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yellowish, white, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown 

 and the termen suffnsed with brown, a blackish discoidal spot and 

 waved sinuous postmedial line. 



Hah. S. EussiA, Sarepta ; Asia Minob, Taurus Mts.j 1 $ . Exp. 

 30 millim. 



2772. Amphipyra alphftraci. (Plate CIX. fig, 3.) 



Acosmetia alpherakii, Stand. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1888, x>- 30 ; id. Oat. Lep. pal. 

 p. 199. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen white faintly tinged with red-brown ; 

 tarsi ringed with white. Fore wing glossy grey-white tinged with 

 pale red-broAvn ; subbasal line represented by an oblique dark 

 striga from costa and point below cell ; antemedial line very 

 indistinct, waved, with more prominent striga from costa ; orbicular 

 absent ; the reniform represented by a small faint whitish lunule ; 

 postmedial line indistinct, dark, slightly defined by whitish on outer 

 side at costa, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then 

 incurved, some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line 

 white, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and incurved below 

 vein 3, with diffused white streaks beyond it in the interspaces ; a 

 terminal series of slight brown lunules ; cilia tiuged with red-brown 

 and with yellowish line at base. Hind wing whitish uniformly 

 tinged with rufous ; cilia white tinged with rufous at base ; the 

 underside white, the costal area tinged with rufous, a faint dark 

 discoidal lunule and diffused subterminal band from costa to 

 vein 4. 



Ab, 1. Pore wing with the cell and interspaces beyond it 

 between veins 7 and 2 suffused with fuscous to subterminal line, 

 leaving whitish streaks on the veins ; hind wing more rufous. — 

 Transcaspia. 



Hah. W. TuEKESTAN, Transcaspia, Tedschen Oasis (Haioser), 

 1 J , 1 $ ; E. Tpkkestak, Hi, 1 <? , 1 $ . Hvp. 30-36 millim. 



2773. Amphipyra glabella. (Plate CIX. fig. 4.) 



Fi/rophila glabella, Mopr. Proc. Boat. Soc. N. H. xvii. p. 153 (1874); 

 Smith, Oat. Noct. N. Am. p. 197. 



Head and thorax grey-white mixed with some brown ; abdomen 

 grey tinged with brown, the anal tuft pale rufous. Pore wing grey- 

 white irrorated and suft'used with brown, the terminal area whiter, 

 the veins beyond the cell with slight pale streaks ; subbasal line 

 indistinct, double, curved, from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line 

 very indistinct, double, sinuous, oblique and rather more prominent 

 at costa, angled outwards below costa ; orbicular a small blackish 

 spot; reniform a slight whitish mark with two dark points on it 

 and an oblique striga before it ; postmedial line blackish defined by 

 white on outer side, interrupted at the veins, bent outwards below 



