(J88 N0CTUII).12. 



terminal series of minute black luniiles defined on inner side 1)t 

 slight white liuiules ; cilia pale rufous. Hind wing whitish tinged 

 with pale rufous especially on inner area; a slight discoidal point, 

 ctirved postmedial line, and diffused subterminal band ; the underside 

 with small discoidal spot, curved diffused postmedial line, and fine 

 terminal line. 



Hah. Spain, Andalusia, 1 S ; Syria. Exp. 28 millim. 



Genus AR.S3A, nov. 



T_vpe, A. attenuata. 



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

 about to vertex of head and moderately fringed with hair in front, the 3rd 

 short ; frons smooth ; eyes large, romiderl ; antennse of male minutely ciliated ; 

 build slender ; head and thorax roughly clothed with hair and scales mixed, 

 the pro- and metathorax with loose spreading crests ; tibiae fringed with rather 

 long hair ; abdomen with some rough hair at base but without crests, the 

 female with long exserted ovipositor. Fore wing narrow and elongate, the 

 fipex rounded, the termen obliquely curved and hardly crenulate ; veins 3 and 

 •^ from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 

 8 to form the areola ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of 

 cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 stalked ; 8 anastomosing 

 with the cell near base only. 



A. Fore wing with black streak below base of cell attenuata. 



B. Fore wing without black streak below base of cell indecora. 



3586. Arsea attenuata, n. sp. 



Head and thorax grey mixed with dark brown ; palpi black 

 except in front, frons with lateral black bars ; tarsi black with pale 

 rings; abdomen brownish grey. Fore wing grey tinged with brown 

 and irrorated with black ; subbasal line black, somewhat dentate, from 

 costa to submedian fold ; a black streak below the cell confluent with 

 the lower edge of claviform which is narrow and acuminate ; ante- 

 medial line strong, black, slightly angled outwards below costa, then 



Fig. \?>\.—Ar(Pa aitenna 



minutely waved; orbicular and reniform grey irrorated with brown 

 and strongly defined by black, the former round or oblique elliptical, 

 open above ; the discal and postmedial areas more strongly suffused 

 with brown; postmedial line strong, black, defined by whitish on 

 outer side, bent outwards below costa, then dentate, strongly 

 fexeurved to vein 4, then very oblique, some white points beyond it 



