445 



*3285. Sidemia plebeja. 



Byschorisia plebeja, Stand. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 34 ; Alph. Eom. Mem. 

 V. pp. 32, ]72, pi. 7. f. 9; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 205. 



S . Head and thorax pale reddish brown mixed with grey ; sides 

 of palpi and frons fuscous : tarsi brown with pale rings ; abdomen 

 pale grey-brown. Fore wing pale brownish grey irrorated with 

 fuscous, the end of cell and the area beyond and below its extremity 

 and the postmedial area tinged with rufous, the terminal area with 

 fuscous ; the costal area to postmedial line and the inner area greyer ; 

 subbasal line represented by double black strise from costa and one 

 from cell with a fuscous tinge on costa beyond it ; antemedial line 

 double filled in with grey, oblique, waved ; claviform represented by 

 a faint pale mark defined by a few black scales ; orbici;lar grey 

 slightly defined by fuscous, its centre irrorated with fuscous, oblique 

 elliptical, its lower extremity produced and almost continent with 

 the reniform which has a whitish annulus slightly defined by fuscous, 

 its centre tinged with fuscous and its outer edge indistinct ; a slight 

 medial shade oblique from costa to just beyond lower angle of cell, 

 then inwardly oblique; postmedial line indistinctly double filled in 

 Avith grey, bent outwards below costa, then minutely dentate and 

 produced to slight grey streaks on the veins, oblique below vein 4, 

 some grey points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line grey slightly 

 defined by brown on inner side, somewhat angled outwards at veins 

 7, 4, 3, then incurved ; a terminal series of slight black striae. Hind 

 wing pale uniformly suffused with pale reddish brown ; the cilia 

 white with a slight brown line through them ; the underside white 

 slightly irrorated with brown, a small discoidal spot and indistinct 

 diffused postmedial line. 



5 . Fore wing with the postmedial and terminal areas suffused 

 with blackish leaving some greyish lunules on termen; the anal 

 tuft blackish. 



Hah. W. Tdrkestan, Turcomauia, Merv in Coll. Pliugeler, 

 Ferghana, Sarawschan, Exp. S 36, $ 42 millim. 



3286. Sidemia fissipuncta. 



i\oc(;?M ?/;m7o»,Schiff.Wien.Verz.p 78(1776), nee Rett. (1776); Sepp, Ins. 

 iii. pi. 37 ; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., IVoct. f. lot); Dup. Lep. Fr. vi. p. 135, 

 pi. 81. f. 5 ; Frr. Neue Beitr. iv. pi. 329 ; Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. 

 p. 149. 



Foctua corticea, Esp. Schmetfc. iv. pi. 145, ff. 2, 3 (1789), nee SchifF. 



Noctua mmatrum, Scriba, Beitr. Ins. Ges. p. 128, pi. 9. f. H (1790), nee Schiff. 



NoctuafissipunctajHaw. Lep. Brit. p. 197 (1809) ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 204. 



Di/sckorista orenbiirghensis, Bartel, Iris, xv. p. 211 (1902). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen reddish brown mixed with grey ; sides 

 of palpi and frons blackish ; tarsi blackish with pale rings. Fore 

 wing greyish suffused with red-brown and irrorated with a few 

 black scales ; a more or less developed bhick streak below base of 

 cell ; subbasal line represented by double dark striae from costa and 

 cell filled in with grey ; antemedial line indistinctly double filled in 



