ATHETI-. PUOMETOrUS. .)b/ 



white ; the underside with the costal area slightly tinged with 

 yellowish, a slight dark discoidal striga. 



Hah. Palestine, Jordan, 1 S • Exp. 28 millim. 



4020. Athetis melanurina. (Plate CXXXI. fig. 5.) 

 Agrotis mekmurhia, Stautl. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 146 (1901). 



Head and thorax ochreous white ; palpi fuscous at sides ; abdomen 

 ochreous with more or less developed fuscous dorsal bands. Fore 

 wing ochreons white ; the costal edge fuscous at base ; subbasal lino 

 represented by a black point on costa and faint traces of a line to 

 suhmedian fold ; traces of a minutely waved antemedial line with 

 a black point at costa ; traces of a waved line from lower angle of 

 cell to inner margin ; postmedial line very indistinct, irregularly 

 waved, arising from a black spot at costa, strongly bent outwards 

 below costa, excnrved to vein 4, then incurved ; terminal area 

 fuscous black with a fine white line at base of cilia. Hind wing 

 white, the terminal area suffused with fuscous except at apex 

 and towards tornus ; cilia fuscous with a fine white line at base. 



Bah. PALESTtNE, 1 J , 1 $ . Kvp. S 30, c5' 84 millim. 



Genus PROMETOPUS. 



Tjpe. 



Proneiopus, Guen. Noct. i. p. 38 (18t)2) ivassueta. 



Proboscis fully rleveloperl ; palpi witb the 3nd joint upturned, reaching 

 about to middle of fVous. the ;3rd moderate, porrect ; irons with short truncate 

 conical prominence with somewhat raised edges and corneous plate below it ; 

 eyes large, round ; antenna? of male somewhat laminate and minutely ciliated ; 

 tliorax clotlied with rougli hair and hair-like scales, the piothorax with 

 spreading crest, the metathorax with divided crest ; tibiae moderately fringed 

 with hair ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing rather narrow, the apex rect- 

 angular, the termen somewhat excised below apex and excurved at middle ; 

 vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 5 from just above angle ; 6 from below upper 

 ajjgle ; 7, 8, 9, 10, stalked ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4, and (i, 7 

 shortly stalked ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 8 anastomosing 

 with the cell near base only. 



A. Fore wing with the reniform white or defined by white. 

 a. Fore wing with the ground-colour olive-yellow. 



a'. Fore wing with the reniform strongly constricted at 



middle flavicollis. 



Ji. Fore wing with the reniform not constricted at 



middle albistigma. 



h. Fore wing with the ground-colour grey. 



fti. Fore wing with the orbicular present horologa. 



h^. Fore wing with tlie orbicular absent inasstida. 



B. Fore wing with the reniform not M-hite or defined by 



white : nodyna. 



4021 . Prometopus flavicollis. 



Erastria flavicollis, Leech, P. Z. S. 1889, p. 525, pi. 53. f. 4. 



c? . Head white irrorated with black; palpi and antennae black- 

 biovvn ; legula; olive-yellow ; thorax brown mixed with whitish j 



