AHKNOSTOI.A. SriIKTTA. 



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a postmedial series of black points on the veins, bent outwards 

 below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; a terminal series of 

 dark striae. Hind wing ochreous white suffused with brown, the 

 cilia yellowisli white. Underside white irrorated with brown ; 

 fore wing with the disk tinged with brown ; hind wing with oblique 

 black striga on upper discocellular. 



Hah. Eritaix, Stephens Coll.; Germany; Austria; HuNfiART ; 

 RnssTA, Urals ; Persia {Haberhauer), 1 J ; E. Turkestan Hi. 

 Exjj. 28 millim. 



*4699. Arenostola sohn-retheli. (Tlate CXLIIL fig. 24.) 



Tapinonto/a Sofui-Beiheii, Piing. Iris, xix. p. 222, pi. vii. f. G (1907)- 



c? . Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous white ; palpi fuscous ; 

 antennae and legs tinged with fuscous, the tarsi slightly ringed with 

 white. Uore wing glossy white with a faint ochi'eous tinge and 

 very slightly irrorated \\ith bro.wn, the apex slightly tinged with 

 brown ; a terminal series of slight dark striae ; cilia white mixed 

 ■with brown and with faint dark line near base. Hind wing glossy 

 white slightly tinged with fuscous especially on termen ; cilia white 

 with a faint dark line through them. Underside of fore wing 

 suffused \^■ith fuscous brown except terminal area which is slightly 

 irrorated with fuscous ; hind wing with the costal and terminal 

 areas slightly irrorated with fuscous. 



Hah. C. Italy, Abruzzi, Pescacostanzo, type t J in Coll. Piingcler. 

 Exj). 132 millim. 



Genus SPHETTA. 



Typo. 

 Splief/a, Wlk. x\xii. An! (1SG5) (ip/cci/ig. 



Proboscis absent; psilpi obliquely upturned, tlie 2n(l joint reaching to 

 vertex of head and broadly fringed wilh liair in I'ront, the 3rd long; Irons 

 srnoorli, with large tult of liair above and a ridge of hair between antennie ; 

 eyes large, round; antenuie of male minutely ciliated; thorax clothed with 

 rough hair, but without crests ; tibiie fringed with long hair ; abdomen 

 elongate and rather slender, some rough hair at base but without crests. Fore 

 wing witli the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved, erenulate ; vein 3 from 

 well before angle of cell; .") from just above angle; 6 from just below upper 

 angle; 'J from 10 anastomo.'^intc with <S to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Jlind 

 wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of disco- 

 cellulars ; (J, 7 from u]>]>cr angle ; 8 anastomosing witb the cell near base only. 



4700. Sphetta apicalis. 



Sphelta apicri/is, Wlk. xxxii. 4">7 (1S3>); Moor-.. Lep. Cevl. ii. "p. 114, 



)>1. 121. if. 2. 2rt; Hmjjsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 1(17. 

 Sp/ief/a hiocellntd. Moore, P. 7.. S. 1S79, p. 40."). 



<S . Head and thorax dark reddish l)rown mixed with pale 

 ochreous, the vertex of head paler ; tarsi black-brown, the mid and 

 liind tarsi with pale rings; al)doraen greyish l)rowii. Fore wing 



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