386 GNOPHOS. By L. B. Prout. 



sempervi- Sikkim, but I have seen a nearly similar example from Omei-shan. — sempervirens nom. nov. (= vitreata 

 rens. jj^^^pg jjgp Moore) is a much more uniform, ^ap green form. N. W. Himalaj-as. Also from Ta-chien-lu. 



nimbata. G. nimbata Al/ph. (22 e) is distinguished by its elongate forewuig (the distal margin unusually oblique 



for this genus) and by its light flesh-coloured or yellowish tinge. The markings are rather weakly expressed, on 

 the glossy underside scarcely discernible. Ferghana, Issyk-kul, Hi and Kashgar. 



perapersata. G. perspersata Tr. (= respersaria ^6?!.., nom. praeocc.) (22 d). Both wings with as light brown tinge 



and with strong browner trroration and strigulation. All the 3 Ihies of the forewing present, but usually weak, 



somewhat dark-spotted at the costal margin and on the veins. Discal dots very small. Under surface without 



chalcea. the dark sprinkling, discal dots present, postmedian line faintly discernible. Neuration of dumetata. — chalcea 



' cchrea. Ob. is a more whitish-grey Spanish form with distinct lines. — ochrea Ob., also from Spain and Portugal, is 

 darker, rather uniform ochraceous brown, weakly marked. — Larva cylindrical, without protuberances, dark 

 grey with fine yellowish dorsal and subdorsal lines and yellow lateral spots, followed on the abdominals by 

 small dark spots. On Rhamnus, Genista and Spartium. Moth in June — -Juty in Spain, Aargau and Dalmatia. 



~ sartata. G. sartata Tr. (= immundata Warr.) (22 c). Rather broad-wmged, distal margin of hindwmg strongly 



and rather mievenly crenulate. Forewing with 1st subcostal free. Not very variable, now greyer, now browner, 

 always with a dusted appearance, median shade rather thick, postmedian line dotted, a characteristic light 

 spot in middle of distal area. Underside generally with conspicuous, broad brown or fuscous distal border, 

 with whitish apical and central spots. Face black. $ considerably larger than (J. Larva moderately slender, 

 reddish grey with black tubercles. On Rhamnus and low plants, m the spring. Flies in June and July. Corsica, 

 Sicily, S. E. Europe, Asia Minor, Syria and Transcaucasia. 



snellem. G. snelletii Ohr. (25 b). Size of sartata, somewhat similar on the upperside but more variegated with 



brown, the dark markings rather better expressed, median shade of both wings more bent, a lighter spot at 

 apex; underside yellowish white, with black discal spots, median shade and broad distal border, the latter 

 Avith the white apical and mid-terminal spots very sharply contrasted. Face brownish, not black. Transcaspia 

 to Central Persia. 



accipitmria. G. accipitraria Gtien. differs from snelleni m its very much larger size (often quite a giant among the 



Gnophos species), lack of pale apex to forewing both above and beneath, less developed black border on the 

 hindwing beneath and the substitution, on the mider surface of both wings, of a postmedian line or shade 

 supeiha. for the median. Distributed in the N. V\. Himalayas. — superba subsp. nov. (22 k) is a large, clearer grey 

 form, the yellow-brown shade confmed to some of the veins, but here exceedingly bright, discal spots enlarged, 

 underside purer white with deeper black markings, the distal border of the hindwing restricted to a large spot 

 auteriorty to the 1st radial but not reaching the costal. W. China; Omei-shan (type, (J, May— June); Mou-pin 

 (cotype, ?, July) both in coll. Brit. Mus. 



obscumtci. G. obscurata Schiff. (= lividata F., iiotata Walk. . bivinctata Fuchs) (22 d). An extremely variable 



species in coloration, generally recognizable by its deeply crenulate hmdwing, weakly marked underside, large 

 discal rings and by the form of the lines. Schiffermuller's type, as diagnosed by Fabricius (who needlessly 

 changed the name) represented the moderately t'ark ash-grey form, generally with the black lines sharply ex- 

 pressed, from which the slightly more brownish-mixed examples (anthracinaria Esp.) or purplish-tinged {quadri- 

 palUdemar- pustulata Don.) need not be separated. — ab. pallidemarginata Ob. has both Avings pale from the (obsolescent) 

 obscuriaata ^^bterminal line to the distal margin. — obscuriorata Prout ( = saturata Prout, mediorhenana F. Fuchs, atra 

 Linstow, maugrabinearia Ob.) represents the various shades of very dark brown and black which the species 

 calceata. assumes ui parts of England and Germany, chiefly on peat soil. — calceata Stgr. (= serotinaria Hatv. nee Hbn.) 

 munddta. is a local race from the chalk soil of the South of England with the ground-colour whitish. — ab. mundata 

 Prout (= calceata Ob.) is a beautiful and rare aberration of calceata with no dark dusting at all-white with 

 fasaiata. black lines and rings. — ab. fasciata Prout ( = bicolor Ob.) also occm-s among calceata, but only in the Folkstone 

 argillacea- district, and has the median area alone darkened. — argillacearia Stgr. (— puUata Dup.) is a clay-coloured 

 ^^"" or sandy (sometimes almost reddish) form which occurs locally on sandstone soils in England and France, I 

 ' bellieri. think always as a mere aberration. — bellieri Ob. is also brownish but much more variegated with white, 

 lafauryata. the lines very strong and sharp, underside well marked. Corsica. — lafauryata Ob. is a dwarf race, of a dark 

 zeiiunaria. colour but dotted here and there with ochreous, the markings strong. Bordeaux and Dax. • — zeitunaria Stgr. 

 is a large race, otherwise similar to lafauryata. S. E. Taurus. — For a more detailed account of the variation 

 see Trans. City Lond. Ent. Soc. vol. 13, p. 31—30; Oberthur Et. Lep. vol. 7, p. 307 — 309. — Egg irregularly 



