CTMBALOPHORA. 505 



discal fold. Underside scarlet; fore wing with the costa irrorated 

 with brown, a slight blackish discoidal spot; hind wing with black 

 discoidal lunule. 



Fori' tibiae with the claws small. 



Hah. Br. E. Africa, Aberdare Mts., 10,000' (Woosnam), 1 6 

 type. Exp. 40 millim. 



*2072 a. Cymbalophora haroldi. 



( lymbalophora haroldi, Oberth. Et.Lep. Comp. v. (2) p. 123 (1011). id. idem. 

 vi. pi. cxix. ff. 1045-1049, & pis. H. I \ m. 



c? . Head creamy white, the sides of head black ; thorax ochreous 

 and creamy white mixed with blackish ; abdomen pale crimson 

 mixed with blackish and with black dorsal stripe, the basal segment 

 creamy white with subdorsal blackish streaks and some crimson 

 hair from base of sides, the anal tuft and ventral surface creamy 

 white. Fore wing creamy white ; an obliquely curved subbasal 

 black band from below costa to vein 1 ; a large rather irregular 

 ante medial spot from costa to below the cell and a quadrate spot 

 from submedian fold to above inner margin ; a curved medial band 

 from costa to below vein 2 and quadrate spot from submedian fold 

 to above inner margin; an oblique postmedial band from below 

 costa to vein 4 and band from vein 3 to above inner margin ; a 

 subterminal patch below apex and rather triangular patches from 

 termen at middle and above tornus confluent with the two portions 

 of the postmedial band. Hind wing scarlet, the costa creamy 

 white with ante- and postmedial fuscous bars from the costa ; an 

 oblique black band from costa before apex to termen at vein 3 

 with a small spot beyond it at apex and a narrower band from 

 vein 3 to the submedian fold ; cilia yellowish at tips. Underside 

 of fore wing with the basal half and inner area tinged with scarlet. 



ab. 1. Fore wing with the markings on basal area confluent, also 

 those on medial and terminal areas; hind wing with the markings 

 on terminal area confluent. 



2 . Wings aborted and small, the black markings much reduced, 

 especially those on medial area of fore wing. 



Hab. Algeria, S. Oran, Aflon, Gruelt-es-Stel in Coll. Roth- 

 schild. Exp., 8 24-32, $ IS millim. 



Larva. Oberth. Et. Lep. Comp. v. 2. pi. J. I. & vi. pi. cxxxvi.ff. 1192-1200. 



Food-plant, barley. 



2073. Cymbalophora pudica. 



ab. (/radii, Scbultz, Ent. Zeit. Guben, xviii. p. 141 (1905). 

 Melanistic. 



ab. cohcerens, Schultz, Ent. Zeit, Guben. xviii. p. 141 (1905). 

 Fore wing with the markings confluent.. 



ab. jhiveola, Schultz, Ent. Zeit. Guben, xx. p. 2(3 (,1906). 



;\h.j/a reset us, Oberth. Et. Lep. Comp. vi. p. 148.pl. lxxviii. f. 708(1911). 



The crimson markings replaced by yellow. 



