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costal area and cell suffused with pale brown ; median nervure not 

 streaked with white; the streak in submedian fold more prominent; 

 antemedial line double from cell to inner margin, extremely strongly 

 excurved in submedian interspace, then very strongly angled 

 inwards on vein 1 and outwards above inner margin ; orbicular and 

 reniform with slight whitish annuli defined by black ; postmedial 

 line represented by dark points on the veins from costa to vein 3 

 and bent outwards below costa, below vein 3 incurved, double, 

 waved ; subterminal line rather more distinct and traceable 

 throughout, angled outwards at veins 7, 6, then oblique. 



Hab. Syria ; Palestine, 1 c? , 1 $ . Exp. d 36, $ 38 millim. 



Genus HYPEUTHINA. 



Type. 



Hypeuthina, Led. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1855, p. 199 fulgitrita,. 



Proboscis absent; palpi porrect, extending to just beyond frons and 

 moderately fringed with hair below, the 3rd joint minute; frons with rounded 

 prominence with corneous plate with curved outer edge at middle, and large 

 corneous plate below it ; eyes large, i-ounded ; antenniB of male bipectinate 

 with very short branches ; build slender ; thoraz clothed with hair and scales 

 mixed and without distinct crests; tibia; smoothly scaled, the spurs long; 

 abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the terraeu 

 evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 

 6 from ujDper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; II 

 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from 

 middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 from middle of cell. 



A. Fore wing with white streaks in discal and submedian folds 



defined by black below fulgitrita. 



B. Fore wing without white streaks in discal and submedian 



folds defined by black below nuniida. 



3766. Hypeuthina fulgurita. 



Hiipeuthina fwlgurita, Led. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1855, p. 199, pi. 4. 

 f. 1 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 373. 



(^ . Head and thorax white, the head tinged with ochreous ; 

 sides of palpi and frons brown ; antennae ochreous ; dorsum of 



Fig. 23. — Hypeiothina fiilgiirita, J. \. 



thorax with pair of black streaks ; pectus and legs brown ; abdo- 

 men ochreous white, the ventral surface brown. Fore wing 

 ochreous suffused with pale red-brown, the veins with dark streaks; 

 a white streak in submedian fold to beyond middle with black 

 streak below it, diffused below and acutely angled inwards at 



