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the veins slightly streaked with black, a discoidal lunule, sub- 

 terminal band from costa to vein I and oblique irregular band Erom 

 vein 3 to termen above tornus; cilia black from apex to vein 2. 

 Underside yellow; Eore wing with black discoidal lunule, sub- 

 terminal spot between veins 7 and 4 and patch on apical part of 

 termen conjoined to a patch on medial part. 



2. Ahdomen with ventral series of orange spots; fore wing 

 with the subtemiinal white markings reduced. 



ab. 1. Abdomen With ventral spot on penultimate segment only; 

 fore wing with slight streak below middle of costa; hind wing 

 with the basal and inner areas largely suffused with black. 



Antennae of male ciliated ; fore wing with vein 10 from cell in 

 male, stalked with 7, 8, 9 in female. 



Hah. E. Turkestan-, Korla ; Mongolia, Aksu, in Coll. 

 Piingeler. Exp., 6 42, 2 4G millim. 



1672. Phragraatobia fuliginosa, insert : — 



ah. lurida, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 115 (1910) for fervida, Stand. 



nee Wlk. 

 ab.flavida, Obcrth. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1901, p. 273; id. Et. Lep. 

 , Comp. xiii. pi. 1535. f. 3747. 



flavesceas Schultz, ? ined. ; Seitz. Gr.-Schm. pal. ii. p. 79 (1910). 

 Hind wing yellow. — Pyrenees. 

 ab. pulverulenta, Alph. Eoin. Mem. v. p. 84 (1889). 

 A form with the thorax and abdomen greyish ; fore wing pale 

 and semihyaline. 



W. Turkestan, Turcomania ; E. Turkestan, Thian-Shan Mts., 

 Gold Desert. 



ab. pallida, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 116, pi. 14. f. 38 (1910). 



A pale brownish buff form more or less tinged with pale rose-pink. 



Tibet, Kuku-Nor; W. China, Canssu. 



ab. japonica, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 116 (1910). 



Fore wing deep dull greyish chocolate; hind wing dull rose with 

 a broad subtemiinal black band. 



Japan, Yokohama. 



ab. amurensis, Staud. ined. ; Seitz. Gr.-Schm. pal. ii. p. 79 (1910). 



al>. hroumira, Oberth. Et. Lep. Comp. xiii. p. 11, pi. 1535. f. 3751 (1917). 



Hind wing with the black markings reduced to the two spots on 

 discocellulars and small subterminal spots at discal and submedian 

 folds and above tornus. — Tunis. 



1073. Phragmatobia assimilans, ab. franconia. 



Larva. Gibson, Can. Ent. xliii. p. 125 (1911). 



Dull purple, paler round the tubercles which are dull blackish ; 

 bristles from tubercles prominently barbed, dull rust-red or mouse- 

 coloured, the bristles from below the spiracles brighter; spiracles 

 cream-coloured ringed with black ; head black with brownish 

 patches above ocelli. Food-plants: Mertensia, Taraxacum. Plan- 

 tago. 5. 



