ATHETIS. 3">7 



4001. Athetis stygia, n. sp (Plate CXXX. fig. 30.) 



Head, thorax, and abdomen brown mixed with grey ; palpi 

 blackish, whitish at tips ; tarsi fuscous ringed with whitish. Foro 

 wing grey tinged with brown and thickly irrorated with dark 

 brown : subbasal line brown, curved, from costa to submedian fold ; 

 antemedial line brown, angled outwards below costa, then obliquely 

 excurved : orbicular a small round brown spot with faint pale 

 annulus; reniform elongate elliptical, brown with faint, pale 

 annulus ; a rather diffused dark medial line, oblique from costa to 

 median nervure, then inwardly oblique; postmedial line indistinct, 

 dark, bent outwards below eosta, then dentate and produced to dark 

 points on the veins, incurved below vein 4, some pale points beyond 

 it on costa ; subterminal line whitish defined on inner side by red- 

 brown, oblique, almost straight ; a terminal series of slight black 

 points. Hind wing grey suffused with brown ; a terminal series of 

 slight dark striae ; cilia with a hue whitish line at Dase ; the under- 

 side whitish thickly irrorated with brown, a black discoidal lunule 

 and rather diffused curved postmedial line. 



Hah. Punjab, Kulu, Sultanpur (G. Young), 3o , Simla (Swinhoe, 

 If arfcrd, Nurse), 3 3 , 1 $ type, Dharmsala (hocking), 2 J , 2 $, 

 Kala Pani (Yenbury), 4 d" . Exp. 26-36 millim. 



4002. Athetis paupera. 



Caradrina paupera, Christ. Rom. Mem. ii. p. 56, pi. 3. f . 4 (1885); Stand. 

 Cat. Lep. pal. p. 204. 



Head and thorax grey-white mixed with brown ; tarsi slightly 

 ringed with white ; abdomen grey- white suffused with brown except 

 at base. Fore wing glossy grey-white tinged and irrorated with 

 brown, the terminal area slightly darker; traces of a subbasal line 

 from costa to submedian fold with dark point at costa; antemedial 

 line very indistinct, oblique, waved ; orbicular and reniform indis- 

 tinct, fuscous, undefined, the former round, the latter elliptical ; 

 postmedial line indistinct, dark, with dark point at costa, bent 

 outwards below costa, then sinuous, incurved below vein 4, some 

 whitish points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line defined by 

 slight dark suffusion on inner side, excurved below vein 7 and at 

 middle: a terminal series of dark points. Hind wing whitish 

 suffused with brown, the cilia whitish; the underside whitish, the 

 costal and terminal areas slightly tinged with brown, a faint dark 

 discoidal lunule and indistinct sinuous postmedial line. 



Bab. Akmexia ; W. Turkestan, Turcomania, 1 ^ , Ferghana; 

 E. Tcrkest^x, Hi. Exp. 32 millim. 



4003. Athetis morpheus. 



Plialieurr morpheus, Hufn. Berl. Mag. iii. p. 302 (J7B7); Steph. 111. Brit. 



Ent.. Haust. ii. p. 157 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 197. 

 Noctuapuila, Beckw. Trans. Linn. Soc. 1, 2, p. 5, pi. 1. ff. 7, 9 (1794). 

 Noctua sepii, Hiibn. Eur. Schrnett.. JNoct. f. 161 (1802); Sepp, Ins. ir. 



p. 117, pi. 34: Dup. Lep. Fr. vi. p. 52, pi. 75. f. 5; 8tepu. 111. Brit. 



Ent., Haust. ii. p. 158. 



