408 NocTUiDJi:. 



*2599. Dasysternum juditha, (Plate CV. fig. 28.) 



Folia juditlia, Stand. Iris, x. p. 276, pi. 4. f. 16 (1897) ; id. Cat. Lep. pal. 

 p. 179. 



2 . Head and thorax ver}' pale yellowish ; palpi and frons at 

 sides with slight fuscous marks ; abdomen ochreous white slightly 

 irrorated with brown. Pore wing very pale yellowish slightly 

 irrorated with brown ; subbasal line very indistinct, brown, waved, 

 from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line indistinct, double, 

 slightly waved, oblique, with slight brown marks at costa ; claviform 

 very faintly defined by brown ; orbicular and reniform yellowish, 

 faintly defined, the former with brownish centre, round, the latter 

 angled inwards on median nervure ; postmedial line indistinctly 

 double from costa to vein 5, bent outwards below costa, then dentate 

 and produced to black points on the veins, incurved below vein 4^ 

 some slight pale points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line in- 

 distinct, pale, slightly defined by brown on inner side, dentate, some- 

 what angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle. Hind 

 wing ochreous white slightly tinged with brown ; cilia yellowish 

 Avhite ; the underside nearly pure white. 



Hah. Palestine, Ain-Dschidi, in Coll. Piingeler. Ecvp. 44 millim. 



*2600. Dasysternum baclieri. (Plate CV. fig. 29.) 



Epunda bacheri, Pung. Iris, xiv. p. 332 (1901), & xv. pi. vi. f. 25. 



(S . Head and thorax pale rufous ; palpi dark brown at sides ; 

 frons with dark brown bar above ; tarsi brown ringed with ochreous 

 white ; abdomen ochreous white dorsally suffused with pale rufous. 

 Fore wing ochreous suffused with pale red-brown ; subbasal line 

 absent : antemedial line indistinct, double, waved, with darker brown 

 band on its outer side except at costa, on inner area extending to 

 postmedial line ; orbicular and reniform slightly defined by brown, 

 the former small, round, the latter open above, constricted at middle 

 and with some brown on lower part ; postmedial line brown defined 

 by somewhat paler colour on outer side and with brown suffusion 

 on inner side from costa to vein 2, bent outwards below costa, then 

 minutely dentate, excurved to vein 4, then oblique, some slight pale 

 points beyond it on costa; subterminal area represented by two 

 slight dentate brown marks below costa and three at middle ; a 

 terminal series of minute dark lunules ; cilia ochreous with a 

 diffused dark line through them. Hind wing ochreous white with 

 slight curved brown postmedial line, diftused subterminal band, and 

 fine waved terminal line ; cilia ochreous with a brown line through 

 them ; the underside whitish, the costal and terminal areas sufi'used 

 with pale reddish brown. 



TJah. Palestine, Petra, typet 6 in Coll. Piingeler, Exp. 40^ 

 millim. 



