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may be assumed thai the joints do not project and that the ciliaLion is short; Christoph usually describes 

 the dentate-fasciculate antenna as "peclinale". Light straw-yellow, the middle abdominal segments much 

 darkened with blackish scales. Costal margin of forewing rather broadly brown-red from base to first line, 

 reddish to the median line, the origin of both these lines marked with darker costal spots; first line weak, 

 bent; median only slightly curved, closely followed (as in trigeminata) by the blackish discal dot; postmedian 

 weakly bisinuate, foUowetl immediately by a brown-red band which is constricted, but not inleiTupled, 

 between the radials; subterminal not noticeable, the area from the band to the distal margin being of the 

 ground-colour. Hindwing without first line; postmedian more deeply bisinuate. Underside similarly but 

 somewhat more weakly marked, the band less conspicuous. Discovered at Ordubad in May in a rocky hollow. 

 Inhabits Transcaucasia, the Central Taurus and Northern Mesopotamia. 



Pt. terpnaria nam. nov. (=amoenaria Stgr. nee Snell) (3i). Another easily recognized species, the terpnaria. 

 band distally to the postmedian breaking off before the costal margin of the forewing. Probably related to . 

 the preceding species. The words used by Staudinger in describing it would indicate nearly, though not 

 quite, as bright colouring; but the specimen before me, as here figured, is coloured like trigeniinata, from 

 which terpnaria differs in its considerably smaller size, narrower wings, with distal margin of hindwing less 

 fully rounded, and in the arrangement of the distal markings. First line weak or obsolete; median sometimes 

 indicated at the posterior margin; discal dot black; postmedian line strong, bisinuate, the following band not 

 reaching the distal margin, though some suffusion is present between the pale subterminal and the margin. 

 Hindwing sometimes somewhat suffused at the base. Under surface similar, the band tending to be reduced 

 in width, cf antenna with rather short, even ciliation, hindtibia rather short and weak, not greatly dilated 

 but fringed with hair above; hindtarsus shorter than tibia but not extremely aborted. Vladivostok, Askold, 

 etc ; S^"* August is the only date known to me. 



Pt. belemiata Mill. (3i). Distal bands much more reduced, consisting merely of a few confluent helemiata. 

 posterior spots, somewhat as in some forms of dimidiata, but equally developed on both wings. The ground- 

 colour should be a little more yellowish (clay-coloured) than in our figure. The lines are fine, bent near the 

 costa; median shade not very strong; discal dots and series of dots at base of fringe present. Underside 

 paler and weaker-markedr cf antennal ciliation rather short; hindtibia short and weak, but with a hair- 

 pencil; tarsus quite short. Egg roundish, wax-white. Larva similar in form to that of heliantheviata, rather 

 short, tapering anteriorly and at the last few segments, head small, globular, dark brown; body flesh-coloured 

 with fine dorsal and subdorsal lines and on the middle segments indistinct sagittate vinous markings; lateral 

 line paler than the ground-colour. The moth is single-brooded, appearing in June and July, and is only 

 known from Spain (Catalonia, Aragon, Andalusia) and Portugal. 



Pt. politata Hbn. (4 f). In its typical form a quite unmistakable species, the entire distal area of both poUtata. 

 wings being filled up with dark, glossy violet-grey. The costal margin of the forewing is also more or less 

 darkened. The ground-colour is glossy pale yellowish straw-colour (not so white as in our figure), the 

 antemedian line usually and the median sometimes obsolete, the postmedian well expressed, but in the more 

 darkly bordered specimens little differentiated from the bordering. Cell-dots sharply black. Fringe concolorous 

 with wing. Under surface similar, costal margin of forewing less darkened, but the entire basal part of the 

 wing sometimes with some dark suffusion, cf antennal ciliation short; hindtibia scarcely thickened, tarsus as 

 long as tibia. Varies chiefly in the marginal dark band. This is sometimes a good deal lighter than in 

 the specimen figured, and then shows a more or less distinct subterminal line of the ground-colour. — 

 ab. abmarginata Bhtsch. (4f) is an extreme form, of not infrequent occurrence, in which the dark border is «o"'«''fl'«- 

 entirely wanting. In this form ])olitata can easily be distinguished from the similarly coloured biselata 

 extincta by the curve of the postmedian line, the more glossy scaling, generally smaller size and by the 

 structural characters. The weakness of the proximal lines, strength of discal dots, etc., should render confusion 

 with fiiscovenosa or dilutaria quite impossible, politata is wanting in a great part of Spain, but otherwise is 

 distributed though Southern Europe and from Asia Minor to Transcaspia and Persia; the form abmarginata 

 is chiefly prevalent in Hungary and the Asiatic localities. Larva short and stout, strongly attenuated anteriorly, 

 carinated laterally, the skin rugose, strongly folded; glaucous green, the 4"' and b^^ abdominal segments 

 sometimes washed with fleshy, yellowish or bluish; dorsal line geminate, ill-developed; subdorsal wanting; 

 lateral broad and paler than the ground-colour; a dark lozenge-shaped dorsal pattern on the S"'''— B"* abdominals; 

 ventral area pale bluish. Pupa moderately elongate, reddish yellow, washed with brown at the head and 

 anal point. Imago at the end of June and in July, single brooded. 



Pt. carpheraria Hmpsn. (==unipuncta Sivinli.). Larger than politata and of an entirely different earp^eram. 

 colour, besides wanting the dark grey border. Yellow, deeper towards the margins, the lines above obsolete 

 or extremely faintly indicated. Both wings with large conspicuous black discal dot. Forewing beneath with 

 the pale part more smoky, a dark smoky postmedian line and broader subterminal shade, cf antenna with 



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