'■292 KOCTTJIU^. 



inner line indistinct, angled outwards below costa and in submedian 

 ibid and incurved at vein 1 ; orbicular and reniform grey-white 

 defined by black-brown, their centres defined by brown, the former 

 narrow and very oblique elliptical, the latter with more or less 

 diffused black streak before it; medial line indistinct, diffused, 

 einuons, from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line 

 double filled in with grey-white, indistinct except the inner line 

 from vein 2 to inner margin, bent outwards below costa, excurved 

 and minutely waved to vein 4, then incurved and angled outwards 

 at vein 1 ; subterminal line indistinct, grey, waved, with slight 

 black streaks before it above and below vein 7 ; a fine waved dark 

 terminal line ; cilia with a slight dark line through them. Hind 

 wing whitish tinged wuth red-brown especially on terminal area 

 from costa to vein 2 ; a fine dark terminal line from apex to vein 2 ; 

 the underside white, the costal area irrorated with brown. 



2 . Head, thorax, and fore wing nearly uniform fuscous brown, 

 the last with the markings indistinct. 



Ab. 1. pliihpalis. Smaller and paler; fore wing with the mark- 

 ings more prominent. — S.E. France. 



Ab. 2. andahisim. Small ; fore wing with the markings indis- 

 tinct. — Andalusia. 



Ab. 3. syriaca. Wings broader ; hind wing darker. — Syria. 



Hah. Bkitain, England (Barreit), Leech Coll., Ireland, Derry 

 (Salvage); France, Frey Coll.; Germany, Zeller & Leech Colls.; 

 Spain, Andalusia; Sicily; Syria. Ewp. 30-38 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 125 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. y. p. 277, pi. 220. f. 2. 



Green or pale brown ; dorsal and subdorsal lines white or 

 yellowish, dark-edged ; head brown or greenish freckled with dark 

 brown. Food- plant : Grasses. 9-3. 



Genus PR^ffiSTILBIA. 



Type. 



Prcsstilbia, Stand. Iris, i?. p. 288 (1891).... armeniaca. 



Proboscis fully developed : pnlpi porrect, hardly extending beyond the frons 

 wliich is smooth ; eyes large, round ; antenusB of jnale serrate; thorax clothed 

 chiefly with scales, the prothorax without crest, the metathorax -with spreading 

 crest ; build slender ; tibije smoothly scaled ; abdomen without crests. Fore 

 wing with the apex rounded, the termen eTenly curved and not crenulate ; 

 ■veins 3 and .'> from near angle of cell; 6 f'roni upper angle; 9 from 10 

 anastomosing with 8 to for7n the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with 

 \eins 3, 4 shcjrtly stalked ; 6 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 

 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell to near middle. 



3905. Praestilbia armeniaca. 



PriBstilhin armeniaca, Stand. Iris, iv. p. 288, pi. 3. f. 10 (1891) ; id. Cat. 

 Lep. pal. p. 194. 



J . Head and thorax whitish tinged Avith red-broAvn ; tarsi 

 brown tinged with whitish; abdomen whitish. Fore wing whitish 

 tinged with pale red-brown ; subbasal line represented by a small 

 black spot below costa with a black point beyond it in cell ; ante- 



