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below vein 4. some whitish points beyond it on costa ; Buhterminal 

 line whitish defined on inner side by dark reddish brown, oblique 

 towards costa, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; 

 a terminal series of small black lunules denned on inner side by a 



Fig. 95. — Athetis furvula, J. {. 



fine waved wbite line. Hind wing greyish suffused with brown ; 

 a line terminal brown line: the underside whitish thickly irrorated 

 with brown, especially on costal and terminal areas, a slight dis- 

 eoidal spot and diffused curved postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. lentina. Smaller and darker. — W. and E. Turkestan, 

 E. Siberia, Japan, Corea. 



Hub. Austria, Tirol; Hungaby, Zeller, Fry, Leech and D'Emmick 

 Colls. ; Etjssia, Sarepta ; ? Armenia ; W. Ti rkestan, Issyk Kul ; 

 W. Siberia, Altai ; E. Turkestan. Thian-Shan Mts. ; Mongolia, 

 Uliassutai ; E. Siberia, Amurland, Ussuri ; Japan, Oiwake (Pryer), 

 2(f,l?; Corea. Exp. 22-30 millira. 



Larva. Kit-by. Butt, & Moths Eur. p. 175; Hffm. Eaup. p. 110, pi. 30. f . 8. 



Clay-coloured speckled with brown ; thoracic somites with pale 

 lateral line, the abdominal somites with oblique yellowish streak 

 edged with black. Food-plants: Low- growing herbs. 



3940. Athetis alsines. 



Koctiia alsines, Brahm, Ins. Kal. ii. p. 114 (1791) ; Borkh. Eur. Schmett. 



iv. p. 607 (1792) ; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. o77 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. 



vi. p. 63, pi. 76. f. 4; Herr.-Sehaff. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 379; Staud. 



Cat. Lep. pal. p. 197. 

 Caradrina zericea, Speyer, Stett. ent. Zeit. 1867, p. 73. 

 Caradrina levis, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 29. 

 Caradrina amurensis, Staud. Rom. Mem. vi. p. 486 (1892). 



Head and thorax greyish ochreous suffused with rufous ; palpi 

 fuscous at sides with slight greyish ring at extremity of' 2nd joint ; 

 abdomen ochreous tinged with brown. Fore wing ochreous tinged 

 with rufous and irrorated with fuscous, the postmedial and terminal 

 areas suffused with fuscous ; subbasal line represented by a slight 

 dark striga from costa ; antemedial line indistinct, oblique, sinuous, 

 angled inwards on vein 1 : orbicular and reniform well developed, 

 brown with whitish annuli, the former rather oblique elliptical ; 

 a diffused dark medial line, oblique from costa to reniform, incurved 

 from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line indistinct, 

 defined by ochreous on outer side, bent outwards below costa, then 

 minutely dentate and produced to black points on the veins, 

 excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line ochreous defined 



