106 



NOCIUrD.E. 



Fore wing- white suft'usccl with olive-gt'een and slightly irrorated 

 with blackish ; the veins white ; subbasal line represented by an 

 oblique white bar from costa ; an antemedial white band, excurved 

 below costa, then oblique ; orbicular and reniform rather small, 

 defined by white, the former round, the latter oblique oblong; an 



Fig. 23.— Mctalo2?ka llturafa, (^ . ]. 



oblique postmedial white band, slightly excurved from costa to 

 vein 4, then slightly incurved ; a curved subterminal white band ; 

 a crenulate w^hitc line enclosing the terminal series of olive lunules ; 

 cilia white with series of olive spots. Hind wing white irrorated 

 with pale fuscous ; diffused subterminal and terminal pale fuscous 

 bands ; the underside white, 



Hab. Syria, Antioch ; Mesopotamia, 1 J ; Persia ; W. Tur- 

 kestan, Turcomania. Exp. 28 millim. 



Genus AMEPHANA, nov. 



Type, A. anarrhini. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned to vertex of head and clothed with 

 long hair, the 3rd joint short or long and dilated at extremity ; frons with 

 corneous prominence with raised edges, its lower edge produced to a sliovel- 

 shaped process ; eyes large, rounded ; antenn;\! of male pectinate or simple, 

 laminate ; head and thorax clothed with rough hair only, the vertex of head 

 with large crest, the pro- and nietathorax with double crests; tibia; fringed 

 with long hair; abdomen with some rough hair at base, large crest on 2nd seg- 

 ment and lateral fringes of hair. Fore wing with the costa somewhat concave, 

 the termeu evenly curved, the inner margin lobed near base, the tornus with 

 scale-tooth ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; (i 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 ; G, 7 

 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. Antenna; of male bipectinate, the branches decreasing to base and apex ; 

 palpi with the 3rd joint long and dilated at extremity. 



2204. Amephana varionis. 



Clcaphana warionis, Oberth. Et. Eut. i. p. 48, pi. 2. f. 3 (187()) ; Stand. 

 Cat. Lep. pal. p. 214. 



S . Head and thorax whitish tinged with emerald-green and 

 slightly mixed with fuscous ; the crests on vortex of head, pj'O- 

 and metathorax, and the patagia tipped with rufous; abdonien 



