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an oblique row of black streaks between veins above and below middle; the veins blackish; hindwing dark grey, 

 the veins and outer line darker. Yatong, Tibet. The $ only is known. 



S. mongolica Stgr. (84 o). Forewing bluish grey, with slight dark irroration; a black streak below base mongolica. 

 of cell; inner and outer lines black, distinct, strongly angulated; claviform stigma narrow, pointed, black- 

 edged; orbicular irregularly elongate, touching reniform at its base; reniform with fuscous centre and white 

 ring, edged with black; submarginal line with the black shading before it strongly angled inwards on the two 

 folds, and outwards, on the veins, the margin beyond it darker; hindwing grey, darker towards termen, in $ 

 wholly fuscous grey. Altai Mts., W. Siberia; Mongolia. 



S. paucinotata Hmps. (= subdetersa Stgr.) (34 c). Forewing ashy grey, finely black-speckled; the paucinoiata. 

 markings all indistinct and interrupted, disposed as in mongolica; in the $ more bluish grey, with both folds 

 tinged with dull pink; the marginal area beyond submarginal line darker; hindwing grey, darker terminally. 

 The type of paucinotata was described by Hampson from Kashmir, that of subdetersa, by Staudinger from 

 Kuku Nor, Tibet; both types are $$; it is possible that mongolica Stgr. is a well-marked <J of the same species. 



S. curva Stgr. (34 c). Forewing smooth pale luteous grey, slightly darker in the median and terminal curva. 

 areas ; the inner and outer lines blackish, the former strongly angled outwards on submedian fold, the latter 

 acutely inwards, the two angles connected by a black line; claviform stigma obsolete; orbicular oblique, 

 elongate, touching base of reniform, both ill-marked, without dark edging; submarginal dark streaks as in 

 the allied species; hindwing whitish in basal half, terminally fuscous; the veins and outer line darker; fringe 

 whitish. Issyk-Kul, W. Turkestan; Kashgar, E. Turkestan. 



47. Genus: Atliaiiuiasta Hmps. 



Tongue present; irons smooth; irons and vertex both hairy; palpi obliquely upturned, the second segment 

 hairy beneath, the third quite short; dorsum with slight tuft at base; forewing short and broad, the termen 

 crenulate. Type Athaumasta expressa Led. 



Sect. I. Antennae of $ bipectinate. 



A. expressa Led. Forewing greyish white, dusted with blackish, varied in places with orange scaling; expressa. 

 inner and outer lines blackish, double, filled in with pale; claviform stigma slight, black-edged; orbicular 

 and reniform orange at centre ringed with whitish and outlined with black; submarginal line lunulate, whitish, 

 the lunules filled in with black; fringe mottled, black and white; hindwing white, suffused with fuscous, except along 

 costa, with diffuse sinuate inner, outer, and submarginal bands. Some examples are much more strongly 

 marked with orange than others, both on thorax and forewings; these constitute the form ochracea Stgr.; on ochracea. 

 the other hand nana Stgr. is a small form, with the dark tints of the forewing condensed. The species occurs nana. 

 only in Asia, W. Turkestan, W. Siberia, and Mongolia. 



A. siderigera Ghr. Forewing blackish, the hnes black; inner and outer lines conversely lunulate and siderigera. 

 edged with white; orbicular stigma with stout white annulus; reniform with a white spot externally; subter- 

 minal line dentate with white spots on each side; fringe mottled black and white; hindwing grey, with darker 

 cellspot and diffused outer lines. Sajan Mts., E. Siberia. 



Sect. II. Antennae of <$ with sessile fascicles of cilia. 



A. cortex Alph. Forewing ochreous, irrorated and in parts suffused with rufous and fuscous; a slight cortex. 

 dark streak below fcase of cell; lines double, dark, filled in with white; claviform stigma black-edged; upper 

 stigmata with fuscous centres and edging and pale annuli: subterminal line pale, dentate, preceded by rufous; 



the veins towards termen dark; hindwing yellowish white, the veins and terminal space with redbrown dusting; 



the cellspot, outer sinuous punctiform line, and a diffuse subterminal band darker; the form corticula Pueng. corticula. 



is greyer, suffused with dark brown. W. and E. Turkestan. 



48. Genus: Bryomima Stgr. 



Distinguished from the allied genera by the head and thorax being clothed with hair only, with but 

 a few scales intermixed; the thorax smooth, without crests; the tibiae fringed with long hair on outer side; 

 antennae with sessile fascicles of cilia. Imagos of comparatively small size. Type Bryomima cardvxha Stgr. 



B. Johanna Stgr. (34 d). Forewing whitish ochreous, slightly dusted; median area faintly olive Johanna. 

 brownish; a black streak below base of cell; inner and outer lines black, conversely white-edged; claviform 

 stigma quite small, emitting a black streak to outer line; the upper stigmata distinct, brownish at centre with 



white rings and black outlines; submarginal line faint, defined by the dark terminal area beyond it; hindwing 

 white, with slight rufous grey tinge along veins and termen. Becorded only from Palestine. 



B. centralasiae Stgr. (= modesta Moore) (34 d). Forewing olive grey tinged with yellowish, thickly centralasiae. 

 sprinkled with dark grey; inner and outer lines double, blackish, filled in with ground colour, the area between 



