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ANAITIS. By L. B. Prout. 



mundata. A. mundata Stgr. (;= luundulaLa ? Gaeii., nee cf) differs from the following species in its larger size 



(26—30 mm) sharply pointed (subfalcate) apex, its peculiar reddish-grey tone, strongly shot with rose-colour 

 on the hindwing and costa and apex of forewing beneath, and in its quite distinctive markings, tlie two 

 transverse lines being sharp and yellow. Occurs in Syria; Staudinger obtained it in numbers from Beirut. 

 eruhescens. — erubescens Stgr. is a local form from Amasia, of still somewhat larger size and much redder colour on 

 the upperside (violet-reddish); beneath, on the other hand, the rosy tone is on an average less bright. 



mundulata. A. mundulata Guen. Pale brown, forewing with fine darker red-brown, slightly sinuous antemedian 



and postmedian lines, the former narrowly preceded and the latter narrowly followed by pale yellowish; cell- 

 spot sharply expressed; subterminal line and a darker shade accompanying it proximally both very weak. 



submundu- Hindwing with a single pale, strongly curved line beyond the middle. Syria and Mesopotamia. — submun- 



lata. jyia^a ,5^^j._ ^g ^^ jg ^n ash-grey form with a tinge of violet, the markings on the whole somewhat more sharply 



expressed. It was first collected in the Southern Taurus at the end of April and beginning of May and was 



treated as probably a separate species; but it has since been ascertained that it occurs also as an aberration 



among typical mundulata. 



musculata. A. musculata Stgr. Size, shape and general coloration of mundulata submunduhita. Forewing ashgrey 



without a tinge of violet, finely dark-dusted; discal spot crescentic, sharply black; 3 light (dull yellowish) lines, 

 mostly somewhat dentate, dark edged, the first very indistinct, the third the most distinct and broadest, much 

 nearer to the distal margin than in submundulata ; an oblique dark mark from the apex: fringe almost white, 

 distinctly dark-chequered in the distal half. Asia Minor and N. W. Kurdistan. 



columhata. A. columbata Metzner (= nomadaria i/^^-.S^cA.) (11 a). Much larger than the two preceding species, size 



and shape nearly as in the well-known plagiata, the apex of the forewing slightly more acutely produced. 

 Fawn-colour, the forewing a little more inclining to reddish, the hindwing to yellowish. Forewing with the 

 lines yellowish, very slightly sinuous; subbasal nearly obsolete; antemedian narrowly dark-edged distally, at 

 times with a charakteristic dark cloud accompanying it in the cell; postmedian narrowly dark-shaded proximally; 

 distal area with 2 or 3 very faintly indicated pale lines, the true subterminal the least indistinct; a faint dark 

 oblique subapical shade. Hindwing almost unieolorous. Under surface rather more ochreous in tone, the 

 forewing with two pale lines, the hindwing with a very weak postmedian. Parts of Asia Minor, Transcaucasia 

 and the Northern Caucasus; Staudinger adds N. Persia with a query; Drenowsky has recently recorded it from 

 Bulgaria. 



annexata. A. annexata Frr. {■= boisduvaliata Dup.) (6 k as boisduvaliata). Light ash-grey, with some fine brow 



dusting, which becomes strong in places, to form the transverse mai-kings of the forewing; basal area very 

 weakly marked, sometimes a moderately distinct double line discernible near the antemedian band; antemedian 

 double, usually also filled in with brown, especially at the veins, oblique from '/s of hindmargin to cell, then 

 bent so as to run perpendicularly to costa; postmedian consisting of 3 lines similarly filled-in, the outermost 

 angled on the P' radial and curved posteriorly, followed distally by a broad white line; a strong oblique line 

 from apex and a double brown line before the pale subterminal, which is not dentate. Hindwing almost 



infuscata. unieolorous. Under surface rather more brownish, very weakly marked. — ab. infuscata ah. nov. is strongly 

 suffused with brown throughout, the bands darker brown, pale-edged. The type is in the British Museum, 

 unfortunately without exact locality. Distributed in Asia Minor; also Malatia and Armenia. Freyer's name 

 was published in Dec. 1830, Dupomchel's in Nov. 1831. 



praeformata. A. praeformata libit. {=^ cassiata IV.) (8 d). This handsome species i.s easily distinguished from 



plagiata (which it nearly resembles in colour) by (he strong darkening of the lines or bands in the costal part 

 of the foi'cwing, the deep curve of the antemedian in the cell, accompanied proximallg by a strong rufous patch, 

 rosacea, and by the more sharply dentate postmedian. — ab. rosacea Kiefer (= aphrodyte Schawerda) has a more 

 conftua. intensive and extended red suffusion, nearly covering the forewing. — ab. conflua F. Hoffmann is a form in 

 which the antemedian and postmedian bands (groups of lines) meet at the median vein, posterior to which the 

 central area becomes clouded with brown like the postmedian band itself and with the veins dark-marked. — 

 Larva similar to that of plagiata, somewhat thicker, yellowish grey with dark dorsal line and white lateral 

 ridge; on Hypericum perforatum, hiding among the seed capsules in the autumn, hibernating and reaching 

 maturity in May. Pupa brown. Imago in June and July in mountainous districts nearly throughout Central 

 and parts of Southern Europe, also in Transcaucasia. Staudinger and Rebel except Western Europe, but 

 I have since recorded it from Spain (Ent. Rec. vol. 19, p. 162). 



po7ie- A. poneformata Stgr. is similar to praeformata but much smaller, with snow-white hindwing and dark 



formata. grey underside, whereas that of praeformata is strongly sliaded in parts with reddish brown. Koko-Nor. 



