474 NOCTTJIDJE^ 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. Moths Ear. p. 219; HfFmn. Eaup. p. 296. 

 Yellowish grey suffused with greenish in front and yellowish 

 behind. Food-plants : roots of grasses. 



*3326. Luperina dayensis. 



Luperina dayensis, Oberth. Et. Ent. vi. p. 86, pi. 11. f. 9 (1881); Staud. 

 Oat. Lep. pal. p. 169. 



S . Head and thorax yellowish wliite tinged with rufous ; 

 abdomen white faintly tinged with rufous. Fore wing yellowish 

 white tinged with rufous ; subbasal line absent ; anteniedial line 

 very indistinct, rufous, oblique from eosta to submedian fold, traces 

 of a minute claviform very faintly defined by rufous ; orbicular 

 and reniform with very faint white annuli, the former very narrow 

 and oblique ; postiiedial line very indistinct, rufous, bent outwards 

 below costa, cxcixrved to vein 4, then oblique; faint traces of a 

 diffused rufous subterminal line ; a terminal series of faint minute 

 rufous lunules ; cilia pale rufous. Hind wing pure white with 

 slight rufous terminal line ; the underside with the costal area 

 faintly tinged with rufous. 



Hah. Algeria in Coll. Piingeler, Daya. Ecci). 38 millim. 



3327. Luperina ferrago. 



Xanthia ferrago, Ev. Bull. Mosc. 1837, vi. p. 41 ; id. Faun. Volg. Ur. 



p. 276'i Frr. Neue Beitr. iv. p. 133, pi. 364. ff. 3, 4 ; Hen-.-Schaff. Eur. 



iSchmett., Noct. f. 41 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 173. 

 Cosmia caltheago, Boisd. Ind. Meth. p. 143 (1840). 



Head and thorax pale rufous ; abdomen whitish tinged with 

 rufous. Fore wing pale rufous ; an indistinct rufous antemedial 

 line, oblique from costa to submedian fold, then waved ; claviform 

 narrow, faintly defined by rufous ; orbicular and reniform faint, 

 pale, undefined, the former small, oblique elliptical, the latter with 

 slight fuscous mark in lower part and somewhat angled inwards on 

 median ncrvure ; traces of a medial line diffused and oblique from 

 costa to median nervure ; postmedial line rufous, slightly bent out- 

 wards below costa, then dentate, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; 

 the postmedial area somewhat paler except at costa; subterminal 

 line very indistinct, pale, slightly defined by rufous on inner side, 

 somewhat excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; cilia with slight 

 whitish line at base. Hind wing white almost uniformly tinged 

 with rufous; cilia whiter; the underside white slightly tinged with 

 rufous. 



Hah. EussiA, Urals, Zeller, Leech, and d' Emmich Colls. ; Armenia ; 

 Asia Minor, Pontus, Taurus, 1 S ; Syria, Leech Coll., 3 c? ; 

 W. Siberia, Altai ; W. Turkestan, Issyk-Kul ; E. Turkestan, Thian- 

 Schan II ts. Exjo. 31-42 millim. 



