430 NOCTCID,?!:. 



outer side, oblique from costa to vein 6, then dentate, at vein 3 

 bent inwards to lower angle of cell ; subterminal line formed of 

 white scales and indistinct except at costa and inner margin, 

 irregularly waved, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at 

 middle ; a terminal series of faint dark spots ; cilia brown at base, 

 whitish at tips. Hind wing pale reddish brown with fine dark 

 terminal line ; cilia brown at base, white at tips ; the underside 

 white slightly irrorated with brown. 



Hah. E. Tdekestajs, lli, Kuldja, 1 S ■ Eay. 24 millim. 



Genus PROXENUS. 



Tjpp. 



Proxeims, HeiT.-ScliafF. Eur. Scbmett. ii. p. 240 (1845) koxpes. 



Eadinoyoes, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 188B, p. 39o tenuis. 



Proboscis fallj' developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to 

 middle of frons and moderately scaled, the 3rd short ; frons smooth ; eyes 

 large, round ; antennae of male ciliated ; thorax clothed chiefly with scales and 

 without crests; build slender ; tibi;« moderately fringed with hair; abdomen 

 without crests. Fore wing long and narrow, the apex rounded, the termen 

 evenly curved and hardly crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 

 6 from upper angle; 9 Irom 10 anastomosing with 8 to forui the areole ; 11 

 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell or shortly stalked ; 

 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle or shortly 

 stalked; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. {Proxenus). Mid and hind tibiae of male with fringes of yellowish 

 hair on outer side, abdomen with lateral fringes of yellowish hair on 

 basal segments. 



A. Fore wing tinged with rufous. 



a. Fore wing with the veins irrorated with fuscous and 



grey hospes. 



b. Fore wing almost wholly suifused with fuscous and 



grey xaiitholo-pha. 



B. Fore wing not tinged with rufous dlssimills. 



4117. Proxenus hospes. 



Caradrina hospes, Frr. Neue Schmett. i. p. 40, pi. 21. f. 4 (1831); Herr.- 



Schaff. Schmett. Eur., Noct. f. 366 ; Euibr. Cat. Lep. And. pi. 15. f. 4 ; 



Mdl. Icones, iii. pi. 135. ff. 9-10; id. Mem. Soc. Cannes, 1879, p. 128, 



pi. 7. ff. 4-5 ; Staud. Oat. Lep. pal. p. 198. 

 Caradrina uliginosa, Herr.-Schilff. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 367 (nee 



Boisd.). 

 Caradrina lepigone, Koesel, Stett. ent. Zeit. 1877, p. 364 (nee Moschl.). 



(^ . Head and thorax pale rufous with a greyish tinge ; palpi 

 black at sides, whitish in front and at tips; mid and hind tibiye 

 fringed with ochreous-white hair ; abdomen ochreous white tinged 

 with brown, the basal segments with lateral fringes of ochreous 

 white hair. Eore wing glossy ochreous suffused with rufous, the 

 veins irrorated with fuscous and grey ; antemedial line very in- 

 distinct, waved, angled inwards to blackish points on the veins ; 

 orbicular a blackish point ; reniform a small lunule slightly defined 

 hj brown with an ochreous streak from it to near termen above 

 vein 5 ; traces of a dentate postmedial line with black and pale 



