336 NOCTTJTD.Ii:. 



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

 of small black lunules. 



Hah. W. China, Pu-tsu-fang, 1 S ; Kashmir, Goorais Valley 

 {Leech), 1 c? , 2 5 , Scinde Yalley (L^ec/i), 1 J ; Punjab, Kulu, 1 S , 

 Dalhousie {Harford), 1 §, Dharmsala {HorJciiu/), 3 c? , 3 $, 

 llmballa ; Sikhim Tibet, Yatons: {liohson), 1 j , 3 $ ; Sikhim 

 {Dudgeon), 2 $ type arenaeea. Exp. 32-36 millim. 



3966. Athetis chinensis. (Plate CXXX. fig. 7.) 

 Caradrina chinensis. Leech, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1900, p. 117. 



Head and thorax grey-white tinged with brown; pali)i black, 

 white at tips ; antennse black ; tarsi black ringed with white ; 

 abdomen grey dorsally suffused with brown, ventrally irrorated 

 with black, the anal tuft tinged with rufous. Fore wing grey 

 tinged with brown and irrorated with fuscous ; subbasal line slight 

 Avith black spot at costa, oblique, from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial 

 line slight, with black spot at costa, oblique, waved ; orbicular 

 absent; reniform slightly defined by red-brown with a white point 

 above on outer side, below with a white point on inner side and 

 two on outer ; an indistinct medial line with black spot at costa, 

 oblique from costa to lower angle of cell, then inwardly oblique ; 

 postmedial line black with black spot at costa, bent outwards below 

 costa, then minutely dentate, incurved below vein 4, another faint 

 curved line beyond it ; subterminal line grey defined on both sides 

 l)y fuscous suffusion from costa to vein 2, minutelj^ waved, a 

 terminal series of slight black lunules defined by greyish on inner 

 bide. Hind wing whitish tinged with brown, especially on the 

 veins and terminal area; a fine dark terminal line; cilia whitish ; 

 the underside grey, the costal area irrorated with fuscous, a blackish 

 discoidal spot and rather diffused sinuous postmedial line. 



Hah. W. China, Pu-tsu-fang, 6 c? , 2 $ type, Ta-chien-lu {Pratt), 

 1 $ . Exp. 32-40 millim. 



3967. Athetis clavipalpis. 



Phalmna clavipaljns, Scop. Ent. Carn. p. 213 (1763). 



Noctua quadrifiinctata, Fabr. Sjst. Ent. p. 594 (1776); Stand. Cat. Lep. 



pal. p. 196. 

 Noctua cuhicularis. Scliiff. Wien. Verz. p. 72 (1776) ; Borkh. Eur. Schmett. 



iv. p. 212 (1792); Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 417; Dup. Lep. Pr. 



vi. p. 57, pi. 76. f. 1 ; Stepli. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 168. 

 Phalcena grisea, Eott. Natiirt. ix. p. 138 (1776). 

 IS'octua segetum, Esp Schmett. iv. pi. 150. ff. 4, 6 (nee Linn.). 

 Noctua leucoptera, Tbubg. Disc. Eut. ii. p. 41 (1791) ; Spangb. Ent. Tidslir. 

 • 1880, p. 92, pi. 1. f. 3. 



Caradrina laciniosa, Donz. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1847, p. 529, pi. 8. f. 4. 

 Caradrina pulverosa, Wlk. x. 295 (186(i). 

 Caradrina inilleri, Schulz, Stett. ent. Zeit. 1862, p. 367, pi. 1. ft'. 6, &,r. 



Head and thorax grey-white slightly tinged with rufous and 

 irrorated with black ; palpi black, whitish at tips ; antennae 



