COPICTICULLTA. — CHELIGAIEA. 13 



interspaces and inwards on the veins ; reniform represented by 

 slight brownish outhnes to centre and circumference, with an 

 ill-defined oblique striga from costa above it ; postmedial line bent 

 outwards below costa, then obsolete to submedian fold and angled 

 ■outwards on vein 1 and forming a black streak on middle of inner 

 margin ; some black striee on costa towards apex; an oblique series 

 of short black streaks from termen below apex to above middle of 

 vein 4 and another series from termen above vein 3, with a more 

 prominent streak below vein 2 connected with the streak in 

 submedian fold ; a terminal series of slight black striae ; cilia 

 whitish with a fuscous line through them. Hind wi]jg ochreous 

 whitish, the veins and terminal area sufi^used with fuscous ; cilia 

 white ; the underside white with slight discoidal spot. 



Ab. 1. dimorpha. Pore wing with more distinct dark markings. 

 — Uliassutai. 



Ab. 2. eumorpha. More ochreous white. — Kaschgar, Aksu. 



Hah. S.E. Russia, ISTarun ; W. Turkestan, Issyk Kul ; E. Turke- 

 stan, Kaschgar, Hi, Lob Nor, 1 $ ; Mongolia, Uliassutai, Aksu, 

 2 S • Exp., S 42, 2 44 miliim. 



2067. CopicucuUia sublutea. (Plate XCVI. fig. 20.) 



CitculUa sublutea. Grass. Berl. ent. Zeit. 1892, p. 312 ; Piing. Iris, siv. 

 pi. ii. f. 7 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 216. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen pale ochreous yellow ; froiis, vertex 

 ■of head, tegulse, and mesothorax with rufous bars ; metathoracic 

 crest tipped with rufous. Pore wing pale ochreous yellow ; a 

 rufous streak below base of cell ; a rufous streak on inner margin 

 from before middle to tornus ; an oblique series of short- rufous 

 streaks from termen below apex to lower angle of cell and another 

 series from termen below vein 4 to vein 1 beyond middle. Hind 

 wing yellowish white, the terminal area sufi'used with rufous ; the 

 underside whiter. 



Hah. E. Turkestan, Kaschgar, type f g in Coll. Piingeler ; Mon- 

 •GOLiA, W. Gobi Desert, 1 S • Exp. 34 miliim. 



Genus CHELIGALEA, nov. 



Type, C. scoparics. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, short, fringed with 

 long hair; frons with slight rounded prominence with corneous plate below 

 it; eyes large, rounded; antenuaj almost simple; head and thorax clothed 

 with hair and hair-like scales; tegulje produced behind into a hood; meta- 

 thorax with crest ; tibiaj fringed with long hair, the fore tibiaj with small 

 medial terminal claw covered by a tuft of hair ; abdomen dorsally crested on 

 basal segments. Fore wing long and narrow, the apes rather produced and 

 the termen oblique , veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; {5 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 just below middle 

 •of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near 

 ■base only. 



