ATHETIS. 365 



ochreous brown especi ill}' on the veins, costal and terminal areas ; 

 a slight brown terminal line; cilia yellowish white with a faint 

 brown line through them ; the underside with the costal and 

 terminal areas irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal lunula. 

 Hah. Bombay [Swinhoe), 1 $ type. E.q). 16 millim. 



4016. Atlietis gilva. 



Agrotis fjilva, Donz. Ann. Son. Ent. Fr. 1837, p. 473, pi. 18. f. 12; Geyer, 

 PaiV. Sclimett., Noot. f. 877 ; Diip. Lep. Fr., Siippl. iii. p. 4()1, pi. 40. 

 ff. o, (J: Herr.-Schatf. Eur. Schmett., Noet. tf. 410, 411; Stand. Cat. 

 Lep. pal p. 197. 



5 . Head white ; palpi fuscous except at tips ; antennae fuscous 

 except at base ; thorax grey mixed with brown ; legs tinged with 

 fuscous ; abdomen grey tinged with brown. Fore wing whitish 

 irrorated and suffused with pule fuscous ; subbasal line represented 

 by a slight blackish spot on costa ; antemedial line indistinct, 

 oijlique, fuscous with blackish spot at costa ; orbicular with hardly 

 traceable dark outline, small, round ; i-eniform an indistinct fuscous 

 lunule ; faint trace of a dark medial line ; postmedial line indis- 

 tinct, dark, slightly defined by whitish on outer side and with 

 blackish spot at costa, slightly bent outwards below costa, then 

 sinuous, incurved below vein 3 ; subterminal line very faint, 

 whitish, excurved below costa and at middle and bent outwards to 

 tornus ; cilia white, tinged with ochreous at base and with dark 

 lines near base and at middle. Hind wing whitish tinged with 

 brown, the veins, costal area, and termen tinged with pale brown ; 

 cilia white with brown line near base except towards tornus ; the 

 underside white, the veins, costal area, and termen tinged with 

 brown, a slight discoidal spot. 



H<ih. Feance. Alps; Austria, Tirol; Switzerland, Engadine, 

 1 $ ; Spain, Andalusia. Exp. 38 millim. 



*4017. Athetis drasteroides. (Plate CXXXf. fig. 4.) 



Caradrlna drasteroides, Smitli, Can. Ent. xxxv. p. 13(1903). 



r? . Head, thorax, and abdomen creamy white. Fore wing 

 creamy white irrorated with black, the postmedial and terminal 

 areas greyer ; subbasal line absent or represented by a point on 

 costa ; antemcdial line represented by a few black scales and a point 

 on costa, excurved at median nervureand angled inwards at vein 1 ; 

 clavifnrm and orbicular absent ; reniform oblique, du^ky, undefined, 

 obscured by the medial shade which is oblique from costa to lower 

 angle of cell, then approximated to the postmedial line, which is 

 blackish defined by whitish on outer side, a black spot on it at 

 costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; subterminal line whitish, 

 defined on inner side by a faint dark shade at costa, very slightly 

 excurved below vein 7 ; a terminal series of black points, sometimes 

 absent. Hind wing pure white ; a dark discoidal point sometimes 



