208 ATHETIS. By W. Warren. 



crest. - - Larva usually on low-growing herbage and grasses. A large genus of small-sized species, often 

 very much alike and difficult to separate. Type Atltetis furvula Him. 



Sect. IX. Antennae of <J ciliated. 



da. A. delecta Moore (42 g). Forewing greyish white with slight dark dusting; the terminal area more 



fuscous; inner and outer lines finely black, the former obliquely waved, the latter strongly dentate, the 

 teeth forming a row of points on the veins; subterminal line conspicuously white; a terminal row of black 

 and white dots; orbicular and reniform black, broken up by white scales to form spots, the orbicular 

 into 3, the reniform into 7, 3 on inner side, and 4 on outer; hindwing white, the veins and termen 

 fuscous; a slight cell-dot. An Indian species, recorded also from Central China. 



conspicua. A. conspicua Leech. (48a) Forewing dark grey brown with a rufous tinge; inner and outer lines black, 



the former somewhat dentate inwards on the veins, the latter deeply lunulate-dentate, the tips of the teeth 

 forming a series of dots: submarginal line pale, evenly curved, preceded by a redbrown shade; a grey 

 marginal festoon enclosing darker spots; orbicular and reniform stigmata deep black, ringed with white 

 and black; hindwing brownish fuscous. Received from several localities in W. China. 



alriluna. A. atriluna Guen. (= indicata Walk., infusca Bmb. nee Const., mediterraneae Beth. -Baker, distincta 



Stcjr.) (42 g) Forewing pale yellowish grey, with 3 black spots on costa ; the usual lines rarely traceable; reni- 

 form stigma alone plain, as a narrow black-brown lunule with pale edging; hindwing pure white with the 

 termen greyish. Essentially an African species where it is widely spread; the type of mediterraneae from 

 Egypt ; infusca Bmbr., if rightly referred here, is from Spain, and distincta Stgr. from Palestine. 



placata. A. placata Leech (42 g). Forewing dull grey brown, diffusely darkened along the costal and ter- 



minal areas with blackish; inner and outer lines dark, the former filled up with paler brown, the latter 

 strongly lunulate-dentate, the teeth forming a row of dots; subterminal line nearly straight, pale with a 

 dark brown shade preceding it; a whitish grey terminal festoon containing small black lunules; median 

 shade diffuse, conspicuous; stigmata pale brown with thick dark outlines, idae orbicular round; hindwing 

 brownish fuscous, paler at base. Described by Leech from a single J from Chia-kou-ho, W. China. Some- 

 what allied to, but much larger than conspicua Leech from W. China. 



divisa. A. divisa Moore, (42 g). Forewing ruddy brown with a grey tinge and dusted with darker; the 



lines luteous white; the inner and outer conversely dark-edged; submarginal almost straight, preceded by 

 a thick brown shade; terminal black spots small; orbicular and reniform stigmata large, darker than the 

 ground colour, with luteous annuli; the median shade distinct; hindwing pale brownish grey. Narkundah, 

 Kashmir. The insect is common in N. India. 



furoula. A. furvula Hbn. (= dasychira Hbn., lenta Tr.) (42 g, h). Forewing pale or dark grey, darker 



towards termen; a rufous flush along both folds and before the submarginal line; inner and outer lines 

 dark, fine, slightly pale-edged; the median shade distinct; submarginal line luteous white, with a darker 

 shade before it; a pale marginal festoon with grey lunules; orbicular a black dot in a pale ring; reniform 



lenlina. a dark obscure lunule; hindwing pale, brownish grey; lentina Stgr. (42 h) is smaller and darker ; I have seen 

 specimens, answering this description in point of size, only from Uralsk; all the examples seen from Japan, 

 and from the neighbourhood of Issyk-Kul, are quite as large as typical specimens, more uniformly dull 

 fuscous, with more strongly marked reniform stigma and duskier hindwings, which may be separated as ab. 



tristior. tristior ab. nov. (42 h). Larva clay coloured, dotted with dark; a pale lateral line on the front segments ; on 

 each segment behind 4 oblique lateral yellow streaks, edged with black: head small and dark; feeding 

 on various low plants. 



alsines. A. alsines Brahm. (42 h). Forewing greyish ochreous, sometimes uniformly washed with brownish; 



the lines and stigmata dark grey, the latter with pale annuli; submarginal line luteous preceded by a 



dark grey shade; hindwing dirty pale grey in $, darker in $, and darker in both sexes in the brown 



sericea. suffused forms: — the form sericea Speyer, from Holland and Germany, is described as having narrower silky 



levis. grey forewings; — in levis Stgr. (42 h), from W. Turkestan and Asia Minor, the yellower ochreous tint is 



predominant and the dark markings are conspicuous but in some pale examples from Segovia, Spain, — 



ouhrea. ab, ochrea ab. nor. (42 i) — the dark markings tend to become effaced, the head, thorax, and forewings 



amurensis. being pale yellow ochreous; — amurensis Stgr. indicates small dark examples from Ussuri, Amurland. 



Occurs in Britain and apparently throughout Europe, except in Scandinavia: also in Western Asia, W. 



Turkestan, and \Y. and E. Siberia. The larva, which like the other species, lives on all low growing 



plants indiscriminately, is clay coloured, darker dorsally : the dorsal line itself fine and white with dark 



edges; the subdorsal also fine and pale; laterally a pale dark edged serrate line containing the spiracles. 



blanda. A. blanda Schiff. (= taraxaci Hbn., guttilinea Walk.) (42 h). Forewing fawn-tinged grey, with a 



fuscous suffusion, with the ground colour sometimes paler, more luteous ochreous, especially in examples 



