466 



3316. Pseudohadena jordana. (Piute CXIX. fig. 15.) 



Ortliosia jordana, Staud. Iris, xii. p. 376, pi. 5. f. 12 (1899) ; id. Cat. Lap. 

 pal. p. 206. 



(5 . Head and thorax white tinged with reddish oehreous ; 

 ahdomen white tinged with brown. Fore wing white suffused 

 with reddish oehreous ; subbasal line represented by a brown point 

 on costa ; antemedial line indistinct, oblique, waved, with browner 

 spots at costa and below cell ; claviform and orbicular obsolete ; 

 medial line represented by a brown bar from costa, almost obsolete 

 below diseal fold ; reniform represented by a brown mark in centre, 

 more distinct below ; postmedial line bent outwards below costa, 

 then indistinct, somewhat dentate, incurved below vein 4 ; a slight 

 brown terminal line. Hind wing white tinged with reddish 

 oehreous ; a curved postmedial line ending near toruus ; the under- 

 side whiter. 



Hah. Palestine, 1 c5' . Exi[). 38 millim. 



Geims LUPEEINA. 



Type. 

 Ltiperina, Boisd. Ind. Meth. p. 77 (1829) dumerili. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about 

 to middle of frons and fringed with hair in fronf, the 3rd short, oblique ; frons 

 smooth ; eyes large, rounded ; antennae of male ciliated ; head and thorax 

 clothed with hair and hair-like scales, the pro- and metathorax with spreading 

 crests ; tibise moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen with lateral fringes of 

 hair bu,t without crests. Fore wing rather narrow, the apex rounded, the 

 termen evenly curved and hardly creuulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of 

 cell ; 6 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 

 just below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing 

 with the cell near base only. 



A. Hind wing white. 



a. Fore wing with crimson markings jehoi. 



b. Fore wing without crimson markings. 



«!. F'oro wing with veins 4, 3 defined on each side by white 



streaks stipafa. 



h^. Fore wing with veins 4, 3 not defined by white streaks. 



a". Fore wing grey-white suffused with brown niccerli. 



h'^. Fore wing with the ground-colour oehreous. 

 ai. ?"ore wing suffused with dark brown. 



«•*. Fore wing with the medial area darker than the 



ground-colour Inirgessi. 



b'*. Fore wing with the medial area concolorous. 

 a*. Fore wing with dark suffusion before sub- 

 terminal line • posiicata. 



bs. Fore wing without dark suffusion before 



subterminal line (esiacea. 



P. Fore wing suffused with rufous. 



w*. Fore wing with the medial area darker than the 



• ground-colour dmnerili. 



b'K Fcjre wing with the medial area not darker than 

 the ground-colour. 

 u^. Fore wing with the reniform a small white 



1 u n u 1 i vibe His. 



