270 AUTOBA; HOLOCRYPTIS. By W. Warren. 



suhslrigula. clay colour, with the median line faint but visible; the ab. substrigula Stgr. the commoner form, has a fuscous 

 streak in and beyond the cell, and the two black dots in cell; the rarer type form was from Beirut, Syria; the 

 aberration from Taurus and Malatia. 



straw inc. P. straminea Stgr. (51 i). Forewing uniform whitish grey, overlaid with pale straw colour; fringe and 



extreme termen more or less deeply tinged with brownish ; before this dark, shade a row of dark points ; a black 

 dot in cell and a second at its end; hindwing dirty whitish. Taurus, Malatia, Mesopotamia. 



Mmmighof- P. himmighoffeni Mill. (51 i). Forewing pearly white; costa pale yellow to middle; an oblique median 



'" band and a broader one before termen pale yellow, the outer one tinged externally with brown and edged by a line 

 of scattered coarse black scales ; termen grey with numerous darker grey vertical strigae ; fringe whitish ; hindwing 

 and fringe white. Spain, and S. France. Distinguished by its minute size. 10 mm. 



subvenata. P. subvenata Stgr. (51 n). Forewing white, flushed with pale greyish brown between the veins, espec- 



ially towards termen, the veins themselves remaining white; no dark shade along termen, only the marginal 

 line finely darker; fringe tinged with grey; hindwing and fringe white. Described from a single $, of 15 mm. 

 Expanse, from Tunis, and also recorded from Palestine. 



10. Genus: Autoba Walk. 



Tongue well-developed; frons smooth; palpi upturned, stout, thickly scaled, the third segment short; 

 antennae of $ shortly ciliated; thorax and abdomen thickly scaled, the scales often coarse, without crests; 

 forewing triangular, the apex prominent, the termen evenly curved; no areole, veins 8, 9, 10 being stalked and 

 11 from cell; the retinaculum, somewhat bar-shaped, covered by a tuft of hair; hindwing with cell y 2 of wing; 

 veins 3, 4 and 6, 7 from angles of cell. Insects of stouter and stronger build than Porphyrinic/,; the larvae 

 feed on various plants and form a small cocoon attached to a leaf; some few live onCoccidae. Type A. versi- 

 color Walk. 



gayneri. A. gayneri N. C. Roths. Forewing white with a fulvous flush ; lines fulvous, starting from dark costal 



spots; inner excurved below costa, angled outwards on submedian fold; median angled outwards in cell, 

 then oblique; outer oblique to vein 7, then excurved and denticulatae, angled inwards on vein 2; a fulvous bar 

 oblique from apex, with some black subterminal points below it ; cellspot black ; hindwing with inner and outer 

 fulvous lines. Assouan, Egypt. 



beraudi. A. beraudi de Joann. (51 m). Forewing white suffused with deep pink; the costal edge white near base; 



lines rufous starting from black costal spots, and placed much as in gayneri; the median and outer edged out- 

 wardly with white ; the outer followed by some rufous costal striae ; subterminal line dentate, with two black 

 points beyond it below a red apical spot with a white striga beyond it on termen ; a black point at middle of cell 

 and another at its end placed on a brownish spot ; hindwing with reddish inner and outer lines externally white- 

 edged. Alexandria, Egypt. 



teilhardi. A. teilhardi de Joann. (51m). Forewing purplish pink; costal edge white for %; lines red, start- 



ing as oblique black costal strigae, indistinct below middle ; a subterminal series of black dots ; fringe deep crim- 

 ton; cellspot lilacine grey, partly defined by black; hindwing purplish pink, costal area whitish; terminal line 

 and fringe deep crimson. Cairo, Egypt. The larva feeds on Acacia nilotica. 



trilinea. A. triliiiea de Joann. (51 n). Forewing ochreous, overlaid and dusted with purplish red; the base grey; 



lines redbrown; the inner double filled in with ochreous, incurved in cell, angled outwards on submedian fold; 

 median and outer lines outwardly edged with ochreous, excurved above and incurved below middle ; an oblique 

 blackish streak from below apex, with 2 black points, on it, followed by a row of subterminal black points; fringe 

 deep red with pale basal line; hindwing whitish suffused with redbrown except along costa; fringe deep red. 

 Described from a pair from Zi-ka- Wey, Central China. 



trislalis. A - tristalis Leech. Forewing greyish brown; a dark outer line, oblique outwards from costa, angled 



towards apex, then oblique inwards to inner margin; a pale yellow apical streak, preceded by white costal 

 dashes ; a faintly curved dark inner line ; hindwing with dark cellspot and outer line. Described from a single 

 <J taken at Satsuma; also from Kiu-shiu. 



11. Genus: Holocryptis Lucas. 



Tongue fully developed; frons smooth; palpi upturned, slender, the third segment erect ; antennae of 

 £ lamellate; thorax and abdomen smooth, without crests; forewing elongate; the costa arched; termen obli- 





