346 



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3981. Athetis pigra. (Plate CXXX. fi- 14.) 



Caradrina pigra, Guen. Noct. i. p. 248 (1852). 

 Caradrlna partita, Wlk. x. 294 (185()). 



Caradrina orhata, MoscLil. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xxxiii. p. 293, 

 pi. xvi. f. 7 (1883). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen pale rufous mixed with greyish ; 

 palpi black, greyish at tips ; antennae fuscous except at base ; 

 pectus and legs fuscous brown, the tarsi with pale rings. Fore 

 wing greyish sufi'used and irrorated with rufous ; subbasal line 

 slight, angled outwards below costa and ending at submedian fold ; 

 antemedial line indistinct, double, the lines widely separated, bent 

 inwards to costa, then erect, sinuous; orbicular absent; reniform 

 faint, brownish, with minute yellow lunule on outer edge with 

 white point above it and three below it ; an oblique sinuous brown 

 medial line ; postmedial line brown, excurved from costa to vein 3 

 and incurved in submedian interspace, with series of slight dark 

 points beyond it on the veins followed by a faint curved line 

 approximated to the indistinct brown sublerminal line, which is 

 slightly angled outwards at vein 7 ; a fine dark terminal line and 

 yellow line at base of cilia. Hind wing white, the apex faintly 

 tinged with brown ; a fine brown terminal line ; cilia brownish at 

 apex ; the underside with the costal area strongly irrorated with 

 brown, a postmedial series of minute dark streaks on the veins 

 from costa to vein 2 with dark line on costal area. 



Hah. W. Africa, Congo (liicJiardson), 1 5 type partita • Be. E. 

 Africa, Mombasa (de la Garde), 3 $ ; Tkansvaal, White R. 

 (GooJce), 1 2 ; Natal {Gooch), 1 cT , 1 2 ; C, Colont, Caff'raria ; 

 Reunion ; Mauritius, Curepipe (Talloch), 2 cJ . Exj). 30-32 

 millim. 



3982. Athetis siiicera. (Plate CXXX. fig. 15.) 



82}CBlotis sincera. Swinli. P. Z. S. 1889, p. 411; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii, 

 p. 261. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous ; palpi black at sides except 

 at tips ; antennae blackish except at base ; tarsi tinged with fuscous 

 and with slight pale rings. Fore wing ochreous tinged with 

 fuscous and irrorated with whitish ; subbasal line represented by 

 slight dark points below costa and cell ; antemedial line indistinct, 

 waved ; orbicular a dark point ; reniform indistinct, fuscous 

 surrounded by some white points, narrow above and constricted at 

 middle ; medial shade indistinct, waved ; postmedial line indistinct, 

 minutely dentate, excurved from costa to vein 4, then incurved ; 

 subterminal line indistinct, pale, slightly defined by fuscous on 

 inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a 

 terminal series of slight dark points. Hind wing white slightly 

 tinged Avith ochreous ; the underside with the costal area slightly 

 irrorated with brown. 



Hah. Punjab, Ivulu, Sultanpur {G. Yoiuirj), 5 d, 2 5? Simla 

 (iSwmJwe), 1 2 type. Ex2). 30-34 millim. 



