160 N0CTU1D.E. 



from apex ; a fine brown terminal line ; cilia with a fine whitish 

 line at base. Hind wing pale red-brown with a greyish tinge and 

 some dark irroration on basal area ; traces of an oblique medial 

 line ; cilia with a fine pale line at base ; the underside white tinged 

 with rufous and irrorated with black, some blackish points on 

 termen towards apex. 



Ilab. Nigeria, Old Calabar, 1 <$ type. Exp. 22 millim. 



*522S. Eublemma deserti. (Plate CLIII. fig. 16.) 



Tkalpochares deserti, Eoths. Ent. Zeit. Stuttgart, xxiii. p. 142 (1909). 



S . White ; palpi pale brownish at sides ; fore tibia? and tarsi 

 pale brownish in front. Fore wing faintly tinged with rufous 

 before the erect rufous medial line, which is excurved at middle and 

 incurved below costa and in submedian interspace ; a faint rufous 

 tinge on subterminal area aud a few black scales below apex and at 

 discal fold. Hind wing pure white. 



Hah. S. Algeria, Mraier, type t <$ in Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 

 12 millim. 



5229. Eublemma purpurina. 



Noctua purpurina, Sehiff. Wien. Verz. p. 88 (1776); Fabr. Mant. Tna. ii. 



p. 167 (1787); Hiibn. Beitr. Schmett. i. 2. p. 1 1, pi. 2, f. G. (1787) ; Esp. 



Sehmett. iv. pi. 163. f. 4; Iliibn. Eur. Schmett, Noct. f. 298; Dup. Lep. 



Fr. vii. pt. 1, p. 385, pi. 123. f. 7 ; Stand. Oat. Lep. pal. p. 22S (1901). 

 Thalpochares scemda, Stand, Cat. Lep. pal. p. 228 (1901). 



Head and thorax yellowish white, the palpi, except at base, and 

 antennae reddish brown ; pectus and legs suffused with brown, the 

 fore coxae and tibiae tinged with pink ; abdomen whitish suffused 

 with browu except at base. Fore wing yellowish white suffused 

 with bright pink except on basal area and on terminal area below 

 apex and towards tornus, the postmedial area with deep pink streaks 

 in the interspaces between veins 7 and 3 ; faint traces of a pink 

 medial line, excurved from costa to lower angle of cell, then oblique ; 

 a rather indistinct deep pink postmedial line, bent outwards below 

 costa and oblique below vein 4 ; subterminal line represented by 

 minute dentate white marks from costa to vein 4 and a faint incurved 

 whitish line below vein 3 ; a deep pink terminal line ; cilia yellowish 

 at base, pink at tips. Hind wing yellowish white suffused with 

 brown ; cilia yellowish white slightly mixed with brown and 

 tinged with pink at tips ; the underside whitish, the costal half 

 irrorated with brown and the apical area tinged with pink. 



Ab. 1. secunda. Fore wing paler with less pink suffusion ; hind 

 win? whitish in both sexes. 



Bah. S. France, Sand Coll. ; ? S.E. Germany ; Austria, Leech 

 and Crowley Colls.; Hungary, Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls.; 

 Algeria; S. Russia; Armenia; Asia Minor, Pontus, Taurus; 

 Syria, Leech Coll. ; W. Turkestan, Fergana, Bokhara, Sarawschan, 

 Margbilan, 1 J. Exp. 24-34 millim. 



