AlJPniDEIJs'A. AinETIS. 299 



pure white ; the underside with the costa slightly tinged with 

 ochreous. 



Ab. 1. jordana. Fore wi'ig with the ante- and postmedial lines 

 strong, black with prominent spots at costa, the reniform almost 

 obsolete. — Palestine. 



JJab. Armenia, 1 J ; Asia Minoe, Poutus ; Palestine, I cS . 

 Exjy. 38 millim. 



Genus ATHETI3. rr 



lype. 



Athetis, Hlibti. Verz. p. 209 (1827) furmda. 



At.ypha, Hiibn. Verz. p. 213 (1827) pulmonaris. 



El'uphria, Hiibn. Verz. p. 230 (18'27) movphvKs. 



Hapalotis, Hiibn. Verz. p. 254 (1827) furmda. 



Nehrissa, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. vi. p. 194 (1862) bimactda. 



Anorthodes, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xviii. p. 114 (1891) ... tarda. 



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

 vertex of head and moderately fringed with scales iu front, the 3rd short; 

 frons smooth ; eyes large, round ; antennas of male typically ciliated ; thorax 

 clothed with hair and hair-like scales mixed with some scales, the prothorax 

 with small spreariing crest, the metathorax without distinct crest ; tibire 

 moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing rather 

 narrow, the costa and inner margin subparallel, the apex rounded, the termen 

 evenly curved and slightly crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 

 (i 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 discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper ai'gle ; 8 anastomosing with 

 the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. Antennce of male bipectinate with moderate branches, the apex serrate. 



A. Fore wing fuscous black mixed with grey, the lines dis- 



tinct, black chionopis . 



B. Fore wing capre(jus brown, the linfs indistiijct alhipuncta. 



3914. Athetis chionopis, n. n. 



Caradrina Imcopis, PImpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 443 (1902), nee p. 293. 



Head and thorax black-brown mixed with some grey, the thorax 

 with a metallic gloss ; abdomen grey tinged with fuscous, the ventral 

 surface blackish. Fore wing fuscous black mixed with greyish ; 

 subbasal line represented by slight double black stride from costa 



Fig. 91. — Athetis chionopis, S . \. 



filled in with greyish : antemedial line black defined by- greyish on 

 inner side, rather oblique, waved ; orbicular a small rather elongate 

 black spot ; reniform a small black spot with pure white bar on its 

 outer edge ; traces of a sinuous medial dark line ; postmedial line 



