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median fold silvery white, partly edged Avith dark scales and with 

 some rufous suffusion below it and above its extremity ; postmedial 

 line represented by brown points above and below vein 6 and an 

 indistinct very oblique Avaved line from vein 4 to inner margin ; an 

 oblique irregular fuscous shade from termen below apex to inner 

 margin beyond middle ; a terminal series of brown striaj. Hind 

 wing pure white. 



Ab. 1. achalina. Fore wing with the brown markings darker ; 

 hind wing suffused with brown. — Aschabad. 



Hah. HxJKGAEr ; S. Russia ; Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls. ; 

 Algeria ; Asia Minor, Amasia, Zeller Coll., Pontus ; Persia ; 

 E. Turkestan, Ferghana, Askhabad, ty^Qf achalina in Coll. Piingeler, 

 Tura, Sarawschan, Tarbagatai, Issyk Kul ; W. Siberia, Altai ; 

 E. TuRKESXAN", Hi. Exp. 34-40 millim. 



Larva. Pale yellow tinged with brown and transversely striated 

 with black, leaving the dorsal, subdorsal, lateral, subventral, and 

 ventral lines pale yellow ; each somite with diffused rufous medial 

 band ; head with the hemispheres pale rufous with two series of 

 black striae. Foot-plant, Artemisia. 



2176. Empusada hutchinsoni. (Plate XCVIII. fig. 13.) 



Ciicidlia hiUchmsonl, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 276 (1902). 



Head and thorax white pencilled with grey and tinged with flesh- 

 colour ; abdomen white irrorated with grey and tinged with brown 

 towards extremity. Fore wing ochreous almost wholly suffused 

 with bright rufous, the costal and inuer areas violaceous grey 

 irrorated with fuscous ; a silvery-white stripe tapering at extremities 

 from middle of cell to termen, sometimes with slight silvery streaks 

 above and below it on terminal area ; a rufous streak below base of 

 cell ; traces of a very oblique waved postmedial line from vein 4 to 

 submedian fold ; traces of a waved subterminal line at middle ; a 

 terminal series of black points. Hind wing white, the veins slightly 

 tinged with brown. 



Hah. Natal, Estcourt (HutcJwison), 1 <5 type, Mooi P., 1 $ . E.vp. 

 44-50 millim. 



2177. Empusada argentivitta, n. sp. (Plate XCVIII. fig. 14.) 



Head and thorax whitish irrorated with grey ; tegulas with slight 

 dark lines ; abdomen ochreous white with slight dark irroration. 

 Fore Aving pale yellow tinged with grey and irrorated with fuscous ; 

 a double very oblique antemedial line from submedian fold to vein 1 ; 

 two minute black points in middle of cell ; a silvery-white fascia 

 tapering at extremities from cell above origin of vein 2 to just before 

 termen ; traces of a very oblique double waved postmedial line from 

 vein 4 to submedian fold ; traces of a waved subterminal line at 

 middle ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing Avhite, the veins 

 and sometimes the termen tinged with broAvn, especially in female. 



Hah. Bas-dtoland, Maseru (Craivshaij), 1 6 ; Cape Colony, 

 Transkei' (Miss F. Barrett), 4 c? , 3 $ type. Exj>. 38-40 millim. 



