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lunules ; cilia brownish with a fine pale line at base. Hindwing white, 

 the veins of terminal area and termen slightly tinged with brown from 

 apex to vein 2 ; a fine brown terminal line from apex to submedian 

 fold ; cilia tinged with brown at apex ; the underside with small apical 

 brownish patch and terminal series of small blackish lunnles from apex to 

 vein 2. 



9 . Fore wing with the terminal area hardly sufi"used with fuscous except 

 before subterminal line. 



ab. 1. Fergana. Forewing more distinctly marked but without the dark 

 suffusion on terminal area . . . Armenia, W. Turkestan. 



ab. 2. syriaca. Darker, the [^hindwing wholly tinged with fuscous . 

 Asia Minor, Syria. 



Habitat. — Spain; S. Eussia ; Armenia; Asia Minor; Syria; Persia ; W. 

 Turkestan; E. Turkestan; Beluchistan, Quetta. Exp. cJ 30, 9 32 mill 



1859c. Athetis flavitincta. 



Athetis flavitincta, Hmpsn., Cat. Lep. Phal. B. M., viii,, p. 356, 

 pi. 130, f. 29 (1909). 



Head and thorax whitish mixed with brownish ochreous ; palpi blackish 

 at sides ; tarsi black ringed with white ; abdomen pale red-brown. Fore- 

 wing whitish tinged with reddish ochreous and irrorated with brown, the 

 terminal area suffused with pale fuscous ; subbasal line represented by a 

 black point on costa ; antemedial line indistinct, double, with black point 

 on the outer line at costa, then oblique and slightly waved ; orbicular 

 absent ; reniform narrow, faintly defined by fuscous ; a diffused curved 

 waved medial shade ; postmedial line indistinct, double, with black point 

 on the inner line at costa, slightly bent outwards below costa, then minute- 

 ly dentate, oblique below vein 4, some pale points beyond it on costa ; 

 subterminal line indistinct, pale, minutely waved ; cilia greyish ochreous 

 mixed with brown and with fine ochreous line at base. Hindwing white 

 tinged with brown, the veins and termen brown ; cilia white with a brown 

 line through them from apex to vein 2 ; the underside white, the costal 

 area irrorated with brown, the termen suffused with brown from apex to 

 vein 2. 



Habitat — Punjab, Kulu, Sultanpur. Exp. 32 mill. 



1859^. Athetis sttgia. 



Athetis stygia, Hmpsn. Cat. Lep., Phal. B. M., viii, p. 357, 

 pi. 130, f. 30 (1909). 



Head, thorax and abdomen brown mixed with grey ; palpi blackish, 

 whitish at tips ; tarsi fuscous ringed with whitish. Forewing grey tinged 

 with brown and thickly irrorated with dark-brown ; subbasal line brown, 

 curved from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line brown, angled out- 

 wards below costa, then obliquely excurved ; orbicular a small round brown 

 spot with faint pale annulus ; reniform elongate elliptical, brown with a 



