vnn ns. 



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3998. Athetis pertinax. 



Caradrina pertinax, Stand. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. xiv. p. 387 (1878) ; id. Cat. 



Lep. pal. ]). 195. 

 Caradrina vicina, Rom. Mem. ii. p. 55, pi. 3. f. 3 (1885), nee Staud. 

 Caradrina melamtra, Alph. Rom. Mem. ix. p. 34(1897). 

 Caradrina expand'. Vlpli. Rom. Mem. ix. p. 34 ( 1897). 

 Caradrina morosa, Alph. Rom M6m. ix. ]>. 34 (1897), nee Led. 

 Agrotis inumbraia, Stand, Iris, xii p. 363 | 1899). 



Head and thorax white slightly tinged with ochreous hrown ; 

 palpi black, white in front and at lips; tarsi black ringed with 

 white ; abdomen white. Fore wing ochreous white slightly 

 irrorated with brown, the terminal area suffused with pale brown ; 

 sub basal line represented by a small black spot on costa ; ante- 

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

 costa, oblique, waved; orbicular a brown point; reniform a brown 

 lunule with greyish centre ; a slight medial dark shade with black 

 spot at costa, oblique from costa to reniform ; postmedial line 

 indistinct, double, with black spot, on inner line at costa, minutely 

 waved, excurved from costa to vein 4, then incurved, some ochreous 

 points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line ochreous, minutely 

 waved, angled outwards at vein 7, excurved at middle and angled 

 inwards at discal and submedian folds ; a terminal series of minute 

 black lunules : cilia white, the bases yellowish followed by a slight 

 brown line. Hind wing pure white, the termen slightly tinged with 

 brown from apex to vein 2 ; the underside with slight brown patch 

 at apex. 



Ab. 1. inumhrata. Fore wing more ochreous, the terminal area 

 broadly suffused with fuscous; hind wing with the terminal area 

 suffused with fuscous. — Taurus. 



Ab. 2. melanura. Fore wing whitish, the terminal area broadly 

 black. — Armenia. 



Ab. 3. ezpansa. Fore wing with the markings more distinct, the 

 underside almost without dark suffusion on terminal area. — W. and 

 E. Turkestan. 



Hab. Armenia, 1 S ; Asia Minor, Pontus, 2 $ > Taurus, Zeitun ; 

 Syria., 1 £ ; W. Turkestan, Ferghana, Issyk Kul ; E. Turkestan, 

 Thian-Shan Mts. Exp. 3(J millim, 



3999. Athetis vicina. (Plate CXXX. fig. 28.) 



Caradrina vicina, Staud. Berl. ent. Zeit. 1870, p. 118 ; id. Cat. Lep. pal. 



p. 196. 

 Caradrina belucha. Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1885, p. 318. pi. 9. f. 2; 



Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 261. 

 Caradrina pyriaca, Staud. Iris, iv. p. 294 (1892). 

 Caradrina fergana, Staud. Iris, iv. p. 294 (1892). 



cJ . Head and thorax ochreous white slightly irrorated with red- 

 brown ; palpi with black-brown patch at side of 2nd joint ; tarsi 

 blackish ringed with white ; abdomen white. Fore wing yellowish 

 white slightly irrorated with brown, the terminal area suffused with 



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