ATHEns. 323 



at base ; thorax whitish irrorated Avith brown ; tarsi blackisli ; 

 abdomen white tinged with brown. Fore wing grey-white tinged 

 with brown and irrorated with fuscous; subbasal line representod 

 b}' black points on costa and median nervure ; antemedial line 

 indistinct with series of black points on it and small spot at 

 costa, oblique, minutely waved, angled inwards on vein 1 ; orbicular 

 a slight brownish spot ; the reniform a small brown lunule ; an 

 incurved brown shade from lower angle of cell to iuner margin ; 

 postmedial line with black spot at costa, bent outwards below 

 costa, then dentate and produced to black points on the veins, 

 excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; a slight brown subterminal 

 line excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a terminal series of 

 black points. Hind wing whitish suffused with reddish brown, 

 the cilia paler ; the underside white irrorated with brown, especially 

 on costal and terojinal areas, a small discoidal spot, postmedial 

 series of minute streaks on the veins, and terminal series of small 

 black lunules from apex to vein 2. 



Bab. France; Germany, Zeller and Leech Colls.; Austria, 

 Zeller and Frey Colls. ; Hungary ; Switzerland ; JST. Italy ; 

 Balkan States ; Russia, Livonia ; Armenia ; Asia Minor, 

 Eithynia. Exp. 34-36 millim. 



Larva. Kirbv, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 174 ; Hffm. Raup. p. 109, pi. 30. 

 f. 3. 



Dark brown with a paler dorsal stripe edged by the whitish 

 subdorsal lines ; laterally suffused with blackish and with two 

 whitish spots on each somite. Food-plants : Grasses, tfec, hiber- 

 nating under stones. 10-5. 



3945. Athetis leucosticta, n. sp. (Plate CXXIX. fig. 26.) 



$. Head and thorax reddish brown slightly mixed with grey; 

 palpi dark brown mixed with white, the terminal joint rather 

 long ; antennae ringed with white toM^ards base ; tar^i blackish 

 ringed with white ; abdomen dark brown mixed with whitish and 

 with dark segmental lines. Fore wing reddish brown suffused and 

 irrorated with fuscous and a few white scales, the ante- and post- 

 medial areas somewhat darker ; subbasal line indistinct, slightly 

 defined by whitish on outer side, waved, from costa to submedian 

 fold ; antemedial line black defined by whitish on inner side 

 towards costa, erect, waved, slightly angled outwards below costa ; 

 orbicular an obscure dark spot ; reniform an obscure dark mark 

 with small white spot at its upper extremity ; a dark medial shade, 

 oblique from costa to lower angle of cell ; postmedial line black, 

 slightly defined by whitish on outer side towards costa, bent 

 outward below costa, then minutely dentate and produced to slight 

 white points on the veins, somewhat angled inwards at discal fold 

 and incurved below vein 4, some white points beyond it on costa ; 

 subterminal line represented by a series of yellowish-white points 

 and a spot above tornus, defined by brown on inner side, excurved 

 below vein 7 and at middle ; a fine black terminal line with white 



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