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their inner sides, those on each side of vein 5 longer ; a terminal 

 series of black points. Hind wing white tinged with brown, 

 especially towards termen : the cilia white with a brownish line 

 at base ; the underside white, with the costal area tinged with 

 brown. 



Hah. Chili, Coquimbo {J. J. Walker), 4 d" , 2 $ type. Exp, 

 30 millim. 



Genus CLADOCEROTIS, uov. 



Type, C. 02)tabilis. 



Proboscis aborted, miuute ; palpi porrect to just beyond frons, Muged with 

 long hair below ; t'rons with truncate conical prominence ; eyes large, round ; 

 antenna? of male bipectinate, with long branches to apex ; head and thorax 

 clothed with hair only ; fore tibias rather short and broad, spined at sides and 

 with long curved claw on inner side and short claw on outer ; mid and hind 

 tibiis spined. Fore wing with the apex quadrate ; veins 3 and 5 from near 

 angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form 

 the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 

 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle. 



243, Cladocerotis optabilis. 



HeliopJiobus oj^iaMlis, Boisd. Ic. Lep. Eur. ph 74. ff. 2,3(1832); Herr.- 

 Sclmff. Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 31-33; Dup. Lep. Fr. Suppl. iii. p. 170, 

 pi. 16. f. 2; Staud. Oat. Lep. pal. p. 176. 



Head and thorax ochreous tinged with red-brown ; sides of paljji 

 and frons blackish ; abdomen ochreous, tinged with brown in female. 

 Fore wing ochreous, suffused with reddish-brown except below costa 

 and on inner margin ; the veins defined by ochreous streaks ; the 

 lines absent ; claviform very elongate from base to beyond middle,. 



Fig. 50. — Cladocerotis optabilis, ^ \. 



ochreous defined by black ; orbicular and reniform ochreous defined 

 by black', the former elliptical, open above, Avith a short black streak 

 from its inner side below subcostal nervure, the latter open above 

 and angled inwards on median nervure ; the subterminal line 

 represented by dentate ochreous marks on the veins extending to 

 or to near termen, defined on outer side by black and with the area 

 beyond them dark ; cilia whitish. Hind wing ochreous white, 

 suffused with brown in female. 



Hah. S. France, 2(^,2 $; Spain; Sicily; Algiers. Ewj). 34 

 millim. 



