428 NOCTUID.B. 



inwards on vein 1 ; a curved diH'iised subterminal band. Hind winj? 

 fuscous grey with a bilvory jjloss ; cilia olive-grey; the uiukrsidt; 

 olivc-s^rey sli<;litly irrorated with fuscous, a minute discoidul point. 

 llab. E. Tlkkestan, Kushgar, Altyn Tag, 1 J . Exiu IJti millim. 



♦2629. Dasythoiax liirsuta. (riate CVI. fig. 7.) 



Spinfhcrops hirsuta, Staud. Berl. ent. Zeit. 1870, p. 123; Rebfl, Verh. 

 zool.-bot. Wien, 189'J, p. 1(57, i)l. 4. f. 5; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 251. 



Head and thorax olive-grey suffused with brown ; sides of palpi 

 and frons irrorated with black ; pectus with some whitish hair ; 

 tarsi blackish with pale rings ; abdomen pale ochrcous brown. 

 Fore wing ochreous 'suffused with olive fuscous and with slight dark 

 irroration ; subbasal line absent ; antemedial line indistinct, diffused, 

 somewhat oblique from costa to median nervure, then incurved : 

 claviform and orbicular absent ; reniform a faint dark lunule ; 

 postmedial line indistinct, diffused, excurved from costa to vein 4, 

 then bent inwards to below end of cell and a^ain slightly excurved ; 

 subterminal lino very indistinct, only defined by diffused fuscous on 

 inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; cilia 

 pale at tips. Hind wing glossy greyish suffused with pale ochreous 

 brown ; cilia whitish, ochreous at base; the underside whitish tinged 

 ■with ochreous, a faint diffused curved postmedial liue, the terminal 

 area slightly tinged with fuscous. 



Hah. SwiTZERLAXD, Valais ; Tyrol ; Persia ; W. Tubkestan, 

 Issyk Kul, Exp. 44 millim. 



*2G30. Dasythorax rasilis. (Plate CYI. fig. 8.) 



Spintherops rasilis, Piing. Iris, xiii. p. 120, pi. 4. f. 7 (1900); Staud. Cat. 

 Lep. pal. p. 251. 



Head and thorax olive-grey suffused with brown ; tarsi blackish 

 ■with pale rings ; pectus with whitish hair : abdomen grey-white 

 tinged with brown. Fore wing greyish ochreous tinged with brown 

 and thickl)- irrorated with fuscous ; traces of a dark subbasal line 

 from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line fuscous, diffused, 

 ■waved, nearly erect ; claviform and orbicular absent ; reniform a 

 slight dark lunule ; a slight diffused medial shade ; postmedial line 

 fuscous, diffused, oblique from costa to vein U, angled inwards at 

 discal fold, at vein 3 bent inwards to below end of cell, then 

 sinuous ; subterminal line only defined by diffused fuscous on inner- 

 side, angled outwards at veins 7, 4, 3 ; cilia pale at tips. Hind 

 wing glossy grey-white tinged with ochreous brown ; cilia white 

 tinged with brown at base ; the underside -white tinged with 

 ochreous, traces of a discoidal lunule and diffused curved post- 

 medial line. 



Hah. W. TntKKSTAX, Dscharkend, Issyk Kul typef d $ in 

 Coll. Pungeler. Kvp. 48 millim. 



