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side, dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, 

 some white points beyond it on costa ; subtevminal line represented by yellow 

 spots on inner side of irregular brown marks ; a terminal series of slight dark 

 lunules ; cilia chequered ochreous and brown. Hindwing pale tinged with 

 brown, the terminal area dark brown ; slight greyish streaks on extremities of 

 veins 2 and 1 ; cilia pale with a brown line near base, the underside white, the 

 costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a small discoidal spot and waved 

 postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. caduca. Porewing whitish grey without the yellow markings. 



Ab. 2. innocens. Forewing whitish grey with slight yellow markings, the me- 

 dial area more prominently dark. . . S. Europe, W. and C, Asia. 



Ab. 3. Darker, especially the medial area of forewing. Kashmir. 



Habitat— Europe ; W. Asia ; Persia ; W. Turkistan ; W. China ; Kashmir. 

 Goorais Valley. Exp. 32-36 mill. 



Larva., Meyr. Brit. Lap., p. 82 ; Barrett. Lep. Brit. IV., p. 218, pi. 161, f. 1. 



Pale dull green or yellowish irrorated with brown ; dorsal line pale with 

 dark edges ; lateral line dark indistinct ; spiracles black ; head ochreous brown 

 or dull greenish. Food plants : flowers of Souchus and Lac uca. 7-8. 



1682. MlSELIA MEDIAN A. 



b. (Harmodia) Abdomen of female with the extremity produced and conicai. 

 the ovipositor exserted. 



1682.6. Miselia magnolii, Boisd. Ind. Meth., p. 125 (1829) ; Dup. Lep. Fr. 



Suppl. VI., p. 241, pi. 22, f. 4. Herr. fechaff. 



Eur. Schmett. Noct., f. 71 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. 



pal. p. 162. 



Miselia nummosa, Ev. Faun. Volg. Ur, p. 233 (1844) ; Fit. Beitr., 



IV., pi. 351, f. 3. 



Head and thorax olive brown mixed with white and black ; tarsi mixed with 



white ; abdomen grey-brown, forewing olive-brown with a reddish tinge, 



sparsely irrorated with white, chiefly on the veins, and slightly suffused with 



black ; a whitish patch at base of costa traversed by the double, waved, black 



subbasal line, from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line double, waved, 



filled in with white ; claviform large, defined by black ; orbicular and reniform 



with brown centres and white annuli defined by black, the former round, the 



latter rather irregular and with its outer edge indented ; a medial shade, oblique 



to median nervure, then somewhat dentate ; postmedial line defined by white on 



outer side, strongly dentate, bent outwards below costa and strongly incurred 



below vein 4, some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line white, 



defined on inner side by a series of small dentate black marks, angled outwards 



at vein 7 and somewhat dentate at veins 4*3 ; a terminal series of small black 



lunules defined by white ; cilia intersected with white. Hindwing ochreous 



white slightly irrorated with brown, the veins and marginal areas strongly 



suffused with brown ; cilia with a brown line near base ; the underside with 



discoidal spot, sinuous postmedial line and diffused subterminal band. 



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