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C. poliotaria Hmjjsn. (13) Smaller mid darker tliaii cyanata(9h, llie median band shaped almost as in that species, poliolaria. 

 but with a slight excavation on its proximal side. Less glossy than nobiliaria. Forewing with subbasal band 

 (or pair of thick lines) almost as dark as basal, nearly united with it (compare desperata Stgr.), distal area 

 rather strongly dark-marked, in particular with the lunules oi the subterminal line strongly dark fiUed-in proxi- 

 nially. Hindwing whitish-grey, almost unmarked but with a cell-dot present. Forewing beneath light grey, 

 glossy, almost unmarked; hindwing whitish, with postmedian line indicated. Koksar and other localities in the 

 N. W. Himalayas. Genitalia not examined. 



C. uncinata Pung. is placed here by Staudinger but the shape is eccentric, more recalling that of micinata. 

 Ki/riholitha. Rather smaller than most species of the subgenus (especially the cT), both wings with sharp, fal- 

 cate apex, especially the hindwing. Antenna in cf slender, with somewhat projecting points, not ciliated. 

 Palpus slender. Wings finely and smoothly scaled, uniform stone-grey, or in lighter specimens with the median 

 band distally darker than the ground-colour; basal area small, little darkened; median band bounded by dentate 

 whitish lines, which are thickened at costa; subterminal line dentate, quite indistinct; marginal line consisting 

 of paired dark dots. Hindwing with indistinct, bent pale postmedian line. Underside grey with fine discal dots 

 and distinct, dentate postmedian band; in lighter examples paler distally to this line. Koko-Nor. Discocellulars 

 not biangulate. 



C. nobiliaria H.-Seh. (9h) differs from cyanata in its much more glossy, darker and greyer wings, nobiliaria. 

 Otherwise the coloration is somewhat similar. Discal dots obsolete. Head and face whitish. Variable in depth 

 of colour and somewhat in the width of the median band. — borearia form, nov., from Norway, is much borearia. 

 darker. — The larva hibernates and is said to be easy to rear; Pijngeler fed it in the autumn on rose-leaves, 

 but it has been found wild in the spring on Saxifraga, among the stems, from which it can be shaken out. 

 It varies in colour (olive green to purplish brown) and is very similar to that of fiavicinctata but has the dorsal 

 triangles and the lateral ridge whiter. The pupa is also very similar to that of flavicinctata . The moth appears 

 in July or even at the end of June and continues, according to the elevation, until September. Only certainly 

 known from Norway, the Alps and the mountains of Transsylvania. 



C. intermediaria Alph. According to Alpheraky (confirmed by PiIngeler, in litt.), this is a good species intermedia- 

 though Staudinger treated it as a form of the preceding. Less glossy than nobiliaria, the shape of the wings '"'*■ 

 and of the median band recalling caesiuta but the band more weakly expressed, not containing a pale patch 

 near the costa as in both the allies; the pale waved lines which limit this band are straighter than in nohili- 

 aria, the distal one always double; the veins are more strongly yellowish, dotted with grey; marginal dark 

 dots are present, but weaker than in caesiata. Western Thian-shan, June— July. Specimens before me from 

 Issyk-kul have the median band more paralleZ-edged than nobiliaria, though not straighter-edged and are 

 probably the same species. — muscosaria Chr. is unknown to ■ me and may be also a separate species, muscosaria. 

 Described as a variety of intermediaria, larger and much darker, of a greenish fuscous colour (according to 

 Staudinger leaden grey), with a series of whitish dots accompanying the postmedian distally. Founded on a ? 

 from Kasbek, Caucasus. 



C. neurbouaria Ob. (9 k). Herr Pungeler (in litt.) refers this species to Entephria. It does not seem neurhoua- 

 to me very closely related to any known species and the genitalia have not been examined. Easily recogni- ria. 

 zable from our figure. Under surface brownish, the hindwing paler than the forewing; forewing indistinctly 

 marked, a pale patch around the discal dot and a pale postmedian band the most noticeable; hindwing with 

 dark lines rather better expressed than above. W. China and Koko-Nor. 



C. nigrifasciaria Leech (7 i) may also probably belong to this subgenus, as the texture, the shape of the nigrifasci- 

 forewing and the scheme of. markings, besides the most important structural characters quite agree. It is only *''**• 

 aberrant in the shape of the hindwing, which has the distal margin somewhat crenuiate, and distinctly excised 

 between the radials (rather approaching the shape of Triphosa confusaria). The blackish median band and 

 blackish, deeply dentate line beyond further characterize the species. Pu-tsu-fong at over 3000 m elevation. 

 Leech's type remains unique. 



C. stellata Warr. (=: adjrouaria Ob) (10 i, as adjouaria) was described by Warren as a Glaucopterijx stellata. 

 (now Entephria) and may be provisionally retained here. Discocellulars strongly biangulate. A very distinct 

 species, characterized by the olive-greenish, grey-mixed foi-ewing, with the veins fuscous, very regularly and 

 conspicuously spotted with bluish white; line evenly crenuiate, bluish white. Ta-chien-lu. Also Sikkim (at 

 above 3000 m elevation) and Yatung, Tibet. 



Subgenus Neotephria, subg. nov. Structure and habitus of Entephria but with the hindwing, at least 

 in the cf, produced at the 1" median, 3"* radial stalked (rarely from a point) with P' median; discocellulars 

 not biangulate. 



