356 NOCTUID.IE. 



fuscous brown ; subbasal line represented b}' black striae from costa 

 and median nervare ; anteraedial line blackish with black spot on 

 costa, oblique, interrupted ; orbicular a small round brown spot ; 

 renitorni a small lunule defined by blackish ; medial line with black 

 spot at costa, oblique to reniform, slightly sinuous from cell to inner 

 margin; postmedial line much interrupted with small black spots at 

 costa, submedian fold and inner margin, strongly bent outwards 

 below costa, slightly incurved at discal fold, incurved below vein 4, 

 some yellow points beyond it on costa ; traces of a pale subterminal 

 line, excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a terminal series of 

 small black lunules ; cilia brownish with a fine pale line at base. 

 Hind wing white, the veins of terminal area and termen slightly 

 tinged with brown from apex to vein 2 ; a fine brown terminal line 

 from apex to submedian told ; cilia tinged with brown at apex ; 

 the underside with small apical brownish patch and terminal series 

 of small blackish lunules from apex to vein 2. 



2. Fore wing with the terminal area hardly suff'used with 

 fuscous except before subterminal line. 



Ab. 1. fergana. Pore wing more distinctly marked but without 

 the dark sutt'usion on terminal area. — Armenia, W. Turkestan. 



Ab. 2. syrutca. Darker, the hind wing wholly tinged with 

 fuscous. — Asia Minor, Syria. 



H((b. Spai:n^, Murcia ; S. IIdssia, Sarepta, 1 c? , 3 5 , Zeller and 

 Frey Colls.; Akmenia ; Asia Minor, Pontus, Taurus: SrniA ; 

 Peksia ; W. Turkestan, Turcomania, Ferghana, Issyk Kul ; 

 E. Turkestan, Hi; Beluchistan, Quetta {Sivinhoe), i $ type 

 helucha. E.cp. cj 30, 5 32 millim. 



4000. Athetis flavitincta, n. sp. (Plate CXXX. fig. 29.) 



Head and thorax whitish mixed with brownish ochreous ; palpi 

 blackish at sides ; tarsi blackish ringed with white ; abdomen pale 

 red-brown. Fore wing whitish tinged with reddish ochreous and 

 irrorated with brown, the terminal area sufiused with pale fuscous ; 

 subbasal line represented by a black point on costa; antemedial line 

 indistinct, double, with black point on the outer line at costa, then 

 oblique and slightly waved; orbicular absent ; reniform narrow, 

 faintly defined by fuscous ; a diffused curved waved medial shade ; 

 postmedial line indistinct, double, with black point on the inner line 

 at costa, slightly bent outwards below costa, then minutelj' dentate, 

 oblique' below vein 4, some pale points beyond it on costa; sub- 

 terminal line indistinct, pale, minutely waved ; cilia greyish 

 achreous mixed with brown and with fine ochreous line at 'base. 

 Hind wing white tinged with brown, the veins and termen brown ; 

 cilia white with a brown line through them from apex to vein 2 ; 

 the underside white, the costal area irrorated with brown, the 

 termen suffused with brown from apex to vein 2. 



Hah. Punjab, Kulu, Sultanpur {G. Young), 2^,1 $ fype. 

 Exp. 32 millim. 



