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fiiiici-i/ntliiis (!) pu/mli, Cantencr, in .Silbertn., Iiei\ d'EiU. i. p.77 (1833) (Di'p. du Var, v., viii.). 

 S.iiieiiidhii.1 Irniiiiliic, Glaser, Bir. Olierli. Ges. Xiit. Jleilk. p. 8.'! (lHo3). 



AiiKirjiJiii jmjiiili, Kirby, Ctil. Lrji. Uel. i. p. 710. n. 2 (18112) (Europe ; " N. & W. Asia" alia subsp.). 

 SnierhitJiiisj'iil'iili stb. riifegreiis Se\}S-Jj., Ami. Soc. Eiit. Belf/. i. p. 42 (1857); Fuchs, ,/a/ic6. A'ass. 



Vi-i: Nal. xliii. p. 204 (188'.1) ; Baitel, I.e. p. 19.i (1000). 

 Snierinthus populi var. resentiiii-ta Reuter, Act. Soi: F. F. Fenii. 1.x. 0. p. '20. n. '.)7 (18!):?). 

 Smerliitluisjmjwli nh./iicli.ti Bartel, !.<: p. 193 (I'JOO) (Centr. Europe). 

 SiKerinlhtiK piipuli ab. horkhaiKeni id., l.r. p. 194 (1900) (HesFen ; Roumania ; Belgium). 

 SnieriiithiiK piijmli Liun. ab. tremnhie Borkh. (1793), Gillmer, fiis. Borne xi.\. p. 228 (191)2). 

 Amorpha jiopuli ab. xuffu.-ui Tutt, Brit. Lip. iii. p. 469 (1902). 

 Ainiirpha pnpnli a.h. pali'da id.. I.e. 



cJ?. Very variable iu the gromid-coloui'. By breeding in and in many 

 individuals are produced with a reddish tint and scarcely a trace of the lines on the 

 forewiug. — For gynandromorphons specimens, which are not rare in tiiis subspecies, 

 see Bartel, I.e. p. 185 (lOOO). For hybrids compare Sjihin.i; ocellata. 



Sexual oi-gans : PI. XXXIV. f. :^4 ; PI. XXIX. f. 40. 



Larva oa Populm and Snlix. 



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

 Wiugs of the secjnd brood mostly less obviously scallo[ied. 



llab. Western Palaearctic region as far east and south as S. Russia, Greece, 

 Sicily, and Hpain ; Syria. 



Stand, k Reb., I.e., state that po/ndi does not occur in Greece. There ai-e, 

 however, Grecian specimens in the British Museum 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. Oberthilr stands intermediate 

 between jjop. popiili and poj). popideti ; a similar specimen in the Tring Museum 

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



c. A. poj)uli populeti. 



Bmeriidhux iiiipideli Bieuer)., L-p. Erf/. lieise Persien p. 33 (1869) (Meschhet, Chorlog, vii. ;— Mus. 



St. PetropolisV) ; Stand., Cat. Lep. Eur. ed. ii. p. 423. n. 488 bis (1871) : Christ., StAt. Ent. 



'/yd. .\.\.xiii. p. 216 (1872) ; id., ll«r. Sne. Ent. Ros«. x. p. 31 (1873) (Sr.habrud) ; Bartel, in 



Rilhl, (h-moisehni. ii. p. 194 (1900) (N. Persia; Turke.stan ; Kuldscba). 

 Siiieriiilldi.t iiiijiiili, Leder, .Inn. Soe. Eid. Briij. .\iii. p. 28 (1870) (Caucasus) ; Stand., Cat. Lrp. Ear. 



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



Helcnendovf ; vi., vii.); Hamps., .Jnnrii. Liiiii. .S'of. Lmiil. x.xvii. p. 412 (1899) (Lake Urmi, 



N. W. Persia). 

 Hiibfriiillnix jinjiuli var. pojmleli, Erschoff, /iV/.s-e Frillselienln p. 26. n. .32 (1874) (KHld^•cha) ; Staud. 



* Rel)., Cat. Lep. ed. iii. p. 99. sub n. 72.', (1901). 

 *Sijinhi/hnx jMtpuli var. jmjmlitiirii III Staudiuger, Nfrf/. Eiil.Zid xlviii. p. 6.'> (1887) (Usgeat ; 0.*h; — 



coll. Staudinger) ; Gr.-Grscbim., in Rom., .Mem. Lep. iv. p. 513. D. 208 (1890) (Osch, E. iv.) ; 



Bartel, I.e. p. 19.') (1900) (Turkestan) ; Staud. & Reb., I.e. p. 99. sub n. 725 (1901). 

 Amiirplm pti/ntli var. Ii. Smer. /i., var. jinpiiletnriim. Kirby, I.e. sub n. 2 (1892). 

 Amiir/ilia /iiijiHleli, Kirby, I.e. p. 710. n. 4 (1892) (Persia). 

 Aiiiiir/jlia populi var. pn/mleti^ Tutt, Brit. Lrji. iii. p. 472 (19U2). 

 AmorpJia jilipiili var. /nipiileloriim, id., /.'■. 



(? ?. A large pale Asiatic race of .1. piipuli. It has tlie distal margins of the 

 wings less scalloped than the western form ; the tenth tergite of tiie S is obviously 

 broader, the sternite longer, the lobes of the harpc slenderer and longer, especially 

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

 iS. Russia, from tl](! colh'(;tioii of (iruin-(}rschiniailo, agrees in the colour and outline 

 of the wings with Ferghana examples ; it is rather small (length of forewing 



