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discocellular brown patch half joined to a brown curved 

 transverse band beyond cell ; costal margin orange-brown ; 

 a submarginal row of black dots ; outer margin orange : fringe 

 wliitirfh grey, very broad (2 mm.). Hind wing creamy white, 

 suffused with yellowish grey, with two obsolete darker 

 clouded bands on disk ; fringe 2 mm. broad, white. 



Length of fore wing 16 mm. 



Hah. Bou Saada, May 1911 [Victor Faroult). 



2. Cleophaiia hcetica dilufa, subsp. n. 



Differs from hcetica hcetica, in the orronnd-colour and fringes 

 being white, not mauve-grey, and the dark markings on each 

 side of the transverse bands shining pale yellowish wood- 

 brown, not blackish brown ; thorax whitish, not dark grey. 



JIah. A large series from El Outaya and Bou Saada (type), 

 April and May [Victor Faroult). 



Intermediate specimens occur in Asia Minor and Greece. 



3. Cucullia oherthiieri, sp. n. 



(J. Head wood}' buff; antennse whitish; (egulse cream- 

 colour, edged with brown; patagia cream-colour, faintly tinged 

 with grey; thorax black-brown; abdomen brown-buff, claspers 

 deep buff. Fore wing cream-colour ; costal and subcostal 

 area sooty grey-brown ; a few brown strise running in from 

 outer margin ; an oblique brown irregular band runs from 

 base of iinier margin to vein 3 at outer margin ; three minute 

 black dots in cell on median vein. Hind wing cream-colour, 

 veins yellowish brown. 



Length of fore wing 22 mm. 



Hah. 2 S S. Bou Saada, May 1911 [Victor Faroult) 

 (type); 1 <? , El Kantara, S. Algeria, April 1911 [Victor 

 Faroult). 



Family Geometridae. 



4. Scodiona albirosea, sp. n. 



? . Legs sooty grey ; head and thorax white, washed with 

 rose; antennai white; abdomen dirty white. Fore wing 

 very pale whitish rose, suffused on basal three-fourths with 

 darker rose and sparsely powdered with blackish dots ; an 

 interrupted, brick-red, zigzag, transverse line one-third from 

 base, two brick-red patches on costa, and a similar disco- 

 cellular one; a zigzag brick-red transverse line beyond cell, 

 much clouded all round with brick-red ; marginal line orange. 



