CLKOrUAXA. 101 



sufiiision boyond it on costa with two white points on it ; the veins 

 of terminal area streaked with black, defined bj' short white streaks 

 on each side : cilia cheqnered brown and wliite and intersected with 

 black. Hind wing white, the veins, costal area, and terminal half 

 except inner area suffused with brown ; cilia white mixed with 

 brown; the underside white, the costal and terminal areas irrorated 

 with brown, a slight spot at upper angle of cell. 



llab. Algeria ; Tunis, 1 cf , 1 $ . Eri). 'I'l millim. 



21U7. Cleophana opposita. (Plate XCIX. tig. 3.) 



Clcaphana opposita. Led. Ann. Soc. Ent. Beige, xiii. pp. oi, 47, pi. 1. I'. 12 

 (1870); Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 214. 



Held and thorax grey mixed with dark brown ; vertex of head 

 and base of tegnlse reddish brown, tips of tegula3 and a line in front 

 and near upper edge of patagia blackish ; tarsi dark brown with 

 slight pale rings ; abdomen red-brown mi.xed with some grey, slight 

 dorsal segmental black lines on medial segments. Fore wing grey, 

 the antemedial area suffused with red-brown, the basal half of 

 medial area fuscous black, the veins slightly streaked with black 

 except on terminal area; subbasal line represented by a slight black 

 striga from costa ; antemedial line black, oblique from costa to 

 median nervure, where it is slightly angled inwards, cxcurved in 

 subniediau interspace and slightly angled inwards on vein 1 ; a 

 minute black discoidal striga ; postmedial line indistinct and some- 

 what reduced to points on the veins, slightly bent outwards below 

 costa, angled inwards in discal fold and incurved below vein 4, a 

 slight diffused brown band beyond it expanding towards costa, on 

 Avhich are two oblique grey strias, angled inwards in discal fold and 

 incurved below vein 3, Ibllow^ed by a very indistinct diffused grey 

 subterminal line excurved above and below discal fold ; a slightly 

 Avaved dark terminal line ; cilia red-brown at base, che(iuered grey 

 and fuscous at tips. Hind wing reddish brown with indistinct 

 pale medial band ; cilia brown at base, greyish with dark points at 

 tips ; underside whitish suffused with brown and irrorated with 

 fuscous except inner half to postmedial line, a slight dark discoidal 

 lunule and postmedial line with minute dark streaks on the veins. 



llnb. BuLG.VKiA ; Macedonia; Armenia; Asia Minor, Pontus, 

 1 c? , Taurus, 1 d' , 2 5 ; Syria, Leech Coll., 3 J , Antioch, Mardin ; 

 Bagdad {Loftas), 1 $ . Ed-j). 20-30 millim. 



Secc. III. Antennre of male serrated. 



A. Abdomen with dorsal crest on 2n(l segment. 



a. Fore wing with the angle of postmedial line in submcdiHn 

 fold connected with the antemedial line bv a short 

 black i«treak vaulogeri. 



h. Fore wing with the angle of ))ostme(li;il line in subniedinn 

 fold not connected with the antemedial line by a black 

 sire.ik fJiffliiens. 



