ATHETIS. By W. Warm, 211 



terminal striae from apex to vein 2. A Northern species taken in Sweden, Finland, and Livonia, in Europe, 

 and in Asia in West Turkestan, \Y. and E. Siberia, and Mongolia. 



A. himaleyica Koll. (= arenacea Moore) (45 b, c). Pore-wing pale luteous grey; inner and outer lines himaleyica. 

 obscurely marked, starting from black costal spots, like the median shade, which is well-developed; sub- 

 terminal line pale, preceded by small rufous marks; the terminal area fuscous; orbicular stigma a brown 

 point; reniform a narrow lunule, with its lower lobe fuscous, its inner edge with two, and its outer with 



three whitish dots, and with a rufous point beyond its middle; hindwing white, with a reddish brown 

 tinge, especially along veins and terminal area; fringe white. Occurring in W. China, Kashmir, and Yatong, 

 Tibet, as well as in N. India. 



A. chinensis Leech (45 c). Forewing larger and greyer than in himaleyica; the orbicular stigma alto- chinensis. 

 gether absent; the reniform edged with redbrown, with a white dot on outer side at top and below with 

 a white dot on inner side and two on outer; subterminal line wavy, grey, with fuscous suffusion on both 

 sides: a grey terminal festoon containing dark lunules; hindwing whitish, brownish on veins and towards 

 termen; fringe white. W. China only. 



A. clavipalpis Scop. (= quadripunctata F., cubicularis-.S'c/w//., grisea Bolt., segetum Esp. nee L., clavipalpis. 

 pulverosa Walk., milleri Schulz) (45 c). Forewing pale to dark grey with darker dusting and sometimes 

 tinged with ochreous; the terminal area generally fuscous; the lines starting from black costal spots; 

 the inner and outer double, blackish, the inner minutely waved, the outer dentate; subterminal line pale, 

 waved, preceded by a grey shade with dentate rufous marks in it; stigmata small, fuscous, the orbicular 

 rounded, the reniform a narrow lunule, with two white dots on its inner edge and three on outer; hind- 

 wing white, the veins and termen dark grey; — in laciniosa Donz. the subterminal line consists of a laciniom. 

 row of 3-ellowish spots each extended to termen; — the form leucoptera Tlmbg. (45 c), from Scandinavia, leucoptera. 

 Finland, and the Ural Mts., has fuscous suffusion over the head, thorax, and forewing, the hindwing 

 remaining white. Common throughout Europe, Western, and Central Asia, Egypt, Algeria, and Madeira. 

 Larva fuscous with a green tinge; the lines paler, with dark edges: on low plants generally. 



A. perspicua spec. nov. (45 c). Forewing greyish luteous slightly dark'-speckled ; the praesubmarginal perspicua. 

 shade and sometimes the terminal area beyond blackish fuscous; the lines black and distinct, starting 

 from black costal spots; the inner somewhat oblique; the outer lunulate-dentate, bent outwards below 

 costa, then A^ertical and slightly indented beyond cell, below 4 incurved, reaching inner margin close 

 beyond the finer median line, which is bent in cell and there touches the reniform stigma, which is grey 

 strongly outlined in black; the orbicular a slight black ring; submarginal line waved, preceded by a blackish 

 shade which is sometimes, as in the type $, formed of contiguous and regular wedgeshaped marks, or, 

 as in the type $, diffusely and irregularly fuscous; a row of black terminal lunules; the terminal area 

 grey in the type $, fuscous in the type <J; hindwing pure white, but the terminal line dark with a slight 

 grey discoloration before it and the veins grey towards termen^ fringe pure white; underside of forewing 

 shining luteous grey, with grey cellspot, outer line, and broad blackish marginal border; of hindwing white; 

 head and thorax pale grey, dorsum whiter; pectus, venter, and legs white; forelegs grey, the tarsi black 

 with the joints white. Described from a $ and 2 $$ from Kisil Arvat, Turcomania. 



A. turbulenta spec. nov. (45 c, d). Forewing dull luteous grey with a blurred appearance; all the turbulenia. 

 markings indistinct; the lines themselves obscure, but marked on costa by distinct black spots; inner 

 and outer hues placed as in the preceding species, perspicua; median line hardly visible; stigmata faint, 

 dimly edged; terminal area fuscous grey, through which the waved subterminal line is slightly paler, 

 preceded by a darker shade; hindwing whitish, with the extreme termen and veins at extremity grey- 

 brown; underside like that of perspicua, but the forewing much paler; head, thorax, abdomen above and 

 beneath, and legs as in perspicua. Described from a pair taken at the beginning of August at Kisil Zart, 

 Turcomania. Larger and duller than perspicua, but possibly a form of that species, as congesta Led. is 

 supposed to be a form of albina Ev. ; but neither can reasonably be considered a form of clavipalpis Scop. 



A. grisea Ev. (= cinerascens Tengstr.) (45 d). Forewing grey dusted with fuscous and tinged with (/risen. 

 brown especially along termen; inner and outer lines obscure, with black spots on costa, like the median 

 shade; submarginal line formed of yellowish white spots internally edged with slight rufous marks; the 

 orbicular a small round whitish annulus; the reniform fuscous in lower half, with two whitish dots on 

 inner side and three on outer, as in clavipalpis; hindwing white, the apical area and termen to vein 2 

 brownish. Scandinavia, Finland, the Urals. Eesembles clavipalpis ab. leucoptera Thnbg. with which it 

 agrees exactly in distribution. 



A. hispanica Mab. (48 a) Forewing pale grey with black irroration, the termen slightly fuscous; inner hispanica. 

 and outer lines black, with black spots at costa; the inner oblique and denticulate; subterminal line pale 



