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7789. Grammodes palaestinensis. (Plate CCXXII. fig. 15.) 



Leucaniiis palcestinensis. Stand. Iris, x. p. 299, pi, 9. f. 19 (1897) ; id. Cat,. 

 Lep. pal. p. 244. 



$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen oclireous white ; antennae ringed 

 -with black ; palpi white irrorated with brown ; pectns, legs, and 

 ventral ^ surface of abdomen white, the legs irrorated with "brown. 

 Fore wing with the basal area and costal area to the subterminal 

 Ime oehreous white tinged and irrorated with red-brown ; ante- 

 medial line black, excnrved below costa and incurved in submedian 

 interspace, a conical dark brown patch before it from subcostal 

 nervure to inner margin ; medial band oehreous white tinged with 

 rufous, excurved in cell and incurved below it ; the outer half of 

 medial area reddish brown except towards costa, narrowing to a 

 point at inner margin, defined by the black po.stmedial line, which 

 is excurved below costa and incurved below vein 3 and to inner 

 margin, its outer edge defined by a creamy white line ; the narrow 

 postniedial area rufous except towards costa ; a patch of fuscous 

 suffusion on costal area with some white po'.nts on costa before the 

 slight whitish subterminal line, defined on inner side by black 

 marks, oblique to vein 6, then incurved and slightly angled out- 

 wards at veins 4 and 3 ; the terminal area suffused with grey- 

 brown ; a fine blackish terminal line ; cilia white at base, with a 

 dark line at middle and brownish tips. Hind wing with the basal 

 half white slightly tinged with oehreous brown ; a narrow oblique 

 brown medial band ; the terminal area suffused with black-brown, 

 narrowing to tornus and leaving pale marks just before termen at 

 apex and below middle ; cilia white, brown at tips at middle. 

 Underside white ; fore wing with dark discoidal striga, sinuous 

 postmedial line from below costa to submedian fold and subterminal 

 and terminal brown shades ; hind wing with slight discoidal spot, 

 faint line from lower angle of cell to submedian fold, minutely 

 waved postmedial line from below costa to siibmedian fold, sub- 

 terminal black shade with dentate outer edge, and black terminal 

 line with diffused patch before it at middle. 



Hal. Palestine, 1 $ . Exp. 34 millim. 



7790. Grammodes microgonia. 



Chalc'wjK microgonia, Hnipsn. P.Z. S. 1910, p. 424, pi. xxxvii. f, 24. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing grey-brown 

 irrorated with fuscous ; a triangular velvety black patch in sub- 

 median interspace from near base to middle, its outer edge obliquely 

 excised and slightly defined by white ; a blackish point in end of 

 cell ; a triangular velvety black patch on postmedial area defined 

 on inner and outer sides by whitish, its angles on discocellulars and 

 vein 6 and its apex beloAV vein 2, followed by a rufous band from 



