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NOCTCID.!;. 



wing fuscous-brown with a reddish tinge : cilia white tinged with 

 brown at base : the underside whitish suffused with brown, traces 

 of a discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. 



Hah. Morocco, Marmora Forest (J/grtf?j- I FaWo), 1 9; Pamstink. 

 Exp. 26 millim. 



Sect. II. Antenna? of male ciliated. 



2211. Omphalophana anatolica. 



Noefua serrata, Frr. Nene Beitr. iii. pi. 256, f. 1 (nee Treit.). 

 Calo2')hasia anatolica. Led. Noct. Eur. p. 227 (1857) ; Oalb. Iris, i. p. 25G, 

 pi. 12. f . 11 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 213. 



Head nnd thorax white mixed with black; teg ulae with rather 

 diffused black medial line defined by white behind ; abdomen grey 

 mixed with fuscous, the dorsal crests with some black. Fore wing 

 grey suffused and irrorated with fuscous brown, the medial area 

 darker ; a black streak in base of submedian fold ; antemedial line 

 double, curved; traces of a small claviform defined by black; 

 orl)icular and reniform very small and indistinct, with browiush 

 centres and whitish annuli slightly defined by black, the former 



Fig. 27. — Ompludophana anatolica, i^ . \. 



round ; a diffused black medial line ; postmedial line indistinctly 

 double filled in with white, bent outwards below costa, then 

 dentate, incurved below vein 4; the veins of terminal area with 

 slight dark streaks, the interspaces with black streaks towards 

 termen between veins 8 and 5 and below 2; cilia chequered fuscous 

 and white. Hind wing pale suffused with fuscous brown, the 

 terminal area darker ; cilia chequered white and fuscous ; the 

 underside grey irrorated with fuscous, the terminal area suffused 

 with fuscous, a small discoidal spot and postmedial series of slight 

 streaks on the veins. 



Hab. Italt ; S. Turkey ; Rhodes ; Asia Minor, Bithynia, Lydia ; 

 Palestine ; W. Turkestan, Turcomania, Askhabad, 1 cS . Exp. 

 30 millim. 



Genus OXICESTA. 



Type. 



Oxicesta, Hubn. Yerz. p. 114 (1827) geographica. 



Clidla, Buisd. Ind. Meth. p. 68 (1840) geographica. 



Proboscis ab.sent ; palpi obliqnely porrect. the 2nd joint fringed with long hair 

 below ; Irons smootli ; eyes large, rounded ; antenna? of male bipectinate with 

 sliorf branches decreasing to base and apex; head and thorax clothed with 



