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(41 I)). Wings above dusted with brown, costal margin of forewing broadly brown. Patagia with white upper 

 edge. Body and wings beneath dai'ker (brownish) than in the following forms, abdominal segments edged 

 with white beneath. Larva with only one row of eye-spots. Madeira and Teneriffe. — dahli Geyer (41 a). Abdomen dahli. 

 with 3 instead of 2 black spots on each side. Larva densely dotted with grey, with 2 rows of rather small ocelli. 

 Corsica and Sardinia. Darkened specimens are ab. praenubila Schuliz; in ab. lutescens Oherth. the discal praermbila. 

 band of the hindwing is yellow instead of red. — mauretanica Styr. (41 b) is usually paler than European spa- '"'"••*"«(*•. 

 cimens and never very much shaded with red ; the patagia have usually a white upper border, which however is tunica. 

 frequently absent, especially in the $; the costal margin of the forewing is dark, and the veins traversing the 

 dark oblique band are at least partly pale. Larva with one row of ocelli. North and Central Algeria ; 

 on Tithymalus. The markings vary in a similar way in European specimens. In ab. maura Oberth. the muura. 

 median area of tlie hindw'ing is dusted with black. — \n the South of Algeria, in the desert, occurs the smaller 

 and paler deserticola Bartel (42 c), in which the brown discal band of the forewing is traversed by more ilcsrrtUola. 

 or less extended pale vein-stripes. The upper margin of the patagia always white. In ab. flaveola Oberth. florcola. 

 the median band of the hindwing is pale yellow. Larva green, with one row of ocelli; on Euphorbia. — euphor- eiiplmrli'uif. 

 biae L. (= esulae Hufn.) (41a). Upper margin of patagia and dorsal edges of abdominal segments as a rule 

 not white. Costal margin of forewing above only brown in exceptional cases; the median patch separated 

 from the costal border. Larva with 2 rows of ocelli, between which the ground bears light dots. Throughout 

 Europe, from the Mediterranean to the South of England and Southern Sweden, and from Portugal to the Cau- 

 casus ; however, in England euphorbiae has been found only a few times and can hardly be regarded as a species 

 of the British fauna. Both the moths and caterpillars are very variable, and frequently the majority of the 

 examples from a certain district is of a rather uniform type. The species is evidently on the way in Europe 

 to split up into a number of geographical races. The following forms have received names: ab. suffusa mijjit.sd. 

 Tutt, the greyish yellow portions of the forewing dusted with blackish; ab. cuspidata Rebel, forewing nor- oiapklaUi. 

 mal, the black band of the hindwing sharply dentate; ab. nigrescens R. dh J. {= esulae Bdv. nee Hufn.), fore- nigre.^cen.f. 

 wing darkened with the exception of a pale oblique band, which is narrow in extreme specimens; ab. 

 restricta R. <& J. (= cyparissiae Schultz), forewing brownish olive, the pale median area separated into small rcstricta. 

 spots or almost entirely suppressed; ab. mediofasciata Mayer differs from ordinary specimens particularly in mediofas- 

 a dark band-like median stripe which runs from the costal to the hind margin of the forewing; ab. bilinea '"'."' 

 Schultz has, besides, a second shadowy line; in ab. brunnescens<S'c/tv«7/2the median area of the hindwing is brown- hninncuccm. 

 ish red, and in ab. lafitolei Th.-Mieg (41 c) yellow; the black submedian band of the hindwing is absent lajitolei. 

 from at), helioscopiae Selys (41 c); specimens in which the band is more or less indicated are more frequent; licHoscopiac. 

 in ab. rubescens Garb, the forewing is rosy, and in ab. paralias Nick. (41 b) sharply marked and likewise red; rubescens. 

 ab. gaentzenbergi (S/r/gr. (41b) is a very red form which is especially frequent in the Mediterranean countries and I'^g^flg^- 

 in which the light lateral stripe on head and thorax is reddish. A peculiar form is ab. viverina Denso, from Vivero 'hrryi. 

 in North- Western Spain (Galicia); the costal spots and the basal patch are united together, and the jjatagia rivennu. 

 have usually a white upper margin. — conspicua R. <&• J. (41 c). A large pale form which recalls small spe- conspicua. 

 cimens of nicnea: costal spot of forewing isolated, strongly marked, the distal margin as pale as the median 

 area. Underside of body and wings reddish white, much paler than in euphorbiae verus. Larva with few or no 

 pale dots, with 2 rows of ocelli. Syria and Asia Minor. — robertsi Butl. ( = peplidis Christ.). Patagia with ruhcrlni. 

 a white upper edge; costal margin of forewing dark, but this border not quite so broad as in tiihymali. 

 Underside with little red, yellowish grey, dusted with black. From Transcaspia to Kandahar in Afghanistan. 

 Larva with 2 rows of ocelli. — nervosa R. A J. Patagia with white upper edge; abdomen with 2 black nenma. 

 spots on each side. Costal margin of forewing yellowish olive from the base to the apex, the hind margin of 

 this border blackish at the base, the dark oblique band traversed by light veins, distal margin pale. Under- 

 side of the wings irrorated with brown, disc reddish, cell of forewing brown with a blackish spot. North- West 

 India (Sabathu and Simla), presumably also in Southern Kashmir. — costata Nordm. (41 d). Patagia with costata. 

 white upper margin ; abdomen sometimes with a small dark brown lateral spot on segment 4 (recalling dahli) ; 

 costal margin of forewing broadly yellowish olive-brown, the light median area reduced to a narrow band whose 

 outer edge is almost straight, in the cell a short pale streak, the dark discal band traversed by pale veins. 

 Transbaicalia, as well as on the Amur and in Shantung. This subspecies was represented for long in collec- 

 tions by but a few specimens; lately the missionary L. Klapheck has bred it in some numbers. 



C. centralasiae. Above and beneath paler than euphorbiae ; the edges of the abdominal segments beneath 

 hardly paler than the ground. The dark oblique band of the forewing distally less sharply defined. First 

 segment of fore tarsiis shorter than in euphorbiae, with fewer and longer spines. Larva only \\-ith one row of 

 ocelli and without distinct dorsal line. Asia Minor, Transcaspia, North Afghanistan. ^ siehei Piingeler (41 c). skhei. 

 The median costal spot of the forewing reduced or almost obsolete. In the Cilician Taurus. — centralasiae Stgr. central' 

 (41 c). The median spot of the forewing distinct; sometimes both wings with a reddish tone. Samarkand, "*""'■ 

 Namangan. Osh, Askhabad, North Afghanistan. 



C. gallii. Pulvillus well developed. Scaling of antennae dark, being onl}- pale at the apex. Body and 



