324 xoctuid.t:. 



points at the veins. Hind wins greyish brown ; a dark terminal 

 line ; cilia with a tine whitish line at base ; the underside whitish 

 strongly irrorated with dark brown, a large brown discoidal hinule, 

 postmedial line from costa to vein 4 and terminal series of black 

 stria?. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the white spot only and not the points 

 on subterminal line. 



Hab. Br. E. Africa, Masailand, E. Quaso (Betton), 1 £ type, 

 Ndimu {Betton), 1 § . Exp. 20 miilim. 



3946. Athetis interstincta. (Plate CXXIX. fig. 27.) 



Graphipkora interstincta, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 118 (1882) ; Hmpsn. 

 Moths Ind. ii. p. 267. 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed with grey, the head paler : 

 palpi black-brown, greyish at tips; tarsi fuscous with pale rings ; 

 abdomen dark reddish brown. Fore wing deep red-brown slightly 

 tinged with grey and with slight dark irroration ; snbbasal line 

 black, curved, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line black, 

 bent inwards to costa and excurved above inner margin ; orbicular 

 a black point ; reniform chocolate-brown, rather constricted at 

 middle, with a white point at upper extremity and two at lower ; 

 a diffused dark medial line, oblique from costa to lower angle of 

 cell and angled inwards below the cell ; postmedial line black, 

 slightly bent outwards below costa, then with black points beyond 

 it on the veins, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; subterminal line 

 faint, pale, defined on inner side by red-brown, excurved below 

 vein 7 and at middle ; a terminal series of minute dark lunules ; 

 a fine whitish line at base of cilia. Hind wing reddish brown 

 tinged with grey, a fine whitish line at base of cilia; the underside 

 whitish tinged with brown and irrorated with dark brown, a black 

 discoidal spot, diffused curved postmedial line, and termiiial series 

 of small black lunules from apex to vein 2. 



Hab. Sixnui (Russell), 1 S , 3 $ type ; Bhutan (Dudgeon), 1 £ . 

 Exp. 36-40 miilim. 



3947. Athetis longiciliata, n. sp. (Plate CXXIX. fig. 28.) 



d . Head and thorax rufous mixed with a few dark brown 

 scales; palpi black at sides except at extremities of 2nd and 3rd 

 joints ; tarsi fuscous with pale rings ; abdomen pale rufous suffused 

 with fuscous except the anal tuft. Fore wing rufous tinged with 

 grey and slightly irrorated with brown ; subbasal line blackish, 

 angled outwards below costa and ending at submedian fold ; ante- 

 medial line blackish, oblique to vein 1, then erect; orbicular a blackish 

 point; reniform a narrow lunule defined by diffused rufous, and 

 with slight whitish points round it; medial line brown, rather 

 diffused, oblique from costa to lower angle of cell, then inwardly 

 oblique and sinuous ; postmedial line brown, excurved from costa 

 to vein 4, then oblique, with traces of a series of dark points 



