158 NOCTUIDJE. 



with palo olive-green except at costa ; a white medial band 

 defined on inner side by rather darker green, oblique, straight, 

 verjf slightly bent inwards to costa ; subtertninal line white, arising 

 from apex, oblique to vein 6 and slightly excurved at middle ; 

 cilia with a fine white line at base and white tips. Hind wing 

 white suffused with pale purplish brown ; a faint white medial 

 band ; cilia white. Underside of fore wing suffused with brown ; 

 hind wing tinged and irrorated with brown, traces of a diffused 

 subterminal band. 



Hal. W. TuEKESXA.^, Turcomania, 1 S , Fergana, Sarawschan. 

 Exp. 28 millim. 



5223. Eublemma pura. 



Noctua pura, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noet. f. 579 (1818) ; Dup. Lep. Fr., 

 Suppl. iii. p. 559, pi. 47. f. 6; Ruibr. Cat. Lep. S. And. pi. VS. f . 6 ; 

 Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 229. 



Head and thorax creamy white ; palpi, autennse, and legs rufous ; 

 abdomen white tinged with rufous. Fore wing creamy white ; a 

 black point in middle of cell ; a black discoidal striga on the outer 

 edge of a narrow rufous medial band which is slightly excurved 

 below costa, then oblique ; a narrow rufous terminal band with 

 minute black points on its inner edge representing the subterminal 

 line ; cilia white tinged with rufous except at base. Hind wing 

 pure white with a fine brown terminal line except towards tornus ; 

 the underside with the costa slightly tinged with ochreous. 



Hab. S. Fkance, Leech Coll. ; Spain ; Italy, Liguria, Pegli, Frey 

 Coll. Exp, 18-22 millim. 



5224. Eublemma pallidula. 



Anthophila pallidida, Heri-.-Scbiiff. Eur. Schmett. vi, p. 178, Noct. f. 641 



(1851); Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 229. 

 Thalpochares cypt-iaca, Staud. Hor. Ent. Soc. Eoss. liv. p. 413 (1878). 

 Tlialpochares mardina, Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 229 (1901). 



S . Head, thorax, and abdomen white faintly tinged with rufous ; 

 palpi, anteunge, and legs rufous. Fore wing white irrorated with 

 rufous and some brown, the terminal area suffused with rufous and 

 irrorated with brown ; the costal edge brown towards base, ill- 

 defined black points in cell towards extremity and on discocellulars ; 

 an ill-defined dark medial line, obli(|ue from costa to vein 6 just 

 beyond the cell, then inwardly oblique ; an indistinct oblique 

 blackish striga from apex with some whitish above it and faint 

 punctiform subterminal line sometimes obsolete, the area beyond it 

 somewhat darker ; cilia white at base, then white irrorated with 

 brown and with fine line near tips. Hind wing white tinged with 

 rufous especially towards termen ; cilia white tinged with rufous 

 at tips ; the underside white irrorated with rufous except the cell 

 and inner area. 



