CHELIGALEA; AEGYROMATA; LOPHOTERGES. Bij W. Warren. Ill 



C. syrtana Mcib. (29 a). Forewing greyish white, ochreous-tinged in parts, and more or less suffused syrtana. 

 with black; veins black; a black streak from base along submedian fold; lines distinct only below 2, where 

 their angulations are visible; a row of short streaks from below apex to angle of cell; two short streaks before 

 end of vein 2; hindwing whitish, the veins dark; the terminal area suffused with fuscous. Biskra, Algeria; 

 the Canaries. 



C. naruenensis Stgr. (29 a). Forewing white shaded with pale blue grey; the veins and folds finely naruenensis. 

 black; a short black streak from base below cell; lines marked by oblique dark streaks from costa; the inner 

 with the usual angulations; the outer forming a black lunule on submedian fold, preceded by a black streak 

 along inner margin; a row of black streaks from below apex to lower end of cell, and another from vein 4, 

 the streak below 2 large; reniform stigma alone visible, white with brownish centre; hindwing whitish, the 

 terminal area diffusely fuscous; the fringe white. — Naruen, S. E. Russia, W. and E. Turkestan, Mongolia. — ab. 

 dimorpha Stgr., from Uliassutai, has the markings of the forewing more distinct; — ab. eumorpha Alph., g^g™//^' 

 from Kaschgar, and Aksu, is more ochreous white. 



C. sublutea Graes. (29 a). Forewing pale ochreous yellow; a rufous streak from base below cell; a sublulea. 

 rufous streak on inner margin from before middle to tornus; an oblique row of short rufous streaks from below 

 apex to lower end of cell, and another from vein 4 to vein 1 ; hindwing yellowish white, the terminal area 

 suffused with rufous. — Kaschgar, E. Turkestan; W. Gobi Desert, Mongolia. 



4. Genus: Cheligalea Hmps. 



Characterised by the presence of a small median terminal claw on the foretibia, covered by a pointed 

 tuft of hair; irons with slight rounded prominence, with a corneous plate below it. Type Cheligalea fuch- 

 siana Ev. 



C. fuchsiana Ev. (= fuchsii Frr., scopariae Dorfm.) (29 a). Forewing resembles spectabilis, but very fuehsiana. 

 much smaller and grej^er; the orbicular stigma with a white annulus and a distinct dark quadrate spot bet- 

 ween it and the obscurer reniform; hindwing fuscous, with basal half paler, and the fringe white; in both 

 sexes the insect occurs of two sizes. Ural Mts. Russia, Altai Mts. W. Siberia; E. Siberia; Kuku Nor, Tibet. 

 — W. and E. Siberia and S. Russia are also localities quoted for scopariae, besides Austria, Hungary, Styria, 

 and Armenia. — Larva redbrown, pale brown, or olive green, paler laterally; dorsal line pale reddish, edged 

 with black; a row of pale red, broadly brown-edged oblique streaks along the sides, with the white black-edged 

 spiracles on their lower area ; a broad white line above the feet; head pale brown; feeds on Artemisia scopariae. 



5. Genus: Argyromata limps. 



Like Cheligalea Hmps. the foretibia has a short median terminal claw, but not covered, as in that 

 genus, by a tuft of hair; the frons is armed with a truncated somewhat heart-shaped prominence with raised 

 edges. Type Argyromata splendida Cram. 



A. splendida Cram. (= argyrea Frr.) (29 a). Forewing silvery blue green, the inner margin ochreous splendida. 

 from before middle to tornus; fringe white; hindwing pale fuscous grey, darker towards termen; the fringe white. 

 Sarepta, Ural Mts., Russia; Altai Mts., W. Siberia; W. and E. Turkestan; Mongolia; Tibet. Found feasting on 

 flowers of Cephalaria. 



6. Genus: I<oph©terges Hmps. 



Tongue well-developed ; palpi porrect, reaching well beyond frons, both second and third segments long, 

 the former hairy beneath; frons smooth; antennae simple, lamellate; frons and vertex with ridges of hair; 

 tegulae somewhat produced to form a hood; but the wings are not narrow and elongate as in Cucullia and 

 its allies, the apex not pointed; nor is the abdomen prolonged or armed with long tufts of hair. Type 

 Lophoterges fatua Pueng. 



L. millierei Stgr. Forewing greyish white; the cell and area beyond it redbrown nearly to termen; millierei. 

 costal area at base white; a black streak, white-edged above, from base below cell; lines broken up, marked 

 by oblique streaks on costa; orbicular and reniform stigmata white with brown centres and outlines, the orbi- 

 cular narrow, very oblique, extending below cell, and connected with the reniform, which is also narrow and 

 crescentic; a black streak above vein 4 beyond cell, with a row of short streaks from it to apex; hindwing white, 

 the termen in $ suffused with brown. Spain, Catalonia. Larva grey green; dorsal line white, dilated between 

 segments 4 — 9 and filled in with reddish, ending in a dorsal bifid hump on segment 11; lateral line yellow; 

 head brownish; on Lonicera. 



