blackisli except at base; tarsi black ringed with white; abdomen 

 whitish suffused with brown. Fore wing grey tinged with ochreous 



brown and irrorated with fuscous, the terminal area suffused with 

 fuscous ; subbasal line represented by a small black spot on costa 

 and striga from cell ; antemedial line indistinct, double, oblique, 

 minutely waved, with small black spots on the outer line at costa 

 and submedian fold; orbicular and reniform small, tinged with 

 fuscous and defined by blackish, the former rounded, the latter a 

 narrow lunule with two white points on its inner edge and three 

 on outer; an indistinct sinuous medial line excurved in cell and 

 with small black spot at costa; postmedial line with small black 

 spot at costa, bent outwards below costa, then dentate, incurved 

 below vein 4, another indistinct line beyond it and some whitish 

 points on costa with slight dark streaks between them ; subterminai 

 line indistinct, pale, defined on inner side by small dentate rufous 

 marks, minutely waved, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved 

 at middle ; a terminal series of minute black lunules. Hind wing 

 white, the veins and termen slightly tinged with brown ; the 

 underside with the costal area irrorated with brown, a slight dis- 

 coidal point, postmedial series of minute streaks on the veins and 

 terminal series of small black lunules from apex to vein 2. 



Ab. 1. lencoptera. Head, thorax, and fore wing suffused with 

 fuscous. — Scandinavia, Finland, Urals. 



Hub. Britain, Leech Coll.; France ; Denmark, Leech Coll.; 

 Germany, Zeller & Leech Calls. ; Austria, Frey Coll., Tirol 

 (Hampson); Hungary, Leech Coll.; Switzerland, Frey Coll.; 

 Spain ; Italy, Savoy {Hampson), Capri (Brown) ; Greece ; Algeria, 

 Biskra ( Wokingham), 2 $ , Khenchela ( Walsingham), 1 tf ; Madeira 

 (Wollaston), 1 §; Balkan States ; Scandinavia, Sondmore, Zeller 

 Coll., Surendal (Christy) ; Russia, Livonia, Zeller Coll.; Egypt, 

 Cairo (Graves), 1 $ ; Asia Minor, Pontus, Bithynia. Amanus Mts., 

 1 <$ ; AY. Turkestan, Issyk Kul ; W. Siberia, Altai; E. Turke- 

 stan, Hi, Kashgar; E. Siberia, Amurland, 1 $ ; ? S. Africa, 1 o 

 type pulverosa (almost certainly a European specimen). Exp. 2b- 

 36 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep p. 122 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. v. p. 293, pi. 221. f. 4. 



Fuscous, sometimes dorsally tinged with greenish ; dorsal line 

 indistinctly paler, dark-edged, sometimes interrupted ; lateral line 

 hardly paler, sometimes dark-edged ; spiracular line pale, dark- 

 edged above ; head blackish or fuscous. Food-plants : Corn, Peas, 

 &c, especially in ricks, forming a small chamber for habitation. 

 9-5. 



3963. Athetis extima. (Plate CXXX. fig. 8.) 



Caradrina extima Wlk. xxsii. 687 (1865); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. 



p. 196. 

 Caradrina civica, Grote, Papilio, iii. p. 74 (1883). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen grey- white slightly irrorated with 

 brown; palpi black, white at tips; antennae blackish except at 

 base; tarsi black, ringed with white. Fore wing grey-white 



vol. vni. ■/. 



