452 srocTtriDiE. 



brown with two fine white lines through them. Hind wing white 

 sparsely irrorated with brown ; a brown shade along median 

 nervure ; traces of a sinuous postmedial line ; a diffused subterminal 

 band rather broken up into spots ; a fine waved brown terminal 

 line ; cilia Avhite at base followed by a fine brown line and pale pink 

 tips ; the underside white irrorated with brown, a diseoidal point 

 and rufous postmedial line from costa to vein 4. 



Ab. 1. scortea. Fore wing dark grey without the brown tinge. 



Hah. Palestine, 1 J , 1 5 . Exp. 36 millim. 



*2659. Conistra canicostata. 



Orrhodia canicostata, Grtes. Berl. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 358 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. 

 pal. p. 209. 



6 . Head and thorax grey-brown ; palpi red-brown ; abdomen 

 yellowish grey ; pectus and ventral surface of abdomen red-brown ; 

 legs yellowish. Fore wing red-brown mixed with yellow-brown 

 and irrorated with grey, the costal area suffused with grey to post- 

 medial line, the veins with grey streaks ; antemedial line oblique, 

 waved, defined by grey on outer side ; orbicular and reniform with 

 grey annuli ; medial line oblique from costa to median nervure ; 

 postmedial line defined by grey on inner side, bent outwards below 

 costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line 

 represented by a series of grey striag in the interspaces slightly 

 defined by brown on inner side, somewhat angled outwards at 

 vein 7 and excurved at middle ; cilia yellowish at base, grey-brown 

 at tips. Hind wing fuscous, yellowish at base ; a dark diseoidal 

 spot ; cilia reddish yellow ; the underside dirty yellowish white 

 irrorated with dark grey and reddish, a slight dark diseoidal spot 

 and diffused postmedial line. 



Hab. E. SiBEBiA, Ussuri. Exj:}. 33 millim. This species is 

 unknown to me. 



2660. Conistra politina. (Plate CVI. fig. 16.) 



Orrhodia jjolitina, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 35 ; id. Cat. Lep. pal. 



p. 209. 

 Orrhodict subsjMdiceana, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 35. 



Head pale rufous ; sides of palpi and frons with some fuscous ; 

 antennee with the shaft grey ; thorax grey-white irrorated with 

 brown ; pectus tinged with rufous ; legs irrorated with fuscous ; 

 abdomen pale rufous, the base of dorsum grey. Fore wing grey- 

 white slightly irrorated with fuscous, the veins with slight pale 

 streaks ; subbasal line represented by slight double striae from costa ; 

 antemedial line indistinct, double, oblique, waved ; orbicular and 

 reniform with slight grey annuli faintly defined by brown, the 

 former somewhat oblique elliptical, the latter open above, constricted 

 at middle and with its lower part filled in with fuscous ; a rather 

 diffused dark medial line, oblique from costa to lower angle of cell, 



