232 NOCTUID^. 



Ab. 3. concors. Fore wing nearly Tiniform whitisli. 



Hab. Armenia ; Transcatjcasia ; Asia Minok, Poutus, Amasia, 

 in Coll. Piingeler ; Palestine ; W. Ttjkkestan, Turcomania. Exjj. 

 30-36 millim. 



2380. DertMsa amasina. (Plate CII. fig. 2.) 



Episema amasina, Eang-Haas, ined. 



c5" . Head and thorax white strongly tinged with rufous ; palpi 

 blackish at base ; abdomen ochreous white. Fore wing ochreous 

 white suffused and irrorated with purplish rufous, the base and 

 costal area to postmedial line whitish ; the veins pale ; antemedial 

 line ochreous whitish, obliquely excurved from costa to submedian 

 fold, then incurved, bent outwards to inner margin ; claviform 

 obsolete ; orbicular very faintly defined by red, extending to well 

 below cell ; reniform an ochreous-white lunula obscurely defined 

 by red ; postmedial line arising from towards apex, ochreous white, 

 slightly incurved at discal fold and oblique below vein 4 ; sub- 

 terminal line represented by faint pale scaling. Hind wing white, 

 the veins and base of cilia slightly yellowish. 



Hah, Asia Mikok, Amasia, 1 J . Exp. 32 millim. 



*2381. DertMsa antherici. 



Episema antherici, Christ. Eom. Mem. i. p. 121, pi. 8. ff. 2 a, b (1884) ; 

 Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 177. 



5 . Head and thorax ochreous white ; sides of palpi and frons 

 brownish ; abdomen brownish white. Fore wing white slightly 

 tinged with pale red-brown, especially on costal area to subterminal 

 line ; the subbasal and antemedial lines absent ; the cell suffused 

 with rather deeper red-brown before and between the large stigmata, 

 which are white slightly defined by brown at sides ; the orbicular 

 triangular, slightly irregular, the reniform oblique oblong ; post- 

 medial line very indistinct double filled in with whitish, slightly 

 excurved below costa, inwardly oblique to vein 4, then obsolete ; 

 subterminal line indistinct, whitish, defined on inner side by a fine 

 pale red-brown line slightly angled outwards at vein 7, then 

 oblique and with slight brown suffusion beyond it ; a slight red- 

 brown terminal line. Hind wing nearly pure white. 



Ilah. Persia ; W. Turkestan, Turcomania, Askabad in Coll. 

 Tungeler. Exp., S 28, $ 36 millim. 



Larva. Pale yellow with fine transverse brown striae ; a dorsal 

 brown stripe with irregular edges and the fine pale dorsal line on 

 it ; a subdorsal brown stripe with irregular edges and the warts 

 yellow ; stigmata ringed with black ; substigmatal line interrupted ; 

 head pale rufous marbled with red-brown. Food-plant, Anthe- 

 ricum. 4. 



