428 NOCTUIDiE. 



inwards on vein 1 ; a curved diffused subterminal band. Hind wing^ 



fuscous grey with a silvery gloss ; cilia olive-grey ; the underside 



oliTe-grey slightly irrorated with fuscous, a minute discoidal point. 



Hob. E. Turkestan, Kashgar, Altyn Tag, 1 (S . Eccp. 36 millim. 



*2629. Dasythorax hirsiita. (Plate CVI. fig. 7.) 



B'pinthero'ps liir&uta. Stand. Eerl. ent. Zeit. 1870, p. 123; Rebel, Verb, 

 zool.-bot. Wieu, 1899, p. 167, pi. 4. f. 5; Staud. Cat. Lep. pab p. 251. 



Head and thorax olive-grey suffused with brown ; sides of palpi 

 and frons irrorated with black ; pectus with some whitish hair ; 

 tarsi blackish with pale rings ; abdomen pale oehreous brown. 

 Fore wing oehreous "suffused with olive fuscous and with slight dark 

 irroration ; subbasal line absent ; antemedial line indistinct, diffused, 

 somewhat oblique from costa to median nervure, then incurved : 

 claviform and orbicular absent ; reniform a faint dark lunule ; 

 postmedial line indistinct, diffused, excurved from costa to vein 4, 

 then bent inwards to below end of cell and again slightly excurved ; 

 subterminal line very indistinct, only defined by diffused fuscous on 

 inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; cilia 

 pale at tips. Hind wing glossy greyish suffused with pale oehreous 

 brown ; cilia whitish, oehreous at base; the underside whitish tinged 

 with oehreous, a faint diffused curved postmedial line, the terminal 

 area slightly tinged with fuscous. 



Hah. Switzerland, Valais ; Tyrol ; Persia ; W. Turkestan, 

 Issyk Kul. Exp. 44 millim. 



*2630. Dasythorax rasilis. (Plate CVI. fig. 8.) 



S'pintTiero'ps rasilis, Pilng. Iris, xiii. p. 120, pi. 4. f. 7 (1900) ; Staud. Cat. 

 Lep. pal. p. 251. 



Head and thorax olive-grey suffused with brown ; tarsi blackish 

 with pale rings ; pectus with whitish hair ; abdomen grey-white 

 tinged with brown. Pore wing greyish oehreous tinged with brown 

 and thickly irrorated with fuscous ; traces of a dark subbasal line 

 from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line fuscous, diffused, 

 waved, nearly erect ; claviform and orbicular absent ; reniform a 

 slight dark lunule ; a slight diffused medial shade ; postmedial line 

 fuscous, diffused, oblique from costa to vein 6, angled inwards at 

 discal fold, at vein 3 bent inwards to below end of cell, then 

 sinuous ; subterminal line only defined by diffused fuscous on inner- 

 side, angled outwards at veins 7, 4, 3 ; cilia pale at tips. Hind 

 wing glossy grey-white tinged with oehreous brown ; cilia white 

 tinged with brown at base ; the underside white tinged with 

 oehreous, traces of a discoidal lunule and diffused curved post- 

 medial line. 



Hah. W. Turkestan, Dscharkend, Issyk Kul typef J $ in 

 Coll. Plingeler. Exp. 48 millim. 



