406 NOCTUIDiE. 



A. Fore wing with the ground-colour white. 



a. Fore wing thiclily irrorated with black and suffused in 



parts with red-brown diadela. 



b. Fore wing slightly irrorated with black and tinged in parts 



with ochreous brown. 

 a}. Fore wing with the whole medial area tinged with 



ochreous brown defining the white reniform lithoplasta. 



b^. Fore wing with brown band on basal half of medial area, 



the reniform undefined medialis. 



B. Fore wing witlithe ground-colour pale greenish umovi. 



*3237. (Ederemia diadela. (Plate CXVIII. fig. 18.) 



Bryophila diadela, Piing. ined. 



(5 . Head and thorax yellowish white mixed with black and red- 

 brown; frons with black l3ar; auteunce black; tarsi black ringed with 

 white ; abdomen white irrorated with black, the crests tipped with 

 black. Fore wing yellowish white thickly irrorated with black, the 

 antemedial area white, without black irroration at middle, some rufous 

 suffusion beyond the antemedial and before the subterminal line ; 

 subbasal line black defined by white on outer side, waved, from 

 costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line black defined by white on inner 

 side, oblique, waved ; claviform faintly defined by black ; orbicular 

 and reniform large, defined by black, their centres almost filled in 

 with black irroration, the former round and touching the ante- 

 medial line, the latter constricted at middle ; postmedial line black 

 defined by white on outer side, bent outwards below costa, then 

 dentate, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some white points 

 beyond it on costa ; subterminal line slight, whitish, defined on 

 inner side by rufous suffusion, excurved below vein 7 and at middle 

 and bent outwards to tornus ; a terminal series of small black 

 lunules defined by white on inner side ; cilia white mixed with 

 black. Hind wing white faintly tinged with brown and irrorated 

 with fuscous, the terminal area suffused with fuscous ; a fuscous 

 discoidal lunule and postmedial line excurved below costa, then 

 oblique ; a terminal series of blackish striae from apex to vein 2 

 defined by white on inner side ; cilia yellowish white ; the under- 

 side white, the costal area tinged with ochreous, the termen 

 irrorated with fuscous, a small discoidal spot and diffused curved 

 postmedial line. 



Hah. W. Turkestan, Alexander Mts., type f cS in Coll. Piingeler. 

 Exp. 34 millim. 



*3238. (Ederemia lithoplasta. 



Bryopldla lithoplasta, Piing. ined. 



Head and thorax white faintly tinged with brown and. irrorated 

 with a few black scales ; antennae blackish ; tegulae and patagia 

 with some black scales on edges ; tarsi banded with black ; abdomen 

 white dorsally suffused with fuscous, the crests black at tips, 

 extremity of anal tuft black in female. Fore wing white tinged 

 in parts with ochreous brown and slightly irrorated with black; 

 subbasal line black, waved, from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line 



