CLEOPHAXA. 101 



suffusion beyond it on costa with two white points ou it ; the veins 

 of terminal area streaked with black, defined by short white streaks 

 on each side : cilia chequered brown and white and intersected with 

 black. Hind wing white, the veins, costal area, and terminal halt" 

 except inner area suffused with brown ; cilia white mixed with 

 brown; the underside white, the costal and terminal areas irrorated 

 with brown, a slight spot at upper angle of cell. 



Hab. Algeeia ; Tunis, 1 ci' , 1 $ • Exp. 22 millim. 



2197. Cleophana opposita. (Plate XCIX. %. 3.) 



Clcophrma opposita,. Led. Ami. Soc. Ent. Beige, siii. pp. 34, 47, pi. 1. t'- l"-2 

 (1870) ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 214. 



Head and thorax grey mixed with dark brown ; vertex of head 

 and base of tegulse reddish brown, tips of tegular and a line in front 

 and near upper edge of patagia blackish ; tarsi dark brown with 

 slight pale rings ; abdomen red-brow'n mixed with some grey, slight 

 dorsal segmental black lines on medial segments. Fore wing grey, 

 the antemedial area suffused with red-brown, the basal half of 

 medial area fuscous black, the veins slightly streaked with black 

 except on terminal area; subbasal line represented by a slight black 

 striga from costa ; antemedial line black, oblique from costa to 

 median nervure, where it is slightly angled inwards, excurved in 

 submedian interspace and slightly angled inwards on vein 1 ; a 

 minute black discoidal striga ; postmediai line indistinct and some- 

 what reduced to points on the veins, slightly bent outwards below 

 costa, angled inwards in discal fold and incurved below vein 4, a 

 slight diffused brown band beyond it expanding towards costa, on 

 which are two oblique grey striae, angled inwards in discal fold and 

 incurved below vein 3, followed by a very indistinct diffused grey 

 subterminal line excurved a.bove and below discal fold ; a slightly 

 waved dark terminal line ; cilia red-brown at base, chequered grey 

 and fuscous at tips. Hind wing reddish brown with indistinct 

 pale medial band ; cilia brown at base, greyish with dark points at 

 tips ; underside whitish suffused with brown and irrorated with 

 fuscous except inner half to postmediai line, a slight dark discoidal 

 lunule and iwstmedial line with minute dark streaks on the veins. 



Hab. BuLGAKiA ; Macedonia; Armenia; Asia Minor, Pontus, 

 1 c? , Taurus, 1 c? , 2 5 ; Syria, Leech Coll., 3 J , Antioch, Mardin ; 

 Bagdad {Loftiis), 1 5 . Exp. 26-30 millim. 



Sec I". III. Antenn;i! of male serrated. 



A. Abdomen with dorsal crest on 2iid segment. 



a. Fore wing with tlie angle of postmediai line in submedian 



fold connected with the antemediai line by a short 



black streak vaiilo^eri. 



b. Fore wing with the angle of postmediai line in submedian 



fold not connected with the antemedial line by a black 



streak difflu.ens. 



