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NOCTUIDJ.. 



point on median ncrvurc; slight obli(iue]y placed antemedial rulniis 

 points on costa and inner margin nnd a dark ])oint in submedian 

 fold; a rulbus medial band difru.>-cd on outer side, obliijuc from 

 costa to lower angle of cell, then somewhat incurved ; a post- 

 medial dark point in discal fold; an indistinct difl'used suhtermiiial 

 rufous band, excurved between veins 7 and 2. Hind wing pure 

 white. 



Ab. 1. viridicolor. Fore wing greenish; hind wing greenish 

 white. 



Hah. Rumelia; S. RrssiA, Odessa, Zeller Coll., Sarepta(C7r/-«.s^o^), 

 Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls. ; Armenia; W. Tukkesxan, Turco- 

 mania. Exp. 40 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 164; Hffin. Kaup. p. lOo, pi. 29. 

 f. 3. 



Keddish yellow mottled with red and Avith red lateral line. 

 Food-plants: seeds oi AtrivTex nitens&n^ Chenopodimnpohjsjjermum. 



Genus PSECTROTARSIA, nov. 



Type, P. fumrena. 



Proboscis fully deTclopccl ; palpi poriect, reaching to just bcToiul froiis aiirl 

 fringed witli liaii- below, the ."Ird joint short; frons with rouiulfd corneous 

 promineuce with slight raised edges and corneous ])late below it ; eves lar/;e, 

 rounded ; antennre of male ciliated ; thorax clothed with hair only and 

 without crests; tibijE moderately fringed with hair; (ore tarsi with seven 

 curved claw-like spines on outer side of 1st joint; abdomen without crests. 

 Fore wing with the apex rounded, the tcrmen evenly curved and not crenulale; 

 ■\eius 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; from ]0 

 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with 

 veins 3,4 from angle of cell; 6 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 

 6, 7 shortly stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



A. Fore wing witli the basal and postmedial areas white 



irrorated with brown fufcirena. 



B. Fere wing wholly yellow jlava. 



4607. Psectrotarsia fuscirena, n. sp. 



S . Head and thorax ochreous white ; antennte pale brown ; 

 pectus white ; legs yellowish, the ttirsi brownish ; abdomen 



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Fig. SJ3. — rssctrotarsia fuscirena, (^ . j. 



ochreous white slightly irrorated with brown. Fore wing with 

 the basal, costal, and postmedial areas ochreous white irrorated 



