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NOCIUIDJ;:. 



Hah. S. Peaijce, Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls. ; Spaik, Anda- 

 lusia ; S. Russia, Leech Coll. ; Palestine, Jerusalem, in ColL 

 Piingeler. Exp. 42 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 224, 



Green ; dorsal line slight, some black points on dorsal area ; 

 subdorsal line pale edged with yellow above, a lateral series of 

 oblique stripes ; lateral line pale. Food-plants : Cistus, Ilex, 

 Thyme, and Genista scorpius. 



*2538. Antitype subvenusta. (Plate CIY. fig. 26.) 

 Antitype subvenusta, Piing. Iris, six. p. 94 (1906). 



S . Head and thorax flesh-pink mixed with whitish and a few 

 black scales ; palpi and frons fuscous at sides ; pectus white, the 

 tibiae and tarsi fuscous ringed with white ; abdomen white. Fore 

 wing flesh-pink irrorated with pale brown, fuscous, and white, the 

 veins strongly irrorated with fuscous and white ; an indistinct 

 oblique waved fuscous and white antemedial line angled inwards to 

 white points on the veins ; orbicular and reniform faintly defined 

 by brown, both rather rectangular and the latter constricted at 

 middle ; a diff'used fuscous medial line oblique from costa to median 

 nervure, then incurved ; postmedial line fnscous and white, bent 

 outwards below costa, then dentate and produced to a double series 

 of dark points on the veins with white points between them, in- 

 curved below vein 4, some slight dark marks on costa beyond it : 

 subterminal line indistinct, waved, the area beyond it slightly tinged 

 with fuscous ; cilia with a waved fuscous line near tips. Hind 

 wing white with faint traces of a diffused subterminal line ; a fine 

 dark terminal line. 



2 . Abdomen irrorated with fuscous ; hind wing wholly suffused 

 with fuscous except costal area ; an indistinct curved whitish post- 

 medial line ; cilia white ; the underside with short dark streak in 

 cell, small discoidal lunule, diffused minutely crenulate postmedial 

 line and diffused terminal band. 



Hah. Palestine, Jerusalem, type t d $ in Coll. Piingeler. 

 Exp. 44 millim. 



*2539. Antitype miltina. (Plate CIV. fig. 27.) 



Folia miltina, Piing. Iris, xv. p. 152, pi. 5. f. 23 (1902). 



c? . Head and thorax fulvous ; sides of palpi and frons blackish ;, 

 antennae blackish ; pectus and legs pale yellowish with some grey ;. 

 tarsi banded with black ; abdomen yellowish white, sufi:'used with 

 fuscous on dorsum and sides. Fore wing fulvous irrorated with 

 black especially on postmedial area and with diffused black patch 

 on medial area above inner margin ; subbasal line indistinct, pale 

 yellow with some black scales before it at costa, waved, from costa 

 to submedian fold ; antemedial line pale yellow, defined by black 

 scales on outer side, oblique, waved ; claviform moderate, defined 



