340 xoctuidje.. 



costa ; postmcdial line blackish with black spot at costa, slightly 

 bent outwards below costa, then minutely dentate, slightly angled 

 inwards at discal fold, incurved below vein 4 and angled outwards 

 at vein 1, some pale points with slight dark streaks between them 

 beyond it on costa ; subterminal line formed of slight white marks 

 defined by fuscous on inner side, minutely waved, angled outwards 

 at vein 7 and excurved at middle : a terminal series of black points ; 

 cilia with fine white line at base. Hind wing white, the termen 

 tinged with brown from apex to vein 2 ; the underside with the 

 apical area slightly irrorated with brown. 



Hob. Syria ; Palestine, 1 <5 , 1 $ ■ Ebsp. 22 millim. 



3972. Athetis albina. 



Caradrina euhicularis, Herr.-Sebaff. Eur. Sehinett.,Noct. f. 425 (nee Scbiff.). 

 Caradrina albina, Ev. Bull. Mosc. 1848, iii. p. 215, & 1855, iv. p. 325 : 



Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 15)6. 

 Charadrina congesta, Led. Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien. 1853, p. 372, pi. 5. f.2. 



Head and thorax oehreous white ; palpi blackish, white at tips ; 

 antennas tinged with fuscous except at base ; tarsi tinged with 

 fuscous and ringed with white ; abdomen white slightly tinged 

 with oehreous. Fore wing pale oehreous, the terminal area tinged 

 with fuscous : subbasal line represented b} r a f useous point on costa, 

 the antemedial line by a small black spot on costa and fuscous 

 poiuts in submediau fold and on inner margin ; orbicular absent ; 

 reniform faintly tinged with fuscous, with two white points on 

 inner side and three on outer ; a medial fuscous point on costa ; 

 postmcdial line indistinct, with small black point at costa, bent 

 outwards below costa, slightly incurved at discal fold, incurved 

 below vein 4 ; subterminal line whitish slightly defined by rufous 

 on inner side and slightly excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; 

 a terminal scries of slight fuscous points. Hing wing pure white. 



Ab. 1. congesta. Fore wing greyer and irrorated with black. 



Hal). Russia, Frals, Orenburg, 2 J , 2 2 ; S. Russia (Griim-Grixh- 

 mailo), 1 $, Odessa, 2 J; Asia Minor, Pontus ; Persia, Shahkuh 

 ( Chrisloph), 1 $ ; W. Turkestan, Ferghana, Saisan, Issyk Kul, Ala 

 Tau ; W. Siberia, Altai ; Tibet, Kuku Nor. Exp. 32-34 millim. 



Larva. Oehreous faintly mottled and striated with brown 

 except on ventral surface; subdorsal line indistinct, pale; stigmata 

 black ; head brownish. 



3973. Athetis terrea. 



Noctua terrea, Frr. Neue Beitr. Schraett. iv. p. 26, pi. 303. ff. 3, 4 (1842); 



Herr.-SchafF. Eur. Scbmett., Noct. ff. 90, 409 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 197. 

 Caradrina ustirena, Boisrl. Gen. & Ind. Meth. p. 137 (1840); Dup. Lep. 



Fr., Suppl. iv. p. 221, pi. 69. f. 3. 

 Caradrina dubiosa, Staud. Oat. Lep. Eur. p. HI (1871). 



Head and thorax pale red-brown ; palpi black, white at tips ; 

 antennae blackish except at base ; tarsi blackish ringed with white; 



