PSBtrUOHADENA. 459 



Larva. Kirby, Eur. Butt. & Moths, p. 236 ; Hffmn. Raup. p. 96, pi. 27. f. 8. 



Yellowish or reddish, dull blue venirally, with dusky dorsal and 

 subdorsal lines and oblique dark lateral streaks. Pood-plants : 

 ChenojyocUum fruticosum, Atri_plex portulacoides, and Salsola soda. 



3302. Pseudohadena commoda. (P.'ate CXIX. fig. 8.) 



Ehisa commoda. Stand. Stett. ent.. Zeit. 1889, p. 44 ; Piing. Iris, xv. p. 160, 



pi. 5. f. 13 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 183. 

 EMzamanifesta, Christ. Iris, vi. p. 92 (1893) ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 183. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen brownish white ; tarsi fuscous with 

 pale rings. Fore wing brownish white sparsely irrorated with 

 fuscous ; a slight black streak below base of cell : subbasal line 

 slightly waved, from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line 

 somewhat oblique, minutely waved, angled outwards above inner 

 margin, traces of a narrow claviform defined by blackish ; orbicular 

 and reniform whitish, the former defined by black at sides, oblique 

 elliptical, rather irregular, sometimes produced on inner side, the 

 latter defined by black on inner side, ill-defined on outer, rather 

 constricted at middle ; traces of a waved medial line angled out- 

 wards to lower angle of cell ; postmedial line bent outwards below 

 costa, then dentate, oblique below vein 4 ; subterminal line in- 

 distinct, defined on inner side by three more or less prominent 

 dentate black marks between veins 7 and 4. Hind wing ochreous 

 white tinged with fuscous especially on terminal area ; cilia white ; 

 the underside white, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with 

 brown, a slight discoidal bar and indistinct somewhat sinuous post- 

 medial line with minute dark streaks on the veins. 



Ab. 1. manifesta. Darker. — Armenia. 



Hah. Armenia ; W. Tuekestan, Issyk-Kul, 1 c? , 2 5 ; E. 

 TuEKBSTAN, Kaschgar ; Mongolia, Aksu. Exio. 40 millim. 



3303. Pseudohadena siri. 



Mamestra siri, Ersch. Fedtsch. Eeis. p. 41, pi. 3. f. 42 (1874) ; Christ. Eom. 

 Mem. T. p. 31, pi. 2. f. 5; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 170. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen grey-brown slightly mixed with 

 fu.scous ; frons with lateral black bars ; patagia with some black scales 

 near upper edge. Fore wing grey-brown ; the veins with slight dark 

 streaks ; subbasal line represented by double black striae from costa 

 and cell filled in with grey ; a black streak below base of cell ; ante- 

 medial line double filled in with grey, minutely and irregularly 

 dentate, angled inwards at vein 1 ; claviform small or obsolete, 

 slightly defined by blackish ; orbicular and reniform defined by 

 blackish, the former grey, more or less oblique elliptical, the latter 

 with fuscous centre and grey aunulus ; a diff'used medial shade 

 angled on median nervure ; postmedial line indistinctly double filled 

 in with grey, bent outwards below costa, then dentate, incurved 

 below vein 4 and angled outwards on vein 1 ; subterminal line 

 indistinct, pale defined on inner side by somewhat dentate fuscous 

 marks and a more prominent oblique shade between veins 7 and 5, 

 angled outwards at veins 7, 4, 3; a fine terminal lunnlate line; a 



