-1:50 N0CXCIDJ5. 



outer side, oblique from costa to vein 6, then dentate, at vein 3 

 bent inwards to lower angle of cell ; subterminai line formed of 

 white scales and indistinct except at costa and inner margin, 

 irregularly waved, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at 

 middle ; a terminal series of faint dark spots ; cilia brown at base, 

 whitish at tips. Hind wing pale reddish brown with fine dark 

 terminal line : cilia brown at base, white at tips ; the underside 

 white slightly irrorated with brown. 



IJah. E. Turkestan, Hi, Kuldja, 1 3 . Exp. 24 millim. 



Genus PROXENUS. 



Type. 



Troxenus, Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett. ii. p. 240 (1845) Jiospes. 



Radinoyoes, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 188b, p. 393 tenuis. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to 

 middle of irons and moderately scaled, the 3rd short ; frons smooth ; eyes 

 large, round ; antennae of male ciliated; thorax clothed chiefly with scales and 

 without crests; build slender ; tibia) moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen 

 without crests. Fore wing long and narrow, the apes rounded, the termen 

 evenly curved and hardly crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 

 G from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 

 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell or shortly stalked ; 

 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle or shortly 

 stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. {Troxenus). Mid and hind tibife of male with fringes of yellowish 

 hair on outer side, abdomen with lateral fringes of yellowish hair on 

 basal segments. 



A. Fore wing; tino-ed with rufous. 



a. Fore wing with the veins irrorated with fuscous and 



grey hospes. 



b. Fore wing almost wholly suffused with fuscous and 



grey xan Iholopha . 



B. Fore wing not tinged with rufous dissimffis. 



4117. Proxenus hospes. 



Caradrina hospes, Frr. Nene Schmett. i. p. 40, pi. 21. f. 4 (1831); Herr.- 

 Schaff. Schmett. Eur.. Noct. f. 36b' ; Rmbr. Cat. Lep. And. pi. 15. f. 4 ; 

 Mill. Icones, iii. pi. 135. ff. 9-10; id. Mem. Soc. Cannes, 1879, p. 128, 

 pi. 7. ff. 4-5 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 198. 



Caradrina uliginosa, Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 3G7 (nee 

 Boisd.). 



Caradrina lepigone, Roesel, Stett. ent. Zeit. 1877, p. 3(54 (nee Moschl.). 



3 . Head and thorax pale rufous with a greyish tinge ; palpi 

 black at sides, whitish in front and at tips; mid and hind tibiaa 

 fringed with ochreous-white hair ; abdomen ochreous white tinged 

 with brown, the basal segments with lateral fringes of ochreous 

 white hair. Fore wing glossy ochreous suffused with rufous, the 

 veins irrorated with fuscous and grey ; antemedial line very in- 

 distinct, waved, angled inwards to blackish points on the veins ; 

 orbicular a blackish point ; reniform a small lunule slightly defined 

 by brown with an ochreous streak from it to near termen above 

 vein 5 ; traces of a dentate postmedial line with black and pale 



