452 NOCTUTD.-E. 



and in cell ; a short blackish streak below base of cell with some 

 oblique blackish suffusion from its extremity to inner margin ; 

 antemediallin« blackish slightly defined by whilish on inner side, 

 slightly angled inwards below costa, oblique to submedian fold, 

 then inwardly oblique and indistinct; clavit'orm minute, defined by 

 blackish and with diffused dark brown streak from it to postmedial 

 liue ; orbicular and reniform with brownish centres and whitish 



annuli defined by black, the former narrow, oblique, the latter open 

 above and below, the cell before and between them dark brown ; 

 postmedial line obsolescent from costa to vein 2, bent outwardly 

 below costa, incurved below vein 4 to below end of cell, below 

 vein 2 black defined by whitish on outer side, slightly angled out- 

 wards on vein 1, some white points beyond it on costa ; subterrainal 

 line whitish slightly defined by brown on inner side forming slight 

 dentate marks at middle, angled outwards at vein 7, dentate inwards 

 below veins 6, 5, 4, and outwards on vein 3, then incurved, a dark 

 streak fr9m it to termen below vein 4 ; a fine waved black terminal 

 line ; cilia whitish with series of brown lunules and brownish tips. 

 Hind wing white with slight discoidal spot, the terminal area 

 slightly tinged with brown ; a fine waved dark terminal line ; 

 cilia white with slight brown line through them ; the underside 

 with the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a small 

 discoidal spot. 



Hab. W. Ttjekestan, Aschabad, type t 6 in Coll. Piingeler. 

 Exj). 40 millim. 



Genus CENTHOPODIA. n. n. 



Centropzis, Christ. Eom. M6m. v. p. SO (1889), iiec 111. Aves, Type, 

 1811, & Kner, Pise. 1860 scripturosa. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about 

 1o middle of frons and moderately scaled, the 3rd short; irons smooth; eyes 

 large, round; antermaa of female ciliated ; thorax clothed chiefly with scales, 

 the pro- and metathorax with spreading crests ; fore tibise with one or more 

 claws on outer side ; mid and hind tibia; moderately fringed with hair ; abdo- 

 men without crests, Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly 

 curved and hardly crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from 

 upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from 

 cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 6 obsolescent from middle 

 of discocellulars ; fi, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near 

 base only. 



