian fold and above inner margin ; claviform 



Fig. 43. — Hadtda frmcipua, J. \. 



large, defined by black ; orbicular and reniform large, defined by 

 black, the former rather elliptical, the latter angled inwards on 

 median nervure ; postmedial line rather irregularly dentate, bent 

 outwards below costa and incurved below vein 4, some ochreous 

 points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line ochreous white, with 

 dentate dark marks before it on each side of discal and submedian 

 folds and dark streaks in the interspaces beyond it, dentate to 

 termen on veins 7, 4, 3. Hind wing fuscous brown, with fine 

 ochreous line at base of cilia ; the underside with the inner area 

 paler, an indistinct oblique postmedial line. 



Hah. Tibet, Kuku-noor, 1 S , Amdo. Exp. 48 millim. 



*1476. Hadula longicornis. (Plate LXXXV. fig. 1.) 



Mamestra longicornis, Q-rses. Berl. ent. Zeit. 1892, p. 306 ; Stand. Cat. 

 Lap. pal. p. 155. 



c? . Head, thorax, and abdomen grey mixed with pale reddish 



