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It was redescribed by Sir George Hampson as B rack y galea leacorhahda, 

 Cat. Lep. Fhal. Brit. Mas., vol. vi. p. 8 (1906) from specimens collected by Lord 

 Walsingham at Biskra. 



137. Calophasia chretieni sp. nov. 



? . This species is nnlike anything I know. Antennae brown ; bead and 

 thorax dark ash grey mixed with wood brown ; abdomen ashy mouse grey. 



Forewing dark ashy lavender grey with a very satiny sheen ; a black basal 

 median streak, a double strongly sinuate angulate antemedian line dark black-brown, 

 a similar darker double line from costa contiguous to reniform and reaching inner 

 margin strongly angled at vein 3 ; a postdiscal dark grey line from costa curving 

 inwards till it meets the double line at vein 2 ; vein 2 strongly picked out in black 

 and 2 short black streaks below it ; a lavender snbterminal band and a dark ter- 

 minal line, fringe checkered grey and dirty bufif brown. Hindwing brownisii mouse 

 grey suiFused towards base with whitish, fringe pale whitish grey. 



Length of forewing 15 mm. ; expanse 3.5 mm. 



2 ? ?, June 12 (type) and May 28, 1913, sent by Victor Faroult. 



138. Calophasia almoravida Grasl. 



Calophasia almoravida Graslin, Ann. Soc. Enlom. France, Ser. 4, vol. iii. p. :3iy. pi. 8. f. 6 (1863) 

 (Grenada, Andalousia). 



4 specimens taken by Faroult, April 1013. 



130. Calophasia kraussi Rebel. 



Calopiiasia kraussi Rebel, Verh. Zuol. Bid. Gcsell., Wien, 18'J5, p. .'548 (Ouargla). 



1 ?, April 8, 1913, Victor Faroult. 



140. Calophasia stigmatica liothsch. 



Calopliasia sti/jinalica E,othschild, Nov. Zool. vol. xx. p. 125, No. 49 (1913) (South Oued Mya). 



1 ?, April 7, 1913, Victor Faroult. 



141. Calophasia nisseni (Rothsch.) 



Animdopa nisseni Rothschild, Nor. Zool. vol. xx. p. 123 (1913) (Guelt-es-Stel). 



Monsieur Cnlot has tigured this insect erroneously in his Noctuclles et 

 Gcomctres d' Europe, pi. 30, fig. 18, as Metopoccras codeti. Oberthlir. 



I have 1 specimen taken by Dr. Nissen, April 15, 1912, 3 by ourselves, April Is, 

 1912, and 4 by Victor Faroult, 1 on March 31 and 3 on April 4, 1913. 



142. ? Calophasia codeti (Oberth.). 



Melnpoceras codeti Obcrthiir, Etnd. EiUnni. Fasc, vi. p. 88 pi. 11. f. 10 (1881) (Sebdou). 

 Ten specimens taken by Victor Faroult, March aud April 1013. 



143. Leucochlaena hirsuta (Stand.). 



Heliophohus hirmta, Staudinger, Iris, vol. iv. p. 277 (1891) (Marasch). 



This is a most variable species in colour, marking and size. It has a very wide 

 range, from Algeria in the west to Persia and Central Asia in the east. 



