362 - KccTuiDj;. 



4010. Athetis aspersa. 



Caradrina asfRrsa, Rmbr. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1834. p. 385, pi. 8. f. 3 ; 



Dup. Lep. Fr., Suppl. iii. pi. 29. f. 3; Herr.-8c-haff. Eur. Schniett., Nnct. 



f. 4.i8 ; Err. Neue Eeitr. pi. 4(-)7. If. 1,2; Slaud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 197. 

 Caradrina anceps, Herr.-ydiiiff. Eur. ^(tliinett. ii. p. 209, Noct. f. 417 



(1815). 



Head and thorax whitish mixed with some brown and fuscous ; 

 palpi black, white at tips; antennae blackish except at base ; ta^si 

 black ringed with white ; abdomen white irrorated with brown. 

 Fore wing whitish tinged with red-brown and thickly irrorated 

 with dark brown ; subbasal line represented by a bLick point on 

 costa and striga from cell ; antemedial line very indistinct, oblique, 

 sinuous, with black spot at costa ; orbicular represented by a brown 

 point ; reniform very narrow, defined by brown and with some 

 Avbitish oil its inner and outer sides; postraedial line indistinct, 

 double, with small spot at costa, bent outwards below costa, then 

 the inner line denlate, oblique below vein 4 and angled outwards 

 at vein 1, some pale points beyond it on costa; subterminal line 

 represented by a series of white points defined on inner side bj- 

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

 of black points : cilia with a fine yellowish line at bfise. Hind 

 wing white, the termen suffused with pale brown ; cilia white ; the 

 underside with the costal area and termen irrorated with brown, a 

 small discoidal spot. 



Hub. S. Erance ; Austria, Tirol; Hungary, Leech Coll.; 

 Savitzeeland, Valais ; Italy, Liguria ; ? Sicily; Akmenia; Asia 

 Minor, Pontus, 1 d" , 1 § , Taurus ; ISyria. Exp. 34 millim. 



4011. Athetis maculatra. (Plate CXXXl. fig. 2.) 



Caradrina maculatra. Lower, P. Liiui. Soe. N. S. W. xxvi. p. 651 (1902). 



5 . Head and thorax white tinged with pale purplish brown and 

 irrorated with a few black scales ; palpi with black patch at side of 

 2nd joint ; tarsi fuscous ringed with white ; abdomen pale grey- 

 brown. Fore wing pale purplish grey tinged with brown and 

 sparsely irrorated with black ; subbasal line black, from costa to 

 submedian fold ; antemedial line indistinct, black, dentate, rather 

 oblique, with traces of another dentate line before it ; orbicular a 

 black point; reniform a very indistinct minute blackish lunule ; 

 medial line indistinct, curved ; postraedial line very indistinct, bent 

 outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique, waved, with 

 traces of another curved line beyond it with prominent rather elon- 

 gate black spot on it at discal fold ; subterminal line faintly defined 

 by brown on inner side and very slightly excurved below vein 7 

 and st middle ; a terminal aeries of minute black spots. Hind 

 v/ing white, the veins, costal and inner areas, and termen tinged 

 with ochreous brown ; the underside with the costal area slightly 



