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594.. Eulocastra bipartita. 



Apamea bipartita, Herr.-Schaff. Eur. 

 <45 ; Stand. Cat. L«p. pal p. •_'. , ;i>. 

 Xanthop \ozona, Hmpsn. P.Z S. 1^96, p. 261, pi • 



Thalerastria - aid. Iris. x. p. 295, pi. 1. i. _*'. I 39 



2 (mesozona). Head and thorax ochreous white Faintly 

 with fulvous; fore tibiae and tarsi blackish with pale rii 

 abdomen white with pale brown bands, the anal tull oehn 

 Fore wing ochreous white, the terminal area suffused with rufo 



a small triangular black mark at base of costa ; antemedial line 

 represented by two black points on costa ; a broad medial greyish 

 black band defined at sides by deep black lines, somewhat oblique 

 from costa to sub median fold; a black discoidal point ; postmedial 

 line with black point on costa, then represented by a faint sib 

 line excurved from below costa to vein 4; a black mark on c 

 with a white point on it before the silvery Bubterminal line, w 

 is slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; 

 fcermen and cilia black. Hind wing whitish suffused with fuscous 

 especially on terminal area; the underside ochreous white, tie' 

 terminal area suffused with fuscous from apex to vein 2. 



The figure of bipartita from Sicily has the medial band of f 

 wing slightly constricted below costa and strongly below the i 

 the termen and (ilia not black ; it is probably a distinct 



l/'ili. Skily; Palestine; Aden (Yerbury), 1 $ typ< 

 Exp. 22 millim. 



5943. Eulocastra insignis. (Plate CLXVII. I 

 HydrUlodes iiistgni?, Butl. P. Z. S. 18S4, p. 500. 



Head and thorax glossy black ; palpi greyish at b i 

 extremity of 2nd joint; antennae slightly ringed with 

 pectus and legs yellowish, the fore tibiae and the tarsi band* 

 black; abdomen yellowish white, dorsally suffused wit! 

 middle. Fore wing pale yellow, the terminal 

 rufous; the basal area black with somewhal obli |u< outei ■ 

 broad black medial band, its inner edge excurved. it-- outer 

 from costa to vein 4, then incurved, defined bj pa y< 

 outer side before the rufous area ; an obliqu 

 medial black spot on costa ; an apical black patch continui 

 narrow band on termen to vein 1 ; cilia black I 

 above tornus. Hind wing yellowish while, the inn< i 

 areas suffused with brown ; the underside yellow 

 with brown, an indistinct diffused curved 

 fuscous brown apical patch. 



Hob. Aden (Yarbury), 5 S , 3 $ type. Exp. :'' 1 1' I millim. 



