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C. olivina H. Sch. (= ferrieri Bell.) (24 d). Forewing olive ochreous suffused with pale olive brown, espe- olivina. 

 cially in the $; a diffuse darker cloud across wing before middle; an undefined whitish clash at lower end 

 of cell; in terminal half of wing both folds show paler than the ground; veins slightly brownish; fringe che- 

 quered olive and ochreous white; hindwing dark fuscous; fringe whitish dappled with rufous grey. A medi- 

 terranean species, found in Italy. Dalmatia, Bulgaria; Syria, and Asia Minor. Larva slender, shining reddish- 

 yellow: dorsal line narrowly pale with dark edges; several fine brown lines on each side of it, and a stouter 

 dark brown line at the sides above the small black spiracles; head pale brown, with 3 dark lines; feeding 

 on Dianthus. 



11. Genus: Harpagophana Hmps. 



Differs from G&pvphana Hmps. in having 2 long claw-shaped spines on the first segment of fore tarsus 

 instead of a claw at end of tibia; antennae of <$ with sessile fascicles of cilia; forewing with costal and inner margins 

 both straight. Type Harpagophana hilaris Stgr. 



H. hilaris Stgr. Forewing grey speckled with darker; inner line denoted by a partially double row of hilaris. 

 dark spots: outer line indistinct, minuteh r dentate; orbicular stigma obscure, round, touching inner line; reni- 

 form a narrow lunule, outlined in fuscous, with a dark spot at lower end of cell; a very ill-defined submarginal 

 line: hindwing fuscous grey. Recorded from Spain only. 



H. picturata Bothsch. Forewing creamcolour, more or less suffused with pale olive grey, the lower picturata. 

 half of median area alone remaining pale; lines thick, ferruginous; the inner oblique, marked only between 

 median and submedian veins; the outer oblique from inner margin to end of cell, interrupted by a diffuse white 

 streak along vein 2; subterminal line white, only marked from costa to median vein, above which it is sharply 

 indented; space between outer and subterminal lines filled in with dark olive grey and brown scales, below 

 vein 2 with ferruginous; some scattered ferruginous scales in cell and a ferruginous streak beyond it, above the 

 indentation of subterminal line; fringe fawn grey, chequered with white; hindwing grey, paler at base, darker 

 along ternien; the fringe white with the basal third grey; head, thorax, and abdomen creamcolour, the ab- 

 domen somewhat greyer. Described from a single $ captured in April 1909 at Mraier, Southern Sahara, 

 Algeria. In this species veins 6, 7 of hindwing do not appear to be stalked. 



12. Genus: Metopoceras Guen. 



Like Harpagophana in shape of wing and other points, but differing in having the fore tarsus quite 

 simple, without spines on the first segment; antennae of <J lamellate, without ciliation. Type Metopoceras 

 felicina Donz. 



M. beata Stgr. Forewing dark brownish grey mixed with paler; the terminal area paler; lines double> beala. 

 filled in with grey; upper stigmata small, dark-centred,' with whitish annuli outlined with dark, the orbicular 

 round; fringe whitish; hindwing brownish grey with broad fuscous border along termen; a cellspot and sinuous 

 outer line — Asia Minor. Described originally from a single $. 



M. canteneri Dup. (= insueta H. Sch.) Forewing redbrown dusted with darker; inner line double; canteneri. 

 outer black and dentate, the teeth produced to form white spots on the veins; subterminal line black with a 

 diffused fuscous shade preceding it; upper stigmata bright rufous, the orbicular small, round, outlined with 

 black, the reniform black-edged internally only, externally diffused, with a black dot in its upper end; hind- 

 wing redbrown, darker along termen, with a faint curved outer line. S. France, Spain, Algeria. 



M. felicina Donz. (24 d). Forewing dull reddish brown, darker in median area, varied with scattered felicina. 

 paler raised scales; lines obscure, darker brown, dentate; submarginal line of pale scales, waved, and in 

 -terrupted; upper stigmata dark rufous, very indistinct; veins slightly paler; hindwing rather paler, with 

 signs of a dark outer line; fringes concolorous. S. France, Spain, Portugal, Morocco. This insect is somewhat 

 roughly scaled; the thorax and anal tufts of ^ are brighter red. 



M. delicata Stgr. (= gauckleri Pueng.) Forewing ochreous white flushed with rufous ; lines redbrown, delicata, 

 the inner diffused and oblique, the outer minutely waved, the area beyond it redder; subterminal line also waved 

 and curved; a diffuse redbrown median shade; orbicular stigma a small brown spot; reniform a brown spot ob- 

 scured by the median shade; hindwing ochreous outwardly suffused with brown; fringe white. E. Jordan, 

 Palestine. 



M. khalildja Oberth. (24 b). Forewing rufous grey, with some black irroration; inner line oblique khalildja. 

 and waved, preceded by blackish suffusion; a diffused black median shade; outer line dentate, followed by 

 brown suffusion; submarginal line marked only by a black streak on costa and a few black scales below it; 

 orbicular represented by one small black spot, the reniform by two ; fringe whitish, with rufous line of points 

 near base; hindwing fuscous brown, greyer at base; fringe also brown. Algeria; a single <J only. 



