. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. AlJPniDEIJs'A. AinETIS. 299 pure white; the underside with the costa slightly tinged with ochreous. Ab. 1. jordana. Fore wi'ig with the ante- and postmedial lines strong, black with prominent spots at costa, the reniform almost obsolete.—Palestine. JJab. Armenia, 1 J ; Asia Minoe, Poutus; Palestine, I cS. Exjy. 38 millim. Genus ATHETI3. rr lype. Athetis, Hlibti. Verz. p. 209 (1827) furmda. , Hiibn. Verz. p. 213 (1827) pulmonaris. El'uphria, Hiibn. Verz. p. 230 (18'27) movphvKs. Hapalotis, Hiibn. Verz. p. 254 (1827) fur
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. AlJPniDEIJs'A. AinETIS. 299 pure white; the underside with the costa slightly tinged with ochreous. Ab. 1. jordana. Fore wi'ig with the ante- and postmedial lines strong, black with prominent spots at costa, the reniform almost obsolete.—Palestine. JJab. Armenia, 1 J ; Asia Minoe, Poutus; Palestine, I cS. Exjy. 38 millim. Genus ATHETI3. rr lype. Athetis, Hlibti. Verz. p. 209 (1827) furmda. , Hiibn. Verz. p. 213 (1827) pulmonaris. El'uphria, Hiibn. Verz. p. 230 (18'27) movphvKs. Hapalotis, Hiibn. Verz. p. 254 (1827) furmda. Nehrissa, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. vi. p. 194 (1862) bimactda. Anorthodes, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xviii. p. 114 (1891) ... tarda. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to vertex of head and moderately fringed with scales iu front, the 3rd short; frons smooth ; eyes large, round ; antennas of male typically ciliated ; thorax clothed with hair and hair-like scales mixed with some scales, the prothorax with small spreariing crest, the metathorax without distinct crest; tibire moderately fringed with hair; abdomen without crests. Fore wing rather narrow, the costa and inner margin subparallel, the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and slightly crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; (i from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell: 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper ai'gle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. Sect. I. Antennce of male bipectinate with moderate branches, the apex serrate. A. Fore wing fuscous black mixed with grey, the lines dis- tinct, black chionopis. B. Fore wing capre(jus brown, the linfs indistiijct alhipuncta. 3914. Athetis chionopis, n. n. Caradrina Imcopis, PImpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 443 (1902), nee p. 293. Head and thorax black-brown mixed with some grey, the thorax w
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