ATHETI3. 845 



fuscous brown, constricted at middle where there is a slight yellowish 

 point on its outer edge with traces of white points above and below 

 it; traces of a sinuous brown medial line; postmedial line black, 

 oblique . from costa to vein 7, then dentate, slightly incurved at 

 submediau fold ; subterminal line defined by fuscous suffusion on 

 inner side, slightly angled outwards at veins 7, 0, excurved and 

 waved at middle; a terminal series of black stria); cilia with a 

 yellowish line at base. Hind wing white, the costal area tinged 

 with brown ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with 

 brown, a discoidal point and postmedial and terminal series of 

 points from costa to vein 2. 



Hah. Hong Kong (./. «/. Walker), 1 2 ; Madras, Nilgiris (Hamp- 

 son), 4 2 type; Borneo, Kuching (Shelford), 1 5 , Mt. Marapok, 

 1 d ; Queensland, Townsville (Dodd), 1 £, Mackay, 1 $, Bris- 

 bane {Turner), 1 3 , 1 2 • Bkcp. '.>4-'6() ruilliin. 



3080. Athetis ignava. (Plate CXXX. fig. 13.) 



Caradrina ignava, Guen. Nocfc; i. p. 247 (1852). 

 Caradrina per vicax, Wllgni. Ofv. Ve^.-Akad. Fiirb. 187. r >. i. p. 107. 

 Caradrina partita, Hmpsn. 'Nut. Hist. Sokotra, p. 'ti'2'3, pi. '-0. f. 2t 

 ineo Wit.). 



Head and thorax pale grey tinged with reddish brown ; palpi 

 black, the 2nd joint white in front and at tips; antenna? with tbe 

 basal half white, the terminal half fuscous ; pectus and legs grey 

 mixed with fuscous, tbe tarsi fuscous ringed with white ; abdome i 

 grey dorsally suffused with fuscous, ventrally irrorated with fuscous. 

 Fore wing grey tinged with reddish brown and irrorated with 

 fuscous ; subbasal line slight, fuscous, curved, from costa to sub- 

 median fold; antemedial line indistinct, fuscous, oblique, sinuous; 

 orbicular a small round black spot; reniform slightly defined by 

 fuscous, with small yellow spot on its outer edge with one white point 

 above it and-two below it ; an indistinct oblique sinuous medial line ; 

 postmedial line slight, blackish, oblique from costa to vein 7, in- 

 curved at discal fold, oblique from vein 4 to submedian fold and 

 excurved above inner margin, a series of slight black points beyond 

 it on the veins followed by a faint curved line; subterminal line 

 indistinct, pale, slightly defined by brown on inner side, excurved 

 below vein 7 and at middle ; a terminal series of slight black points ; 

 cilia with a fine yellow line at base. Hind wing pure white ; the 

 underside with the costal area tinged with yellow and slightly 

 irrorated with brown, postmedial black points on veins 8 to b\ 



Hub. Sokotra, Adho Dimellus (O.-Grant), 2 2 ; Br. E. Africa., 

 Athi-ya-Mawe (Betton), 1 2- , Lagari (Betton), 2 2 > Ndimu (Betton), 

 5 5 , Nairowa (Betton), 3 2 »Kikuy a (Crawshay), 1 2 ! Gazaland, 

 Cbiriuda Forest (Marshall), 1 3; Transvaal (Gholmley), 2 <3 , 

 1 $, Pretoria (Jange), 1 3, Piet lletief {Crawshay), 1 3 , 1 $ ; 

 Natal, TugeJa R. (Reynolds), 1 2 , Estcourt (Hutchinson), 2 3 ; 

 Mauritius, Curepipe (Tulloch), 2 cf . Eccp. 30-32 millim. Type f 

 in Mus. Paris. 



