ATIIDTIS. 



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and fine tormina! line brown ; t lie underside with tho costal area 

 strongly irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal lunule. 



H<ib. Cape Colony, Deelfontein {Sloyyett), 1 J type. Exp. 28 

 millim. 



4005. Athetis nitens. 

 Caradrina miens, Saalm. Lep. Madag. p. 276, f. 2.'!2 (1891). 



Head and thorax dark red-brown ; palpi black-brown; abdomen 

 brown mixed with greyish. Fore wing red-brown linked with 

 grey and irrorated with blackish ; subbasal line represented by 

 indistinct double dark striae from costa ; antemedial line indistinct, 

 double, obliquely excurved ; orbicular and reniform faint dark 

 marks, the latter with ochreous point on its outer edge ; an indis- 

 tinct oblique sinuous dark line from lower angle of cell to inner 

 margin ; postmedial line very indistinct, bent outwards below costa, 

 then oblique, minutely waved, with traces of another line beyond 

 it and some pale points on costa; subtenninal line represented by 

 a series of faint pale points defined by black on inner side, very 

 slightly angled outwards at veins 7, 6 and excurved at middle : a 

 fine black terminal line and tine pale line at base of cilia. Hind 

 wing whitish suffused with brown, the terminal area darker, a fine 

 dark terminal line and ochreous line at base of cilia ; the underside 

 white stronglv irrorated with dark brown, a blackish discoidal spot, 

 curved postmedial line, and terminal series of slight lunules. 



Hub. Br. E. Africa, Masailand, E. Quaso (Betlon), 2 J , 2 2 , 

 Uganda Ky., Mile 478 {Betlon), 1 $ ; Madagascar, Betsileo. Exp. 

 26-23 millim. 



4006. Athetis funesta. 



Caradrina funesta. Stand. Stett. ent. Zeit, 1888, p. 256 (Oft. 1888) ; id. 



Roiu. Mem. vi. p. 489, pi. 8. 1. 10; id. Cat, Lep. pal. p. Ills. 

 Acosmetiu luguhris, Grres. Berl. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 351 (Feb. 1889). 

 Glottida squalida, Leeeb, P.Z. S. 18o9, p. 490, pi. 52. f. o. 



Head and thorax fuscous brown mixed with some grey ; abdomen 

 grey suffused with fuscous. Fore wing fuscous brown slightly mixed 

 with grey ; antemedial line indistinct, greyish, slightly angled out- 

 wards below costa and inwards on vein 1 ; orbicular a small rather 

 oblique elliptical black spot slightly defined by grey ; reniform a 

 small black lunule defined by grey on outer side: traces of a dark 

 medial shade; postmedial line blackish slightly defined by grey on 

 outer side, bent outwards below costa, then minutely dentate, 

 incurved below vein 4; subterminal line greyish slightly defined 

 by fuscous on inner side, excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a 

 terminal series of slight black strioe. Hind wing greyish suffused 

 with fuscous brown ; the underside fuscous brown slightly mixed 

 with grey, an indistinct blackish discoidal lunule and traces of a 

 rather diffused curved postmedial line. 



Hab. E. Siberia, Amurland, 1 J,l J, Ussuri ; Japan, Oiwake 

 (Pri/er), 1 J , 3 $ type squalida. Exp. o'2-'M millim. 



