ATHETIS. 331 



3958. Athetis selini. 



Caradrina sdini, Boisd. Gen. & Ind. Meth. p. 137 (1840) ; Dup. Lep. Fi'., 

 Suppl. iii. p. 576, pi. 48. f. 3 ; HeiT.-Sc4iafl:. Eur. Sc4amett., Noct. f. Ul ; 

 Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 196. 



Head and thorax whitish tinged with red-brown ; palpi black, 

 white at tips ; antennte blackish except at base ; tarsi black 

 ringed with white ; abdomen whitish suffused with red-brown. 

 Fore wing whitish thickly irrorated with purplish red-brown, the 

 terminal half suft'used with red-brown ; subbasal Hue black with 

 black spot at costa, then, oblique and ending at submedian fold ; 

 antemedial line very indistinct with black spot at costa and point 

 in submedian fold, oblique, sinuous ; orbicular absent ; reniforra a 

 brownish lunule with two white points on inner edge and three oh 

 outer with small yellow mark at middle of outer side ; medial 

 line brownish with black spot at costa, excurved to below cell 

 and slightly angled outwards at vein 1 ; postmedial line very 

 indistinct with black spot at costa, bent outwards below costa, 

 then minutely dentate, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; sub- 

 terminal line indistinct, grey defined on inner side by rufous, 

 minutelv waved, excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a terminal 

 series of blackish points. Hind wing white, the veins of terminal 

 half and the terminal area from apex to submedian fold suffused 

 with reddish brown ; the underside with the costal area irrorated 

 with brown, a blackish discoidal ptoint, postmedial series of minute 

 streaks on the veins, and terminal series of small iunules from 

 apex to vein 2. 



JJah. S. FfvAJs^cb, Nice, Leech Coll., Midi, Leech Coll.; Germany', 

 Pomerania, Silesia, Frankfort, Zeller Coll. : Hungary, Frey and 

 Leech Colls. ; Savitzerland, Valais, Tei uel ; Spain, Castille, 

 Andalusia ; Corsica ; LrALr ; Sicily, Zeller Coll. ; Dalmatia ; 

 Greece ; Russia, Livonia, Leech Coll., Sarepta, Leech Coll. ; Asia 

 Minor, Pontus, Taurus ; Syria. Exp. 24-34 millim. 



3959. Athetis flavirena. 



Cm-adrina flavirena, Gruen. Noct. i. p. 2rj0 (185-) ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. 



p. 196. 

 Caradrina nodivcga, Bell. Ann. Soe. Ei t. Fi-. 1S63, p. 420, pi. 9. f. 4. 

 Caradrina, infusca, Const. Ann. Soc. Ent. Er. 186.'), p. 194, pi. 7. ff. 10 a., h 



(nee Rinbi-.). 

 Caradrina minor, Kalchb. Iris, x. p. 176 (1897). 



Head and thorax ochreous brown suffused with grey ; palpi 

 black, white at tips ; tarsi blackish ringed with white ; abdomen 

 ochreous white irrorated with brown. Fore wing ochreous brown 

 suffused with grey ; subbasal line black, waved, from costa to 

 submedian fold, a black point beyond it in cell ; antemedial line 

 with a small black spot on costa, oblique, waved ; orbicular a 

 small round brown spot defined by whitish scales ; rcniform 



