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black, the former white, small, narrow, oblitjuc, the latter p'rey, 

 angled inwards on median nervure, large ; postmedial line black 

 defined on outer side by white, bent outwards below costa, oblique 

 to vein 6, then dentate and oblique below vein 5, some white 

 points beyond it on costa ; postmedial area whiter except at costa ; 

 subterminal line defined on inner side by small dentate black 

 marks below vein 8 and at middle and blackish streaks beyond it 

 in the interspaces, angled outwards at vein 7 and to termen at 

 veins 4, c5 ; a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia brownish 

 white mixed with black. Hind wing white, the veins and terminal 

 area slightly tinged with brown; the underside with the costal 

 area slightly irrorated with fuscous. 



Ab. 1. Corsica. A grey form suffused with fuscous brown. — Corsica. 



Ab. 2. sicula. A grey form more uniformly suffused with brown, 

 the medial area suffused with black in male. — Sicily. 



Ab. 3. saidon. A grey form suffused with brown and the medial 

 area with black. — Sardinia. 



Hab. Corsica ; Sardinia ; Sicily, 1 J . Eqy. 44 millim. 



*2S2-3b. Parastichtis ribbei. (Plate CXLVII. fig. 18.) 



Hadena ribhei, Piiug. Iris, six. p. 77, pi. v. f. o k, vi. f. 1 (1906). 



Head and thorax grey- white mixed with red-brown and black ; 



frons with black bar above ; antenna black ; tegulae with black 



medial line ; tarsi fuscous with pale rings ; abdomen grey suffused 



wirh reddish brown, the crests with some black scales. Fore wing 



while irrorated with red-brown and some black scales ; a sinuous 



black streak in base of submedian fold ; subbasal line slight, black, 



waved, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line black defined 



on inner side by white, angled outwards below costa, then oblique 



and waved below submedian fold ; the merlial area suffused with 



bright rufous from below costa to vein 1 except beyond the reni- 



form and with a diffused black streak above vein 1 ; orbicular 



white defined by black, small, oblique ; reniform with faint white 



annulus defined on inner side by black, its outer edge hardly 



traceable ; a faint blackish medial shade from costa lo reuiform ; 



postmedial line blackish, indistinctly double filled in with white, 



bent outwards below costa, then slightly waved, excurved to vein 5, 



then oblique, some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal 



line represented by very faint whitish lunules with small dentate 



black marks before them above and below vein 4 ; faint triangular 



dark shades from termen at discal and submedian folds ; a terminal 



series of small triangular black spots ; cilia chequered reddish 



browu and white. Hind wing white faintly tinged with brown, 



the veins and terminal area browner ; a faint dark discoidal spot 



and terminal series of slight lunules ; cilia white ; the underside 



white, the costal area slightly iri'orated with brown, a faint 



discoidal lunule and curved subterminal line. 



Hah. Spain, Andalusia, Sierra de Alfacar, type t c? , 5 in Coll. 

 Piingolcr. Exp. 36 millim. 



