540 KOCTUID^E. 



1934. Cirphis pntresceus. 



Xocfua piifrrsrens, Geyer, S;imiiil. Em-. S(;limett., Noct. ff. 730-1 (1827); 



Ilcrr.-Scliair. Eur. y'chmett., Nuct. il'. 301, 'S21-S ; fcjiaud. Cat. Lep. piil. 



p. 192. 

 Koctua boisduvali, Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. p. 79, pi. 10.5, f. G (1827). 



Hi^ad and thora.x ijreyish, more or less tinj^ed with ochreons and 

 mixed with brown; pal})i blacki.sh at sides; tegulcO witli medial 

 black line ; a black streak near upper edge of patagia ; abdomen 

 ochreons white, sliglitly irrorated witli brown. Fore wing grey 

 more or less tinged with ochreous, and with some black irroration, 

 especially on costal and inner areas ; a black .streak below base of 

 cell and an oblique streak above inner margin before middle ; the 

 veins white defined by fine purple-brown streaks diffused on each 

 side of median nervure and medial part of vein 1, the interspaces 

 also with purple-brown streaks ; a white point at lower angle 

 of cell ; the postmedial line bent outwards below costa, then 

 represented by a series of points, oblicjue below vein 4 ; a tri- 

 angular brown shade from termen below apex conjoined to another 

 triangular shade above tornus ; a terminal scries of black points; 

 cilia brown intersected with white. Hind wing white ; a terminal 

 series of black points ; the terminal area in female suffused with 

 brown ; the underside -with the costal area irrorated with black, 

 a postmedial series of slight black streaks on the veins. 



Ilab. BiiiTAiN, Leech Coll. ; W, & S. France, Zeller Coll. ; Siwix ; 

 Italy, Capri (C. /S. Browne) ; Sicily ; Algeria ; Dalmatia ; Istria ; 

 ?'VV. Turkestan, Turcomania, Issyk-Tvul. Exp. 32-36 raillim. 



Subsp. canarlensis, Rebel, Ann. Nat. Hoftn. Wien. ix. p. .58 (ISiM). 



Smaller ; fore wing darker, on underside with prominent discoidal 

 point. 



JJab. Canaries, Fuerventura. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 70 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. v. p. 150, pi. 203. f. 2 ; 

 Milliere, Icones, ii. p. 254, pi. 77- f. 11. 



Greyish ochreous to reddish brown ; dorsal line pale, dark-edged, 

 almost white on thoracic somites ; subdorsal and lateral lines 

 whitish, dark-edged, separated by an ochreous-brown area ; spira- 

 cular line bx'own ; subspiracular line pale ; head grey with darker 

 markings. Food-plants, Grasses. 10-2. 



*1935. Cirphis herrichi. 



Leucania kerrichii, Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett., Noct. ii. p. 238, Noct. 

 f. 341 (1845) ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 192. 



c? . Head and thorax pale ferruginous mixed with fuscous ; 

 abdomen grey-brown, tinged with rufous and irrorated with 

 fuscous. Fore wing greyish, almost entirely tinged with ferruginous 

 red, and thickly irrorated, and in places suffused, with fuscous ; 

 a black streak below base of cell ; the anteraedial line oblique to 

 median nervure, excurvcd below cell and above inner margin, angled 

 inwards on vein 1 ; orbicular and reniform represented by slight 



