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which is black, angled outwards in upper part of cell and inwards 

 at median nervure, then oblique, sinuous ; orbicular a small whitish 

 spot defined by blackish ; reniform whitish defined by blackish, 

 moderate ; postmedial line black defined on inner side by whitish, 

 excurved slightly below costa, then oblique and very slightly waved ; 

 subterminal line white defined on inner side by small dentate black 

 marks, excurved below vein 7, angled and waved above and below 

 vein 5, excurved and waved at middle, and angled inwards below 

 vein 3 ; a terminal series of small whitish spots defined by sliglit 

 black lunules. Hind wing white, the terminal area broadly fuscous 

 brown ; cilia white ; the underside white, the terminal area irrorated 

 with brown, a terminal series of small dark lunules. 



Hah. Palestine, Dead Sea, type f $ in Coll. Pilngeler. Exjj. 

 42 millim. 



8098. Clytie sancta. (Plate CCXXXI. fig. 16 c^ , 17 $ .) 



Pseudophia scrnda, Staud. Iris, x. p. 301 (1897); id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 245. 



S . Head and thorax pale grey tinged with brown ; antennte 

 brown, the shaft ringed with white towards base ; tarsi blackish 

 ringed Math white ; abdomen white dorsally tinged with b^'own. 

 Fore wing grey-white faintly tinged with brown and thickly irrorated 

 with dark brown ; slight subbasal blackish points below the costa 

 and cell ; antemedial line blackish, rather diffused, oblique to sub- 

 median fold, then erect ; a minute black point in middle of cell ; 

 reniform small, white defined by blackish, constricted at middle ; 

 postmedial line blackish, rather diffused, slightly excurved below 

 costa, incurved below vein 4 ; subterminal line whitish, waved, 

 excurved below vein 7 and at middle, defined on inner side by a 

 black spot below vein 7, then by slight black lunules ; a fine waved 

 blackish terminal line. Hind wing white with a broad diffused 

 fuscous siibterminal shade, the area beyond it tinged with grev- 

 brown. Underside of both wings white with a dark subterminal 

 shade except towards inner margins. 



Ab. 1. Head, thorax, and fore wing more ochreous, the last with 

 slight dark irroration and the markings obsolescent. 



5 . Fore wing much more strongly suffused and irrorated with 

 brown ; hind wing with the basal half yellow, the postmedial area 

 black, the terminal area grej^-brown. 



Hal. Algeria; Egypt, Suez {J. J. Walke?^), 1 d, Libyan 

 Desert, Gronah {King), 2 S ; Sudan, Port Sudan {Mrs. Water- 

 field), 16, 2 2; Aden {Terhury), 1 S ; Syria; Palestine. 

 Hxp. 40-52 millim. 



8099. Clytie illunarig. 



Noctua illunaris, Hiibn. Eur. Bchmett., Noct. ff. 565, 574 (1818) ; Godt. 

 Lep. Fr. v. p. 126, pi. 55. £f. 3-4; Geyer, Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 868 • 

 Mill. Icones, ii. p. 162, pi. 68. f. 9. & iii. p. 239, pi. 126. ff. ?, 9 ; Staud, 

 Oat. Lep. pal. p. 245. 



Pseuclopliia gracilis, Bang-Haas, Iris, xx, p. 74. pi. iii, f. 10 (1907). 



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