344 N0CTCID.E. 



black points on the veins; subterminal line faintly defined by 

 brown suffusion on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 excurved at middle ; a terminal series of black striae ; cilia greyish 

 fuscous. Hind wing white, the costal area tinged with brown ; a 

 fine brown terminal line ; cilia brown towards apex ; the underside 

 with the costal area irrorated with fuscous brown. 



Hob. Transvaal (Cholmley), 1 J ; C. Colony, Transkei (Miss F. 

 Barrett), 2 rf type. Exp. 24-30 millim. 



3978. Athetis germaini. 



Bri/ophila germainii, Dup. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1835, p. 194, pi. An. f. 2 ; 

 id. Lep. Fr., Suppl. iii. pi. 28. f. 5; Rmbr. Faun. And. pi. 18. f. 8 ; 

 Frr. Neue Beit.r. 8ebmett. pi. 4r>7. f. .'{ ; Herr.-Sehaff. Eur. Schraett., 

 Noct. f. 14;j; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 197. 



Head and thorax whitish suffused with pale red-brown ; palpi 

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

 blackish ringed with white ; abdomen white tinged with brown. 

 Pore wing pale red-brown irrorated with fuscous, the terminal area 

 suffused with fuscous ; a slight subbasal line from costa to sub- 

 median fold with black point at costa; antemedial line very 

 indistinct, oblique, sinuous, with small black spot at costa ; 

 orbicular represented by a few black scales ; renitorin a brown 

 lunule with two white points on inner edge and three on outer and 

 a small yellowish lunule at middle of outer side ; faint traces of a 

 curved medial line ; postmedial line hardly traceable, double, with 

 small black spot at costa, slightly bent outwards below costa and 

 incurved below vein 4, some yellowish points beyond it on costa ; 

 subterminal line indistinct, pale, slightly defined by fuscous on 

 inner side, somewhat angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at 

 middle; a terminal series of minute blackish points with whitish 

 points on their inner side : a fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind 

 wing white, the veins and marginal areas suffused with reddish 

 brown ; cilia white, brown at apex and with brown line near base 

 from apex to vein 2; the underside with the costal area irrorated 

 with brown, a discoidal point, postmedial series of points on the 

 veins, and terminal series of points from apex to vein 2. 



Hah. S. France, Zeller Coll ; Spain, Catalonia ; Sicily; Algeria. 

 E.ip. 30 millim. 



3979. Athetis obtnsa. 



Caradrina obtusa, Hmpan. 111. Het, B. M. viii. p. 79, pi; 145. f. 6 (1891) ; 

 id. Moths Ind. ii. p. 261. 



Head and thorax whitish tinged with red-brown ; palpi black, 

 white in front and at tips ; antennas fuscous except at hase ; tarsi 

 fuscous ringed with white : abdomen grey tinged with brown and 

 irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing grey slightly tinged with red- 

 brown and irrorated with fuscous : subbasal line blackish, curved, 

 from costa to submedian fold; autemedial line blackish, curved, 

 minutely dentate; orbicular a black point: reniform indistinct. 



