No NOCTUID.Ii. 



line (lou1)l«\ llif outer line black, minutely waved ; orbirubir ami 

 n-niforin suiill with fuscous centres luul white aniiuli hlit^htly 

 (Iftin.Ml liy ]»lack, the former round; an indistinct ditiusfd brown 

 medial lino; postmodial line black duMned by whitish on outer side, 

 slifjhlly l)ent outwards Itelow costa, dentate at veins <), 4, ,'{, l>, 1, 

 incurved at discal fold and below viin 4 to near ori-in of vein 2, 

 then obli(|ue; the interspaces of terminal area with black streaks 

 not reachin.i; termen with whitish streaks above and below, most of 

 tbtm to termen: cilia chcciuered dark brown and wliite. Hind 

 win;; dark n-dilish brown with indistinct diffused whitish medinl 

 band ; cilia white chequered with brown at base ; the underside 

 with the white band more distinct and emitting a streak in sub- 

 median told to base, the termen white. 



llah. rKAxcK, Sand Coll. ; (lERMANy. Zeller Coll. ; Austria, Frey 

 and Ixjcch Colls. : Hlngaky, Leech Coll.; Spain ; Itat.y ; I^alcans; 

 Ahmkxia ; Asia Minor; Syria, Leech Coll., ^Mardin. H-Vfi. UU- 

 ~'A'l miiliin. 



Lurvn. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Er.r. p. 2.53 ; Hffin. Raup. p. 12."., pi. .-$3. f. 7. 



(hccn with black i)oints and white dorsal line. Food-plants: 

 Aiitlrrhinnin and >'Scabiosa ocJiroleuca. 0. 



220S. Omphalophana serrata. 



Cleophana serrafa, Treit. Schmett. Eur., Suppl. x. (2) p. 121 (183.5) : Geyer. 



Eiir. Schmett.. Noct. f. 871 ; Feistli. Ann. S..c. Ent. Fr. vi. p. 21*0, pi. 12. 



f. 2 ; Diip Lt'p. Fr., Suppl. iii. p. 420. pi. 37. f. o ; Rnibr. F;iuu. Andal. 



pi. 18. f.tj ; Mill. Icoues. ii. ]A. (Hi. ff. 1, 2 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 213. 

 Cle(rpkana arctata, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 161 (1802). 



d" . Head and thorax purplish irrey mixed with brown and 

 black ; tegulir with slight black lines at middle and near tips 

 defined by white behind ; tarsi with slight whitish rings ; abdomen 

 brown mixed with whiti.sh. Fore wing purplish grey suffused witli 

 yellow-brown beyond the postmedial line and on terminal area ; u 

 black streak in base of cell and a subbasal streak below cell on diffused 

 white fasciie; antemedial line double tilled in with white and with 

 some blackish suflusion before it, curved and slightly angled inwards 

 below costa; orbicular and retiiform small, approximated, witii 

 fuscous centres and sliglit white annuli defined by black, the 

 former round; ;in indistinct medial line; jiostmedial line double 

 filled in witli white, bent outwards below costa, then produced to 

 short white streaks on the veins followed by black streaks, incurved 

 at discal fold and below vein 4 to below orbicular and approximated 

 to anteme(lial line, some obli(juc white stria^ from costa beyond it ; 

 a series of white streaks on terminal area and cilia, forking on each 

 side of veins, in the interspace below vein 4 connected inwardly aiid 

 forming a lunule. Hind wing with the basal half whitish tinged 

 with brown, tiie terminal half brown, narrowing to tornus ; the 

 veins darker; ciliii white che(|uered with pale brown on apical 

 half; the \inderside whitish slightly irrorated with brown, a slight 

 discoidal lunule, the veins and a diffused stibterminal l»and l)rown. 



