ATHEIIS. 35T 



4001. Athetis stygia, u. sp (Plate CXXX. fig. 30.) 



Head, thorax, and abdomen brown mixed with grey ; palpi 

 blackish, whitish at tips ; tarsi fuscous ringed with whitish. JForo 

 wing grey tinged with brown and thickly irrorated with dark 

 brown ; subbasal Tine brown, curved, from costa to submedian fold ; 

 antemedial line brown, angled outwards below costa, then obliquely 

 excurved ; orbicular a small round brown spot with faint pale 

 annulus ; renifurm elongate elliptical, brown with faint pale 

 annulus ; a rather diffused dark medial line, oblique from costa to 

 median nervure, then inwardly oblique ; postmedial line indistinct, 

 dark, bent outwards below costa, then dentate and produced to dark 

 jioints on the veins, incurved below vein 4, some pale points beyond 

 it on costa ; subterminal line whitish defined on inner side by red- 

 brown, oblique, almost straight ; a terminal series of slight black 

 ])oints. Hind wing grey suffused with brown ; a terminal series of 

 slight dark strias ; cilia with a fine whitish line at base ; the under- 

 side whitish thickly irrorated with bi'own, a black discoidal lunule 

 and rather diffused curved postmedial line. 



Hah. Punjab, Kulu, Sultanpur (0. Zbrt/t_(/), 3 J , Simla {SwinJwe, 

 Ifarfcrd, Nur.s'e), 3 J , 1 $ type, Dharmsala (Nocking), 2 J , 2 2 , 

 Kala Pani {Yerbury\ 4 c? • Exp. 26-36 millim. 



4002. Athetis paupera. 



Caradrina jumpera, Christ. Rom. Mtim. ii. p. 0(i, pi. 3. f. 4 (1885); Stand. 

 Cut. Lep. pal. p. 204. 



Head and thorax grey-white mixed with brown ; tarsi slightly 

 ringed with white ; abdomen grey-white sutt'used with brown except 

 at base. Fore wing glossy grey-white tinged and irrorated with 

 brown, the terminal area slightly darker; traces of a subbasal line 

 from costa to submedian fold with dark point at costa ; antemedial 

 line very indistinct, oblique, waved ; orbicular and reniform indis- 

 tinct, fuscous, undefined, the former round, the latter elliptical; 

 postmedial line indistinct, dark, with dark point at costa, beiit 

 outwards below costa, then sinuous, incurved below vein 4, some 

 whitish points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line defined by 

 slight dark suffusion on inner side, excurved below vein 7 and at 

 middle ; a terminal series of dark points. Hind wing whitish 

 suffused with brown, the cilia whitish; the underside whitish, the 

 costal and terminal areas slightly tinged with brown, a faint dark 

 discoidal lunule and indistinct sinuous postmedial line. 



Bah. Akmenia ; W. Tuekestan, Turcomania, 1 J , Ferghana ; 

 E. Turkestan, Hi. Exp. 32 millim. 



4003. Athetis morpheus. 



Fhalcena morpheus, Hiifn. Berl. Mag. iii. p. 302 (1767); Stepb. 111. Bi-it. 



Ent.. Haust. ii. p. 157 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 197. 

 Noctua puUa, Beckw. Trans. Linn. See. 1, 2, p. 5, pi. 1. ff. 7, 9 (1794). 

 Nociua sepii, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., ]Voct. f. 161 (1802); Sepp, Ins. iv. 



p. 117, pi. 34; Diip. Lep. Fr. vi. p. 52, pi.- 75. f. 5 ; Steph. III. Brit. 



Ent., Haust. ii. p. 158. 



