316 NociriD.^. 



costa and striga at vein 1 ; some brown suffusion before the dark 

 brown antemedial line, which is slightly angled outwards below 

 costa and at subniedian fold and ineui'ved at vein 1 ; the outer 

 half of medial area suffused with brown ; an indistinct double 

 waved brownish medial line ; reniform indistinctly defined by dark 

 brown, elliptical, a faint oblique sinuous line from it to inner 

 margin ; postmedial line dark brown, slightly excm'ved below costa 

 and at middle and inciu-ved at discal fold, strongly incurved and 

 slightly sinuous below vein 4, a dark line beyond it incurved below 

 vein 4 ; some pale points on postmedial part of costa ; subterminal 

 line Avhitish, Avaved, excurved at middle, the area beyond it rather 

 darker ; a fine crenulate black line just before termen with small 

 whitish spots beyond it in the interspaces ; a fine whitish line at 

 base of cilia. Hind wing ochreous white, the terminal half with 

 diffused brown striae between veins 4 and 2 and on vein 1 ; a 

 crenulate dark line just befoi'e termen with some brown suffusion 

 before it. Underside of both wings creamy white ; fore wing with 

 fuscous terminal patch from apex to vein 3. 



$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen pale grey tinged with brick-red ; 

 fore wing with the ground-colour pale grey tinged with brick-red ; 

 hind wing tinged with red-brown. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing more uniform pale reddish brown ; hind wing 

 tinged with red-broAvn. 



Ab. 2. Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial areas suffused 

 with fuscous. 



Hah. Palestine, Engeddi, 1 $ ; E. TuekesT;VN, Altyn Tag, 

 1 (S . Exj). 30 millim. 



8127. Cortyta fasciolata. (Plate CCXXXII. fig. 19.) 



Pericyma fasciolata, Warr. Not. Zool. xii. p. 24, pi. iv. ff. 11, 21 (1905). 



c? . Head and thorax ochreous white pencilled with red-brown ; 

 pectus and legs whitish, the tarsi brown ringed with white ; abdo- 

 men ochreous white tinged Avith red-brown. Fore Aving ochreous 

 white tinged Avith rufous, the basal area, outer half of medial area 

 and the area jiist beyond the postmedial line suffused Avith brown ; 

 subbasal line blackish, sinuoiis, from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial 

 line double, blackish, the inner line indistinct, slightly angled 

 outwards below costa, excurved beloAv the cell and angled inwards 

 at vein 1 ; the medial area Avith two indistinct double sinuoiis 

 lines ; reniform defined by black, small ; postmedial line black, 

 excurved below costa, slightly incurved at discal fold, excm-ved 

 beyond lower angle of cell, bent iuAvards below vein 3, slightly 

 angled outwards at vein 2 and excurved beloAv submedian fold ; sub- 

 terminal line indistinct, whitish slightly defined on outer side by 

 brown, minutely Avaved, excurved beloAv vein 7 and at middle ; a 

 fine waved blackish line just before termen and a fine Avhite line at 

 base of cilia. Hind Aving ochreous AA'hite tinged with rufous ; 

 traces of double slightly waved medial and postmedial lines Avith 



