306 noctuidjE. 



present and some dai'k scales at base of cilia ; the underside with 

 incomplete postniedial line. 



Hnb. U.8.A., S. California, Arizona. Exp. 30-34 millim. This 

 species is unknown to me, figured from a drawing from type in Coll. 

 J. B. Smith. 



*4018. Athetis fixseni. 



Pseudophia fixseni, Vhv\at. How Soc. Ent. Ross. xvii. p. 113(1883); id. 

 Rom. Mem. ii. pi. 4. f. 6 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 19(5. 



(^ . Head, thorax, and abdomen pale yellow, the last slightly 

 irrorated with brown on dorsum ; palpi with some black at sides ; 

 antennae blackish ; tarsi black ringed with yellowish white. Pore 

 wing pale yellow, a waved blackish subbasal line from costa to 

 submedian fold ; antemedial line reddish brown, expanding into 

 smtiU black spots at costa and submedian fold, oblique, waved ; 

 claviform and orbicular absent ; reniform Avith slight blackish point 

 in centre and faintly defined by blackish, minute ; postmedial line 

 reddish brown, with small black spot at costa, slightly bent outwards 

 below costa, then dentate, oblique below vein 4 ; subterrainal line 

 defined by slight dark suffusion on inner side, more prominent at 

 costa where there is a pale point on it, angled outwards at veins 

 7, 6 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of black points ; 

 cilia yellowish at base, white at tips. Hind wing yellowish white, 

 the terminal area suffused with reddish brown narrowing to tornus ; 

 cilia white ; the underside white, the costal area tinged with 

 yellow, the terminal area suffused with brown from apex to sub- 

 median fold, a faint discoidal point. 



5 . Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines much stronger ; 

 the reniform a blackish lunule ; a rather diffused reddish medial 

 line expanding into a black spot at costa, obliquely incurved to 

 lower angle of cell, then waved. 



Bah. Akmenia ; S. Palestine ; W. Tuekestan, Aschabad, Sum- 

 bar in Coll. Piingeler. Exp. 28 millim. 



4019. Athetis casearia. 



Caractrina casearia, Staud. Iris, xii. p. 375, pi. 5. f. 1 (1899); id. Cat. Lep. 

 pal. p. 196. 



(S . Head, thorax, and abdomen w^hite with a faint yellowish 

 tinge ; palpi with the 2nd joint irrorated with fuscous at sides ; 

 antenntB tinged with rufous. Fore wing yellowish white very 

 slightly irrorated with red-brown ; subbasal and antemedial lines 

 absent ; orbicular a small round rufous spot, the reniform a slight 

 rufous lunule ; postmedial line very indistinct, rufous, bent outwards 

 below costa, excurved to vein 4, then inctirved ; subterminal line 

 represented by rather diffused brown scales, slightly angled outwards 

 at vein 7; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing pure 



