344 KOCTtflD.E. 



black points on the veins; siibterrainal line faintly defined by 

 brown suffusion on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 excurved at middle ; a terminal series of black striae ; cilia greyish 

 fuscous. Hind wing white, the costal area tinged with brown ; a 

 fine brown terminal line ; cilia brown towards apex ; the underside 

 with the costal area irrorated with fuscous brown. 



Hah. Transvaal {Cliolmley), 1 ci" ; C. Colony, Transkei {Miss F. 

 Barrett), 2 c5' type. Kv2y. 24-30 millim. 



3978. Athetis germaini. 



Bryophila germainii, Dup. Ami. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1835, p. 194, pi. 4 a. f. 2 ; 

 id. Lep. Fr., Suppl. iii. pi. 28. f. 5; Rmbr. Faun. And. pi. 18. f. 8 ; 

 Frr. Neue Beitr. Schmett. pi. 4H7. f. \i ; Herr.-Schiiff'. Eur. Schinett., 

 Noct. f. 143; Staud. Oat. Lep. pal. p. TJ?. 



Head and thorax whitish suffused with pale red-brown ; palpi 

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

 blackish ringed with white ; abdomen white tinged with brown. 

 Fore wing pale red brown irrorated with fuscous, the terminal area 

 suffused with fuscous ; a slight subbasal line from costa to sub- 

 median fold with black point at costa; autemedial line very 

 indistinct, oblique, sinuous, with small black spot at costa ; 

 orbicular represented by a few black scales ; renitorm a brown 

 lunule with two white points on inner edge and three on outer and 

 a small yellowish lunule at middle of outer side; faint traces of a 

 curved medial line; postmedial line hardly traceable, double, with 

 small black spot at costa, slightly bent outwards below costa and 

 incurved below vein 4, some yellowish points beyond it on costa ; 

 subterminal line indistinct, pale, slightly defined by fuscous on 

 inner side, somewhat angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at 

 middle ; a terminal series of minute blackish points with whitish 

 points on their inner side : a fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind 

 wing white, the veins and marginal areas suffused Mith reddish 

 brown ; cilia white, brown at apex and with brown line near base 

 from apex to vein 2; the underside with the costal area irrorated 

 with brown, a discoidal point, postmedial series of points on the 

 veins, and terminal series of points from apex to vein 2. 



Hab. S. France, Zellei' Coll ; Spain, Catalonia ; Sicily ; Al&eria. 

 E.vp. 30 millim. 



3979. Athetis obtusa. 



Caradrina ohtusa, Hmpsn. 111. Het. B. M. viii. p. 79, pi. 145. f. 6 (1891) ; 

 id. Moths Ind. ii. p. 261. 



Head and thorax whitish tinged with red-brown ; palpi black, 

 "white in front and at tips ; antennae fuscous except at base; tarsi 

 fuscous ringed with white ; abdomen grey tinged with brown and 

 irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing grey slightly tinged with red- 

 brown and irrorated with fuscous ; subbasal line blackish, curved, 

 -from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line blackish, curved, 

 minutely dentate; orbicular a black point; reniform indistinct, 



