rn.Ksni.iii \. — iivi-osTii.iiiA. 



293 



medial line indistinct, whitish, with a minute wedge-shaped black 

 spot before it from eosta and a black bar on its outer edge in sub- 

 median interspace representing tbe claviform; orbicular and reniform 

 large, pale, with whitish annuli at sides, the former round with a 

 quadrate black spot on its inner edge confluent with the ante- 

 medial line and a V-shaped black spot between them, the latter 



Fig. 87. — Prtestilbia armeniaca, tf . 



defined by dark scales on outer side ; au indistinct diffused curved 

 medial brown line ; postmedial line unusually near terinen, double, 

 dark, slightly excurved at middle, aud oblique below vein 4, a 

 wedge-shaped brown shade on its outer edge from costa to vein 5 ; 

 snbterminal line absent; a terminal series of small black lunules. 

 Hind wing whitish, tha terminal area tinged with brown from apex 

 to submedian fold; a terminal series of slight dark points; the 

 underside whitish. 



Hah. Huxgakv ; Greece ; Asia Mixor, Pontus, 1 <$ . Exp. 

 32 millim. 



Genus HYPOSTILBIA, nov. 



Type, H. megastigma. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex of 

 head aud fringed with scales in front, the 3rd moderate ; frons smooth ; eyes 

 large, rounded ; antennae of male ciliated ; build slender ; head and thorax 

 clothed with scales; the prothorax with spreading crest; the metal horax 

 without crest . ; tibiae moderately fringed with hair; abdomen elongate, slender, 

 without crests. Fore wing elongate, rather narrow, the lermen evenly rounded ; 

 veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; the areole rather large, vein (i from it ; 

 '.I from 10 anastomosing with 8 ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3. 4 and 

 0,7 rather strongly stalked; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 

 8 rather strongly anastomosing with cell. 



A. Fore wing with the orbicular and reniform fuscous defined 



by whitish points megastigma. 



B. Fore wing with the orbicular absent, the reniform a faint 



whitish lunule cur re pin. 



3906. Hypostilbia megastigma. 

 Senta megastigma, Piiug. Iris, xix. p. 221, pi. vii. f. IS (1900). 



J. Head, thorax, and abdomen pale grey mixed with reddish 

 btown ; palpi and legs ochreous white irrorated with fuscous. 

 Fore wing ochreous white irrorated with fuscous, the veins and 

 terminal area slightly darker; slight antemedial dark marks on 

 costa, in cell, and on inner margin ; orbicular and reniform fuscous 



