ATHETIS. 345 



fuscous brown, constricted at mirldle wlierc there is a slight yellowish 

 point on its outer edge with traces of white ])oints above and below 

 it; traces of a sinuous brown medial line; postmedial line black, 

 oblique from costa to vein 7, then dentate, slightly incurved at 

 submediau fold ; subterminal line defined by fuscous suffusion on 

 inner fide, slightly angled outwards at veins 7, 6, exeurved and 

 waved at middle ; a terminal series of black strise ; cilia with a 

 yellowish line at base. Hind wing white, the costal area tinged 

 with brown ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with 

 brown, a discoidal point and postmedial and terminal series of 

 points from costa to vein 2. 



Hah. Hong Kong {J. J. WalJcer), 1 2 ; Madras, Nilgiris (Ramp- 

 son), 4 5 type ; Eoeneo, Kuching (Shelford), 1 ? , Mt. Marapok, 

 1 cJ ; Queensland, Townsville (Dodd), 1 $ , Mackay, 1 $ , Bris- 

 bane (Turner), 1 (5,1 2- ^-^T- 34-36 millira. 



3980. Athetis ignava, (Plate CXXX. fig. 13.) 



Caradrina ignava, Gnen. ISoct. i. p. 247 (1852). 

 Caradrina 'pervicax, Wllgni. Ofv. Vet-.-Akad. Forh. 1875. i. p. 107. 

 Caradrina 'partita, Hmpsn. Nat. Hist. Sokotra, p. 323, pi. -U. f. 24 

 (.iieo Wlk.). 



Head and thorax pale grey tinged with reddish brown ; palpi 

 black, the 2nd joint white in front and at tips; antennae with the 

 basal half white, the terminal half fuscous ; pectus and legs grey 

 mixed with fuscous, the tarsi fuscous ringed with white ; abdome:i 

 grey dorsally suffused with fuscous, ventrally irrorated with fuscous. 

 Fore wing grey tinged with reddish brown and irrorated with 

 fuscous ; subbasal line slight, fuscous, curved, from costa to sub- 

 median fold ; antemedial line indistinct, fuscous, oblique, sinuous ; 

 orbicular a small round black spot ; reniform slightly defined by 

 fuscous, with small yellow spot on its outer edge with one white point 

 above it and two below it ; an indistinct oblique sinuous medial line ; 

 postmedial line slight, blackish, oblique from costa to vein 7, in- 

 curved at discal fold, oblique from vein 4 to submedian fold and 

 exeurved above inner margin, a series of slight black points beyond 

 it on the veins followed by a faint curved line; subterminal line 

 indistinct, pale, slightly defined by brown on inner side, exeurved 

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

 cilia with a fine yellow line at base. Hind wing pure white ; the 

 underside with the costal area tinged with yellow and slightly 

 irrorated with brown, postmedial black points on veins 8 to 6. 



Hah. SoKOTEA, Adho Dimellus (O.-Orant), 2 $ ; Be. E. Africa, 

 Athi-ya-Mawe (Betton), 1 2 , Lagari (Betton),2 $ , Ndimu (Bettoa), 

 5 2 ^ Nairowa (Betton), 3 2 , Kikuja (Craws/my), 1 $ ; Gazaland, 

 Chirinda Forest (Marshall), 1 c? ; Teansvaal (Cholmley), 2 c? , 

 1 §, Pretoria (Janse), 1 d" , Piet Retief (Crawshay), 1 c5' , 1 2 ; 

 Natal, Tugela R. (Beynolds), 1 ,2 , Estcourt (Hutchinson), 2 S ; 

 Matjrttiijs, Curepipe (Tidloch), 2 J • Ha'jJ. 30-32 millim. Type f 

 in Mus, Paris. 



