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incurved below vein 4, some pale points beyond it on costa ; sub- 

 terraiual line represented by faint dark suffusion on its inner side, 

 angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle. Hind wing 



Fig. 32. — Ammetojxi cocleti, ^. i. 



whitish suffused with fuscous brown ; cilia ochreous at base, whitish 

 at tips ; the underside whitish with diffused curved postmedial line 

 and terminal bend. 



Hab. Algeria, Biskra (il/rs. NlcJioll, Eaton), 2 c^ . Exj). 26 millim. 



Genus PROTOPHANA, nov. 



Type, P. cervina. 



Proboscis fully develo)5ed ; palpi short, porrect, fringed with long hair below ; 

 frons smooth with curved corneous plate below it ; eyes small, elliptical ; 

 antennaj of male ciliated ; head and thorax roughly clothed with hair and 

 scales, the pro- and metathorax with spreading crests ; tibiae fringed with long 

 hair ; abdomen with dorsal crests on basal segments. Fore wing with veins i> 

 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing 

 with 8 to form the areola ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with A'eins 3, 4 from angle 

 of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 

 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



2223. Protophana cervina. 



HenicUa cervina, H. Edw. Ent. Am. vi. p. 114 (1890) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. 

 N. Am. p. 308. 



S . Head and thorax ochreous mixed with bright rufous, the 

 extremity of patagia and metathoracic crest with a few black 

 scales ; antennae tinged with fuscous ; tarsi fuscous ringed with 

 ochreous ; abdomen greyish suffused with red-brown. Fore wing 



Fig. 33. — Protophana cervina, S . \. 



bright purplish pink slightly irrorated with black, the basal area 

 below the cell and the postmedial area below vein 3 ochreous tinged 

 with olive ; subbasal line red defined by whitish on outer side, waved^ 

 from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line red defined by whitish on 

 inner side, rather oblique and slightly angled outwards below costa. 



