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defined hy red, somewhat angled inwards on median nervure ; an 

 indistinct medial line escurved from costa to median nervure, then 

 oblique ; postmedial line indistinct, red, oblique from costa to vein 6, 

 then minutely dentate with series of blackish and white points 

 beyond it on the veins, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some 

 white points beyond it on costa ; faint traces of a pale dentate sub- 

 terminal line; the veins slightly streaked with fuscous towards 

 termen ; a fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing yellow-brown, 

 the termen and cilia rufous ; the underside greyish ochreousirrorated 

 with brown, the costal area suffused with purplish, a black discoidal 

 spot and sinuous postmedial line. 



Rub. SiKHTiu Tibet, Tatung {Holson), 1 $ type. Exp.-i2mi\\iva.. 



2852. Parastichtis veterina. (Plate CX. fig. 18.) 



Hadena veterina. Led. Verb. z.-b. "Wien, 1853, p. 370, pi. 2, f , 4 ; Stand. 



Cat. Lep. pal. p. 174. 

 Hadena haelsseni, Grces. Berl. ent. Zeit. 1889, p. 2.54 ; Staud. Cat Lep. pal. 



p. 174. 

 Hadena jiiandsckurica, Staud. Eom. Mem. vi. p. 438 (1892). 



2 . Ochreous tinged with rufous ; head and thorax irrorated with 

 black ; frons with lateral black bars ; tarsi banded with black ; 

 anal tuft rufous. Pore wing irrorated with rufous and a few 

 fuscous scales ; subbasal line represented by two black strije from 

 costa and one from cell ; antemedial line indistinctly double, angled 

 outwards below costa, then waved, oblique to submedian fold, then 

 erect and with black points before it on the veins ; lower edge of 

 claviform represented by a slight brown streak ; orbicular and reni- 

 form large, slightly defined by rufous and with slight rufous centres, 

 the former oblique elliptical ; the extremity of median nervure 

 streaked Avith blackish ; medial line black, dentate, oblique from 

 costa to vein 2 ; postmedial line indistinctly double, bent outwards 

 below costa, then minutely dentate and with a double series of 

 black points beyond it on the veins, excurved to vein 4, then 

 incurved, some slight ochreous points beyond it on costa ; subter- 

 minal line ochreous defined by rufous on inner side, excurved below 

 vein 7 and at middle, the area beyond it sufi'used with brown except 

 at apex and the veins streaked with fuscous ; a terminal series of 

 small black lunules ; cilia fuscous with some rufous at base. Hind 

 wing pale ochreous suffused with fuscous especially on terminal 

 half ; a pale curved postmedial line ; an ochreous subterminal line 

 from vein 3 to tornus, angled outwards at vein 2 ; cilia rufous ; 

 the underside ochreous tinged with riifous and irrorated with 

 fuscous, a black discoidal spot, sinuous postmedial line, and diffused 

 subterminal band. 



Ab. 1. liaelsseni. Larger, darker and more strongly marked. — 

 Amurland. 



Hah. W. Siberia, Altai ; E. Siberia, Amurland, Eaddefka, 1 5 . 

 Exp. 48 miliim. Type f ? liaelsseni in Coll. Piingeler. 



