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band which is conjoined to some black suffusion on termen 
towards apex and at middle ; hind wing as above, but with a 
diffused blackish mark on costa above end of cell. 
Hab. Algeria, Oran ( Rothschild ), 1 q type, Mzab Country, 
Oued Nca ( Hartert ), 1 $ in Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 32 millim. 
Drasteria nepkelostola, n. sp. 
$. Head and thorax white mixed with black -brown ; 
antennae ringed with black ; palpi with the 3rd joint black ; 
pectus and legs white irrorated with black-brown ; abdomen 
white irrorated with black-brown and dorsal ly tinged with 
ochreous. Fore wing blackish brown irrorated with blue- 
white ; the medial area white irrorated with dark brown ; 
antemedial line black, slightly curved and with a faint white 
shade before it ; a reddish brown medial shade with some 
blackish brown at costa, incurved below the cell ; reniform 
blackish brown defined by black and with white bar on its 
inner side, narrow and rather irregular ; postmedial line 
black, with minute spot at costa, slightly bent outwards 
below costa, incurved at discal fold, slightly angled outwards 
at veins 4, 3, then retracted to below inner edge of reniform 
and obliquely incurved to inner margin, a faint dark line 
bejmnd it on costal area with some whitish suffusion beyond 
it at middle ; subterminal line whitish, oblique, exeurved 
below vein 7 and at middle ; a fine black terminal line with 
black points at the interspaces ; cilia whitish with two faint 
brown lines through them. Hind wing white tinged with 
brown ; the discocellulars and veins beyond lower angle of 
cell brown ; the terminal area brown, narrowing to tornus 
and with its inner edge incurved beyond lower angle of cell ; 
a brown patch on termen between veins 4 and 2 defined by 
diffused whitish ; cilia white, tinged with brown at base 
towards apex and between veins 4 and 2. Underside white ; 
fore wing with the costal area irrorated with brown, the 
terminal area suffused with blackish to vein 2, a diffused 
blackish discoidal patch with shade from it to submedian 
fold ; hind wing slightly irrorated with brown, a dark dis- 
coidal point, and subterminal shade ending on termen at 
submedian fold. 
Q. Thorax and fore wing with the brown paler and redder ; 
bind wing with the terminal area paler brown. 
Ab. 1. $. Fore wing more uniform bluish white irrorated 
with brow n, the lines obsolescent. 
Hab. Kashmir, Nubro R., Shayok ( Avinoff ), 2 £, 4 
Tagar (Avinoff), 5 A, 6 ? type. Exp. 36-40 millim. 
