PAEASTICHTIS. 



85 



Hah. Beitain (Doubledaij, McLacJilan), Leech Coll. ; Feance ; 

 Geemani, Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls. ; S, Scandinavia. Exjy. 

 44-50 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 131 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 361, pi. 176. f.3. 



Similar to P. lithoxyUa but redder. 



*2823. Parasticlitis arahs. 



Hadena arabs, Oberth. Et. Eut. vi. p. 88, pi. 11. f. 8 (1881); Stand. Cat. 

 Lep. pal. p. 173. 



c?. Head and thorax reddish brown mixed with greyish ; frons 

 with slight dark bar ; tegulae with slight black medial line ; 

 abdomen brown mixed with greyish. Fore wing grey-white 

 suffused with pale brown and slightly irrorated with fuscous ; 

 a sinuous black streak below base of cell ; subbasal line represented 

 by an obliqae black striga from costa ; an oblique black streak 

 above inner margin before the antemedial line, which is black 

 slightly defined by whitish on inner side, angled outwards below 

 costa, inwards on median nervure and vein 1 and outwards to near 

 postmedial line in submedian fold, where there is a black streak 

 from it to postmedial line, and above inner margin ; clavit'orm 

 absent ; orbicular small, elongate, pale defined by black ; renifoi-m 

 very ill-defined except below ; medial shade oblique to median 

 nervure, then diffused outwards to postmedial line and down to 

 submedian fold ; postmedial line black defined by whitish on outer 

 side, bent outwards below costa, then dentate and produced to 

 short streaks on the veins, excnrved to vein 4, then incurved ; 

 subterminal line indistinct, whitish, defined on inner side by small 

 dentate black marks at middle and with brown streaks beyond it 

 in the interspaces, angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate to termen 

 at veins 4, 3 ; a terminal series of small dark lunules ; cilia brown 

 intersected with whitish. Hind wing white, the veins and terminal 

 area tinged with brown ; the underside with the costal and 

 terminal areas irrorated with brown, a curved postmedial line. 



Hah. Algeeia, Sebdou, type t (S in Coll. Oberthiir. Exjy. 

 42 millim. 



This is recorded in error as a variety of Eumichtis solieri, vol. vi. 

 p. 331. 



2824. Parasticlitis cristata. (Plate CIX. fig. 28.) 



Hadena cristata, Grote, Ball. Geog. Gaol. Surv. Terr. iv. p. 176 (1878) ; 

 Smith, Gat. Noct. N. Am. p. 140. 



5 . Head and thorax rufous mixed with whitish, purplish and 

 a few black scales ; frons with lateral black bars ; tegulse with 

 slight black medial line ; patagia with dark line near upper edge ; 

 tibiae with some black marks ; tarsi slightly banded with black ; 

 abdomen ochreous tinged with rufous and irrorated with brown, 

 the dorsal crests tipped with rufous and fuscous. Fore wing 

 ochreous suffused in parts with rufous and slightly irrorated with 



