ATJTTETI-. — PltOMETOPTTS. 367 



white; the underside with the costal area slightly tinged with 

 yellowish, a slight dark discoidal striga. 



Hah. Palestine, Jordan, 1 tf. Exp. 28 millim. 



4020. Athetis melanurina. (Plate CXXXI. lig. 5.) 

 Agrotis melanurina, Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 14(5 (1001). 



Head and thorax ochreous white ; palpi fuscous at sides ; ahdomcn 

 ochreous with more or less developed fuscous dorsal ha mis. Fore 

 wing ochreous white ; the costal edge fuscous at base ; subbasal Line 

 represented by a black point on costa and faint traces of a line to 

 subniedian fold ; traces of a minutely waved antemedial line with 

 a black point at costa ; traces of a waved line from lower angle of 

 cell to inner margin; postmedial line very indistinct, irregularly 

 waved, arising from a black spot at costa, strongly bent outwards 

 below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved : terminal area 

 fuscous black with a fine white line at base of cilia. Hind wing 

 white, the terminal area suffused with fuscous except at apex 

 and towards tornus ; cilia fuscous with a hue white line at base. 



Ha1>. PALKsxtxi:, 1 J , 1 £. Exp. 6 30, S 34 millim. 



Genus PR0MET0PUS. 



Type. 



Promelopus, Giien. Noct, i. p. 38 (18.~>2) inasmeta. 



Proboscis fully developed; palpi with the '2nd joint upturned, reaching 

 about to middle of irons, the 3rd moderate, porrect ; frons with short truncate 

 conical prominence with somewhat raised edges and corneous plate below it; 

 eyes large, round ; antenna? of male somewhat, laminate and minutely ciliated ; 

 thorax clothed with rough hair and hair-like scales, the piothorax with 

 spreading crest, the metathorax with divided crest; tibiae moderately fringed 

 with hair ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing rather narrow, the apex rect- 

 angular, the termen somewhat excised below apex and excurved at middle ; 

 vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 5 from just above angle ; 6 from below upper 

 angle ; 7, 8. 0, 10, stalked ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4, and 6, 7 

 shortly stalked ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 8 anastomosing 

 with the cell near base only. 



A. Fore wing with the reniform white or deBned by white. 



a. Fore wing with the ground-colour olive-yellow. 



a 1 . Fore wing with the reniform strongly constricted at 



middle flavicollis. 



i 1 . Fore wing with the reniform not constricted at 



middle albistigma. 



b. Fore wing with the ground-colour grey. 



a 1 . Fore wing with the orbicular present horologe 



b 1 . Fore wing with the orbicular absent inassueta. 



B. Fore wing with the reniform not white or defined by 



white nodyna. 



4021. Prometopus flavicollis. 



Erastria flavicollis, Leech, P. Z. S. 1880, p. 525, pi. 53. f. 4. 



c? . Head white irrorated with black; palpi and antenna? black- 

 brown ; tegulaj olive-yellow ; thorax brown mixed with whitish ; 



