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abdomen whitish suffused with red-brown. Fore wing pale reddish 

 brown slightly irrorated with black, the terminal area suffused 

 with fuscous; subbasal line represented by a black point on costa ; 

 antemedial line double, the inner line very indistinct, slightly 

 angled outwards below costa and inwards on vein 1, with small 

 black spot at costa ; orbicular small, round, defined by blackish ; 

 reniform narrow, defined by .blackish, with white point on inner 

 side below, one on outer above and two below ; an indistinct medial 

 line oblique from costa to median nervure, then sinuous; post- 

 medial line double, the outer line indistinct, with black spot at 

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

 fold and below vein 4; subterminal line indistinct, pale, defined on 

 inner side by small dentate black marks between veins 7 and 3, 

 very slightly excurved below costa and at middle ; a terminal 

 s<ries of slight blackish stria?. Hmd wing white, the termen 

 suffused with fuscous from apex to vein 2, diffused inwards on the 

 veins; the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown, a 

 slight discoidal point. 



Ab. 1. dvMosa. Fore wing with the dentate black subterminal 

 marks obsolete. 



Ab. 2. ustirena. Paler; fore wing more ochreous brown, the 

 markings less developed. — S. France. 



Ab. 3. Head, thorax, and fore wing grey without any brown or 

 ochreous tinge. — Zermatt. 



//db. S. France, Zeller & Leech Colls. ; Germany, Leech Coll. ; 

 Austria, Tirol ; Hungary, Zeller, Frey & Leech Colls. ; Switzer- 

 land, Zermatt ; Dalmatia; IS. Russia, Sarepta (Ohristoph) ; Asiv 

 .Minor, Taurus; Persia; W. Turkestan, Ferghana, Issvk Kul ; 

 Mongolia, TJrga ; E. Siberia, Amurland. Exp. 34-38 millira. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. &, Moths Eur. p. 173 ; Htfm. Raup. p K>9. 



Pale grey mottled with brown ; dorsal line and segmental rings 

 whitish ; stigmata black ; head dark brown. Food-plants : Taraxi- 

 cum and other low-growing herbs. 



3974. Athetis fusicornis. 



Caradrina fusicornis, Emlir. Ami. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1832. p. 28G. pi. 9. f. 5 ; 



Utip. Lep. Fr.,Suppl. iii. pi. 29. f. 4 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 196. 

 Noc/ua kadenii, Frr. A'eue Beitr. 8011111611. ii. p 147, pi. 18ii(]83t>); Fiscli 



von Rosl. Schmett. pi. 36. ft'. 2a. b. ; Dup. Lep. Fr., Suppl. iii. pi. 2'.). 



ff. 2. a, b: Herr.-Sehaff. Eur. Schmett., Noct. t'. 4U6; Hropsn. Moths 



Ind. ii. p. 260; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 197. 

 Caradrina proximo., Rmbr. Faun. And. pi. 18. f. 7 (1839). 

 Caradrina variabilis, Bell. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1865, p. 104. pi. 2. f, 1. 

 Caradrina farinocci, Moore, P. Z. S. 1888, p. 41 1. 



Head and thorax whitish tinged with pale reddish brown ; palpi 

 black, white at tips ; antennas blackish except at base ; tarsi 

 blackish, ringed with white ; abdomen whitish tinged with ochreous 

 brown. Fore wing whitish tinged with pale reddish brown and with 

 slight dark irroration ; subbasal line represented by a black point 

 on costa and striga from cell; antemedial line very indistinct, oblique. 



