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Sect. II. {Radinogoes).- — Mid and hind tibiae and abdomen of male normal. 

 1889i. Proxbnus tristis. 



Caradrina tristis, Brem. Lep. Ost. Sib., p. 49, pi. 5, f. 9 (1864) ; 

 Hmpsn., Cat. Lep. Phal., B. M., viii., p. 437, 

 pi. 133, f . 23 ; Stand., Cat. Lep. pal., p. 198. 

 Hydrilla luyens. Stand. Rom. Mem. vi., p. 490 (1892). 

 Head and thorax whitish suffused with pale brown ; palpi whitish, fuscous 

 at tips ; tarsi with slight whitish rings ; abdomen whitish tinged with brown. 

 Forewing ochreous white suffused and irrorated with brown, the costal 

 area whiter ; subbasal line absent ; faint traces of a waved antemedial line; 

 orbicular represented by a small elongate black spot in cell, the reniform 

 by minute black lunules on inner and outer sides ; postmedial line very 

 indistinct, bent outwards below costa, then dentate, incurved below vein 

 4 ; subterminal line absent ; a terminal series of faint dark points. Hind- 

 wing white, the veins tinged with brown ; a fine brown terminal line ; the 

 underside with the costal area irrorated with brown. 

 Ah. 1. lugens. Dark. 



Habitat. — E. Siberia ; Kashmir, Goorais Valley, Nubra. Exp. S 30, 

 2 28 mill. 



Genus Stygiathetis. 



Type. 



Styyiathetis, Hmpsn. Cat. Lep. Phal. B. M., viii., p. 444 



(1909) . . . . . . . . . . mus. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to 

 vertex of head and moderately fringed with hair in front, the 3rd long, 

 oblique ; frons with short truncate conical prominence with raised edges ; 

 eyes large, round ; antennee of male fasciculate ; thorax clothed with long 

 hair and hair-like scales and without crests ; tibise fringed with rather 

 long hair ; abdomen clothed with rough hair and with lateral fringes of 

 hair but without crests, the claspers large. Forewing narrow, the costa 

 and inner margin subparallel, the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved, 

 crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 

 9 froin 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind- 

 wing with veins 3'4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of dis- 

 cocellulars ; 6" 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base 

 only. 



1888. Stygiathetis mus. 



(7'o be continued.) 



