468 NOCTFIDJE. 



white segmental rings, the ventral surface irrorated with yellow. 

 I'oro wing dark brown mixed with yellowish and on basal area with 

 grey-white ; subbasal line represented by a black bar from costa ; 

 antemedial line indistinct, blackish, angled inwards on vein 1 ; 

 orbicular a small blackish spot confluent with the antemedial line ; 

 reniform black-brown with some yellowish in centre and some 

 yellowish before and beyond it ; postmedial line indistinct, dark, 

 slightly escurved below costa and incurved at discal fold, incurved 

 below vein -4 ; subterrainal line indistinct, yellowish defined on 

 inuer side by dark suffusion, incurved in subraedian interspace ; 

 cilia chequered black and white. Hind wing black-brown with 

 large orange-yellow patch on disk from below costa to above inner 

 . margin, its upper edge angled inwards on median nervure and vein 1 

 and its outer incurved in submedian interspace ; a large black 

 discoidal lunule ; a very ill-defined diffused subterminal yellow line, 

 obsolete towards apex and bent outwards to terraei] at vein 1 ; cilia 

 chequered black and yellowish. Underside orange ; fore wing with 

 blackish streak on medial part of vein 1 , large black discoidal lunule 

 and diffused curved subterminal band not reaching inner margin ; 

 hind wing with black discoidal lunule and diffused obsolescent sub- 

 terminal band. 



Hah. Asia Minoe, Pontus, Lydia, Taurus, Amanus Mts., Eybiz, 

 1 § ; WiEiA, 2 S • Exj). 22-24 millim. 



*4952. Xantliothrix neiimcegeni. (Plate CXLVI. fig. 31.) 



Xanthothrix neumccgeni, H. Edw. Papilio, i. p. 101 (1881); Smith, Cat. 

 Noct. N. Am. p. 290. 



2 . Head and thorax yellow mixed with deep orange ; abdomen 

 pale yellow, dorsally suffYised with fuscous brown towards base. 

 Fore wing yellow tinged with orange, the veins, discal and sub- 

 raedian folds streaked with orange-red ; a diffused oblique orange- 

 red subbasal band from median nervure to inner margin ; ante- 

 medial line orange-red, oblique and sinuous from costa to submedian 

 fold where it is angled outwards to the medial line, then strongly 

 incurved ; medial line diffused, oblique from costa to lower angle of 

 cell, angled iuwards in submedian fold and outwards on vein 1 : a 

 minute dark discoidal lunule ; postmedial line orange-red, oblique 

 from costa to vein 6, incurved below vein 4 to the medial line at 

 submedian fold and angled outwards at vein 1 ; an orange-red sub- 

 terminal band expanding into a patch at costa, a triangular mark at 

 discal fold and a patch from vein 2 to inner margin ; an orange-red 

 terminal line ; cilia orange with series of darker spots at tips. Hind 

 wing deep orange ; some blackish suffusion at base : a black 

 discoidal lunule ; the apical area suffused with black, followed by a 

 narrow diffused subterminal band incurved at middle; the under- 

 side uniform orange. 



Bah. U.S.A., California, Los Angeles Co., in Coll. J. E. Smith. 

 E'.rp. 28 millim. 



