420 noctuid.t;. 



*3256. Eremobia montana. 



Folia montana, Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schiuett. vi. p. 55, Nuct. f. 625 (1856) ; 

 Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 172. 



J . Head and thorax yellowish white slightly mixed with 

 fuscous; palpi with some blackish at sides; antennae brown ; tarsi 

 fuscous ringed with white; abdomen white, dorsally slightly tinged 

 with fuscous. .Fore wing yellowish white irrorated with fuscous ; 

 subbasal line indistinct, doable, waved, from cosia to submedian 

 fold ; antemedial line double, waved ; claviform absent ; orbicular 

 defined by fuscous, round; reniform defined by fuscous on inner 

 side only; an indistinct waved medial line; postmedial line in- 

 distinct, double towards costa, bent outwards below eosta, then 

 minutely waved, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some whitish 

 points beyond it on costa with dark points between them ; sub- 

 terminal line very indistinct, whitish slightly defined by brown on 

 inner side, waved, somewhat excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; 

 cilia ochreous at base, whitish at tips and with two faint waved 

 dark lines through them. Hind wing whitish, the terminal area 

 suffused with fuscous ; cilia white ; the underside white with faint 

 diffused dark subterminal band. 



Ab. 1. Ground-colour reddish ochreous irrorated with red-brown, 

 the markings of fore wing reddish brown ; hind wing ochreous 

 white, the terminal area suffused with brown. — W. Turkestan, 



Hah. Armenia; Asia Minor, Pontus, Taurus; W. Turkestan, 

 Turcomani,a, Ferghana, Samarkand, in Coll. Piiugeler. Exjp. 44 

 millim. 



3257. Eremobia mutica. (Plate CXVIII. fig. 27.) 



Lupcrina mutica, Christ. Eom. Mem. ii. p. 47, pi. 3. f. 2 (1885) ; Stand. 

 Cat. Lep. pal. p. 169. 



c? . Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous white mixed with 

 fuscous brown and tinged with yellow ; tarsi fuscous ringed with 

 white. Fore wing ochreous white thickly irrorated with fuscous 

 brown and suffused in parts with yellow, especially in submedian 

 fold ; subbasal line waved, from costa to submedian fold ; ante- 

 medial line waved, nearly erect ; claviform small, defined by black ; 

 orbicular yellow defined by black and with dark point in centre, 

 round ; reniform slightly defined by black on inner side and below 

 and by yellow on outer side ; a faint diffused curved medial line ; 

 postmedial line blackish defined by yellow on outer side, strongly 

 bent outwards below costa, then very minutely dentate, excurved 

 to vein 4, then incurved to below end of cell ; subterminal line 

 indistinct, yellow, waved, interrupted, excurved below vein 7 and 

 at middle ; a terminal series of slight dark lunules ; cilia inter- 

 sected with yellow and with slight pale waved line at middle. 

 Hind wing whitish tinged with yellow and suff'used with red- 

 brown ; cilia yellowish white with slight brown line near base ; 



