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2227. Calophasia acuta. 



Noctua acuta, Fi-r. Neue Beitr. iii. p. 88, pi. 255. f. 3 (1839) ; Herr.-Schiiff. 



Eur. Schmett. vi. p. 54, Noct. f. 542 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 180. 

 Calophasia producta, Led. Wien. ent. Mon. 1857, p. 07. 

 Folia pygmma, Staud. Hor. Soc. Ent. Eoss. vii. p. 124, pi. 1. f. 11 (1870). 



(5 . Head and thorax white mixed with black ; frons and vertex 

 of head with blackish bars ; tegulte with black line near base, 

 diffused brown medial line and brown tips ; tarsi banded with 

 "brown ; abdomen grey tinged with brown. Fore wing bluish 

 white irrorated with brown ; the veins with slight dark streaks ; 

 subbasal line represented by a black striga from costa ; antemedial 

 line double, the inner line indistinct, angled outwards in cell, in- 

 wards in submedian fold, then excurved ; the stigmata white 

 ■defined hy black ; the claviform short, the orbicular round ; an 

 indistinct medial line, excurved to median nervure, incurved in 

 submedian interspace, then excurved ; postmedial line double, the 

 outer line indistinct, oblique from costa to vein 6 and strongly 

 incurved below vein 4; subterminal line represented by some 

 diffused brown marks, especially towards costa ; a short subterminal 

 black streak above vein 4 and a streak above 2 reaching termen ; 

 a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia chequered white and 

 brown with a blackish line through them. Hind wiug almost 

 uniformly suffused with fuscous brown ; cilia white at tips ; the 

 underside white ; the veins, costal and terminal areas suffused with 

 brown. 



Hob. S.E. TuKKEY ; Asia Minor, Pontus, Bythinia, Lydia ; Syria, 

 2 6 . Exp. 30 millim. 



*2228. ? Calophasia strigata. 



Calophasia strigata. Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xviii. p. 107 (1891); id. 

 Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 156. 



$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen ash-grey mixed with some 

 fuscous ; tegulae paler at base. Fore wing ash-grey, with a fuscous 

 shade through the cell and on terminal area ; the lines obsolete ; 

 the veins streaked with black ; claviform reddish defined by black, 

 long and narrow, from base to beyond middle of wing ; orbicular 

 and reniform with white annuli, the former narrow, clavate, oblique, 

 the latter narrow, angled inwards on median nervure and with a 

 faint reddish tinge beyond it ; the terminal shade intersected by 

 white streaks at veins 4, 3 ; a terminal series of slight dark lunules ; 

 cilia grey intersected with fuscous. Hind wing whitish at base, 

 the veins and terminal area suffused with fuscous ; the underside 

 whitish with dark irroration. 



Hob. U.S.A., Colorado {Bruce). ExjJ. 30 millim. This species 

 is unknown to me. 



