336 XiMTl'ID.E. 



postmedial series of minute streaks on the veins, and terminal series 

 of small black lunules. 



.Hah. W. China, Pu-tsu-fang, 1 J ; Kashmir, Goorais Valley 



(Leech), 1 J , 2 $ , Scinde Valley ( Leech), 1 J; Punjab, Kulu, 1 cS , 



, Dalhousie (Harford), 1 $, Dharmsala (Hockinrj), 3 c? , 3 $, 



Umballa ; Sikhim Tibet, Yatong (Ilohson), 1 j , 3 5; Sikiiim 



(Dudgeon), 2 $ type arenacea. Exp. 32-30 millim. 



3966. Athetis chinensis. (Plate CXXX. fig. 7.) 

 Caradrina chinensis, Leech, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1900, p. 117. 



Head and thorax grey-white tinged with brown ; palpi black, 

 white at tips ; antenna? black ; tarsi black ringed with white ; 

 abdomen grey dorsally suffused with brown, ventrally irrorated 

 with black, the anal tuft tinged with rufous. Fore wing grey 

 tinged with brown and irrorated with fuscous ; subbasal line slight 

 Avith black spot at costa, oblique, from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial 

 line slight, with black spot at costa, oblique, waved ; orbicular 

 absent ; reniform slightly defined by red-brown with a white point 

 above on outer side, below with a white point on inner side and 

 two on outer; an indistinct medial line with black spot at costa, 

 oblique from costa to low r er angle of cell, then inwardly oblique ; 

 postmedial line black with black spot at costa, bent outwards below 

 costa, then minutely dentate, incurved below vein 4, another faint 

 curved line beyond it ; subterminal line grey defined on both sides 

 by fuscous suffusion from costa to vein 2, minutely waved, a 

 terminal series of slight black lunules defined by greyish on inner 

 side. Hind wing whitish tinged with brown, especially on the 

 veins and terminal area; a fine dark terminal line; cilia whitish ; 

 the underside grey, the costal area irrorated with fuscous, a blackish 

 discoidal spot and rather diffused sinuous postmedial line. 



Hah. W. China, Pu-tsu-fang, 6 J , 2 5 type, Ta-chien-lu (Pratt), 

 1 2 • Exp. 32-40 millim. 



3967. Athetis clavipalpis. 



Phalana clavipalpis. Scop. Ent. Cam. p. 213 (1763). 



Noctua q u ad ri punctata, Fabr. Sjst. Ent. p. 594 (1775); Stand. Cat. Lep. 



pal. p. 196. 

 Noctua cubiculwris, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 72 (1776) ; Borkh. Eur. Schmett. 



iv. p. 212 (1792); Hubn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 417; Dup.L6p.Fr. 



vi. p. 57, pi. 76. f. 1 ; Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 158. 

 Phatcena yrisea, Rott. Naturf. ix. p. 138 (1776). 

 Noctua segetum, Esp Schmett. iv. pi. 150. ft". 4, 5 (nee Lien.). 

 Noctua leucoptera, Thnbg. Disc. Ent. ii. p. 41 (1791) ; Spangb. Ent. Tidskr. 



1880, ,). 92, pi. 1. f. 3. 

 Caradrina laciniosa, Donz. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1847, p. 529, pi. 8. f. 4. 

 Caradrina putverosa, Wlk. x. 295 (1856). 

 Caradrina /nitteri, Schulz, Stett. ent. Zeit. 1862, p. 367, pi. 1. ft. 6. I.e. 



Head and thorax grey-white slightly tinged with rufous and 

 irrorated with black; palpi black, whitish at tips; antenna? 



