528 NocTuiD.^^:. 



incurved; subtermlnal line pale, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 

 and excurved at middle, defined by dentate fuscous marks in the 

 interspaces before it and fuscous streaks on the veins beyond it ; 

 a terminal series of black points. Hind wing white ; the terminal 

 area tinged with fuscous in female. Underside white, with slight 

 discoidal spot and curved postmedial line on both wings. 



Ab. 1. desertorum. Head, thorax, and fore wing grey-white, 

 with the markings fuscous brown. — E. Europe ; Egypt ; ? C. and 

 N. Asia. 



Ab. 2. vissenhorni. Head, thorax, and fore wing white slightly 

 tinged with red-brown. — Germany ; Denmark ; Sweden. 



Ab. 3. chsili. Head, thorax, and fore wing pure white, the 

 stigmata with dark outlines and a few points representing the 

 lines. 



Hah. Beitain, 2 cJ , 3 2 , type insfmcta ; France, Leech Coll. ; 

 Gekmany, Zeller & Frey Colls. ; Denmark ; Sweden ; S. IIussia ; 

 Syria; Egypt, type t alexandrensis in Coll. Baker; Mongolia, 

 Uliassutai ; Siberia, 2 S • -Exp. 32-4-1 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Bi-lt. Lep. p. 94; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iii. p. 321, pi. 128. f. 2. 



Pale green, yellow-grey, or pinkish white ; dorsal line dark, 

 double ; the subdorsal, triple lateral, and spiracular lines indistinctly 

 darker; head and thoracic plate pale yellow-brow^n. Food-plants: 

 Cjjnoghssum and Sahola. 8-4. 



*919. Lycophotia farinosa. (Plato LXXVIII. fig. 2.) 



Jf/z-ofe/ari/josa, Staucl. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 12; id. Cat. Lep. pal. 

 p. 148. 



S . Head and thorax grey-white thickly irrorated with fuscous 

 brown; palpi with the 2nd joint fuscous at sides; tarsi with 

 blackish band ; abdomen ochreous white slightly irrorated with 

 fuscous. Fore wing white with a slight brown tinge and very 

 thickly irrorated wnth fuscous ; subbasal line represented by a dark 

 striga from costa ; traces of a waved antemedial line ; claviform 

 small, only defined by some black scales ; orbicular and reniform 

 small, the former rounded, defined by some black scales or almost 

 obsolete, the latter fuscous with indistinct black outline; post- 

 medial line dentate and produced to points on the veins, bent 

 outwards below^ costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; subterminal 

 line represented by very slight browii suffusion on its inner side; 

 a terminal series of dark points. Hind wing nearly pure white ; 

 the underside wdth slight fuscous irroration on costal area, 



5 . Hind v.'ing uniformly suffused with pale fuscous brown, the 

 cilia pure white ; the underside with the costal and terminal areas 

 irrorated with fuscous, a small discoidal spot and sinuous post- 

 medial line. 



Hah. E. Turkestan, Hi, in Coll. Piingcler. Eaji., S 40, $ 44 

 millim. 



