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tornus ; hind wing with oblique brown bar from vein 2 to termen 

 above tornus and terminal series of black-brown spots from apex 

 to vein 2, confluent towards apex and at middle. 



Hah. Spaix, Andalusia, Zeller, Frev, and Leech Colls., Gibraltar 

 {3Ieade-Waldo). Exp. 40-42 millim. 



Larva. Kirbv, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 278, pi. 53. ff. 3 a-b ; Iloffin. Eaup. 

 p. 145. 



Long, slender, cylindrical, livid grey ; head yellow, the two anterior 

 pairs of prolegs absent. Food-plant, Helianthemum hali mi folium. 

 4-6 and 9-10. 



8081. Cerocala vermiculosa. (Plate CCXXVI. fig. 15.) 



Cerocala vermiculosa, Herr.-Schaff. Aussereur. Schmett. ff. 134-135 (1850). 



Head and thorax grey-brown, the vertex of head and base of 

 tegula? creamy white wdth some rufous hair above ; patagia with 

 black streaks above ; antennje with the shaft whitish above ; palpi, 

 pectus, and legs creamy white, the fore and mid tibiae black-brown 

 above ; abdomen creamy white, dorsally tinged Avith rufous. Fore 

 wing creamy white suffused with rufous, the costal area white 

 iiTorated with brown to the postmedial line, the terminal area 

 white iiTorated with brown, the termen brown except towards apex ; 

 subbasal black striae from costa and cell with a slight black sti-eak 

 beyond them in submedian fold ; an antemedial black point on 

 costa ; the antemedial line black defined on outer side by white, 

 strono-lv excurved, a broad grev-brown band before it with black 

 and silvery markings on its inner edge ; medial area strongly 

 suffused with rufous except towards costa ; orbicular grey-brown 

 sulfused with silvery scales and defined by black, round ; reniform 

 grey-brown suffused with silver^" scales, defined by black except 

 below, a red-brown patch beyond it with a black line on its outer 

 edge ; an oblique creamy white band tinged with iiifous below 

 from costa beyond the cell to the subterminal line at A'oin 2, 

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

 is retracted to lower edge of reniform, then obliquely incurved to 

 inner margin and slightly defined on inner side by white, the area 

 between it and the subterminal line grey-brown with a silvery 

 gloss and some black sti-eaks and marks before the subterminal line 

 and below end of cell ; subterminal line whitish, oblique, sti-ongly 

 angled inwards at diseal fold and very acutely angled inwards 

 in submedian fold to below end of cell, defined on outer side 

 by a brown line arising from apex ; a crenulate black terminal 

 line ; cilia reddish brown, whitish towards apex. Hind wing 

 creamy white, the ba.sal and inner areas suffused with rufous ; 

 a curved black-brown postmedial band from costa to vein 2 

 where it is conjoined to an oblique patch from tornus, extending 

 to termen from below apex to vein 5, the black-brown extending 

 on termen to vein 2 ; cilia white, black-brown at middle and 

 tornus. Underside creamy white ; fore wing with black-brown 

 discoidal patch with oblique brown band from it to above inner 



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