272 NOCTUiD.f;. 



slight blackish postmedial line, which at vein 2 is retracted to lower 

 end of cell, then sinuous and bent outwards to inner mai'gin ; 

 postmedial area deep red-brown with blackish streaks in the inter- 

 spaces before the white subterminal line, which is waved towards 

 costa and strongly angled inwards at discal and submedian folds ; 

 terminal area suffused with rufous with an oblique whitish line 

 beyond the subterminal line arising from apex ; a terminal series 

 of slight blackish lunules. Hind wing creamy white, the inner area 

 tinged with rufous ; a rather diffused rufous postmedial band 

 ending at tornus, excurved at middle and incurved above vein 2 ; 

 a rather trifid dark red-brown apical patch and a terminal patch 

 between veins 4 and 2 with the cilia beyond it brown. Underside 

 white ; fore wing with black discoidal spot with oblique brown band 

 from it to inner margin, two blackish spots on apical part of 

 termen and a patch at middle of termen ; hind wing with minute 

 discoidal spot, the postmedial band obsolescent, the terminal patches 

 as above. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the postmedial white band narrower and 

 not extending to the subterminal line. 



Ab. 2. Hind wing with the postmedial band more diffused on 

 terminal area. 



Hah. Asia Miistor, Mersina (Lederer), 1 S , Taurus (Lederer), 

 5 d", 1 2 ; SrRiA, 2 (5', Leech Coll., Antioch; Persian G-ulf, 

 Bander Abbas (James), 1 ? . Uxj). 32-38 millim. 



8078. Cerocala oppia. (Plate CCXXVI. fig. 13.) 



Pseudophia oppia, Driioe, P. Z. S. 1900, p. 18, pi. i. f. 1. 



$ . Head and thorax bright rufous, the back of head and base of 

 tegulae whitish ; palpi except at tips, pectus, and legs white, the fore 

 tibise and tarsi tinged with brown in front ; abdomen white dorsally 

 banded with glossy grey-brown. Pore wing deep rufous, the costal 

 area brown irrorated with grey and silvery scales, the base of inner 

 margin whitish, the terminal area grey- white irrorated with brown ; 

 an interrupted sinuous silver subbasal line, incm-ved in submedian 

 interspace ; antemedial line black, defined on outer side by white, 

 arising at subcostal nervure and almost erect ; medial area paler 

 rufous ; orbicular a small round silver spot incompletely defined by 

 black ; reniform with silver and rufous centre incompletely defined 

 by black ; an obliquely curved whitish band beyond the cell from 

 just below costa to vein 2 at the subterminal line, its lower part 

 tinged with rufous, defined on outer side by the slight black 

 postmedial line, which at vein 2 is retracted to lower edge of 

 reniform, then oblique to inner margin and defined on inner side by 

 white, an oblique silver band heyond it from below costa to vein 3 

 and an incurved band from vein 2 to inner margin ; subterminal 

 line yellowish white defined on outer side by rufous, angled inwards 

 at discal fold and oblique below vein 3 ; a slight waved dark 

 terminal line ; cilia whitish tinged with rufous. Hind wing white, 

 the terminal area black-brown, broadly at costa and narrowing 



