96 NOCTt:iD.E, 



wing grey-white irrorated with fuscous ; a subbasal fuscous spot 

 on costa ; antemedial line represented by a black spot on costa and 

 a rather diffused very indistinctly double waved line from middle 

 of cell to inner margin ; a slight blackish sjjot in middle of cell and 

 pale discoidal bar defined on each side by diffused blackish ; medial 

 line represented by a black spot on costa and oblique minutely 

 waved line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial 

 line blackish, excurved below vein 7 and at median nervures, then 

 angled inwards in submedian fold and excurved to inner margin ; 

 some blackish points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line blackish, 

 dentate, the area beyond it slightly darker ; a terminal series of 

 blackish striae. Hind wing gre}^- white irrorated with fuscous except 

 on costal area and in submedian fold ; traces of punctiform medial 

 and postmedial lines ; a dentate subterminal line defined by whitish 

 on inner side ; a terminal series of dark striae ; the underside 

 whitish irrorated with fuscous. 



Ab. 1. velocior. Larger ; fore wing suff'used with pale rufous or 

 greyer ochreous. — Sicily, Taurus, Syria. 



Hab. Feance, Sand and Leech Colls. ; Spain, Catalonia, Murcia ; 

 Italy, Capri (C. S. Browne) ; Sicily, Zeller Coll. ; Istria ; Algeria ; 

 Balcan States ; Armenia ; Asia Minor, Bithynia, Lydia, Taurus ; 

 Syria ; Cyprus, Zeller Coll. Exp. 20-26 millim. 



5108. Eublemma contingens. 



Metachrostis contingens, Moore, P. Z. S. 1888. p. 412 ; Eutl. 111. Het. 

 B. M. vii. p. 65, pi. 129. f. 18 ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 325. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen grey- white tinged with red-brown ; 

 pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen white, the fore tibiae 

 and tarsi fuscous ringed with white. Fore wing grey-white 

 suffused and irrorated with reddish brown ; subbasal line rather 

 diffused, brown, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line 

 double, brown, diffused, waved, the outer line with blackish spot at 

 costa ; a minute black point in middle of cell and double diffused 

 brown discoidal bars ; medial line with blackish bar from costa and 

 waved brown line from angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial 

 line with blackish spot at costa, oblique from below costa to vein 6, 

 then very minutely dentate and angled inwards in submedian fold, 

 some whitish points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line whitish 

 defined on inner side by fuscous, dentate ; a terminal series of striae. 

 Hind wing whitish tinged and irrorated with brown except on costal 

 area and in submedian fold ; ill-defined minutely waved blackish 

 medial and postmedial lines from discal fold to inner margin, inter- 

 rupted at submedian fold ; a slight dentate subterminal line defined 

 by whitish on inner side, except on costal area and in submedian 

 fold ; a terminal series of dark striae ; the underside brownish 

 white. 



Hab. PiTNJAB. Dharmsala {Eoclcivg), 1 c? , 1 § type. Mean Meer 

 {Harford\ 1 $, Lahore (Rothneij), 2 c?, 2 $, Allahabad, 1 d. 

 Exp.' 20-22 millim. 



