108 PTYOHOPODA. By L. B. Prout. 



blance were much closer. The ground-colour is pale greyish ochreous, but even in the meaian area, which is 

 the palest, this is so strongly and coarsely dusted with dark chocolate that the latter may almost be considered 

 the prevailing tone. In the basal area this is still more the case, while the broad distal area is almost entirely 

 of the dark colour, though containing (especially on the hindwing) an indistinct sinuous subterminal line of 

 the ground-colour. On the forewing 3, on the hindwing 2 indistinct dark lines, waved or almost angled, 

 rather nearly approximated. Forewing with a rather strong cell-spot placed on the median line; hindwing 

 with smaller, less strong spot. Under surface of a similar but more uniform chocolate tone, the markings 

 obsolete. Antenna with fascicles of moderately long cilia; hindtarsus rather short, scarcely half as long as the 

 tibia. Staudinger described this species from a single, somewhat damaged ^ from Namangan, N. Ferghana, 

 which was perhaps even more uniformly dark than the specimen here described. 



strwJata. Pt. striolata Stgr. Dark (violet-)grey with black discal dots, an obscure dark median shade and a 



series of black postmedian dashes continued on the hindwing as a dentate line. Discal dot smaller on fore- 

 wing than oil hindwing, closely followed (almost crossed) by the median shade, which on the hindwing is stron- 

 ger and precedes the discal dot. On each vein of the forewing proximally to the median shade there are usually 

 a small black dash and dot. Limbal line composed of black dashes; fringe lighter with thick black dots in 

 basal half. Underside of forewing blackish grey, almost unicolorous or with discal dot and 2 indistinct 

 dark outer lines. Hindwing sometimes with broad dark distal border ; beneath light grey with the lines distinct. 

 Antennal ciliation in ,^ long, hindtarsus very short. Syria. Unknown to me. 



consncinia. Pt. consociata Stgr. Somewhat suggests a large consolidata, but is quite different in colour, being 



clay-yellow. Wings dusted with blackish and with black, rather elongate discal spots. Inner line very 

 weak, median shade wanting, postmedian line better expressed, followed by an indistinct band of dark, 

 more or less confluent spots; the figure shows that the postmedian follows a pretty normal course, being 

 incurved in the usual positions. Under surface glossy clay-yellowish with only the discal marks and post- 

 median line weakly present. Only the 5 is known, and I have never seen it. Mardin, Northern Mesopotamia. 



maurita- Pt. mauritanica Baker (5 d). Similar in shape and colour to cervantaria, but larger. Ground-colour 



nica. ochreous, inconspicuously dusted with fine darker scales. Forewing with antemedian and postmedian lines 

 slightly greyish but extremely feeble, only a little more noticeable from costa to subcostal vein and thence 

 as dark marks on the veins; antemedian oblique outwards to subcostal, then lunulate between the vein-dots; 

 postmedian angularly broken distally between the subcostal and first radial, then formed somewhat like 

 antemedian ; in certain lights a slight darkening midway between the lines indicates towards the posterior 

 margin the position of the median shade; a slightly pale waved subterminal line is discernible, and there are 

 rather distinct terminal dots and some not very distinct dark dots on the base of the fringe; the only 

 prominent marking is the black discal spot. Hindwing slightly paler, at least in its proximal part; no ante- 

 median line, the rest nearly as on forewing. Under surface rather paler, the discal dots obsolescent, the 

 postmedian line on the contrary better expressed, slightly thickened, not stronger on the veins. ^J antennal 

 joints projecting, with longish fascicles of cilia; hindleg short, the tibia not very strongly thickened, the tarsus 

 less than one-half the length of tibia. Guelma, Algeria, June. I have only seen the type specimen. It may 

 possibly be a large, extremely weakly marked form of cervantaria, but the subterminal line does not seem to 

 follow the same course and perhaps a more strongly marked example would reveal other differences in the 

 arrangement of the markings. 



metohiensis. Pt. metohieiisis Ebl. Also larger than cervantaria, but with the wings more elongate, the ground- 



colour pure white, not yellowish, the markings much finer, in particular with the lines less thickened at the 

 costal margin of the forewing ; the central area is somewhat narrower and the dark marginal dashes between 

 the veins are wanting. The mai'kings are brownish, the discal dots black, distinct. The median shade of the 

 wing, which arises about the middle of the posterior margin, unites with the inner line before the middle 

 of the wing. Gacko, Metohia (Herzegovina), re.sting on rocks in July. Only known to me from Rebel's descrip- 

 tion, Structure as in cervantaria. 



okharia. Pt. okbarla Chret. Related to cervantaria, the collar (as in that species) not darkened, (J antenna 



with very long ciliation, hindtibia not thickened, tarsus long. Yellowish white, strongly dusted with brown. 

 First line represented by a large costal, a small median and a posterior spot; postmedian sinuous and 

 dentate, sometimes marked only by dots on the veins; pale subterminal bordered with brown spots, those 

 on either side of the first median vein the largest, roundest and best defined; median shade very sinuous, fine, 



