472 Noc'reiD.i5. 



Luperina dcsyllesi, Eoisd. Ind. Metli. p. 113 (ISIO). 

 Apamea diversa, Stand. Iris, iv. p. 284 (1891). 

 Apamea sancta, Staud. Iris, iv. p. 285 (1891). 



Head and thorax ochreous white mixed with rufous ; tarsi banded 

 with brown ; abdomen ochreous white tinged with rufous. Fore 

 wing yellowish white tinged with rufous, the medial area, post- 

 medial costal area, and terminal area except at apex rufous ; 

 subbasal line represented by two black striae from costa ; some 

 black scales below cell and above inner margin near base ; ante- 

 medial line double, the outer line black, the inner indistinct, curved 

 aiad waved ; the medial area with some blackish irroration in cell 

 and submedian interspace; claviform absent; orbicular and reniform 

 pale yellow defined by brown, the former narrow, very oblique 

 elliptical, the latter narrow and angled inwards on median nervure ; 

 postmedial line double filled in with yellow, the outer line indistinct, 

 shghtly bent outwards below costa, then minutely dentate and 

 produced to short streaks on the veins, incurved below vein 4, some 

 yellow points beyond it on the veins ; subterminal line only defined 

 by the contrast between the yellow and rufous areas, excurved 



LupRrina dmnerill, i^. \. 



below vein 7 and at middle ; a terminal series of minute black 

 lunales; cilia rufous with yellow line at base and dark marks at 

 tips. Hind wing white tinged with yellow ; the underside with 

 the costal area irrorated with rufous, a small discoidal spot. 



Ab. 1. desyllesi. Fore wing darker with hardly any rufous 

 tinge, the basal and postmedial areas hardly paler. 



Ab. 2. sancta. Fore wing with the medial area darker red- 

 brown, the orbicular and reniform with white centres. 



Ab. 3. diversa. Fore wing paler with less rufous suffusion on 

 medial and terminal areas, the markings less distinct. — Armenia, 

 Pontus, Mesopotamia. 



Bab. Britain, England ; France, Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls. ; 

 Italy ; Dalmatia ; Aemfnia, 1 cJ , 1 $ ; Asia Minor, Poutus ; 

 t^YKiA, Antioch ; Palestine, 1 cJ ; Mesopotamia. &/,p. 30-38 

 millim. 



*3324. Liiperina imbellis. (Plate CXIX. fig. 19.) 



Myihimna imhellU, Stand. Stctt. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 28 ; id Cat. Lcp. pal, 

 p. 194. 



$ , Head and thorax ochreous mixed with rufous ; abdomen 



