114 AMMETOPA; CLEOPHANA. By W. Warren. 



omar. M. omar Oberth. (= maritima Failla-Ted.) (24 e). Forewing mouse grey, tinged with reddish, and 



dusted with blackish; lines double, black, minutely waved; subterminal line regularly waved, sometimes 

 interrupted into spots ; stigmata small, slightly defined by black ; hindwing brownish ochreous in basal half, 

 felix. dark fuscous terminally. — Sicily and Algeria. — felix Standf. (= sacra Stgr.) (24 e), from Syria and Pale- 

 stine, is a darker form, the forewing dark leaden grej% the hindwing with an angulated middle line of dark spots; 

 caspica. — caspica AVph. from Turcomania, W. Turkestan, is a larger form, in colour pale ashgrey. 



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13. Genus: Ammetopa Hmps. 



Differs from the preceding genera in that the corneous prominence with raised rim of the frons ends in 

 a shovel-shaped process from the lower end. Type Ammetopa codeti Oberth. 



codeti. A. codeti Oberth. (24 c). Forewing whitish suffused with bright ferruginous; the inner and outer 



lines rufous, but inconspicuous, minutely waved; also an indistinct rufous median shade; stigmata incon- 

 spicuous, the orbicular a whitish ring, the reniform nearly obsolete; subterminal line with a faintly darker shade 

 before it; hindwing brownish white, paler at base. Biskra, Algeria. 



14. Genus: Cleopliana Bsd. 



Tongue present; palpi obliquely porrect; frons as in Copiphana; head and thorax hairy, with small 

 crests; forewing with costal and inner margins sinuous, the anal angle lobed and with a scale-tooth; fore tibia simple, 

 without claw. Type Cleopliana baetica Bmb. 



Sect. I. Antennae of $ with moderate pectinations decreasing to base and apex. 



chabordis. C. chabordis Oberth. (24 e). Forewing pale grey green, flushed with reddish beyond outer line except 



towards costa; median nervure and the nervules blackish; lines black and white; extreme base white with slight 

 black streak in base of cell; an oblique white streak above median before inner line, another on submedian fold 

 before outer line; reniform a white lunule, externally defined by black, angled inwards on median nervure and 

 externally produced at top; submarginal line strongly angled to termen on veins 4, 3, 2; fringe mottled; hind- 

 wing white in basal half and along inner margin; terminal half fuscous; fringe white. Occurs on the south medi- 

 albicans. terranean coast in Tunis and Algeria; also in Palestine. — ab. albicans Stgr. (24 e), from Biskra, has the head, 

 thorax, and abdomen white; the forewing white, faintly flushed with ochraceous. 



baetica. C. baetica Bmb. (= choenorrhini Dup., penicillata H. Sch.) (24 e). Forewing pale grey ; inner and outer 



lines white, vertical, towards each other edged with black, and marked by black points on veins; the inner accom- 

 panied by a dark grey cloud; the outer followed by a rufous tinge; a black spot at base of median vein; orbi- 

 cular a few white scales, reniform a prominent white lunule; a tuft of white scales in middle of submedian 

 fold ; veins towards termen broadly white, running out into the fringe ; hindwing olive brownish, the veins darker ; 

 basal half whitish; fringe mottled brown and white. Found only in S. Europe; S. E. France, Spain, Sardinia; 

 Algeria; Asia Minor, Syria, Palestine, Georgia. — ■ Larva green with yellow dorsal, red lateral and spiracular 

 lines; spiracles yellow ringed with dark; feeding on Helianthemum. 



pectini- C. pectinicornis Star. (24 f). Forewing whitish suffused with redbrown; veins black as far as outer 



' ' line ; base itself fuscous ; cell white at base with a slight black mark ; a fine black streak at base below cell ; lines black, 

 double; space between inner and median lines blackish fuscous; costal area beyond outer line fuscous; sub- 

 terminal line diffusely white and curved; orbicular stigma a small pale spot; reniform a narrow whitish 

 lunule with fuscous centre; hindwing white, the veins, costal area, and termen broadly fuscous. — Spain, 

 Algeria, Tunis. 



Sect. II. The pectinations of antennae shorter and stouter. 



jubata. C. jubata Oberth. (24 f). Forewing whitish irrorated with fuscous and suffused in places with rufous 



fuscous; lines black, double, filled in with white; a faint pale discocellular lunule, and a diffused blackish median 

 shade; veins towards termen black lined with white; fringe chequered; hindwing white, the veins and terminal 

 area except towards inner margin brownish. Algeria. 



opposita. C. opposita Led. (24 f). Forewing pale grey in outer half and at extreme base; lines finely black; the 



inner curved, preceded by rufous fuscous suffusion, followed by a broad blackish fuscous band, of which the outer 

 edge is well defined by the paler grey ground through which the sinuous outer line runs, followed by an olive fus- 

 cous sinuous band, before a paler submarginal line; veins beyond middle interruptedly marked with black; 

 a pale lunule on discocellular with dark linear centre; fringe brown; the outer half chequered, dark and pale; 

 hindwing dark smoky fuscous, the base paler. — Found only in S. E. Europe, Bulgaria and Macedonia; in the 

 west of Asia it occurs in Armenia, Syria, and Asia Minor. 



