288 NOCTUIB.E. 



white faiiitl}' tinged with brown especially on the veins ; a fine 

 dark terminal line ; the underside witli the costa slightl}' irrorated 

 with brown, a slight brown discoidal lunule. 



Hah. W. Turkestan, Turoomania, Eerghana, Issyk Kul ; E. Turk- 

 estan, Hi, Kuldja, 1 (S . Exp. 32 millim. 



3900. Ehaljinopteryx subtilis. 



E'pimecia mhiilis, Mab. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1888, p. 51 ; id. Nov. Lep. 

 p. 66, pi. 11. ]'. 4; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 242. 



Head and thorax white mixed with pale brown and black scales ; 

 frons with fuscous bar above ; tegulge with fine black line near 

 base; tarsi fuscous ringed with white; abdomen white tinged 

 Avith brown. Fore wing white tinged with brown and slightly 

 irrorated with fuscous, the costa irrorated with some black scales ; 

 sabbasal line represented by a point of black scales on costa, the 

 antemedial line by double points of black scales on costa and 

 vein 1 ; a white fascia in basal half of submedian fold with fine 

 brown streak in the fold, some black scales at its extremity ; a 

 whitish streak in terminal half of cell ; postmedial line represented 

 by a double series of faint black points, bent outwards below costa, 

 excurved to vein 4, then strongly incui'ved, some small white spots 

 with fuscous between them beyond it on costa ; subterminal lino 

 obliquely curved, whitish with blackish points on its outer edge : a 

 terminal series of black striae with white striae before them : cilia 

 white mixed with blackish, wath fine black line at middle followed 

 by a w^hite line. Hind wing white tinged with brown ; a terminal 

 series of fuscous striae ; cilia white ; the underside irrorated with 

 brown. 



Hcth. Algeria, Biskra ( WcdsingJiajn), 1 c5' , 4 $ . E,iy. 30-32 

 millim. 



Genus EPIMECIA. 



Type. 



Epimecia, Guen. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1839, p. 514 ustula. 



Proboscis fully developed; palpi porrect, extending about tlie length of 

 head and rather broadly fringed with bair below ; irons smooth, with ridge 

 of hair ; eyes large, round : antennse of male somewhat laminate and almost 

 simple ; thorax clothed chiefly with scales, the tegiilse produced to a slight 

 hood behind, the prothorax without crest, the metathorax with spreading crest ; 

 build slender ; tibise moderately fringed with hair; abdomen without crests. 

 Fore wing rather narrow, the apex rounded, the termen obliquely curved and 

 not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 

 9 from 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 discoceliulars ; 

 6, 7 stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell to middle. 



3901. Epimecia ustula. 



Ct/mafophora ustula, Frr. Neue Beitr. ii. p. 90, pi. 148. f. 1 (1835) ; Sttiud, 



'Cat. Lep. pal. p. 212. 

 Caradrina. luruhi. Treit. Eur. Schmett., Suppl. s. 2, p. 81 (1835); Herr.- 

 Schatr. Eur. Behmett. ii. p. 239, Noct. f. 442. 



