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Cleophana olbiena, Dup. LOp. Fr.. Suppl. iv. p. 230, pi. 70. f. 3 (1842), 



nee Geyer ; Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schinett., Noct. f. 386. 

 Caiophasia suhalhida, Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 213 (1901). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen grej'-white tinged with brown ; frons 

 with brown bar : vertex of head dark brown ; tegulge with black 

 line near base, two slight medial lines and semicircular dark brown 

 patches at tips ; vertex of thorax dark brown ; tarsi slightlj' ringed 

 with brown. Fore wing grej-white slightly tinged with brown, 

 the veins with fine brown streaks ; a fine brown streak in submediau 

 fold to below origin of vein 2; antemedial line represented by 

 a very oblique brown striga from costa and two fine lines from 

 submedian fold angled outwards on vein 1, then very oblique ; 

 claviform with its extremity and lower edge defined by brown ; .in 

 oblique diffused brown medial bar from costa ; an oblique brown 

 shade from apex to medial part of inner margin, where it extends 

 to just before antemedial line, narrowing to apex ; a very fine dark 

 streak in lower part of cell ; jjostmedial line represented by two 

 slight very oblique streaks from costa to vein 7 and two incurved 

 lines from vein 3 to inner margin ; a black-brown streak above 

 vein 4 from beyond lower angle of cell to terraen ; a series of streaks 

 in interspaces of terminal area interrupted by traces of white 

 lunules representing the subterminal line ; cilia chequered whitish 

 and brown and with slight line through them. Hind wing white 

 slightly tinged with brown, the veins and terminal area browner; 

 cilia white tinged with brown at base ; the underside white, the 

 costal area faintly tinged with brown. 



Ab. 1. stibalhida. Much whiter; fore wing with the brown 

 markings obsolescent ; hind wing nearly wholly white. — Sicily, 

 Algeria. 



Ab. 2. olbiena. Melanic. 



Hah. Bettaix (once); France, Sand and Leech Colls. : Germany ; 

 Austria ; Hungary ; Switzerland, Frey and Leech Colls. ; Sicily, 

 Zeller Coll. ; Algeria ; Crete ; Asia Minor, Pontus, Bithynia, 

 Taurus; Syria, Leech Coll., Mardin. Exp. 28-30 millim. 

 Larva. Kirby. Eur. Butt. & Moths, p. 252; HfTin. Kaup. p. 125. 

 "White with lines yellow and transverse dorsal black spots and 

 black lateral spots. Food-plants : Linaria, Antirrhinum minus. 6. 



2234. Calophasia freyeri. 



Xsi/li7ia freyeri.Fny. A' Mayg. Tuclos. Tarsas, Evkonv. ii. p. 273, pi. 7. f. 9 



(1835) ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 213. 

 ^Wtua lintea, Err. Neue Beitr. iv. p. 141, pi. 370. f. 1 (1842). 

 Cleaphana orontii, Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Sclimett. ii. ff. 180-181 (1845). 

 Cleophana senescens, Ev. Bull. Mosc. 1856, ii. pi. 3. f. 1, & 1857, i. p. 94. 



Head and thorax white mixed with brown ; tegulae with brown 

 medial line and band near tips ; patagia white, fuscous at base and 

 tips ; abdomen white suffused with brown, the ventral surface 

 whiter. Fore wing grey-white sufi'used with pale fuscous brown, 

 with the area from upper angle of cell to basal inner area whiter ; 



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