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Habitat.— N. America; Europe ; Sokotra ; W. and C. Asia ; Punjab ; 

 "Sikhim ; Tibet. 



1879a. scotogramma aorotifoemis. 



Genus Lasiestra. 



Type. 



Lasiestra, Hmpsn. Cat. Lep. Phal. B. M. V., p. 47 (1905)... phoca. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint clothed with long 

 Tiair in front, the 3rd moderate ; f rons smooth ; eyes large, rounded, overhung 

 by long cilia ; antennae of male serrate or ciliated ; head and thorax 

 .clothed with rough hair and without crests ; tibiae fringed with rough hair ; 

 abdomen with dorsal crests on basal segments. Forewing with the termen 

 obliquely curved ; veins 3 and 5 from close to angle of cell ; 6 from upper 

 angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. 

 Hiudwing with vein 3 from close to angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from just below 

 middle of discocellulars ; 6-7 shortly stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near 

 base only. 



Sect. II. Antennae of male ciliated. 



A, Forewing not tinged with olive elvesi. 



B. Forewing tinged with olive deliciosa. 



1683. Lasiestra elvesi. 



1683a. Lasiestra deliciosa, Alph. Hor. Ent. Soc. Boss. XXVI., p. 446 



(1892) ; id. Rom. Mem. IX., p. 18, pi. 3, f. 

 3 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. Pal., p. 162. 

 Head and thorax olive-grey mixed with some black ; teguhe whitish 



edged with black ; 

 tarsi with whitish 

 rings ; abdomen olive- 

 grey. Forewing olive- 

 grey irrorated with 

 fuscous, the markings 

 blackish irro rated) 

 - Lasiestra elvesi. $ \. with yellow scales; 



subbasal line double, waved, from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line double, 

 waved ; claviform small, defined by black; orbicular and renif orm defined by black, 

 ihe former round, or quadrate, open above and below ; a waved medial line ; 

 postmedial line double, dentate and produced to points on the veins, bent out- 

 wards below costa and oblique below vein 4 ; subterminal line excurved below 

 costa and at middle, angled inwards in discal and submedian folds ; a terminal 

 -series of small triangular black spots ; cilia whitish, with a dark line through 

 them. Hindwing dark fuscous, with very indistinct greyish subterminal liDe ; 

 •cilia white with dark line through them ; the underside grey irrorated with 

 &>rown, a dark discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial line. 



Habitat.— Tibet ; Kashmir, Barra Larcha, Kokser. Exp. 36-38 mill. 



