A THETIS, 313 



h^. Fore win^ witli dark spot beyond postinedial 

 line in discal fold. 

 a*. Fore wing with the terminal area con- 



colorous macidatra. 



Ifl. Fore wing with the terminal area suffused 



with dark reddish brown himcicida. 



c^. Fore wing with the orbicular absent. 



a*. Fore wing dark cupreous brown maurella. 



h^. Fore wing suffused with reddish brown. 

 a*. Fore wing with the medial shade very 



indistinct liijpcrcEschra. 



b^. Fore wing with the medial shade pro- 

 minent vrn-iana. 



c*. Fore wing pale grey gllva. 



d*. Fore wing yellowish white. 



(1^. Fore wing with dark medial shade drasteroides. 



h^. Fore wing without medial shade Jixscni. 



d'^. Fore wing with the orbicular a small rufous 



spot casearia. 



d. Fore wing with the renifonn absent melanurina. 



3930. Athetis delecta. 



Caradrina delecta, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 349, pi. 38. f. 15 ; Hmpsn. 

 Moths Ind. ii. p. 261. 



Head and thorax white tinged and slightly irrorated •with 

 brown ; palpi blackish at sides except at tips ; antennae fuscous ; 

 abdomen whitish tinged with brown. Fore wing whitish tinged 

 with pale brown and very slightly irrorated with fuscous, the 

 terminal area somewhat browner ; subbasal line black, excurved 

 below costa and ending at submedian fold ; antemedial line fine, 

 black, oblique, sinuous ; orbicular black defined by white and 

 broken up by white into three spots ; reniform black broken iip by 

 white into three spots on inner side and four on outer ; an indistinct 

 sinuous medial line ; postraedial line slight, blackish and with 

 small black spot at costa, bent outwards below costa, then with 

 series of black points beyond it ou the veins, oblique, and slightly 

 incurved at submedian fold ; a prominent white subterminal line 

 slightly incurved below vein 3; a terminal series of black points 

 with white points on inner side ; cilia with a fine white line at 

 base. Hind wing white, the veins and marginal areas tinged with 

 brown, a slight discoidal point ; cilia whitish with a slight brown 

 line through them ; the underside with the costal and terminal 

 areas slightly irrorated with brown, a small discoidal spot and 

 postmedial series of minute streaks on the veins. 



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3931. Athetis conspicua. (Plate CXXIX. fig. 20.) 



Orthosia conspicua, Leech, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1900, p. 79. 



Head and thorax reddish brown mixed with grey ; palpi dark 

 brown at sides, whitish in front and at extremities of 2nd and 



