ATHETIS. 359 



and fine terminal line brown ; the underside with the costal area 

 strongly irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal lunule. 



Udh. Cape Colo^'Y, Deelfonteiii (Slor/geU), 1 J typ3. Ed-2J. 28 

 millim. 



4005. Athetis nitens, 



Caradnna nifeHS, Saalm. Lep. Madag. p. 276, f. 232 (1891). 



Head and thorax dark red-brown ; palpi black-brown; abdomen 

 brown mixed with greyish. Fore wdug red-brown lingcd Avith 

 grey and irrorated with blackish ; subbasal line represented by 

 indistinct double dark stria? from costa ; antemedial line indistinct, 

 double, obliquely excurved ; orbicular and reniform faint dark 

 marks, the latter with ochreous point on its outer edge ; an indis- 

 tinct obli(jue sinuous dark line from lower angle of cell to inner 

 margin ; postmedial line very indistinct, bent outwards below costa, 

 then oblique, minutely waved, with traces of another line beyond 

 it and some pale points on costa ; subterminal line represented by 

 a series of faint pale points dehned by black on inner side, very 

 slightly angled outwards at veins 7, 6 and excnrved at middle ; a 

 tine black terminal line and fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind 

 wing whitish suffused with brown, the terminal area darker, a fine 

 dark terminal line and ochreous line at base of cilia ; the underside 

 white strongly irrorated with dark brown, a blackish discoidal spot, 

 curved postmedial line, and terminal series of slight lunules. 



Hah. Br. E. Africa, Masailand, E. Quaso (Betton), 2 c5' , 2 $, 

 Uganda Uy., Mile 478 (^Betton), 1 2 5 Madagascar, Eetsileo. Exj}.. 

 26-28 miliim. 



4006. Athetis funesta. 



Caradrinn funcda. Stand. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 256 (Oct. 1888) ; id. 



Eoui. Mem. vi. p. 489, pi. 8. 1. lU; id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 198. 

 AcusmefAa kigubriti, Grries. Berl. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 3ol (Feb. 1889). 

 Glottala squalida, Leecb, P. Z. S. 18»9, p. 490, pi. 52. f. o. 



Head and thorax fuscous brown mixed with some grey ; abdomen 

 grey sutfused with fuscous. Fore wang fuscous brown slightly mixed 

 with grey ; antemedial line indistinct, greyish, slightly angled out- 

 wards below costa and inwards on vein 1 ; orbicular a small rather 

 oblique elliptical black spot slightly defined by grey ; reniform a 

 small black lunule defined by grey on outer side; traces of a dark 

 medial shade ; postmedial line blackish slightly defined by grey ou 

 outer side, bent outwards below costa, then minutely dentate, 

 incurved below vein 4 ; subterminal line greyish slightly defined 

 by fuscous on inner side, excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a 

 terminal series of slight black striae. Hind wing greyish suffused 

 with fuscous brown ; the underside fuscous brown slightly mixed 

 with grey, an indistinct blackish discoidal lunule and traces of a 

 rather diffused curved postmedial line. 



Hah. E. Siberia, Amnrland, 1 c? , 1 ? , Us.suri ; Japax, Oiwake 

 (Prijer), 1 c? , 3 $ type squalida. E.vp. 32-34 millim. 



