ARENOSTOLA. 287 



■u-ing ochreons white tinged with pale rufous and ratlier tliickly 

 irrorated with fuscous brown, the veins slightly streaked witli 

 brown ; traces of a postmedial series of dark points on the veins, 

 excurved to vein -t, then obli(jue ; a terminal series of brown strise. 

 Hind wing white tinged with ochreous ; the underside with tlie 

 costal area and terminal area to vein 2 irrorated with brown. 



Hah. W. Turkestan, I^isyk-kul ; E. Turkestan, Hi, Thian-Shau 

 Mts. ; Mongolia, Uliassutai, 1 S ; Kashmir, Nubra (McArthur), 

 1 $ . E.vj}. 30-34 millim. 



4690. Arenostola elymi. 



Leucania elymi, Treit. Sfhinett. Eur. v. 2, p. 294 (182.5) ; Dup. L^p. Fr., 

 Suppl. iii.p. 334, 33l. 31. f. 1 : Ilen-.-Scluiff. Eur. Sclmiett., Noct. f. 346 ; 

 Oberth. Et. Ent. v. p. 71, pi. 0. f. 2 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 189. 



Tajiinostola satiirutior, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1889, p. 47. 



Head and thorax ochreous white tinged with pale rufous ; palpi 

 and legs brownish ; abdomen ochreous white tinged with rufous 

 except at ba.se. Fore wing ochreous white tinged with rufous, the 

 inner area and a streak in discal fold beyond the cell rather jjaler, 

 the veins slightlj' streaked with l>rown ; the antemedial line repre- 

 sented by slight dark points on the veins ; a postmedial series of 

 slight dark points on the veins excurved from costa to vein 4, then 

 oblique ; cilia ochreous mixed with brown. Hind wing W'hite tinged 

 with ochreous ; the underside Avith the costal area slightly tinged 

 with rufous. 



Ab. 1. saturatior. Fore wing darker or with dark streaks. — 

 St. Petersburg, Ussuri. 



Hah. Britain, Leech Coll. ; Denm.aek, Leech Coll. ; Germany, 

 Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls. ; Sweden ; Russia, Livonia, St. Peters- 

 burg ; E. Siberia, Ussuri. Exp. 36-40 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 120; Barrett, Lep. Brit. v. p. 113, pi. 198. f. 3. 



Whitish ochreous tinged with pink ; head reddish brown. Food- 

 plant, bases of stems of Ehjmus arenarius. 4-5. 



4601. Arenostola fluxa. 



Noctua fluxa, ITvibn. Eur. SL-hmett., Noct. f. 413 (1808); Ilerr.-SeliafT. 



Eur. Sclimi'tt., Noct. f. 335. 

 yonagriajunci, Boisd. Gen. & Ind. Meth. p. 134 (1840). 

 Leucania hdimanni, Ev. Bull. Mosc. 1843, iii. p. 548; Frr. Neue Scbmett. 



pi. 429. f. 3 (1844); Herr.-Subaff. Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 42, 338; 



Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 189. 

 Leucania extrema, Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 336 (nee Hiibn.). 

 Tapinostula saturata, Staud. Cat. Lep. Eur. p. 107 (1871). 

 Tapinostola cxpressa/a, Kruhl. Eev. Kuss. Ent. vii. p. 11 (1907). 



Head and thorax pale rufous ; antcnn;e whitish ; abdomen 

 •whitish tinged with rufous. Foro wing j)ale rufous, the veins of 

 terminal h^ilf irrorated with brown and white ; faint traces of a 

 sinuous antemedial line; reniform represented by a small whitish 

 annuhis to lower part with brownish centre; postmedial lino 



