358 Nocxuii)^. 



Head and thorax dark brown mixed with greyish ; palpi blackish, 

 greyish at tips ; antennae ringed wilh whitish at base ; abdomen 

 ochreous siiftiised with broAvn, whitish at base. Tore wing greyish 

 ochreous thickly suffused and irrorated with dark brown, the post- 

 medial area rather darker ; subbasal line represented by a slight 

 dark striga from costa ; antemedial line indistinct, double, oblique, 

 waved, with small black spot on the outer line at costa ; orbicular and 

 reniform indistinct, brown, the former irregular, the latter con- 

 stricted at middle and with slight yellowish mark on its outer edge 

 at middle ; an indistinct diffused sinuous line from lower angle of 

 cell to inner margin ; postmedial line indistinct, double, the lines 

 Avidely^ separated, the inner line minutely dentate, the outer even, 

 bent outwards below costa and incurved below vein 4 : snbterminal 

 line indistinct, greyish, defined on inner side by dark brown, angled 

 outwards at vein 7, excurved at middle, then incurved ; a terminal 

 series of black points ; cilia with a dark brown line near base. 

 Hind wing white, the veins of terminal area irrorated with brown ; 

 a slight discoidal spot, traces of a diffused subterminal line and 

 terminal series of dark striae ; cilia with a slight brownish line 

 through them from apex to vein 2 ; the underside with the costal 

 area suffused with brown, a blackish discoidal spot and curved 

 subterminal line from costa to vein 4. 



Hah. BiUTAiN, Leech Coll.; Fkakce ; Germany, Zeller, Frey, and 

 Leech Colls.; Atjsteia : Htjicgaky; Pwrjzi eland : Italy, Savoy 

 (Hawpson)-^ ? Sicily ; E-ussta, Livonia, Zeller Coll., Urals ; Aemenia ; 

 E. TuEKESTAN, Hi; E. Sjbeeia, Amuiland, Ussuri, Corea. Exp. 

 30-34 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 122 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. v. p. 282, pi. 220. f. .3. 



Brown or grey-brown ; dorsal line paler with interrupted daik 

 edges; subdorsal series of blackish sagittate marks ; spiracular line 

 obscurely darker ; head brown with dark fieckles. Food-plants: 

 /Sedum, Sali.v, liubus, &c. 9-10. 



4004. Athetis seschria, n. sp. (Plate CXXX, fig. 31.) 



S . Head and thorax reddish brown mixed with black ; palpi 

 with the 2nd joint black at sides ; tarsi black ringed with white ; 

 abdomen greyish suffused with fuscous brown. Fore wing reddish 

 brown thickly irrorated with black; subbasal line black, waved, 

 from costa to submediau fold ; antemedial line black, slightly 

 oblique and very minutely dentate ; orbicular and reniform fuscous, 

 undefined, the former round, the hitter elliptical ; postmedial line 

 indistinct, blackish, slightly defined on outer side by ochreous, bent 

 outwards below costa, then minutely waved, oblique below vein 4, 

 with small black spot at costa; faint traces of a dark subterminal 

 line excurved at middle; a terminal series of slight dark points. 

 Hind wing whitish tinged with ochreous and irrorated Avith broAvn, 

 the apex suffused with brown ; the veins, a slight discoidal lunule 



