9S NOCTUID^. 



Sect. I. Anteniu\3 of male with moderate branches decreasing to base and apex. 



A. Fore wing with the cilia chequered grey and white. 



a. Fore wing with prominent white fascia in submedian 



fol d on med i al area chabordi.s. 



h. Fore wing with slight whitish streak in submedian fold 



on medial area hcetica. 



B. Fore wing with the cilia not chequered grey and white... 'pectiivicornis. 



2193. Cleophana cliabordis. 



Cloophana chahordis, Obertli. Et. Ent. i. p. 47, pL 2. f. 2 (1876) ; Staud. 



Cat. Lep. pal. p. 214. 

 Clco])hana albicans, Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 214 (1901). 



Head and thorax white mixed with pale grej'-green, brown, and 

 black ; abdomen white dorsally tinged with brown and fuscous. 

 Fore wing pale grey- green with some cupreous-red suffusion beyond 

 postmedial line except towards costa, the median nervure and veins 

 G to 2 slightly streaked with black ; the extreme base white with a 

 slight black streak in base of cell ; a white streak above median 

 nervure before the antemedial line, which is black defined by white 

 on inner side, stronglj' angled outwards in cell and slightly in sub- 

 median fold, angled inwards on vein 1, an oblique white streak 

 from it in submedian fold to postmedial line at vein 1 ; a white 

 discoidal lunule defined by black on outer side, angled inwards on 

 median nervure and with its upper extremity produced; postmedial 

 line white with black points on inner side, stronger at costa, 

 incurved at discal fold and strongly below vein 4, a white point 

 beyond it on costa ; subterminal line represented by a fine oblique 

 white line from costa to vein 6, wdiere it is angled outwards, then 

 by traces of a line forming distinct ansles to terra en on veins 4, 3, 

 2 ; cilia grey-green mixed with blackish especially at middle and 

 intersected with white. Hind wnng with the basal half and inner 

 area white, the terminal half fuscous brown; cilia white, chequered 

 with brown at base ; the underside white slightly tinged with 

 rufous on basal half of costal area and irrorated with fuscous on 

 terminal area, traces of a postmedial series of dark spots on the 

 veins. 



Ah. 1 alhi cans. Head, thorax, and abdomen white; fore wing 

 much whiter, the markings indistinct. 



Hah. Algeria, Biskra, Hammam-es-8alahin (Walsinc/ham), 3 rf , 

 4 5 ; Tunis, 1 J' ; Palestine ; Persian Gulf, Fao {Camm'mq), 6 o' , 

 3 $ . Exp. 20-24 millim. 



2194. Cleophana bsetica. 



Cleophana heeiica, Rmbr. Faun. Andal. ii. pi. 18. f. 4 (1839); Staud. Cat. 



Lep. pal. p. 214. 

 Cleophana penicillata. Boisd. Ind. Meth. p. 151 (1840), non descr. ; Iferr.- 



Schaff. Eur. Schmett. ii. p. 298 (1842). 

 Cleophana chanorrhini, ]3up. Lep. Fr., Suppl. iii. p. 379, pi. 34. f . (1840). 



Head and thorax greenish grey mixed with pale rufous hair; 



