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ratamae H.-Schdff. (= trifolii Hhn., retamae Ramb.), found also in Morocco: body and forewing yellowish ratewioc. 

 grey, the dark shadow at the proximal side of the band on the forewing, the snbbasal band, the border of 

 the discal spot and the entire hindwing dark red-brown with a violet tint ; the light band of tlie hindwing better 

 expressed than that of the forewing and a little more proximal in position. — In codes Geyer the light bands codes. 

 are always distinct, that of the hindwing is placed distally to the band of the forewing; the external dark trans- 

 verse shadow is prominent ; but the subbasal band is frequently quite absent ; ground-colour dark brown to greyish 

 brown in the (^, yellowish grey with a more or less extended reddish brown tone in the $. Larva M'ithout 

 the white longitudinal lines on the intersegmental bands. Central and Southern Italy, Greece ( ? ), Spain, Algeria. 

 — mauritanica Slyr. (25 d), from Algeria (Lambessa), is very clo.se to codes, but smaller and jjaler, or at least iufnirita- 

 densely dusted with greyish yellow scales. — In North Africa (Tunis) occur two more forms, which are conspi- '""'' 

 cuous by their size and dark red-brown colour, and deserve being named; one has a very narrow band, jugurthina jiKjurthhia. 

 form. nov. (25e), the hindwing being unicolorous in the ^ and the forewing bearing a light basal spot in the same 

 sex ; the other form, seitzi form. nov. (25 e), has a very broad band. — The smallest form of trifolii occurs in Syria: seilzi. 

 maculosa Roqenh. {= bathseba Stgr.), characterised by its small size and recalling by its colour codes and medi- maculosa. 

 ciujinis ; ,^ varying from yellow to brown, the light band present on the forewing or absent, sometimes also the 

 hinthving l)caring a narroAV pale band; $ light brownish yellow, with the jjale band narrow and proximally 

 edged with broAvn. 



L. grandis Rogenh. (= salomonis Stgr.) (25f), ForeAving red-brown to yellowish brown, with dispersed yramiis. 

 yellow scales, indistinct light subbasal band and sharply marked, narrow, white discal one, the discal spot 

 being dark-edged and ])rominent. Hindwing unicolorous. Underside brownish red, with a diffuse, curved, 

 dark liand across both wings. The extreme light form, ab. sapiens Stgr., has the forewing entirely clay-colour, sapiem. 

 SjTia and Palestine. Larva larger than that of trifolii, dark, with whitish yellow dots in the deep black inter- 

 segmental bands, pronotum almost entirely occupied by two large, deep black spots, Avhich are narrowly edged 

 with orange-yellow. 



L, serrula Guen. (25 f). Greyish brown, dusted with red-brown scales, the narrow dark discal hand serrula. 

 exteriorly pale-edged and here regularly dentate ; the white discal spot large. HindAving above unicolorous, 

 beneath with a dentate band like the forewing. North Africa, according to Guenee also in Andalusia. Besides 

 the name-typical form there occur in North Africa two others; the one is reddish brown, sparsely dusted with 

 yellowish scales, the band being strongly reduced and only feebly dentate, maroccana Stgr., from Morocco and tnaroccana. 

 Oran, and the other, undulata Stgr., a more eastern form from Algeria (Biskra) is light yellowish grey with a undulata. 

 narrow brown band and strongly undulate distal margin. — The species is represented in Palestine by a third 

 form, palaestinensis Stgr. (26 a), which is much smaller than true serrula, with the yellowish grey forewing pulaedi- 

 densely covered with light scaling and bearing a narrower dark band, which is pale-edged on the distal side "'''"'■'•'• 

 and less dentate, discal spot smaller ; hindwing brown, with a narrow pale transverse band and light fringes. - — 

 Larva with a V-shaped spot on the head, a dorsal row of orange brushes of hair and whitish oblique side-stripes, 

 very lively, at once rolls up when touched. On Limoniastrum, Atriplex and Salsolaceae. 



c. eversmanni-group. 



L. terreni H.-Schdff. Stouter than trifolii, the forewing broadly rounded at the apex and therefore ierrenl. 

 proportionately shorter and broader ; in the (J pale straw-colour, with dark brown subbasal and discal bands, 

 in the $ predominantly brown, with indistinct band which is exteriorly broadly edged with white or is absent; 

 discal spot white with dark edge in ^ and $. Discal band strongly cur\nng distad at the costal margin. Hindwing 

 greyish brown, in the J with a sharply marked band. Underside hke upper, band prominent in the cj, obso- 

 lescent in the $. Turkey and Asia Minor as far as Syria and Palestine. Early stages not yet known. 



L. eversmanni Eversm. (25f). Straw-coloured, with narrow dark brown bands and brown fringes, fore- eversmaniu. 

 wing more or less variegated with brown in the centre. Hindwing brownish, with strongly obsolescent band. 

 The white discal spot small. The transverse band of the fore\ving stands occasionally close to the apex of the 

 cell. 9 lighter and more unicolorous than the S, band indistinct in forewing and usually absent from hindwing. 

 August and September, on dry saltsteppes, from the Ural to the southern districts of the Altai. Larva bluish 

 grey with light blue incisions. Hair thin and dense, of even length, yellowish grey; segment 1 cherry-red above, 

 2 and 3 with a subdorsal spot of the same colour on each side; dorsal line wliitish, indistinct on account of 

 the hair, accompanied on each side by a red, frequently interrupted, macular band which is bounded by velvety 

 black spots. Underside und legs reddish yellow. The half-grown larvae feed in the spring on steppe-grasses, 

 the older specimens on Leguminosae. probably Alhagi camelorum (in captivity fed up on Astragalus), and 

 are probably nocturnal; though full-grown the middle of May, they do not spin the cocoon before the end 

 of June and feed until pupation takes place. 



L. nana Stgr. (= herzi CJir.). Most nearly related to eversmanni and at first considered by Staxtdingek nana. 

 to be a small race of it. Brownish yellow, forewing more elongate, the band more obhque, indistinct or even 

 absent, if present it is placed close to the cell and is connected with the pale-centred brown discal spot. Persia 

 (Shalu-ud), Ferghana. Larva in May on Lycium barbarum. 



