CTEIPOLIA. 421 



Genus CTEIPOLIA. 



Type. 



Cteipolia, Stand. Iris, ix. p. 191 (1896) sacelli. 



Proboscis aborted, minute ; palpi porrect to just beyond frons and fringed 

 with very long hair in front; frons smooth; eyes small, elliptical; antennae 

 of male with very long cilia ; head, thorax, and abdomen clothed with long 

 rough hair and without crests. Fore wing very narrow, the termen obliquely 

 curved; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 

 10 anastoniising with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with 

 vein 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 strongly stalked ; 8 

 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 strongly stalked. 



2618. Cteipolia sacelli. 



Cteipolia sacelli, Staud. Iris, ix. pp. 191, 371, pi. 4. f. 13 (1896) ; id. Cat. 

 Lep. pal. p. 181. 



(S . Head, thorax, and abdomen brownish fuscous mixed with 

 grey. Fore wing brownish grey slightly irrorated with fuscous, the 

 postmedial area slightly suffused with purplish red ; a black streak 

 in base of cell ; a short subbasal streak on costa ; antemedial line 

 rather oblique, waved, with more prominent spot on costa; orbicular 

 and reniform deep black, the former a small elongate spot, the latter 

 a bar-shaped spot ; postmedial line produced to short streaks on the 

 veins, bent outwards below costa and oblique below vein 4; a 

 scries of short black streaks alternating with grey points on costa 

 towards apex ; a very indistinct grey subterminal line defined on 



inner side by slight dark suifusion, angled outwards at vein 7, 

 excurved at middle, and bent outwards to tornus ; a terminal 

 punctiform line. Hind wing grey suffused with fuscous brown ; 

 the underside whitish irrorated with brown, a short black streak in 

 cell and black discoidal lunule showing through to upperside. 



2 . Head, thorax, abdomen, and fore wing much darker, the last 

 without any purple suifusion. 



Hah. W. TrRKESTAN, Issyk Kul, 1 d" , 1 $ ; E. Ttjekestax, Hi. 

 Exp. S 28, $ 30 millim. 



Sect. II. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell. 



2619. Cteipolia acrophila, n. sp. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen brownish fuscous mixed with grey. 

 Fore wing grey sufiused and irrorated with brownish fuscous ; an 



