CEROCALA. Zl L 



rufous and slightly iiTovated with black. Fore wing rufous with 

 a silvery gloss, the costal area, the inner margin except towards 

 base and the terminal area grey- white iiTorated with black ; a white 

 streak on base of subcostal nervm-e, a black point in base of cell 

 and slight sti-eak in base of submedian fold ; antemedial line black 

 defined on outer side by white, from sulx'ostal ner^^^n•e to inner 

 margin, strongly excm-ved ; an oblique reddish white discoidal bar 

 defined at sides \y black scales, its inner side sinuous ; an oblique 

 reddish wliite postmedial band from subcostal nervure to vein 2, 

 defined on outer side by the black postmedial line, which at vein 2 

 is retracted to lower angle of cell, then obliquely incurved to inner 

 margin, defined on inner side by white and with some reddish white 

 between it and the antemedial line in submedian interspace ; 

 subterminal line white, oblique, angled iuAvards at discal and sub- 

 median folds, narrowly defined on outer side by the rufous ground- 

 colour which runs obliquely to apex ; a slight waved black terminal 

 line ; cilia rufous at 1)ase with brown line at middle and whitish 

 tips. Hind wing white, the basal and inner areas suffused with 

 rufous to the nifous postmedial band with sinuous outer edge ; a 

 somewhat bidentate black spot at apex and a terminal patch between 

 veins 4 and 2 with the cilia beyond it brown at base ; the underside 

 Avhite, a small black discoidal spot, indistinct obliquely curved rufous 

 band from costa beyond middle to tornus, and the black spots on 

 termen as above. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing more uniformly suffused with rufous, the 

 markings obscured ; hind wing with the postmedial band and 

 terminal black patches obsolescent. 



Hoh. Algeria, Biskra {Wahinghav2, Eaton), 26 , Hammam- 

 el-Salahin {Wahingham), 2d, 2$. Exp. 34-38 millim. The 

 locality " Cape " is an error. 



8077. Cerocala sana. (Plate CCXXVI. fig. 12.) 



Cerocala i>isa)ici, Staiul. Cat. Lep. Eur. ed. ii. p. 135 (uec Herr.-ScbafT.). 

 Cerocala sana, Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 241 (19U1). 



Head and thorax creamy white mixed with brown, the vertex of 

 head and base of tegulse creamy white ; antenna? white, the branches 

 blackish ; palpi white, the extremity of 2nd joint red-brown, the 

 3rd joint irrorated with brown ; tarsi brown ringed with white ; 

 abdomen creamy white dorsally iiTorated with brown and with some 

 blackish scales at sides. Fore wing creamy white suffused with 

 dark red-brown and rufous, a white streak on subcostal nervure ; 

 antemedial line arising at subcostiil nervure, blackish with a broad 

 dark red-brown band on its inner side and defined on outer side by 

 creamy white, strongly excurved ; medial area rufous except towards 

 costii \ orbicular reddish brown defined by blackish, round ; reniform 

 reddish brown defined by blackish except below, an oblique whitish 

 band from below costa at end of cell to the subterminal line above 

 A'ein 2, with sliffhtlv sinuous edcres, defined on outer side bv the 



