MAEGELANA. 451 



mark slightly defined by black, acute at extremity ; orbicular and 

 reniform white defined by blackish, the former small, round, with 

 slight dark centre, the latter with curved dark mark in centre and 

 Tindefined on outer side and below ; postmedial line slightly defined 

 by white on outer side, bent outwards below costa, then dentate, 

 angled inwards in discal fold and oblique below vein 4, some slight 

 whitish points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line white defined 

 on inner side by slight rufous suffusion and minute somewhat 

 dentate red-brown marks, excurvcd below vein 7 and at middle, a 

 terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia chequered fuscous 

 brown and white. Hind wing silvery white with fine waved 

 black terminal line ; the underside with the aj)ical area sparsely 

 irrorated with black, a dark discoidal lunule and lunulate black 

 terminal line except towards tornus. 



Hah. Palestine, 1 cJ . Exp. 38 millim. 



3293. Margelana discrepans. (Plate CXIX. fig. 4.) 



Heliophohus discrepaMS, Staud. Iris, iv. p. 278 (1891) ; id. Iris, vi. pi. 1. 

 1". 10 ; id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 177. 



S . Head, thorax, and abdomen red-brown mixed with greyish ; 

 sides of palpi and frons blackish; tarsi black ringed with white. 

 Pore wing ochreous white suffused with red-brown and irrorated 

 with fuscous ; a slight waved black subbasal line from costa to sub- 

 median fold ; antemedial line indistinct, black, waved, rather 

 diffused; claviform moderate, rather strongly defined by black and 

 with blackish streak from it to postmedial line ; orbicular and 

 reniform slightly defined by black, the former round, the latter 

 rather quadrate, open above and with fuscous mark in lower part; 

 postmedial line slightly defined by whitish on outer side, slightly 

 bent outwards below costa, then dentate, oblique below vein 4, 

 some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line whitish 

 defined on inner side by slight and somewhat dentate white marks, 

 excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a terminal series of rather 

 strong black lunules ; cilia fuscous and pale brown intersected with 

 whitish. Hind wing almost pure white with fine blackish terminal 

 line ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown. 

 Hob. Palestine, 1 c? . Ewjj. 36 millim. 



Sect. II. Antenna3 of male minutely serrate and fasciculate. 



*3294. Margelana veternosa. 



Margelana veternosa, Piing. Iris, 1906, p. 218, pi. 8. f. 15. 

 (S . Head and thorax grey mixed with dark brown ; palpi with 

 the 2nd joint blackish at sides ; frons with lateral black bars ; 

 tegulse with slight dark line near upper edge ; patagia with some 

 blackish near edges ; tarsi blackish with pale rings ; abdomen grey- 

 white tinged with brown. Fore wing grey tinged with brown and 

 irrorated with fuscous, the veins beyond the cell with slight dark 

 streaks : subbasal line represented by double blaclt striae from costa 



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