410 NOCTUIDJE. 



fold, angled inwards in cell ; an indistinct waved antemedial line 

 angled inwards on vein 1 ; orbicular and reuiform with very ill- 

 ■delined pale annuli, the former rounded, the latter irregular, with 

 traces of whitish spots on its outer edges and somewhat angled 

 inwards on median nervure ; postmedial line indistinct, bent out- 

 wards below costa, then dentate and produced to dark points on the 

 veins, oblique below vein 4, some pale points beyond it on costa ; 

 siibterminal line only defined by a dark patch before it on costa and 

 the area beyond it being slightly darker, angled outwards at vein 7 

 and excurved at middle ; cilia chequered yellowish white and 

 fuscous. Hind wing yellowish white tinged with fuscous especially 

 on terminal area, in female uniformly suffused except costal area; 

 cilia j^ellowish ; the underside whitish, with small discoidal spot and 

 diffused postmedial line. 



Hah. SyKiA, Lebanon (Pratt), 1 $ ; Palestine, 1 c? • Exp. 38 

 niillim. 



*2603. Dasysternum eristica. (Plate CV. fig. 31.) 



JDasy sternum eristicum, Piing. Iris, xix. p. 94 (1906). 



(S . Head, thorax, and abdomen red-brown mixed with greyish ; 

 palpi fuscous at sides ; tarsi fuscous with pale rings. Fore wing 

 greyish thickly irrorated and striated with red-brown ; subbasal 

 line represented by a black striga from costa defined by whitish on 

 outer side beyond which is some blackish suffusion ; antemedial line 

 represented by two blackish marks on costa with some whitish 

 between them and a slight oblique striga above inner margin ; 

 orbicular and reniform small, pale, very indistinct and ill-defined, 

 the former somewhat oblique ellijitical ; postmedial line represented 

 by two blackish marks on costa with some whitish between them, 

 then very indistinct, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, 

 then very oblique, some whitish points beyond it on costa; sub- 

 terminal line pale with patch of brown suffusion before it on costa, 

 then hardly traceable, incurved below vein 3 ; a slight waved brown 

 terminal line ; cilia whitish intersected with brown and with slight 

 brown line through them. Hind wing reddish brown with traces 

 of discoidal spot, curved postmedial line, and diffused subterminal 

 band ; cilia whitish tinged with brown ; the underside pale tinged 

 with rufous and irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal lunule and 

 rather diffused curved postmedial line. 



Uah. Mongolia, Aksu, type t S in Coll. Piingeler. Exjp. 34 

 millim. 



Sect. III. Aiitennse of male ahnost simple. 



2604. Dasysternum tibetana. 



Dasysternum tibetanum, Stand. Iris, viii. p. 327, pi. 6. f. 9 (1895) ; id. Cat. 

 Lep. pal. p. 180. 



Head and thorax blue-grey mixed with olive-brown ; antennas 

 blackish ; tarsi blackish with pale rings ; abdomen blue-grey mixed 



