200 noctuid.t:, 



5 . Head, thorax, and fore wing more bluish white without the 

 ochrcons tinge, the last with the medial area darker, the antemedial 

 and terminal areas pale ; the orbicular and reniform with fuscous 

 centres and white annuli. 



If ah. Kvrdistan; Syria, 1 cT , 1 ? . Leech Coll. Exp. 30-34 

 millim. 



Genus PROTEINANIA, nov. 



Type, r. vif/asia. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi oblique, the 2nd joint fringed with hair, 

 the 3rd rather long, porrect ; frons snioolh ; eyes large, rounded ; antenna of 

 male laminate; thorax clothed witli liair and scales ; tibia? moderately fringed 

 withjhair on outer side ; abdomen with dorsal crest on basal segment. Fore 

 wing with the apex rectangular ; 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 middle of 

 discocellulars ; 6,7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near 

 base. 



A. Fore wing largely sufTusfd with crimson achatioides. 



B. Fore wing not suflused wi t h crimson vigasia. 



1546. Proteinania achatioides. (Plate LXXXVI. fig. 21.) 



Heterochroma achatioides, Quen. Noct. ii. p. 70 (1852). 

 Dianthacia eros, Wlk. xv. 1714 (1858). 



Head and thorax ochreous suffused with purplish pink ; sides of 

 palpi and frons black ; tarsi banded with black ; abdomen ochreous, 

 dorsally tinged with fuscous. Fore wing pale olive-green (fading 

 to ochreous), some rose-pink at base of costa ; pink fasciae below 

 costa and median nervure and on inner medial area, the two 

 former converging at antemedial line, the 1st expanding to costa at 

 middle, the 2nd expanding beyond end of cell, the 3rd extending 

 from submedian fold to inner margin ; the costa towards apex and 

 termen pink; a black subbasal line from costa to above vein 1, 

 where it is connected by a streak with base ; antemedial line angled 

 outwards below costa, inwards in cell, then excurved, and at inner 

 margin recurved to vein 1 near base ; orbicular and reniform black, 

 their lower extremities connected by a black fascia on median 

 nervure, the former oblique oblong, connected with the costal part 

 of antemedial line ; traces of a waved medial line ; postmedial line 

 pale greenish, waved, defined on inner side by a few black scales, 

 and on outer by irregular blackish patches from below costa to 

 vein 5, and from vein 5 to inner margin, bent outwards below costa, 

 slightly incurved at discal fold and strongly at submedian fold, some 

 pale and black points beyond it on costa ; sabterminal line only 

 defined by the contrast between the green and pink areas, slightly 

 angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal 

 series of small dark lunulcs ; cilia rufous. Hind wing ochreous 

 suffused with fuscous, rather paler towards base ; the underside 



