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a dark medial line arising at vein 6 well beyond the cell, excurved 

 to vein 4, then oblique ; postmedial line treble, the inner line black 

 and slightly defined on outer side by white scales, sinuous, oblique 

 from costa to vein 6 and incurved below vein 4, two white points 

 beyond it on costa and an oblique striga between discal fold and 

 vein 4 ; subterminal line white, incurved from costa to vein 6 and 

 below vein 3 ; the apical area suffused with white ; a tertninal 

 series of small black spots slightly defined by white ; cilia chequered 

 brown and white. Hind wing with the basal half white, the 

 terminal half fuscous brown ; a white striga at inner margin to- 

 wards tornus and sinuous line from vein 3 to tornus ; a lunulate 

 blackish terminal line ; cilia white with a brown line through them 

 and chequered with brown at tips ; the underside white tinged 

 with brown except on inner area and slightly irrorated with black, 

 the discal area tinged with red, an elliptical black discoidal spot 

 and diflFused rufous postmedial band formed of three lines. 



Hah. IlussiA, Crimea; Asia Minoe, Pontus, Amanus Mts,, 1 $ ; 

 SyPvIA ; Palestine, 1 c? , 1 § . Exp. 34 millim. 



6258, Eutelia discistriga. (Plate CLXXV. fig. 14.) 



Eufelia discistriga, Wlk, xxxiii. 823 (1865) ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. SOU:, 

 PeniciUariu pctrificata, Wlk. Eiitoui. v. p. 131 (1870). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen grey mixed with reddish brown and 

 some black ; tegulae rufous with black line at base; prothorax with 

 white line ; tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen with dorsal red- 

 brown bands on basal segments and lateral blackish spots, the 

 ventral surface whitish. Fore wing grey mixed with reddish 

 brown and slightly irrorated with black ; subbasal line slight, 

 double, whitish, from costa to vein 1 ; two indistiact, double, 

 slightly waved antemedial lines ; a whitish streak in cell to the 

 reniform, which is whitish and undefined below, grey defined by 

 black above ; medial line blackish, arising at discal fold, oblique 

 and slightly sinuous ; two double postmedial lines, the inner line 

 filled in with white and defined by black on inner side, the outer 

 line indistinct, oblique from costa to vein 6, incurved at discal fold, 

 and below vein 4, some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal 

 line white, incurved from costa to vein 6, angled inwards at discal 

 fold, excurved and waved at middle and ending at tornus ; the 

 apical area greyish ; a series of black and white striae just before 

 termen ; cilia intersected with brown and with fine white lines at 

 base and middle. Hind wing whitish, the veins and terminal area 

 fuscous brown ; some black and white striae at inner margin to- 

 wards tornus and a white line from vein 3 to tornus ; some faint 

 whitish striae just before termea ; cilia with fine white lines at base 

 and middle ; the underside grey- white irrorated with brown, a 

 slight double discoidal lunule, punctiform medial line, double waved 

 postmedial line, and difi'used waved subterminal line. 



Hah. S. NiGEKiA, Olokemeji (Dadgeon), 1 6,1 $ , Ilesha- 



