15G xoctvivm. 



patch before it below costa extending beyond it obliquely to apex, 

 the line excurved below costa and at middle and with some black 

 points on its outer edge ; the termen faintly tinged with brown ; 

 cilia white with some brownish at middle and reddish brown tips. 

 Hind wing white faintly tinged with brown except towards base, 

 a faint brown subterminal line and a fine red-brown terminal line ; 

 the underside white, the costal area and terminal area to vein 2 

 faintly tinged with ochreous and irrorated with brown, a terminal 

 series of black points. 



Hub. Spain, Andalusia, Leech Coll. Exp. 26 millim. 



*5219. Eublemma siticuosa. (Plate CLIIL fig. 12.) 



Thalpochares siticuosa, Led. Wien. Ent. Mou. ii. p. 145, pi. 3. f. 2 (1858); 



Staud Cat. Lep. pal. p. 227. 

 Thalpochares alhina, Staud. Iris, x. p. 293, pi. 4. f. 25 (1897). 



$ . Head and thorax creamy white ; palpi, antennae, and legs 

 tinged with rufous ; abdomen white tinged with rufous except 

 towards base. Fore wing creamy white ; slight subbasal and 

 antemedial brown points on costa ; a narrow rufous medial band, 

 excurved below costa and incurved below the cell, a slight black 

 point before it in cell and another beyond it on discocellulars ; sub- 

 terminal line white with rufous spots before it below costa, at 

 middle and above inner margin and black points beyond it below 

 costa and at discal and submedian folds, excurved below costa and 

 at middle and incurved at discal fold and below vein 3 ; the 

 terminal area suffused with brown from apex to vein 4. Hind 

 wing pure white with traces of a brownish line from lower angle 

 of cell to inner margin and of a subterminal line from vein 4 to 

 inner margin. Underside of fore wing with the costal half slightly 

 tinged and irrorated with brown ; hind wing with the costal area 

 slightly irrorated with brown towards apex. 



Ab. 1. albina. Fore wing pure white without the rufous spots 

 before subterminal line. 



Hub. Sykia, Mardin ; Palestine, Dead Sea in Coll. Piingeler. 

 Exp. 20 millim. 



5220. Eublemma albida. 



Anthophila albida, Dup. Lep. Fi\, Suppl. iv. p. 382, pi. 81. f. 1 (1842) ; 



Oberth. Et. Ent, vi. p. 91, pi. 11. f. 15 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 227. 

 Thalpochares grattissima, Staud. Iris, iv. p. 317 (1891). 

 Thalpochares infuscata, Staud. Iris, iv. p. 317 (1891). 

 Thalpochares transmittens, Christ. Iris, vi. p. 93 (1893). 



6 . Head, thorax, and abdomen white ; antenna? rufous ; fore 

 tibia? brownish ringed with white. Fore wing white slightly 

 irrorated with brown, the costa brownish towards base ; minute 

 black points in middle of cell and on discocellulars; an oblique 

 slightly sinuous red line from upper angle of cell to inner margin ; 

 subterminal line white defined on inner side by red and a few 



