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on each side by brown ; orbicular and reniform with slight dark 

 centres and pale annuli ; medial shade oblique from costa to median 

 nervure ; postmedial line more or less distinct, with dark edges, 

 bent outwards below costa, incurved at discal fold and below vein 

 4 ; subterminal line defined on inner side hj black points variable 

 in number, somewhat angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at 

 middle. Hind wing grey-black, somewhat paler at base ; cilia 

 5'ellowish white, sometimes with dark line near base ; underside 

 dirty whitish, the terminal area irrorated with black, a dark 

 discoidal spot and postmedial line sometimes present. 



Hah. E. SiuERiA, Ussuri. Kvjj. 31-33 millim. This species is 

 unknown to me. 



Sect. III. Antenn£e of male minutely ciliated. 



A. Hind wing with the termen and cilia bright 



yellow ; abdomen banded with yellow fragaricB. 



B. Hind wing with the termen and cilia not yellow ; 



abdomen not banded with yellow. 

 a. Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines 

 double, niore or less waved or dentate. 

 a^. Fore wing with more or less promment pale 

 streaks on the veins. 

 a^. Fore wing with black spots in reniform. 



«■''. Head rufous erytlirocephala, 



Ifi. Head concolorous. 



«4. Fore wing with the postmedial area 



suffused with red-brown gallica. 



h*. Fore wing with the postmedial area 



concolorous except at costa silene. 



b'. Fore wing without black spots in reniform. 

 a^. Foi'e wing narrow. 



«"*. Hind wing uniformly suffused with 



fuscous silene ab. immaculata. 



h-i. Hind wing wliite with diffused dark 



subterminal band acutida. 



b^. Fore wing broader. 



«■*. Fore wing with the costal area suf- 

 fused with grey canicobtata. 



b*. Fore wing with the costal area con- 

 colorous. 

 a°. Fore wing whitish grey to pale 



purplish red 2^olitina. 



b^. Fore wing grey-brown to pale red- 

 brown veroniccB. 



c'. Fore wing bright red-brown to 

 purple-brown. 

 cfi. Fore wing with the apex hardly 



produced vaccinii. 



W. Fore wing with the apex dis- 

 tinctly produced and acute ardesccns. 



(F'. Fore wing deep purple-brown to 



greyish fuscous ligula. 



b^. Fore wing without pale streaks on the veins. 

 a~. Fore wing with white spot at lower angle 



of cell albi'puncia. 



