340 yocTTJiDJs. 



costa ; postmedial line blackish with black spot at costa, slightly 

 bent outwards below costa, then minutely dentate, slightly angled 

 inwards at discal fold, incurved below vein 4 and angled outwards 

 at vein 1, some pale points with slight dark streaks between them 

 beyond it on costa ; subterminal line formed of slight white marks 

 defined by fuscous on inner aide, minutely waved, angled outwards 

 at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of black points ; 

 cilia with fine white line at base. Hind wing white, the termen 

 tinged with brown from apex to vein 2 ; the underside with the 

 ajiical area slightly irrorated with brown. 



Hah. Syria ; Palestine, 1 (5,1 5 • Exp. 22 millim. 



3972. Athetis albina. 



Caradrina cuhicidaris, Herr-Scluiif. Eur. Schitiett., Noct. f. 425 (nee Scliiff.). 

 Caradrina albina, Ev. Bull. Mosc. 1848, iii. p. 215, & 1855, iv. p. 325 ; 



Stand. Cat. Lep. pMl. p. 196. 

 Charadrina congesta. Led. Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien. 1853, p. 372, pi. 5. f.2. 



Head and thorax ochreous white ; palpi blackish, white at tips ; 

 antennse tinged with fuscous except at base; tarsi .tinged witli 

 fuscous and ringed with white ; abdomen white slightly tinged 

 with ochreous. Fore wing pale ochreous, the terminal area tinged 

 with fuscous : subbasal line represented by a fuscous point on costa, 

 the antemedial line by a small black spot on costa and fuscous 

 points in submedian fold and on inner margin ; oi'bicular absent ; 

 reniform faintly tinged with fuscous, with two white points on 

 inner side and three on outer ; a medial fuscous point on costa ; 

 postmedial line indistinct, with small black point at costa, bent 

 outwards below costa, slightly incurved at discal fold, incurved 

 below vein 4 ; subterminal line whitish slightly defined by rufous 

 on inner side and slightly excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; 

 a terminal series of slight fuscous points. Hing wing pure white. 



Ab. 1. congesta. Fore wing greyer and irrorated with black. 



Hah. Russia, Urals, Orenburg, 2 c? , 2 $ ; S. Russia (Grimi- GrisJi- 

 mailo), 1 2 5 Odessa, 2 c? : Asia Minok, Pontus ; Persia, Shahkuh 

 (Chrisfoph), 1 $ ; W. Turkestan, Ferghana, Saisan, Issyk Kul, Ala 

 Tau ; W. Siberia, Altai ; Tibet, Kuku Nor. Ea-p. 32-34 millim. 



Larva. Ochreous faintly mottled and striated with brown 

 except on ventral surface ; subdorsal line indistinct, pale ; stigmata 

 black ; head brownish, 



3973. Athetis terrea. 



NocUa ierrca. Err. Neue Beitr. Schroett. iv. p. 26. pi. 303. ff. 3, 4 (1842); 



Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Sobmett., Noct. ff. 90, 409 : Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 197. 

 Caradrina u&tirena, Boisd. G-eii. & Ind. Meth. p. 137 (1810); Dup. Lep. 



Fr., Suppl. iv. p. 221, pi. 69. f. 3. 

 Caradrhia dubiosa, Staud. Cat. Lep. Eur. p. Ill (1871). 



Head and thorax pale red-brown ; palpi black, Avhite at tips ; 

 antennti? blackish except at base ; tarsi blackish ringed with white; 



