148 NOCTUiD^an. 



costal edge brownish ; a slight antemedial brown point on costa ; a 

 narrow oblique red-brown medial band with the slight discoidal 

 black striga just beyond it ; postmedial line slight, reddish brown, 

 excurved below costa and at middle, slightly angled inwards at 

 discal fold and incurved below vein 3 ; subterminal line very in- 

 distinct, white defined on inner side by brownish suffusion and on 

 outer by a few black scales especially towards costa, excurved below 

 costa and at middle and with rufous spot beyond it at apex ; a fine 

 reddish brown terminal line ; cilia faintly tinged with brown except 

 at base. Hind wing white suffused with brown ; a diffused curved 

 brown antemedial line ; medial area and the inner area towards 

 tornus whiter ; indistinct diffused sinuous brownish postmedial and 

 subterminal lines ; a terminal series of slight dark points ; cilia 

 pure white. Underside of fore wing suffused with brown except 

 inner margin ; hind wing white slightly irrorated with brown and 

 with traces of diffused antemedial, postmedial, and subterminal 

 lines. 



Hah. "W. Turkestan, Turcomania, Merv in Coll. Piingeler. Eosp. 

 22 millim. 



5204. Eublemma siippuncta. (Plate GLUT. fig. 4.) 



Thalpocliarcs siippuncta, Staud. Iris, It. p. 319 (1891); id. Cat. Lep. pal. 

 p. 227. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen almost pure white ; legs tinged with 

 ochreous brown ; ventral surface of abdomen suffused with fuscous 

 brown. Pore wing white, the terminal area faintly tinged with 

 ochreous brown ; faint traces of a sinuous antemedial line ; black 

 points at middle of cell and on discocellulars ; an oblique straight 

 ochreous antemedial line ; postmedial line brownish ochreous, ex- 

 curved below costa and at middle, angled inwards at discal fold and 

 incurved below vein 4 ; subterminal line white defined on inner 

 side by brownish, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at 

 middle ; a slight oblique rufous shade from apex ; cilia white with 

 a series of faint yellowish spots. Hind wing white tinged with pale 

 fuscous especially on terminal area and with traces of a diftused 

 subterminal band ; a terminal series of minute dark points ; cilia 

 pure white. Underside of fore wing suffused with fuscous brown, 

 the inner area whiter ; hind wing with the costal and terminal areas 

 slightly irrorated with brown. 



Hah. Asia Minor, Konia, 1 (5 , 1 $ ; Syria, Mardin. Exp. 

 24 millim. 



*5205. Eublemma ephimera. (Plate GLUT. fig. 5.) 



Tlialpocliares ephimera, Piing. ined. 



S . Head, thorax, and abdomen creamy white. Fore wing 

 creamy Avhite, the terminal area faintly tinged with rufous ; faint 



