( 33,'. ) 



Sun i-i/iilhiis {'.) jKi/iii/i, Cuntencr, in Sillieriii., /iVc. il'l-'.iit. i. p. 77 (lS.'i;i) (Di'P- lUi Vav, v., viii.). 

 Sii.n-hitluis tnwnlae. (ilaser, Her. Ohn-h. (;,s. .\,il. Ilrilk. p. 8;i (186:{). 



Amorjihii jin/iiili, Kiibv, Oil. Lfj). Uel. i. p. 7HI. ii. 2 (18',li) (Europe ; " N. i^ W. Asia" alia subsp.). 

 SiJierliithiis po/mli ah. riifrsrem Sel3S-L., .!//». Sw. Eiit. He/,/, i. p. 42 (18.t7) : Fuchs, Jiiliih. Xass. 



Vn: Xal. xliii. p. --'04 (18811) ; Battel, !.c. p. 19:! (11)00). 

 Siiieriiifhiis jiojiuli var. irxenliiirta Reutcr, Act. Sor, F. F. Fc/iii. ix. ('. p. 20. n. ',I7 (IS'j:!). 

 Smerhithiis pnjinli ah./urhsi Bartel, l.r. p. li).'5 (TJUO) (Ccntr. Europe). 

 Siiierinthiis jiojiuli ab. horhhaiixeni id., I.e. p. 194 (1900) (Hessen ; Roumania ; Belgium). 

 Sinei-hitliii.f /,„/,i,li Linn. ab. tremnhic Borkh. (179:i), (iillmer, Ins. Biir.se xix. p. 228 (19112). 

 Amorphajmpiitl ab. snfftim Tutt, nrit. Lrp. iii. p. 4(39 (1902). 

 Aiiii'i-jilid piipuli ab. pidlidti id., I.e. 



c??. Very variable in the ground-colour. By breediu"^ in ami iu many 

 individuals are ])roduced with a reddish tint and scarcely a trace of the lines on the 

 t'orewing. — For gynaudromorphons specimens, which are not rare in this subspecies, 

 see Bartel, I.e. p. 185 (I90U). For hybrids compare Sphiti-v ocellata. 



Sexual organs : PI. XXXIV. f. "24 ; PL XXIX. f. 40. 



Larva ou Populus and Salix. 



Two broods ; the second irregular, generally only obtained in confinement. 

 Wings of the secjnd brood mostly less obviously scalloped. 



Ilab. Western Palaearctic region as far east and south as S. Uussia, Greece, 

 Sicily, and Spain ; Syria. 



Stand. & Reb., I.e., state that jto/ndi does not occur in Greece. There are, 

 liDwever, Grecian specimens in the British JIuseum collected by Mr. Merlin, late 

 manager of the Ionian Bank. 



In the Tring Museum a series of larvae and pupae, and 150 odd specimens. 



A specimen from Akbes, Syria, in coll. Chas. Oberthiir stands intermediate 

 \H-t\\een pop. populi oxiA pop. popidi'ti ; a similar specimen in the Tring Museum 

 from the neighbourhood of Marash (M. Martinez de la Escalera). 



c. A. pd/tiili popaletl. 



Siiin-iiitliiis pupiihli Bienert., L p. En/, lieise /',■/•.«>« p. 33 (18t;9) (Meschhet, Chorlog. vii. ;— Miis. 



St. Petropolis?) ; Slaud., Cat. L^p. Em: ed. ii. p. 423. n. 488 bis (1871) : Christ., St,tl. Eiit. 



Zed. xxxiii. p. 2Hi (1872) ; id.. Urn: .Sw. Eat. Jfos.i. x. p. 31 (1873) (Schahrud) ; Bartel, in 



Riihl, (,'/-o,s.s«/iw. ii. p. 1<I4 (1900) (N. Persia; Turkestan ; Kuldscha). 

 Siin-riiitlius pojiuli, Leder, Ann. Sm: Ent. Bilij. xiii. y. 28 (1870) (Caucasus) ; Stand., Cat. Lep. Eur. 



ed. ii. p. 37. n. 488 (1871) (partini) ; Rom., .Mem. Up. i. p. 72 (1884) (Urmus ; Lagodekbi ; 



Helenendorf ; vi., vii.) ; Hamps., .Jnnrn. Linn. N.ir. f.i,nd. xxvii. p. 412 (1890) (Ijake LTrmi, 



N. W. Persia). 

 S)nei-inthn.<: jinjiuli vax. papideti, Ersclioff, Heine Eedlxrlienla ]1. 2('i. n. ?>'i (1874) (Kuld>-cba) ; Staud. 



it Reb., Cat. Lep. ed. iii. p. 99. sub n. 725 (1901). 

 *Sinerinlhus pajnili \a.T. jKipnletuynin Staudinger, Stetf. Ent. Zed xlviii. p. Go (1887) (Usgeut ; ().<h; — 



coll. Staudinger) ; Gr.-Grschim., in Rom., .Man. Lep. iv. p. 513. n. 208 (1890) i^Osch, E. iv.) ; 



Bartel, I.e. p. 19.'. (1900) (Turkestan) ; Staud. & Reb., I.e. p. 99. sub n. 72.5 (1901). 

 .\niiirphii piipuli var. h. Snier. ji., var. popnielorinn, Kirby, I.e. sub n. 2 (18il2). 

 Awiirphapnpuleli, Kirby, /.-■. p. 710. n. 4 (1892) (Persia). 

 AniDi-pha populi var. pnpuleti, Tutt, Ihit. Lep. iii. p. 472 (I9U2). 

 Amorpha j>opuli var. popuhtnrnni, il., I.e. 



c? ?. A large j.ale Asiatic race of .1. pnpnli. It has the distal margins of the 

 wings less scalloped than the western form ; the tenth tergite of the c? is obviously 

 broader, tlie sternite longer, the lobes of tlie harpe slenderer and longer, especially 

 the upper one, and the penis-sheath has fewer sj.ines. A .specimen from Saratow, 

 S. Russia, from the collection of Grnni-(Jrschimailo, agrees in the colour and outline 

 of the wings with Ferghaua examples ; it is rather small (length of forewiug 



