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slight black lunules ; cilia with a dark line near base. Hindwing whitish 

 suffused with pale red-brown, the terminal area darker ; a fine waved dark 

 terminal line ; cilia red-brown with a fine yellowish line at base ; the 

 underside whitish tinged with rufous, the costal and terminal areas to vein 

 2 red-brown irrorated with whitish, a small dark discoidal spot. 



ab.l. turcomana, paler ; forewing leaden grey with a yellowish tinge. 



Habitat. — Canada ; U. S. A. ; Europe ; Armenia ; Asia Minor ; Syria ; 

 Persia ; W. Siberia ; Kashmir, Scinde Valley ; Punjab, Kulu. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep., p. 114; Barrett. Lep. Brit, v, p. 253, pi. 217, f. 2. 

 Green ; dorsal, subdorsal and spiracular lines, white or pale yellow, the 

 last sometimes partly edged with black above ; head green : somite 11 with 

 slight prominence. 



Food plants. Plant-ago, Hawthorn, Aguilegia, etc., 5-6. 



Genus Mania. 



Type. 



Mormo, Ochs. Schmett. Eur. iv, p. 70 (1816) non descr maura. 



Mania, Treit. Schmett. Eur. v (1), p. 294 (1825) maura. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about 

 to vertex of head and moderately scaled in front, the 3rd moderate ; frons 

 smooth ; eyes large, round ; antense of male ciliated ; thorax clothed with 

 scales and hair mixed, the pro, meso and metathorax with divided crests ; 

 tibise moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen clothed with rough hair, with 

 dorsal series of crests and lateral fringes of hair. Forewing very broad, 

 the apex rectangular, the termen evenly curved and the termen and cilia 

 strongly crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper 

 angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. 

 Hindwing with veins 3*4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of 

 discocellulars ; 6*7 from upper angle ;' 8 anastomosing with the cell near 

 base only. 



1766a. Mania olivescaria. 



Genus Magusa. 



Type. 

 Magusa, Walk. xi ; 762 (1857) . . . . . . . . orbifera. 



Sasunaga, Moore, P. Z. S., 1881, p. 342 . . . . . . tenebrosa. 



Callixena, Saalm. Lep. Madag., p. 324 (1891) . . . . versicolora. 



1771. Magusa tenebrosa. 



Genus Stenopterygia. 



Type. 

 Stenopterygia, Hmpsn. Oat. Lep. Phal. B. M. vii, p. 61 (1908). subcurva. 

 Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to 

 vertex of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd short, porrect ; frons smooth, 



