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3958. Athetis selini. 



Caradrina selini, Boisd. Gen. & [nd. Meth. ]). L37 0840); Dup. Lep. Fr., 

 Suppl. iii. p. 576, pi. 4S. f. :i ; Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett.. Noct. F. Dl ; 

 Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. L96. 



Head and thorax whitish tinged with red-brown ; palpi black, 

 -white at tips; antenna' blackish except at base; tarsi black 

 ringed with white; abdomen whitish suffused with red-brown. 

 Fore wing whitish thickly irrorated with purplish red brown, tin; 

 terminal half suffused with red-brown; subbasal line black with 

 black spit at eosta. then oblique and ending at submedian fold; 

 antenicdial line very indistinct with black spot at COsta and point 

 in submedian fold, oblique, sinuous ; orbicular absent ; reniform a 

 brownish lunule with two white points on inner edge and three on 

 outer with small yellow mark at middle of outer side ; medial 

 line brownish with black spot at costa, excurved to below cell 

 and slightly angled outwards at vein 1 ; postmedial line very 

 indistinct with black spot at costa, bent outwards below costa, 

 then minutely dentate, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; sub- 

 terminal line indistinct, grey defined on inner side by rufous, 

 minutely waved, excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a terminal 

 series of blackish points. Hind wing white, the veins of terminal 

 half and the terminal area from apex to submedian fold suffused 

 with reddish brown ; the underside with the costal area irrorated 

 with brown, a blackish discoidal point, postmedial series of minute 

 streaks on the veins, and terminal series of small iunules from 

 apex to vein 2. 



//(if>. S. France, Xice, Leech Coll., Midi, Leech Coll.; Germany, 

 Pomerania, Silesia, Frankfort, Zeller Coll.: Hungary, Frey and 

 Leech Colls.; Switzerland, Valais, Tetuel ; Spain, Castille, 

 Andalusia; Corsica; Italy; Sicily, Zeller Coll.; Dalmatia ; 

 Greece; Russia, Livonia, Leech Coll., Sarepta, Leech Coll.; Asia 

 Minor, Fontus, Taurus ; Syria. Exp. 24-34 millim. 



39-")9. Athetis flavirena. 



Caradrina ffavir&na, Guen. Noct. i. p. 250 L852 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. 



p. 196. 

 Caradrina noctivega, Bell. Ann. SoC. Ei t. Fr. 1863, p. 420, pi. 9. f. 4. 

 Caradrina infusca, Const. Ann. Soc. Bnt. Fr. I860, p. 194, pi. 7. ft'. Ma, h 



(net- Rmbr. I. 

 Caradrina minor, Kalchb. Iris, x. p. 17*> (1897). 



Head and thorax ochreous brown suffused with grey; palpi 

 black, white at tips ; tarsi blackish ringed with white ; abdomen 

 ochreous white irrorated with brown. Fore wing ochreous brown 

 suffused with grey; subbasal line black, waved, from costa to 

 submedian fold, a black point beyond it in cell; antemedial line 

 with a small black spot on costa, oblique, waved ; orbicular a 

 small round brown spot defined by whitish scales ; reniform 



