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44. Cleophana chabordis Obertli. 



1 c?, 1 ?, sands of El-Arich, S.W. of Touggourt ; 1 ?, 1 <i, half-way between 

 Touggonrt and Onargla ; 1 c?, Arifidji, north of Ouarghi; 1 ?, Hassi el-Hadjar, S.W. 

 of Onargla ; cJc?, 3 ? ¥, lialf-way between Onargia and EI-GoIea ; 1 tj, 1 ?, 

 north of EI-Golea; 1 c?, 4 ? ? , Sonth Oued Mya; 1 c?, 1?, El-Hadadra; :i ? ? , 

 Saadana, south of Ghardala ; 1 c?, 1 ? , Oned Abiod, south of GJiardaui ; 1 c?, 2 ? ? , . 

 Oued Nga. 



This is the most abundant of the Cleopham group. It varies from dark 

 greenish grey with greenish copper bands and white marks to pure white with 

 coppery yellow bands ; the latter are the ab. albicans Stdgr. I have it from all 

 the places we collected in south of the Atlas, and in quantities from most southern 

 localities visited by Victor Faroult. 



45. Harpagophana picturata (Rothsch.). 



1 ? , Arefldji, south of Ouargla. 



Of tiiis species as yet only three specimens e.>cist : the type, caught by myself 

 in lyuO at Mraier, between Biskra and Touggonrt; a very poor specimen received 

 from South Tunisia, by Bang-Haas ; and the present one. Sir George Hampson 

 places this and hilaria Staudgr. in tlie genus liarpafjOjthnna, ; but h'daris, which 

 was described as a ilctopoccr(i», hardly seems to me cougeneric with this small 

 delicate species. 



46. Metopoceras omar (Oberth.). 



•Z <S6, Bordj Uhegga; 1 6, Bordj ,Saada; 1 <S , Kef-el-Uor. 



In former years we have caught many of this species at Ghardaia and 

 Tilrhempt, and I have received it in (puuitity from Bou Saada from Victor Faroult. 

 It varies in tinge from dark grey to [lale ash-grey, and some of the more nortiiern 

 specimens exhibit a distinct rufons tinge. I have also taken it at Guelt-es-Stel, 

 Khenchela, and Hammam Meskoutine. 



As the number of siiecies is very large and the identification difficult, I fear 

 the article on Dr. Jordan's and my cullectioiis in Guelt-es-Stel may not be ready for 

 some time, so 1 here descrilic two new forms we got there, and one from Khenchela : 



Metopoceras canteneri pallidior snbsp. nov. 



(?. Differs from Spanish and Portuguese M. c. canteneri in being much paler ; 

 the ground colour is greyish yellowish liver-brown, not deep rufous, the markings 

 are not so sharply defined, and the white subtornal dot is absent ; the terminal dark 

 band on hiadwing is paler and less distinct. 



? similar. 



'ZiS, Guelt-es-Stel, Central Algeria, April 1'.), I'.WZ (VV. Rothschild and 

 K. Jordan); 1 cJ, 1 ?, Bou Saada, Algeria, May l'.»ll (Victor Faroult). 



Ammetopa nisseni sp. nov. 

 (?. Antennae Ijrown ; head and thorax greyish liver-brown tinged witli yellow ; 



abdomen pah^ wood-grey. Forewing greyish liver-brown ; antemedian, nie<lian, 



and ]ioHtniedian zigzag waved transverse lines sooty black, somewhat indistinct, the 



outer one strongly bowed out and angled. Hindwing greyish wood-brown with 



darker indistinct subterrainal band. 



