A.THETIS. 355 



' 3998. Athetis pertinax. 



Caradrma pertinax, Stand. Hor. Soe. Ent. Ross. xiv. p. 387 (1878) ; id. Cat. 



Lep. pal. p. 19i3. 

 Caradrina vicina, Rom. Mem. ii. p. 55, pi. 3. f. 3 (1885), nee Staud. 

 Cnradrina melanura, Alph. Rom. Mein. ix. p. 34(1897). 

 Carad.rina expansa, Alph. Rom. Mem. ix. p. 34 (1897). 

 Caradrina morosa, Alph. Roin, Mem. ix. p. 34 (1897), nee Led. 

 Agrotis iuumhrata, Staud, Iris, xii. p. 363 (1899). 



Head and thorax -white slightly tinged with ochreous brown ; 

 palpi black, white in front and at tips ; tarsi black ringed with 

 white ; abdomen white. Fore wing ochrooi]s white slightly 

 irrorated with brown, the terminal area suffused with pale brown ; 

 subbasal line represented by a small black spot on costa ; ante- 

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

 costa, oblique, waved ; orbicular a brown point ; reniform a browji 

 lanule with greyish centre ; a slight medial dai'k shade with black 

 spot at costa, oblique from costa to reniform ; postmedial line 

 indistinct, double, with black spot on inner line at costa, minutely 

 waved, escurved from costa to vein 4, then incurved, some ochreous 

 points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line ochreous, minutely 

 waved, angled outwards at vein 7, excurved at middle and angled 

 inwards at discal and submedian folds ; a terminal series of minute 

 black lunules ; cilia white, the bases yellowish followed by a slight 

 brown line. Hind wing pure white, the termen slightly tinged with 

 brown from apex to vein 2 ; the underside with slight brown patch 

 at apex. 



Ab. 1. inumhrata. Fore wing more ochreous, the terminal area 

 broadly suffused with fuscous; hind wing with the terminal area 

 suffused with fuscous. — Taurus. 



Ab. 2. melanura. Fore wing whitish, the terminal area broadly 

 black. — Armenia. 



Ab. 3. expansa. Fore wing with the markings more distinct, the 

 undei'side almost without dark suffusion on terminal area, — W. and 

 E. Turkestan. 



Hah. Armenia, 1 <S ; Asia Minor, Pontus, 2 5 , Taurus, Zeitun ; 

 Syria, 1 5 ; W. Turkestan, Ferghana, Issyk Kul ; E. Tctrkestajv, 

 Thian-Shan Mts. Exy. 30 millim, 



3999. Athetis vicina. (Plate CXXX. fig. 28.) 



Caradrina vicina, Staud. Berl. ent. Zeit. 1870, p. 118 ; id. Cat. Lep. pal. 



p'. 196. 

 Caradrina belucha. Swinb. Trans. Ent. See. 1885, p. 348. pi. 9. f. 2 ; 



Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 261. 

 Caradrina. syriaca, Staud. Iris, iv. p. 294 (1892). 

 Caradrina fergana, Staud. Iris, iv. p. 294 (1892). 



(5 . Head and thorax ochreous white slightly irrorated with red- 

 brown ; palpi with black-brown patch at side of 2nd joint ; tarsi 

 blackish ringed with white ; abdomen white. Fore wing yellowish 

 white slightly irrorated with brown, the terminal area suffused with 



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