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KOCTUIDJE. 



their inner sides, those on each side of vein 5 longer ; a terminal 

 series of black points. Hind wing white tinged with brown, 

 especially towards termen : the cilia white with a brownish line 

 at base ; the nnderside white, with the costal area tinged with 

 brown. 



Hah. Chili, Coquimbo {J. J. Wall-er), 4 cJ , ^ $ type. Exp. 

 30 millim. 



Genus CLADOCEROTIS, uov. 



Type, G. oj)tahilis. 



Proboscis aborted, minute; palpi porreet to just beyond frons, fringed with 

 long hair below ; t'rons with truncate conical prominence ; eyes large, round ; 

 antennte of male bipectinate, with long branches to apex; head and thorax 

 clothed with hair only ; fore tibiae rather short and broad, spined at sides and 

 with long curved claw on inner side and short claw on outer ; mid and hind 

 tibite spined. Fore wing with the apex quadrate ; veins 3 and 5 from near 

 angle of cell ; G from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form 

 the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 8, 4 from angle of cell; 5 

 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle. 



243. Cladocerotis opta bills. 



Hdiopliohus optabilis, Boisd. Ic. Lep. Eur. pi. 74. ff. 2, 3 (1832) ; Herr.- 

 Schiiff. Enr. Schmett., Noct. ff. 31-33; Dup. Lep. Fr. Suppl. iii. p. 170, 

 ])1. 16. f. 2 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 176. 



Head and thorax ochreous tinged with red-brown ; sides of i)alpi 

 and frons blackish ; abdomen ochreous, tinged with brown in female. 

 Fore wing ochreous, suifused with reddish-brown except below costa 

 and on inner margin ; the veins defined by ochreous streaks ; tlie 

 lines absent ; claviform very elongate from base to beyond middle. 



Fig. 50. — Cladocerotis optabilif, i^ \. 



ochreous defined by black ; orbicular and reniform ochreous defined 

 by black-, the former elliptical, open above, with a short black streak 

 from its inner side below subcostal nervure, the latter open above 

 and angled inwards on median nervure ; the subterminal line 

 represented by dentate ochreous marks on the veins extending to 

 or to near termen, defined on outer side by black and with the area 

 beyond them dark ; cilia whitish. Hind wing ochreous white, 

 suffused with brown in female. 



Hah. 8. France, 2 cJ , 2 $ ; Spain; Sicily; Algiers, fey. 34 

 millim. 



