2.32 iroCTUiD.B. 



Ah. 3. coiicors. Fore wing nearly uniform whitish. 



I/dfi. Armkmia ; TRAN8c\rcA8iA ; Asia Minor, Poiitus, Amasia, 

 in Coll. riingdor ; Palestink ; W. Turkestan, Turcomania. Exj). 

 30-30 luillim. 



2380. Derthisa amasina. (Plate CII. fig. 2.) 

 Epiatma amasina, Itang-IJaofi, ined. 



<S . Head and thorax white strongly tinged with rufous; ])ulpi 

 blackish at hase : abdomen ochrcous white. Fore wing ochreous 

 white suffused and irroratcd with purplish rufous, the base and 

 costal area to postmediul line whitish ; the veins pale ; antemedial 

 line ochreous wliitish, obliquely excurved from costa to subniedian 

 fold, then incurred, bent outwards to inner margin ; claviform 

 obsolete ; orbicular veVy faintly defined by red, extending to well 

 below cell ; reniform- an ochreous-white lunule obscurely defined 

 by red ; postniedial line arising from towards apex, ochreous white, 

 slightly incurved at discal fold and oblique below vein 4 ; sub- 

 terminal line represented by faint pale scaling. Hind wing white, 

 the veins and base of cilia slightly yellowish. 



Hah. Asia iJixoR, Amasia, 1 J . Exji. 32 millim. 



*2381. Derthisa antherici. 



Epiftma antherici, Christ. Rom. M^m. i. p. 121. pi. 8. fT. 2a, b (1884); 

 Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 177. 



$ . Head and thorax ochreous white ; sides of palpi and frons 

 brownish ; abdomen brownish white. Fore wing white slightly 

 tinged with pale red-brown, especially on costal area to subterminal 

 line ; the subbasal and antemedial linos absent ; the cell suffused 

 with rather deeper red-brown before and between the large stigmata, 

 which are white slightly defined by brown at sides ; the orbicular 

 triangular, slightly irregular, the reniform oblique oblong ; post- 

 medial line very indistinct double filled in with whitish, slightly 

 excurved below costa, inwardly obliciue to vein 4, then obsolete ; 

 subterminal line indistinct, whitish, defined on inner side by a fins 

 pale red-brown line slightly angled outwards at vein 7, then 

 oblique and with slight Ijrown sufl'usion beyond it ; a slight red- 

 brown terminal line. Hind wing nearly pure white. 



Hah. Persia ; AV. Tvukestan, Turcomania, Askabad in Coll. 

 Pungeler. Exp., S 28, $ 30 millim. 



Larva. Pale yellow with fine transverse brown striae; a dorsal 

 brown stripe with irregular edges and the fine j)ale dorsal line on 

 it ; a subdorsal brown stripe with irregular edges and the warts 

 yellow ; stigmata ringed witli l)lack ; substigmatal line interrujjted ; 

 head pale rufous marbled with red-brown. Food-plant, Anthe- 

 ricum. 4. 



