314 xocfriD.E. 



3rd joints ; tibia? at extremity and tarsi ringed with white ; 

 abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing purplish grey thickly irrorated 

 with brown, the postmedial costal area and terminal area suffused 

 with red-brown ; a black subbasal line from costa to submedian 

 fold, slightly excurved below costa ; antemedial line black, strong 

 at costa, then slight and interrupted, oblique, and slightly angled 

 inwards on the veins; orbicular and reniform deep black with 

 white annuli defined by black scales, the former large, irregularly 

 rounded, the latter narrow, bisected by a white streak at middle 

 and angled inwards on median nervure ; a diffused red-brown 

 medial line, oblique from costa to reniform and angled inwards in 

 submedian fold ; postrnedial line with black spot on costa, then 

 reduced to a series of black points and striae with series of black 

 points beyond them on the veins followed by a grey shade, slightlv 

 bent outwards below costa, then slightly excurved to vein 4 and 

 approximated to reniform, oblique to submedian fold, then some- 

 what excurved ; subterminal line white defined on inner side by a 

 red-brown line, very slightly excurved ; a fine waved grey line 

 just before termen ; a fine brown terminal line; cilia with grey 

 line at base followed by a brown line. Hind wing pale reddish 

 brown, the terminal area somewhat darker ; cilia with vellowish 

 line at base followed by a brown line ; the underside whitish 

 tinged and irrorated with brown, the terminal area suffused with 

 brown except towards tornus, a blackish discoidal spot and in- 

 distinct sinuous postmedial line. 



Hah. W. China, Chang-yang (Pratt), 1 J type, Ghia-kou-ho 

 (Pratt), 1 J, 2 5 , Ta-chien-lu (Pratt), 2 $ . Exp. 32 millim. 



3932. Athetis triquetra. (Plate CXXIX. fig. 21.) 



Pi/rophila triquetra, Grote, Papilio, iii. p. 78 (1883) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. 

 N. Am. p. 197. 



J . Head and thorax grey tinged with brown and mixed with 

 some fuscous ; palpi black at sides, whitish in front and at tips ; 

 antenme black ; pectus and legs whitish mixed with some brown, 

 the tarsi fuscous ringed with white ; abdomen grey suffused with 

 brown. Fore wing grey tinged with brown and irrorated with 

 fuscous ; subbasal line represented by a slight dark striga from 

 costa ; antemedial line indistinctly double filled in with grey, the 

 outer line with small blackish spot at costa, oblique, sinuous ; 

 orbicular and reniform large, fuscous with whitish annuli, the 

 former round, the latter elliptical ; postmedial line blackish defined 

 by whitish on outer side, double towards costa and the inner line 

 with small black spot at costa, bent outwards below costa, slightly 

 angled inwards at discal fold, incurved below vein 4, the cosla 

 beyond it whitish; subterminal line indistinct, pale, defined on 

 inner side by a black patch at costa with small spot below it and 

 wedge-shaped patch at discal fold, then slightly by fuscous, very 

 slightly angled outwards at vein 7, then somewhat oblique; a 



