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CALOCALPE. By L. B. Prout. 



is a smaller, weakly marked light grey race from Valais. It occurs as an aberration in other places. — 

 Larva grey or blue-grey, paler ventrally, the dark dorsal line white-edged on each side, subdorsal line fine, 

 white, the sides with yellow or orange blotches; head red-brown. On Berberis in June — July. Pupa short 

 and thick, red-brown, cremaster more blackish, short, ending in a short fork. It hibernates in a tough oval 

 cocoon and the moth appears the following May. Central Europe, Transcaucasia to Transcaspia and again in 

 the Ussuri district and Japan. 



vetemata. C. veternata Ch:, on which Gumppenberg has founded his genus Eutriphosa, is smaller than cervinalis^ 



with the distal margin of both wings straighter; according to Staudinger, however, Christoph and Gumppen- 

 berg have laid too much weight on the distinctions in the shape, which varies somewhat. Colour much paler. 

 Forewing light reddish grey, in the ? almost whitish, markings similar to those of cervinalis, but the proximal 

 edge of the median area is more bent, and shows two slight, blunt projections, the distal edge, on the other 

 hand, after the first subcostal bend comparatively straight; an oblique dark streak from apex. Only 

 known from the Ussuri district. 



excuUata. C. excultata Chr. (^ varia Hedem., hedemannaria Ob) f8d, misprinted exultata) is also very similar to 



cervinalis, but readily distinguished by its more gay colouring (the ground-colour having a decided rosy tone) 

 and by the shape of the median band. Ussuri and Japan. 



monti- C. montivagata Dup. (5 k). Greyer and more weakly marked than cermVia^M, but also differing somewhat 



vagafa. jj^ shape, the distal margins being less strongly ' crenulate. Central area generally broader,- terminal line less 

 sharply black. The cT hindtibia, as well as the hindwing, is furnished with dense tufts of blackish hair. 

 A very local species ; apparently in Europe confined to high altitudes in the Alps, the Sierra Nevada and Sierra 

 de Albarracin, but occurring again in Asia Minor, Transcaucasia and N. Persia, chiefly in forms transitional 

 andalusica. towards the form hyrcana. — andalusica Bibbe. The Sierra Nevada race has been separated under the above 

 name on account of the sharper markings of the forewing, with larger, darker discal mark and the presence 

 hyrcana. of more distinct lines in the proximal half of the hindwing. — hyrcana ^^tyr. is larger than the type form, 

 the forewing more variegated, the median area being more distinctly banded, tlie distal area with better- 

 marked lines. — Larva reddish grey with fine black dorsal line and dark lateral lines, in August and September 

 on Berberis vulgaris. The pupa hibernates and the moth appears in June and July. 



alternata. C. alternata Stgr. (5i) belongs to a difficult group of obscure greyish species, but may generally be 



separated by the pale, in part whitish hindwing. The somewhat yellowish grey of the forewing (in this and 

 some other figures on plate 5 an incorrect pinkish tone is suggestedl somewhat recalls — as the author 

 has remarked — that of Entephria caesiata. The discal dot may be present or absent. Both wings with black 



fasciata. terminal line, interrupted by whitish dots. Fringe dark spotted. — In ab. fasciata S(r/r. the basal and median 

 areas are strikingly darkened, the spaces on each side of the median area light ochreous brown. — Koko-nor. 



nudaria. Perhaps also Amdo, compare the remark on "Triphosa"' amdoensis above. — nudaria Leech (110 's rather 

 larger and more strongly marked, both above and beneath, than the alternata which I can compare, but 

 otherwise entirely agrees. Perhaps not even a local race. Ta-chien-lu, May- June, 1 ?. 



fasciaria. C. fasciaria Leech (lie) also has the ground-colour pale grey with a slight tinge of yellowish, but 



the hindwing is not paler than the forewing. Slightly narrower-winged than alternata, the lines obsolescent 

 except in the median area, where they are better expressed; an oblique, much interrupted dark mark below 

 the apex: no terminal line; fringe weakly dark-spotted. Both wings beneath more grey as far as the post- 

 median, paler and more yellowish beyond, discal dots well expressed. Che-tou, 3430 m; July or August. 



grtseana. 



C. grisearia Leech, which may possibly be a lighter-coloured race of the Indian species called by 

 Hampson tremulata Guen, is on an average larger than alternata, with the markings more strongly expressed, 

 their colour much more brownish; the distal edge of the median area forms a stronger double projection on 

 each side of the P' radial, the anterior one the longer; the median area is followed — at least in its anterior 

 half — by a whiter band ; the white subterminal is more deeply dentate in its anterior half. Hindwing more 

 mixed with brownish than in allrrnata, though rather variable; subterminal line rather deeply dentate. Under 

 surface more whitish than upper, the discal mark of the forewing large; that of the hindwing also distinct. 

 but smaller; postmedian hne present, the forewing in addition (more rarely also the hindwing) with some dark 

 clouding proximally); apical area of forewing more or less darkened from costa to 3'''^ radial. W.China; Che- 

 tou, Omei-shan and Ta-chien-lu, May — August. One Che-tou cT shows the bright brown shades of alternata ab. 

 fasciata, but the median area is not consolidated into a band. 



