334 



NOCTUID.E. 



slight white striae defined on inner side by small dentate blaok 

 marks, somewhat excurved below vein 7 and at middle and in- 

 curved at submedian fold ; a terminal series of minute black lunules. 

 Hind wing white, the terminal area slightly irrorated with brown ; 

 a blackish discoidal point and terminal series of striae from apex to 

 vein 2 ; the underside with the costal and terminal areas irrorated 

 with brown, a small black discoidal spot and indistinct diffused 

 curved subterminal line. 



Hah. Sweden ; llussiA, Finland, 2 c? , 2 § , Livon'a; "W. Tuek- 

 EST.VN, Issyk Kul ; W. Siberia, Altai ; Mongotia, Uliassutai, 

 Changai Mts. ; E. SiBEPaA, Dahuria, Amurland, Ussuri. Exp. 3-t 

 millim. 



3963. Athetis bremusa. (Plate CXXXIX. %. 4.) 



Caradrina brevmna, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1685, ^. 4.51 ; Hmpsu. Moths Ind. ii. 

 p. 260. 



Head and thorax whitish mixed with brown ; palpi black, white 

 at tips ; antennae blackish ; tarsi blackish slightly ringed witli 

 white ; abdomen whitish irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing 

 whitish tinged with brown and irrorated with black, the terminal 

 area suffused with fuscous ; subbasal line black, curved, from costa 

 to submedian fold ; antemedial line black, oblique and minutely 

 waved from costa to subcostal nervure, then reduced to black points 

 on the veins ; orbicular a black point; reniform blackish defiiicd 

 by some white scales, constricted at middle and with ochreous point 

 on its outer edge ; traces of a waved medial line with blackish mark 

 at costa ; postmedial line slight, with small black spot at costa, 

 slightly bent outwards below costa, then dentate and produced to 

 black points on the veins, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; sub- 

 terminal line indistinct, pale, defined on inner side by black forming 

 small dentate marks and a spot at discal fold, minutely waved, 

 excurved below vein 7 and at middle, a terminal series of black 

 points slightly defined by greyish on inner side. Hind wing 

 whitish tinged with brown, especially on the veins and terminal 

 ai'ea ; cilia whitish with a slight brown line near base ; the under- 

 side white, the costal area irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal 

 lunule and postmedial series of points on the veins from costa to 

 vein 3. 



Hah. Punjab, Simla {Harford), 1 $ , Cawnpore (Betton), 1 J ; 

 Bombay, Poena {Sivmhoe), 1 S type; Madras, Belgaum (Watnon), 

 1 c? , Gonty (Cam,pheU), 1 cS , Xilgiris (Hampson), 2 5; CEYLOisr, 

 Puttalam (Pole), 1 9 ; Burma, Hsipaw (de Niceville), 1 5 . Exj:>. 

 28-30 millim. 



3964. Athetis multifera. (Plate CXXX. fig. 5.) 



Caradrina multifera, Wlk. x. 293 (1856); Smith, Cat. Noet. N. Am. 



p. 190. 

 Segeiia fidicularia, Morr. Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. xvii. p. 145 (1874). 



Head and thorax grey-white slightly irrorated with black ; palpi 



