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area darkened with ill-defined lines, median band broad (in the Kulu specimen with a stronger rounded pro- 

 jection between the 3''' radial and 2"** median than in the type), dark brownish-grey, the distal area with a 

 large costal spot of the same colour (or slightly more reddish) proximally to the sublerminal, an oblique dark 

 subapical mark, joining a diffuse dark spot between the radials, an interrupted dentate dark line not far 

 distally to the median band, some vague distal-marginal shading; subterminal line almost obsolete except at 

 costa. Underside, weakly marked. Abdomen dorsally fuscous. W. China: Wa-shan; Kulu: Sultanporc. Only 

 the ? known; nearly related to curcumata Moore. 



C. tamaria Oh. (described as Tephrosia) is unknown to me but is certainly, according to the neuration, /amaria. 

 a Larentiid and probably a large, ample-winged Euph/jia. Forewing violet-grey with the broad median area 

 paler; the lines dark, consisting of slender basal, thicker subbasal, antemedian, postmedian and subterminal, 

 more or less sinuous, mostly thickened at the wing-margins, the antemedian terminating in a triangular spot 

 at the hindmargin, the subterminal interrupted by a large black spot between the radials; fringe chequered. 

 Hindwing grey basally, darker distally, with large discal dot and well-marked postmedian line. Both wings 

 beneath marked nearly as forewing above. Ta-chien-lu. 



Subgenus Mesoleuca Hbn. Face scarcely roughened. Palpus rather short, cf antenna nearly simple. 

 Forewing with areole double. Hindwing with discocellulars weakly or moderately biangulate, the 2"'' radial 

 arising about or scarcely behind the centre. 



C. alaudaria Fn: (^ bicuspidaria Ghil.) (10 b). Easily recognizable from our figure. Rather variable alaudaria. 

 in respect of the median band, which may be more nearly obsolete or better marked and broader in its 

 middle part than in the specimen figured; in all forms, however, the blackish triangular patch at the costal 

 margin remains sharply differentiated, the middle part being lighter brown. Underside with distal borders 

 nearly as above, both wings darker suffused to beyond the middle and with a white postmedian band. — ab. 

 culmaria H.-Sch. has the white much extended, the dark costal patch almost obsolete, leaving free a dark culmaria. 

 discal dot. — ab. abafii ab. nov. has all the dark markings pale brown, only the discal dot black. Described ahafii. 

 without a name by Aigner-Abafi. — Larva slender, green, with yellow lateral stripe. July— August, on Atra- 

 gene alpina. Pupa light brown with green wings; hibernating. Flies in June and July in the Alps, Carpathians 

 and S. W. Russia. 



C. mandschuricata Srem. (10 b). Closely related to alaudaria, of which it may be regarded as the mandschu- 

 eastern representative. The distal area of both wings is light brown, not dark fuscous, is not very sharply ricata. 

 defined and the white ground-colour projects less angularly into it; the white subterminal line on both wings 

 is thicker and is not dentate. — borealis Herz, from the Vilui district, is smaller and greyer and especially borealis. 

 on the underside of the hindwing very dark dusted. — E. Siberia and China. 



C. bimacuiaria Leech (7f) is much larger than mandschuricata, the brown colour extended throughout6iwac«torw. 

 the forewing, the hindwing more varied. Forewing beneath duller, more weakly marked; hindwing pale, strongly 

 dark-dotted on the veins; the subterminal line obsolete. Ta-chien-lu, May— June. 



C. albicillata L. =( vestalis Walch) (10 c). A very beautiful and very well-known species, the dark markings albicillala 

 contrasting elegantly with the broad creamy-white central area. — ab. suffusa Carrington is a remarkable form with suffusa. 

 the entire forewing suffused with dark leaden grey. — casta jB^^r. (10 c), from Japan, has the basal and distal casta. 

 dark markings (especially the latter) increased in extent, the white area consequently narrowed, the discal dots 

 generally larger. — Larva moderately thick, tapering anteriorly; bright green with a series of red dorsal 

 triangles, pointing forward, and with some reddish markings on the sides and on the anal flap. On Rubus, 

 especially Rubus idaeus, July — September. Pupa compact, glossy dark purplish brown with the cremaster black ; 

 hibernates. The moth appears from May to July and is common in woods in a great part of Europe, the 

 Altai, Issyk-Kul and S. E. Siberia. 



Subgenus Melanthia Dup. (^ Plemyria Snell. nee Hbn.). Head large, face broad, rather protuberant, 

 smooth scaled. Palpus short. Metathorax tufted. Areole double. Discocellulars not biangulate. 



C. procellata Schiff. (10 c, as procellaria) is characterized by the form of the median band, which is cut off proceUata. 

 squarely before the median vein and posteriorly either altogether wanting or dissolved into wavy lines; a large white 

 spot in the dark distal border is also conspicuous. — In ab. infumata Rbl. the forewing is strongly suffused infumata. 

 with brown, only the band before the middle remaining white. I have only seen transitions, such as is des- 

 cribed by Aigner-Abafi, Ann. Mus. Hungar. vol. 4, p. 524. — inquinata Btlr. (10 c) is less pure white, the basal inquinaia. 

 patch rather larger, the median rather narrower, but often followed by wavy dark lines. Japan. It differs 



