3.'i2 NOCTXJID^. 



Lrown with white points round it and a small yellow spot at 

 middle of outer odo;e ; a small black spot at middle of costa ; 

 postmedial line with small black spot at costa, bent outwards 

 lielow costa, then dentate, incurv'ed below vein 4 ; subterminal 

 line formed of ochreous points defined on inner side by minute 

 dentate rufous marks, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at 

 middle ; a terminal series of slight black lunules. Hind wing 

 white, the veins, costal area and terminal area to vein 2 suffused 

 with brown ; cilia with a brownish line through them from apex 

 to vein 2 ; the underside wath the costal area irrorated with brown, 

 a small discoidal spot, postmedial series of short streaks on the 

 veins, and terminal series of small lunules. 



Ab. 1. minor. Smaller. Gen. sest. — Centr. & S. Italy. 



Ab. 2. infusca. Fore wing of male with the terminal area 

 suffused with fuscous, of female wholly suffused. 



Ab. 3. Rather greyer. — Switzerland, Valais. 



Nab. S. France, Nice, D'Emmick & Leech Colls,; Austria, 

 Tirol ; Spaix, Catalonia, Castile ; Centr. Italy ; Sicily, Zelicr 

 Coll. ; Asia Minor, Pontus ; Palestine, Jordan P. i/Ir/). lG-32 

 millim. 



*3960. Athetis vullsclilegeli. (Plate CXXIX. fig. 3.) 



Caradrina widhcMegeli, Piing. Soc. Ent. xVn. p. 145 (1903). 



Head whitish mixed with grey-browm on vertex ; palpi deep 

 black, the extremity of 2nd joint white, the 3rd joint white with 

 black point at side ; frons M'ith some brown at sides ; antennae 

 l)lack; thorax brown mixed with grey ; tarsi blackish ringed with 

 white ; abdomen whitish mixed with brown. Fore wing browji 

 mixed with grey ; subbasal line blackish, from costa to submedian 

 fold, a blackish point beyond it in cell ; antemedial line blackish 

 ■with small black spot at costa, oblique, minutely waved ; orbicular 

 a small round black spot ; rcniform blackish defined by a few 

 whitish scales and with a slight whitish point below on inner side 

 and two on outer, constricted at middle ; a blackish spot on 

 middle of costa and an oblique diffused incurved line from lower 

 angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line blackish defined by 

 grey on outer side and with black spot at costa, bent outwards 

 below costa, then dentate and produced to blackish points on the 

 veins, incurved below vein 4, some slight pale striae beyond it from 

 costa ; subterminal line pale, slightly defined on inner side by 

 fuscous, excurved below vein 7, excurved and waved at middle 

 and ending on termen at vein 1 ; a terminal series of black points ; 

 a fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing white, the costal area 

 and terminal area to vein 2 suffused with brown, wholly suffused 

 with brown in female; a slight discoidal spot; cilia white with 

 brown line through them from apex to vein 2, the tips wholly 

 brown at apex ; the underside white, the costal and terminal areas 

 irrorated with brow'u, a small discoidal spot, diffused sinuous 



