288 N'H'LTin.i:. 



white faintly tinged with brown especially on the veins ; a line 

 dark terminal line ; the underside with the costa slightly irrorated 

 with brown, a slight brown discoidal lnnule. 



Hah. W. Turkestan, Tnrcomania, Ferghana, Issyk Kul ; E. Turk- 

 estan, Hi, Kuldja, 1 S • Exp. 32 millim. 



3900. Rhabinopteryx subtilis. 



Epimccia stiWHs, Mab. Bull. Soe. Ent. Fr, 1888, p. 51 ; id. Nov. Lep. 

 p. (16, pi. U. I'. 4; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 242. 



Head and thorax' white mixed with pale brown and black scales ; 

 irons with fuscous bar above; teguhe with fine black line near 

 base; tarsi fuscous ringed with white: abdomen white tinged 

 with brown. Fore wing white tinged with brown and slightly 

 irrorated with fuscous, the costa irrorated with some black scales ; 

 snbbasal line represented by a point- of black scales on costa, the 

 antemedial line by double points of black scales on costa and 

 vein 1 ; a white fascia in basal half of submedian fold with fine 

 brown streak in the fold, some black scales at its extremity : a 

 whitish streak in terminal half of cell ; postmedial line represented 

 by a double series of faint black points, bent outwards below costa, 

 excurved to vein 4, then strongly incurved, some small white spots 

 with fuscous between them beyond it on costa ; subterminal line 

 obliquely curved, whitish with blackish points on its outer edge : a 

 terminal series of black strke with white stria? before them : cilia, 

 white mixed with blackish, with fine black line at middle followed 

 by a white line. Hind wing white tinged with browm ; a terminal 

 series of fuscous stria?; cilia white ; the underside irrorated with 

 brown. 



Bab. Algeria, Biskra ( Walsingham), 1 c? , 4 $ . Krp. 30-32 

 millim. 



Genus EPIMECIA. 



Type. 



Epiinccia, Guen. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. I83i>, p. 514 ustula. 



Proboscis fully developed; palpi porrect, extending about the length of 

 bead and rather broadly fringed with hair below ; irons smooth, with ridge 

 of hair; eyes large, round : antennae of male somewhat laminate and almost 

 simple ; thorax clothed chiefly with scales, the tegulse produced to a slight 

 hood behind, the prothorax without, crest, the inetathorax with spreading crest ; 

 build slender ; tibiae moderately fringed with hair; abdomen without crests. 

 Fore wing rather narrow, the apex rounded, the termen obliquely curved and 

 not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; (i from upper angle ; 

 '.) from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Ilind wing 

 with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 

 G, 7 stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell to middle. 



3901. Epimecia ustula. 



Cymafophora ustula. Fit. Neue Beitr. ii. p. 90, pi. 148. f. 1 (1835) ; Stand. 



"Cat. Lep. pal. p. 212. 

 Caradrina lurida, Treit. Eur. Schmett., Snppl. x. 2, p. 81 < 1835); Herr.- 

 Schaff. Eur. Schmett. ii. p. 239, Xoct. f. 442, 



