CHIORIDEA. 



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Phalmna charmione, StoU, Cram. Pap. Exot. v. p. 162, pi. 36. f. 10 (1791). 

 Xoctua barbara, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. 2, p. Ill (1794). 

 Phalcena straminea, Donov. Brit. Ins. ii. pi. 61 (1813). 



Head and thorax ocbveous yellow tinged with rufons ; abdomen 

 ■ochreous white, dorsally tinged with brown. Fore wiug ochreous, 

 slightly tinged with rufous ; the subbasal line represented by 

 minute jioiuts on costa and median nervure ; the antemedial line 

 indistinct, with brown point on costa, angled outwards below costa 

 and cell and above inner margin ; claviform represented by a slight 

 rufous mark, the orbicular by a brown point ; the reniform with 

 greyish centre and brown outline connected with costa by a brown 

 mark with a striga on its outer edge ; an oblique waved medial line 

 from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; the postmedial line dentate, 

 with white points at extremity of teeth, bent outwards below costa, 

 then oblique, with a rufous band on its outer side defining the sub- 

 terminal line, which is angled outwards at vein 7 and slightly 

 excurved at middle ; a terminal series of black points and a more 

 prominent spot above tornus. Hind wing ochreous white tinged 

 with brown, the veins and discoidal lunule brown ; the terminal 

 area brown, with diffused inner edge and pale subterminal patch at 

 middle ; cilia white, with brownish line at base. Underside white ; 

 fore wing with the reniform black ; both wings with brown band 

 beyond the postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. $ . Hind wing orange-yellow. — S. Africa. 



Hob. EuEOPE, C. & Southern ; Britain, Spain, 1 cT , 1 $ , Frey 

 ■Coll., Gibraltar, 1 S , i^icily, 6^,1$; Mokocco, Tangier (Leech), 

 1 cT , 1 2 , Mogador {Leech), 2 S ; Canaribs (Goclman, Leech), 1 6 , 



1 2 ; C. Colony, 1 cJ , 2 $ ; Asia Minor, Taurus, 1 c? , Anatolia, 

 Boz Dagh, 1 J, 1 $; Syria, 1 S ■. Lebanon {3Irs. Niclioll), 1 $; 

 Persia, Pao (Cumming), 1 c? ; J^.W. Himalaxas, Dalhousie (Har- 

 ford), 1 c? , 1 $ , Khairabad (Terhunj), 1 S ; Nepal (Hardwicl-e), 



2 (S ; Ktjtch, 1 c? , 1 $ . Exp. 34-40 millira. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 109 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. vi. p. 158, pi. 245. f. 4. 



Green or ochreous reddish with white dots ; dorsal and subdorsal 

 lines darker ; spiracular line white ; head green or brownish. Food- 

 plants : Ononis, Pyrethrimi, Arenaria, &c. 5-8. 



54. Chleridea nubigera. 



Helinthis nubigera, Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett. ii. p. 366 (1845) ; Ramb. 



Cat. Lep. S. And. pi. 12. f. 5 ; Hmpsu. Moths Ind. ii. p. 175 ; Stand. 



Cat. Lep. pal. p. 222. 

 Heliothis perigeoides, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 361. 



Head and thorax ochreous tinged with brown ; pectus white ; 

 abdomen white, dorsally irrorated with brown. Fore wing ochreous, 

 tinged with rufous or greyish brown ; an indistinct waved subbasal 

 line from costa to submedian fold ; a highly waved antemedial line 

 with dark points on the veins ; claviform with indistinct brown 

 •outline and sometimes a dark centre : orbicular and reniform with 

 brown outline, the former round with dark point at centre, the 



