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discocellular brown patch lialf joined to a brown curved 

 transverse band beyond cell ; costal niaro^in orange-brown ; 

 a submarginal row of black dots ; outer margin orange : fringe 

 whitisli grey, very broad (2 mm.). Hind wing creamy white, 

 suffused with yellowish grey, with two obsolete darker 

 clouded bands on disk : fringe 2 mm. broad, white. 



Length of fore wing 16 mm. 



Hob. Bou Saada, May 1911 [Victor Faroult). 



2. Cleophana hcetica diluta, subsp. n. 



Differs from bcetica bceticT. in the c^round-colour and fringes 

 being white, not mauve-grey, and tlie dark markings on each 

 side of the transverse bands shining pale yellowish wood- 

 brown, not blackish brown ; thorax whitish, not dark grey. 



Hah. A large series from El Outaya and Bou Saada (type), 

 April and j\Iay {Victor Faroult). 



Intermediate specimens occur in Asia Minor and Greece. 



3. Cucullia oberthueri, sp. n. 



cJ . Head woody buff; antennpe whitish; tegulre cream- 

 colour, edged with brown; patagia cream-colour, faintly tinged 

 with grey; thorax black-brown; abdomen brown-buff, claspers 

 deep buff. Fore wing cream-colour ; costal and subcostal 

 area sooty grey-brown ; a few brown strite running in from 

 outer margin ; an oblique brown irregular band runs from 

 base of inner margin to vein 3 at outer margin ; three minute 

 black dots in cell on median vein. Hind wing cream-colour, 

 veins yellowish brown. 



Lengtii of fore wing 22 mm. 



Nab. 2 c?c?. Bou Saada, j\lay 1911 {Victor Faroult) 

 (type); 1 <^ , El Kantara, S. Algeria, April 1911 {Victor 

 Faroult) . 



Family Geometridae. 

 •1. Scodiona albirosea, sp. n. 



? . Legs sooty grey ; head and thorax white, washed with 

 rose; antennai white; abdomen dirty white. Fore win^T 

 very i)ale ^^llitish rose, suffused on basal three-fourths with 

 darker rose and sparsely f)owdered with blackish dots ; an 

 interrupted, brick-red, zigzag, transverse line one-third from 

 base, two brick-red patches on costa, and a similar disco- 

 cellular one; a zigzag brick-red transverse line beyond cell, 

 much clouded all round with brick-red ; marginal line oran'^e. 



