342 noctuidje. 



sinuous, with bl ick spot at costa; orbicular a rufous point,; 

 reniform a rufous lunule defined by whitish points ; faint traces of a 

 sinuous medial line; postmedial line very indistinct, with series of 

 black points on it and spot at costa, bent outwards below costa, then 

 minutely dentate, incurved below vein 4; subterminal line repre- 

 sented by a series of slight whitish stria? defined on inner side by 

 small rufous dentate marks at middle, slightly excurved below 

 vein 7 and at middle and more or less angled inwards at discal 

 fold ; a terminal series of black striae. Hind wing- pure white with 

 some blackish stria? on termen from below apex to vein 2 ; the 

 underside with the costal area irrorated with brown, a slight 

 discoidal lunule, postmedial series of points on the veins, and 

 terminal scries of black stria?. 



Ab. 1. proxima. Paler; fore wing whitish grey. 



Ab. 2. variabilis. Fore wing whitish grey slightly irrorated 

 with pinkish or yellowish. — Corsica. 



Ab. 3. farinacea. Fore wing with the centre of reniform 

 fuscous with black points round it. 



/fab. S. France, Frey Coll; Austria. Tirol; Hungary, Zeller, 

 Frey & Leech Colls., Carniola; Spain; Corsica, typef § in Coll. 

 Mabille; Italy: .Sicily, Zeller Coll; Dalmatia ; Turkey, Leech 

 Coll. ; S. Russia; Asia Minor, Pontus, Taurus; Japan, Yokohama 

 (Manley), 1 J , 1 £ ; Corea ; Kashmir. Narkundah {McArtTiur), 

 2 $ ; Punjab, Kulu, Sultanpur (G. Young), 1 <5 , 1 2, Simla, 1 $ 

 tvpe farinacea, Dharnisala (Hocl-iiuj), 3 c5" , 5 $, Umballa, 2 J. 

 Exp. "32-36. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 173; Hffra. Kaup. p. 109, pi. 30. 

 f. 1. 



Crey-brown ; dorsal line whitish : lateral lines dark : head and 

 thoracic shield dark brown. Feeds on various low-growing plants. 

 3-4. 



2975. Athetis melanosticta, n. sp. (Tlate CXXX. fig. 10.) 

 Head and thorax ochreous white slightly irrorated with brown; 

 palp, black, white at tips; antenna? fuscous except towards base; 

 tibia? and tarsi fuscous, the latter with slight pale rings: abdomen 

 oehieous white, the anal tuft tinged with rufous, the ventral surface 

 suffused with fuscous except at base. Fore wing pale ochreous 

 thickly irrorated with fuscous, the terminal area suffused with 

 fuscous from apex to vein 4; subbasal line absent; antemedial line 

 represented by black points on the veins; orbicular a black point ; 

 reniform small, defined by black and whitish points; traces of a 

 medial line, oblique and sinuous from costa to lower angle of cell ; 

 postmedial line indistinct, with black point at costa. bent outwards 

 below costa, then oblique, dentate and produced to black points on 

 the veins; subterminal line represented by small dentate black 

 marks from costa to vein 4, somewhat angled outwards at vein 7 ; 

 a terminal series of prominent black points. Hind wing pure 

 white; the underside with the costal area tinged with ochreous 

 and irrorated with brown. 



