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rufous and slightly irrorated with black. Fore wing rufous with 

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

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

 streak on base of subcostal nervure, a black point in base of cell 

 and slight streak in base of submedian fold ; antemedial line black 

 defined on outer side by white, from subcostal nervure to inner 

 margin, strongly excurved ; an oblique reddish white discoidal bar 

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

 reddish white postmedial band from subcostal nervure to vein 2, 

 defined on outer side by the black postmedial line, wdiich 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 inwards 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 base with brown line at middle and whitish 

 tips. Hind wing white, the basal and inner areas siift'used with 

 rufous to the rufous 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 

 white, 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. 



Hah. Algeria, Biskra {Walsingham, JEaton), 2(S , Hammam- 

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

 locality " Cape " is an error. 



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



Cerocala insana, Stanrl. Cat. Lep. Eur. eel. ii. p. 135 (uec Herr.-Scbaff.). 

 Cerocala sana, Staud. Cat. Lep, pal. p. 241 (1901). 



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

 head and base of tegulse creamy white ; antennae 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 irrorated 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 subcostal 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 

 costa ; orbicular reddish brown defined by blackish, round ; renif orra 

 reddish brown defined by blackish except below, an oblique whitish 

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

 vein 2, with slightly sinuoiis edges, defined on outer side by the 



