112 CALLIEEGES; HYPOMECIA; COPIPHANA. By W. Warren. 



ccnlralasiae. L. centralasiae S tgr. Larger than millierei; the thorax grey with a brown tinge; forewing with the 



cell and area beyond slightly brownish; orbicular and reniform not confluent, but well separated; hindwing 

 white with terminal half suffused with fuscous in <$, almost wholly fuscous in $. W. Turkestan. 



/iilita. L. fatua Pueng. Forewing fuscous grey; veins slightly black; a short white streak on a brown patch 



at base below cell; lines dentate, double, blackish, filled in with grey; stigmata narrow, with brown grey centres 

 and white rings, the orbicular oblique, touching a small semi-oval spot below cell, reaching close to lower end 

 of reniform; an oblique black streak from apex to end of cell, crossed by black dashes and preceded by a 

 paler space; a curved dark subterminal shade from vein 4 to inner margin, with white scales on submedian 

 fold; hindwing rufous brown, paler towards base; fringe whitish. Kuku Nor, Tibet. 



7. Genus: Callierges Hbn. 



Tongue present; irons smooth, but bearing 2 ridges of hair; palpi obliquely porrect, the 2 nd segment 

 hairy below, the terminal depressed; antennae of $ bipectinate; abdomen with dorsal crests at base. Type 

 Callierges ramosa Esp. 



ramosa. C. ramosa Esp. (24 d). Forewing pale grey speckled with darker; a velvety black brown streak from 



base below cell, into which it projects shortly before its middle, again projecting to vein 3 before anal angle, 

 its upper edge concave between, its lower limited by the submedian fold, below which the inner margin is dark 

 grey, though often as black, at least in its inner half, as the streak itself; the outer projection is met by a smoky 

 brown oblique shade from apex, containing black dashes; the anal angle is black, separated from the black 

 shade by a white lunule; orbicular and reniform large, confluent below, slightly black-edged above; outer line 

 denticulate; fringe mottled; hind wing white, tinged with dark rufous grey in $, but only along termen in (J; 

 a round grey cell spot. Generally distributed in Europe except the North, occurring in France, Germany, 

 Austria, Hungary, Switzerland, N. Italy, Spain; Larva brownish yellow, varied with white on dorsum, and 

 ramosula. with oblique black subdorsal stripes; lateral stripe dark; on Lonicera; — the form ramosula Stgr. from 

 Ussuri, Amurland, is darker; the forewing with better defined stigmata. 



8. Genus: Hypomecia Stgr. 



Tongue present; frons smooth, rounded; palpi obliquely porrect, 3rd. segment short; antennae of <$ 

 bipectinate; head and thorax clothed mainly with scales; abdomen smooth, without crests; build slender. 

 Type Hypomecia quadrivirgula Mab. Contains only the one species, which has the forewing long and narrow. 



quadrivir- H. quadrivirgula Mab. Forewing whitish, suffused with fuscous, the costal area ochreous; veins finely 



" dark; lines hardly visible; orbicular stigma a whitish patch with a few black scales on it; reniform a white 

 point at lower angle of cell, with some black scales on it inside; below base of cell an undefined white streak 

 with some large black scales on it; subterminal line formed by white dashes with ill-defined black dentate marks 

 before them, below vein 4 forming an oblique white band to inner margin; hindwing white with brown ter- 

 minal line. Described from Algeria, occurring also in Palestine. 



9. Genus: Copipliana Hmps. 



Tongue present; palpi obliquely porrect; frons with large horny prominence raised at rim, with a 

 central process hollowed out in front; head, thorax, pectus, and tibiae rough-haired; foretibia with a curved 

 claw at extremity on inner side; forewing with costa slightly, inner margin strongly sinuous, the anal angle 

 lobed. T} r pe Copipliana olivina H. Sch. 



Sect. I. Antennae of $ bipectinate; abdomen not crested. 



gassana. C. gassana Blachier. Forewing ochreous whitish suffused with brown, and with some fuscous scaling 



before outer line; veins before termen marked in black; lines double, filled in with whitish; the outer widely 

 outcurved and followed on costa by a black mark; reniform stigma alone visible, as a slight pale lunule; fringe 

 mottled; hindwing ochreous white tinged with brown; a slight curved outer line. Algeria. 



Sect. II. Antennae of <$ lamellate, serrate beneath; abdomen crested on 2nd. segment. 



oliva. C. oliva Stgr. (24 d). Forewing whitish; basal half of wing and terminal area except at extremities 



reddish brown; veins dark; inner line at middle of wing excurved as the outer line usually is; upper stigmata 

 absent; claviform small and pale, outlined with brown; outer line indicated only by an oblique costal streak; 

 some whitish streaks in terminal intervals; hindwing pale, suffused with brown on basal half and fuscous on 

 terminal. Occurs in Asia Minor and Armenia. 



