664 CATALOGUE OF 



Genus 18. CLEOPHANA. 



Corpus robustum, pilosum. Proboscis brevis. Palpi oblique 

 ascendentes ; articulus 3us gracilis, cylindricus, 2i triente non 

 longior. Abdomen alas posticas plus minusve superans. Pedes 

 validi; tibiae posticae calcaribus longis. Alae mediocriter latae, 

 apud costam rectos, apice angulatae, margine exteriore subconvexo 

 mediocriter obliquo. 



Cleophana, p., Boisd.; Treit. ; Guen. ; Dup.; Her r.-S chaff* 

 Omia, p., Hubn. Verz. Schmetl. 244. 

 Xylina, p., Meig. 



Body stout, pilose. Proboscis short. Palpi obliquely ascend- 

 ing; third joint slender, cylindrical, not more than one-third of the 

 length of the second. Antennae more than half the length of 

 the body. Abdomen extending more or less beyond the hind wings. 

 Legs stout ; hind tibiae with four long spurs. Wings moderately 

 broad, straight in front, angular at the tips, slightly convex and 

 moderately oblique along the exterior border. Male, — Antennae 

 minutely serrated. 



1. Cleophana Yvanii. 



Alee anticce cinereo fusco fulvoque varies, lineolis duabus nigro 

 venosis angulatisque transversis ; posticae albido-Jlawe, max* 

 gine fusco. 



Xylina Yvanii, Donzel, MSS. Duponck. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. it. 



257, pi. 9 ; Hist. Nat. Up. Fr. Suppl. iii. 389, pi. 35, f. 3. 

 Cleophana Yvanii, Boisd. Ind. Meth. 151,1215. Guen. Noct. ii. 



158, 901 . Herr.-Schce.ff. Eur. Schmett. ii. 297, 357. 

 Noctua Yvanii, Geyer, Schmett. f. 838. 



Digne, 



2. Cleophana. Anarrhini. 



Fuscescens ; thorax fasciis angustis ; abdominisque segmenta mar- 

 ginibus posticis albidis ; alee anticce ocello discali strigisque 

 nonnullis transversis albis, lineis duabus transversis undulatis 

 duplicatis strigisque exterioribus lanceolatis nigris, ciliis inter 

 venas albis ; posticce nigro-fuscce, disco ex parte albido, ciliis 

 albidis, fusco variis. 



