3(i4 NOCTUID.E. 



defined by grey on outer side, slightly beut outwards below costa, 

 obliquely excurved to vein 4, then sinuous, some white points 

 beyond it on costa ; subterminal line faint, pale, angled outwards 

 at vein 7, then minutely waved; cilia greyish with a faint dark 

 line through them. Hind wing pale suffused with brown, a fine 

 whitish line at base of cilia ; the underside whitish irrorated with 

 brown, the costal and terminal areas brown irrorated with somo 

 white, a slight discoidal spot and indistinct diffused postmedial line. 

 Hub. E. Siberia, Amurlaud, 1 J , Ussufi. Exp, 32 millim. 



4014. Athetis hyperseschra, n. sp. (Plate CXXXI. tig. 3.) 



Head and thorax dull reddish brown mixed with dark brown ; 

 antennae blackish ; tarsi blackish with pale rings ; abdomen greyish 

 brown. Fore wing dull reddish brown irrorated with fuscous, the 

 medial and terminal areas rather darker; subbasal line represented 

 by blackish points below costa and cell ; antemedial line blackish, 

 indistinct, oblique, sinuous ; orbicular absent ; reniform very indis- 

 tinct with faint pale centre defined by fuscous ; traces of a Hark 

 medial line, oblique from costa to subcostal nervure ; postmedial 

 line diffused, blackish, oblique from costa to vein 6 just beyond the 

 reniform, then inwardly oblique and minutely waved ; subterminal 

 line indistinct, pale, slightly defined by fuscous suffusion on inner 

 side, somewhat angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; 

 a terminal series of slight dark stria? ; a fine pale line at base of 

 cilia. Hind wing whitish suffused with brown ; cilia ochreous 

 white ; the underside ochreous whitish thickly irrorated with 

 brown, traces of a discoidal spot and diffused curved postmedial 

 line. 



Hob. Br. E. Africa, Munisu (LordDelamere), 1 3 , Gwelil (Severn), 

 3 $ type. Exp. 32 millim. 



4015. Athetis variana. 



Eadinacra variana, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1886, p. 444, pi. 40. f. 10; Hmpsn. 

 Moths Ind. ii. p. 26(i. 



$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous whitish slightly tinged 

 with brown ; tarsi fuscous ringed with white. Eore wing greyish 

 tinged with rufous and slightly irrorated with brown ; subbasal 

 line blackish, slightly curved, from costa to submedian fold ; ante- 

 medial line blackish, oblique, strongly sinuous ; orbicular absent ; 

 reniform defined at sides by fuscous ; a rather diffused blackish 

 medial line, oblique from costa to reniform, incurved from cell to 

 inner margin ; postmedial line indistinct, bent outwards below 

 costa, then minutely dentate, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, 

 some pale points beyond it on costa; subterminal hue very indis- 

 tinct, pale, slightly defined on inner side by brown suffusion, 

 excurved below vein 7 and at middle : a fine dark terminal line 

 and whitish line at base of cilia. Hind wing whitish, tinged with 



