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terminal area tinged with pale brown ; the underside with the 

 costal and terminal areas slightly irrorated with brown, a small 

 discoidal spot. 



Hah. S. Russia, Sarepta, Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls. ; Armenia ; 

 W. Siberia, Altai. Exp. 44-50 millim. 



Genus LOPHOTERGES, nov. 



Type, L. fatua. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect, the second joint extending to well 

 beyond frons and fringed with long hair below, the third rather long ; frons 

 smooth ; eyes large, rounded ; antenna3 of male almost simple, somewhat 

 laminate ; frons and vertex of head with strong ridges of hair ; thorax clothed 

 chiefly with scales, the tegulaj produced behind into a hood, the metathorax 

 with double crest ; tibia; fringed with hair ; abdomen with dorsal crests on 

 basal segments, tJie crest on 3rd segment large. Fore wing with the termen 

 evenly curved ; 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 ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



A. Fore wing with the postmedial line obsolete, except at costa... miUierei 



B. Fore wing with the postmedial line entire, double fatua. 



2186. Lophoterges miUierei. 



Lithocampa miUierei, Staud. Berl. ent. Zeit. 1870, pp. 119, 330; Mill. 

 Icones, iii. p. 219, pi. 123 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. 212. 



Head and tegulse white slightly tinged with brown ; tegulge with 

 black medial line ; thorax red-brown ; abdomen grey-white, the 

 dorsal crests browner. Fore wing grey-white, the cell and area 

 beyond it to near termen red-brown, the basal half of costal area 

 whiter ; a black streak defined by whitish above below base of cell ; 

 subbasal line represented by a very oblique black striga from costa ; 

 antemedial line represented by a very oblique black striga from 

 costa and traces of a dentate line from cell to inner margin ; 

 orbicular and reniform white defined by brown and their centres 

 defined by brown, the former narrow, very oblique, extending below" 

 cell and slightly confluent with the latter, which is a narrow lunule ; 

 a black streak beyond the cell above vein 4 with an oblique series 

 of short streaks between its extremity and termen below apex ; 

 postmedial line represented by an oblique dark striga from costa ; 

 subterminal line represented by a slight oblique line between vein 

 3 and submedian fold slightly defined by whitish on inner side ; a 

 fine black terminal line defined by a fine white line on inner side ; 

 cilia brownish intersected with white and with fine white line 

 through them. Hind wing white, the terminal area in female 

 suffused with brown. 



Hah. Spain, Catalonia. Exp., S 28, $ 32 millim. 



La'.-va. Whitish ; dorsal line yellow ; subdorsal line white, dilated 

 lietween joints of somites 4-9 and enclosing small elliptical red- 



