ATHETIS. 341 



abdomeu wliiti&h sviffusod with red-brown. Fore wing pale reddish 

 brown slightly irrorated with black, the terminal area suffused 

 with fuscous ; subbasal line represented by a black point on costa ; 

 antemedial line double, the inner line very indistinct, slightly 

 angled outwards below cosfa and inwards on vein 1, with small 

 black spot at costa ; orbicular small, round, defined by blackish ; 

 reniform narrow, defined by blackish, with white point on iuner 

 side below, one on outer above and two below ; an indistinct medial 

 line oblique from costa to median nervure, then sinuous ; post- 

 medial line double, the outer liue indistinct, with black spot at 

 costa, bent outwards below costa, then dentate, incurved at discal 

 fold and b^low vein 4; subterminal line indistinct, pale, defined on 

 inner side by small dentate black marks between veins 7 and 3, 

 very slightly excurved below costa and at middle ; a terminal 

 stries of slight blackish striae, Huid wing white, the termeu 

 suffused with fuscous from apex to vein 2, difi'used inw^ards on the 

 veins ; the undei'side with the costal area irrorated with brown, a 

 slight discoidal point. 



Ab. 1. dubiosa. Fore wing wath the dentate fdaek subfermiual 

 marks obsolete. 



Ab. 2. ustirena. Paler; fore wing more ochreous brown, the 

 markings less developed. — S. France, 



Ab. 3. Head, thorax, and fore wing grey without any brown or 

 ochreous tinge, — Zermalt. 



Hab. S. France, Zeller & Leeeh Colis. ; Germany, Leech Coll. ; 

 Austria, Tirol ; Hctngaky, Zeller, Frey & Leech Colls, ; Switzer- 

 land, Zermatt ; Dalmatia ; S. Russia, Sarepta (Christoph); Asia 

 Minor, Taurus; Persia; W. Turkestan, Ferghana, Issyk Kul ; 

 Mongolia, Urga ; E. Siberia, Amurland. E.xy. 34-38 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 173 ; Hffm. Eaup. p 109. 



Pale grey mottled with brown ; dorsal line and segmental rings 

 whitish ; stigmata black ; head dark brown. Food-plants : Taruxl- 

 cam and other low-growing herbs. 



3974. Athetis fusicornis. 



Caradrina fusicornis, Rtnbr. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1832, p. 286, pi. 9. f. 5 ; 



Diip. Lep. Pr.,Suppl. iii. pi. 29. f. 4; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 190. 

 Nocfica kadenii, Frr. Neue Beitr. Schmett. ii. p 147, pi. 18i) (1836) ; Fisrtli. 



von Eiosl. Schmett. pi. 36. ff. 2a, b. ; Dup. Lep. Fr., Suppl. iii. pi. 29. 



fF. i,a,b; Herr.-Schafi'. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 408 ; Hinpsn. Moths 



Ind. ii. p. 260 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 197. 

 Caradrina pj'oxima, Rmbr. Faun. And. pi. 18. f. 7 (1839). 

 Caradrina variabilis, Bell. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1865, p. 104. pi. 2. f. 1. 

 Caradrina farinacea, Moore, P. Z. S. 1888, p. 411. 



Head and thorax whitish tinged with pale reddish brown ; palpi 

 black, white at tips ; antennae blackish except at base ; tarsi 

 blackish, ringed with white ; abdomen whitish tinged with ochreous 

 brown. Fore wing whitish tinged with pale reddish brown and with 

 islight dark irroration ; subbasal line represented by a black point 

 on costa and striga from cell; antemedial line very indistinct, oblique, 



