AEKNOSTOLA. 



283 



C. Fore wing without streaks on the veins. 



a. Hind wing pure white ; fore wing irrorated witli 



white moUicella. 



h. Hind wing suffused with brown. 

 a^. Fore wing pale flesh-colour. 



a? Fore wing with dark irroration modesta. 



P. Fore wing without dark irroration deserticola. 



6'. Fore wing white. 

 d^. Fore wing with postniedial series of dark points. 

 a?. Hind wing strongly suffused with fuscous, 



especially on terminal area hondi. 



}fi. Hind wing slightly tinged with brown extrema. 



b-. Fore wing without postmcdial series of dark 



points sohn-retheli. 



4681 . Arenostola phragmitidis. 



Norfua 'phragmitidis, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 230 (i80"2) ; Dup. Lep. 



Fr. vii. pt. 1, p. 90, pi. lOG. f. 5; Frr. Neue Schmett, pi. 515. f. 1 ; 



Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 190. 

 Koctua simicana, Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 189. f. 5 (1804). 

 Leucania verecunda, Ev. Bull. Soe. ]\Iosc. 1848, iii. p. 219. 

 Xanthcdesmorawitziif Men. Enuni. Corp. Anim. Mus. iii. pi. 16. f. 8 (1863). 



Head and thorax whitish, the hitter with the vertex tinged with 

 red-brown ; paljDi brownish ; legs tinged with brown ; abdomen 

 ochreous white dorsally tinged with brown, ventraily with rufous. 



>.'M 

 Fig. 121. — Aroio^fola jihrarpnafidis, (^ . \. 



Fore wing whitish tinged with rufous, the costal area whiter, the 

 veins slightly streaked with whitish ; cilia rufous. Hind wing 

 ochreous suffused with brown, the veins slightly streaked with 

 ochreous ; cilia ochreous white ; the underside whitish tinged 

 with ochreous. 



Hah. Britain, Scotland, Forres (Salvage), England [Donhleday), 

 Leech Coll. ; Holland ; Denmark, Frey Coll. ; Gkmiani', Zeller and 

 Leech Colls, ; Switzerland ; Russia, Sarepta, Zeller Coll. ; W. 

 Turkestan, Turcomania, Issyk-kul ; Tibet, Amdo. Exp. 32-38 

 niillim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 12(1 : Barrett, Lep. Brit. v. p. 125, pi. 199. f. 2. 



Whitish ochreous ; subdorsal line broad, interrupted, purplish 

 fuscous; lateral line narrow, similar; head black: thoracic plate 

 brown. Food-plant, in stems and on haves of Plivagmites. 'J-(?. 



l'\ipa on the ground. 



