LTJPEEINA. 473 



ochreoiis white slightly tinged with brown. Fore wing ochreous 

 iirorated with rufous ; subbasal line rufous, waved, from costa to 

 vein 1 ; antemedial line rufous, waved, produced on inner side to 

 slight streaks on the veins ; claviform and orbicular absent ; 

 reniform a rather narrow white lunule slightly defined by brown ; 

 a somewhat diffused medial brown line angled outwards below the 

 cell; postmedial line rufous, slightly bent outwards below costa, 

 then produced to slight streaks on the veins, excurved to vein 4, 

 then oblique ; subterminal line formed of rufous scales, angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and somewhat excurved at middle, the area 

 beyond it grey-brown irrorated with white except at apex ; cilia 

 ochreous mixed with rufous. Hind wing yellowish white irrorated 

 with brown ; a slight discoidal lunule, curved postmedial line, and 

 tine terminal line ; the underside with the postmedial line more 

 Sinuous and crenulate towards costa. 



Hah. W. TuKKESTAN, Sarawschan, Merv in Coll. Piingeler. 

 Exp. yO millim. 



3325. Luperina rubella. 



Orthosia ruhella, Dup. Lep. Fr., Suppl. iii. p. 249, pi. 23. f. 1 (1835) ; Herr.- 

 Scbiiff. Eur. bchmett., Woct. ff. iUU, 4oi-2 ; I'rr. Neue Eeitr. pi. 520. 

 f. 2 ; Mill. Icones, ii. pi. 77. f. 1 ; Staud. Cat. Lep, pal. p. 169. 



Apaonea r/msia, Piing. Iris, xii. p. 293, pi. 9. f. 11 (1899). 



Head and thorax white suffused in parts with bright rufous ; 

 sides of palpi and frons tinged with fuscous ; abdomen white, the 

 anal tuft tinged with rufous. Fore wing white tinged with rufous, 

 the medial area suffused with bright rufous ; a slight waved rufous 

 subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line rufous, 

 oblique, waved, excurved below cell and above inner margin ; 

 claviform absent ; orbicular and reniform with slight white 

 annuli indistinctly defined by rufous, the former small, oblique 

 elliptical, the latter constricted at middle and with some fuscous in 

 lower part; a medial deep rufous shade, oblique from costa to 

 median nervure ; postmedial line rufous slightly defined by whitish 

 en outer side, slightly beut outwards below costa, then produced to 

 short streaks on the veins, obliquely excurved to vein 4, then in- 

 curved; subterminal line indistinct, whitish slightly defined by 

 rufous on inner side and with rufous shade before it on costa, 

 excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a terminal series of slight 

 black stria3; cilia brownish at tips. Hind wing pure white, the 

 cilia mixed with brownish at tips ; the underside with the costal 

 area irrorated with rufous, a difi'used dark postmedial bar from 

 costa to vein 7. 



Ab. 1. rhusia. Larger and darker ; fore wing grey-brown mixed 

 with rufous. — Turcomauia. 



Hab. S.E. France, Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls ; Switzerland, 

 Valais ; Istkia ; Dalmatia ; Croatia ; Asia Minor, Pontus ; 

 W^ Titekestan, Turcomauia. Eccj). 38-42 millim. 



