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NOCTiriDiE. 



large, white defined by black except at base and with short black 

 streak iu centre ; orbicular and reniform white defined by black 

 and with black centres, the former round, the cell between them 

 black ; a waved black medial line ; postmedial line double, black 

 filled in with white, bent outwards below costa, then dentate, 

 incurved at discal fold and below vein 4 ; subterminal line repre- 

 sented by a series of white lunules in the interspaces defined on 

 inner side by dentate black marks and with black streaks from them 

 to the terminal series of black lunules ; cilia chequered white and 

 black. Hind wing white, the veins slightly tinged with brown 

 towards termen ; a fuscous terminal line ; cilia white ; the under- 

 side with the costal area slightly irrorated with brown, a postmedial 

 series of minute dark streaks on the veins. 



Hah. Syria, Akbes, type t c? , in Coll. Obcrthiir. Exp. 34 millim. 



2482. Lamprosticta gemmea. 



Miselia gemmea, Treit. Schmett. Eur. v. 1, p. .393 (1825) ; Dup. Lep. Fr., 

 Suppl. iii. p. 269, pi. 24. f. 1 ; Herr.-Sebafi. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 70; 

 Frr. Neue Beitr. pi. 411. ff. 1, 2; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 173. 



Head white mixed with dark brown, the frons and vertex of head 

 with dark bars ; antennae brown ringed with white at base ; 

 tegulse yellowish white at base bounded by black and white lines 

 and with brown tips ; patagia and thorax brown, with black and 

 white scales near upper edge of former ; pectus with whitish hair 

 except in front ; tibiae and tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen 

 brown. I'ore wing olive-brown, the medial area beyond and below 

 cell and above vein 1 and the terminal area tinged with purplish, the 



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Fig. 102. — Lamprosticta gemmea, (J. \. 



veins irrorated with white ; subbasal line double, black filled in with 

 white, waved, from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line double, black 

 tilled in with white, angled outwards below costa, cxcurved below cell 

 and above inner margin and angled inwards on vein 1 ; claviform 

 defined by black, with some white scales or entirely filled in with 

 white ; orbicular and reniform white defined by black, the formei' 

 round with some black in centre, the latter with its centre defined 

 by black ; a dentate black medial line, oblique from costa to median 

 nervure, then inwardly oblique ; postmedial line double, black filled 

 in with white, bent outwards below costa, then single and defined 

 by white on outer side, slightly to vein 2, dentate, excurved to 



