GNOPHOa. By L. B. Peout. 389 



G. praestigiaria Piing. Very near the preceding, t'orewing narrower and more pointed, hindwing more jjraestigia- 

 deeply crenulate, ground-colour duller, not so reddish as in rvbefactaria, the black borders of the underside '""'" 



more indistinct but more regular, not interrupted in the middle. Togus-Torau and a somewhat greyer form 

 from Aksu. 



G. rufitinctaria Hmps. (22 e) has the colours more as in variegata, sometimes more reddish. Variable rufitincta- 

 but easily distinguished from both vastaria and variegata as follows: costal margin of forewing more arched, ^^' 



hindwing still more strongly crenulate than in variegata, discal ring of forewing larger, colours different^ ar- 

 ranged, the strongest grey shading being in the median area, distal margin with deeper black dots, fringe more 

 sharply chequered. The underside is intermediate between the two allies. Antenna of ^ not appreciably 

 ciliated. Koksar, etc. (N. W. Himalayas). In this species and vastaria, as in variegata and mucidaria, the 1st 

 subcostal of the forewing regularly anastomoses with the costal ; this and the pattern of the underside suggests 

 that Stattdingek's interposition of several species with other neuration and pattern is not quite natural. 



G. glaucinaria Hbn. (22 e). Very variable in colour, generally recognizable by its shape and facies c/laucinariu. 

 but especially unmistakable on the under surface; here the forewing is more or less smoky as far as the post- 

 median line (or occasionally clearer but with the line itself sharply expressed), then with a broad whitish band, 

 finally with a dark border, leavmg free a whitish spot at apex and more or less white interruptions in the 

 middle and posteriorly; the hindwing less or not at all darkened proximally, otherwise similar. The name- 

 typical form is variegated, the ground-colour pale yellowish, a strong blue-grey • dustmg in the median and 

 subterminal regions. — plumbearia Stgr. (= ?panessacaria Trimoulet) (22 e) is a small, dark leaden-grey plumbearia. 

 form with indistinct fine pale lines. It is recorded as a local race from S. W. Germany and probably S. W. France. 

 — ■ ab. milvinaria Fuchs occurs among plumhear^a but differs in havuig the dark grey mixed with ochre-yellow, milvinaria. 

 Middle Rhine. — fakonaria Frr. (= sartaria H.-Sch.) is almost unicolorous cinereous with a slight viola- falccnaria. 

 ceous tinge. Frequent in the Alps, etc. — supinaria Mann is like the most glossy, weakest-marked fakonaria supinaria. 

 on the upperside but beneath more resembles pullata, both wings showing a broadened dark border, fre- 

 quently not at all relieved with whitish except at apex of forewing. Croatia, Dalmatia, etc. • — Egg red, re- 

 gularly oval, with longitudinal rows of minute cells. Larva similar to those of obscurata and pullata but with 

 a well-marked light lateral band. On low plants, hibernating. The moth appears in May and again in August 

 and may be regarded as one of the commonest species of the genus, though chiefly confined — apart from the 

 following doubtful races — to Central Europe and Asia Minor. — pollinaria Chr., unknown to me, is probably pollinaria. 

 a separate species. Forewing more pointed, ground-colour yellowish-ashy, densely irrorated with fuscous, the 

 distal area darkened, especially beneath; according to the figvire the subterminal line on the upperside has a 

 distinct fine blackish proximal edging. Asia Minor, Transcaspia and Issyk-kul. — sibiriata Guen. (22 e) is sibiriaia. 

 also likely to be a species. Rather large; distal margin of forewing slightly more oblique than in glaucinaria, 

 colour ochraceous, strongly diTsted and marbled with fuscous, the markings on the upperside vague, the 

 postmedian Ime apparently more smuous anteriorly; underside of both wings sharply marked, otherwise nearly 

 as in supinaria. Altai, Uliassutai and Amdo districts. 



G. crenulata Rbr. (25 k) is possibly a form of glaucinaria but is undescribed and little can be stated crenulata. 

 definitely from the figure. Larger, the ground-colour apparently about as m sibiriata, little variegated, post- 

 median line strongly expressed both above and beneath, crenulate. Distal dark border beneath not broad, 

 separated from the margin by a pale space, on the hindwing not interrupted behind the 3rd radial. Anda- 

 lusia: Sierra Nevada in August. — etruscaria Stgr. is doubtfully referred here, but is said to be bluish grey, etmscaria. 

 dark dusted, the markings weak excepting the cellmark and postmedian line, hmdwing almost unmarked. 

 Underside much less sharply marked than in glaucinaria. more as in supinaria. Vallombrosa (Apennines) in 

 June. 



G. gnophosaria Ob. (described as Psodos) (22 e) is unlaiown to me, but seems likely to belong here, as gnophosa- 

 Lbech has suggested. The coloration of the upperside is nearly as in name-typical glaucinaria but the lines ''^■ 



are more sharply blackish, that of the hindwing placed further from the discal ring. The underside is charac- 

 terized by strong discal spot and postmedian line on both wmgs, the border of the hindwing somewhat as in 

 weakly-marked glaucinaria, that of the forewing traversed by a continuous pale subterminal line on a some- 

 what irregular blackish ground. Ta-chien-lu. 



G. ochrofasciata Stgr. (22 f) resembles glaucinaria in the markings of the upperside but the hindwing ochmfasd- 

 is less deeply crenulate and the coloration is nearer that of variegata, ochreous brown with blue-grey dusting in "''"• 



the basal area and distally to the postmedian line. Underside with cell-spots and dentate postmedian line, but 

 without the sharp colour contrasts of glaucinaria. Hindtibia of 3* dilated. Uliassutai, Issyk-kul, Koko-Nor. 



G. finitimaria Fuchs is perhaps a pale, weakly marked form of ochrofasciata, the upperside more finely finitimaria. 

 and regularly dusted, without such definite dark shading proximally to the subterminal, the distal area greyer, 



