CATA3JECTA. 



543 



4275. Catamecia minima. (Plate CXXXYI. fig. 20.) 



Jpamea minima, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1889, p. 410 ; Hmpsn, Moths Ind. ii. 



p. 248. 

 Caiamecia bacherl, Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 213 (1901). 



S ■ Head and thorax ochreous slightly tinged with rufous and 

 irrorated with brown ; abdomen ochreous white. Fore wing 

 ochreous irrorated with brown ; subbasal line represented by slight 

 black marks below costa and cell ; a.ntemedial line blackish defined 

 by ochreous on inner side, slightly excurved below costa, then some- 

 what sinuous ; claviform moderate, filled in with black-brown ; 

 orbicular and reniform small, ochreous slightly defined by blackish, 

 the former round, the latter narrow and angled inwards on median 

 nervure, a diff'used dark shade between and beyond them ; post- 

 medial line defined by ochreous on outer side, strongly bent 

 outwards below costa and oblique below vein 4, some ochreous 

 points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line ochreous defined on 

 inner side by small dentate blackish marks below costa and at 

 middle, somewhat excurved below costa and at middle and angled 

 inwards at vein 2 ; a terminal series of slight black striae ; cilia 

 brown intersected with ochreous. Hind wing white with fine 

 dark terminal line ; the underside with the costal area irrorated 

 with pale brown, a brown discoidal lunule and traces of a diffused 

 postmedial line from costa to vein 2. 



Hah. Palestine, Jordan, 1 S\ -Aden {Yerlury), 1 S '-, Peesian 

 Gtjlf, Fao {Cuming), 1 d" ; Punjab, Lahore {Harford), 2 c? ; 

 SiND, Karachi {Sivinhoe), 1 d , Hyderabad {Sivinhoe), 1 c? , Kipra 

 {SivinJioe), 1 S type. Exp. 20-22 millim. 



4276. Catamecia jordana. 



Catamecia jordana, Staud. Iris, x. p. 288, pi. 4. f. 23 (1897) ; id. Cat. Lep. 



pal. p. 213. 

 Catamecia mauretanica, Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 213 (1901). 



S . Head and thorax ochreous white mixed with brown ; tarsi 

 fuscous ringed with white ; abdomen white slightly irrorated with 



Fig. 151. — Caiamecia jordani, (j". }. 



brown. Fore wang ochreous white thickly irrorated with brown, 

 the areas before medial part of subterminal line and towards tornus 

 whiter ; no trace of subbasal, antemedial, or postmedial lines ; a 

 whitiih fascia below base of cell confluent with the claviform, which 



