XESTIA. EICHIA. 595 



abdomen pale brownish ochreous, the ventral surface with a pink 

 tinge. Fore wing pale ochreous brown tinged with pink ; an 

 oblique whitish antemedial line, slightly escurved below costa and 

 angled outwards above inner margin ; orbicular and reniform slightly 

 defined by whitish, the former oblique, elliptical, the latter with its 

 centre more or less tinged with fuscous : a whitish postmedial line 



Fig. 100. — Xestia miniago, S . \. 



exeurved from costa to vein 4, then incurved, and with a series of 

 black points on the veins beyond it; an indistinct pale subterminal 

 line slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and exeurved at middle, 

 sometimes with slight fuscous points on its inner side. Hind wing 

 white. 



Ab. 1. Antennae pale brown ; fore wing with diffused black 

 medial shade. 



Ab. 2. variago. Head, thorax, and fore wing darker and irrorated 

 with fuscous. 



Hah. S. Russia, Sarepta, Zeller Coll. ; Asia MiNOR, Pontus ; 

 W. Siberia, Altai; W. Ttjekestan, Ferghana, Tarbagatai Mts., 

 Issyk-kul ; E. Tureestak, Thian-Shan Mts. : ? E. Siberia. Exp. 

 36-42 millim. 



Genus RICHIA. 



Type. 

 Bichia, Gi'ote, Can. Ent. xix. p. 44 (1887) chortalis. 



Proboscis fully developerl ; palpi oblique, the 2nd joint fringed with hair in 

 front, the 3rd moderate ; irons smootli ; eyes large, rounded, smooth ; antennae 

 of male typically minutely serrate and fasciculate; head and thorax 

 clothed with hair and scales, the prothorax with sharp ridge-like crest, the 

 metathorax with slight crest ; tibise strongly spined ; abdomen smoothly scaled. 

 Fore wing with Teins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle; 

 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing 

 with Tcins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 

 6, 7 shortly stalked or from angle. 



Sect. I. Anteunce of male minutely serrate and fasciculate. 



A. Fore wing with the ground-colour ochreous. 



a. Hind wing uniformly suffused with fuscous. 



a}-. Fore wing with the subterminal line almost straight, curvijjhna. 

 b^. Fore wing with the subterminal line exeurved below 



costa and at middle ccestiodes. 



b. Hind wing ochreous, tinged with fuscous towards 



termen. 



c(}. Fore wing with the postmedial line not dentate fiiscisigtiata. 



b^. Fore wing with the postmedial line dentate brunneago. 



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