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rufous, and the fringe pink. — mucida Esp. is dark purplish red with the costa and subterminal shade mucida. 

 slaty grey; — pilicornis Brnhm has the red ground almost obliterated by grey suffusion, the cross lines pilkornis. 

 brownish; of this pallida Tutt is merely an extreme pale form; finally, mista film, is brickred with costa, Pallida. 

 cross lines, and outer margin grey. — Larva reddish brown, with dark bands on dorsal segments; dorsal m 

 line slightly paler: subdorsal pale yellow, narrow; spiracular line brownish, yellow in front; feeding on all 

 low plants. 



Section 111: Antennae of cf ciliated. 



C coryphaea Piing. (14c). Forewing brownish pink; costal area to submarginal line and the cell coryphaea. 

 lilac-grey with a pink flush; basal area below middle irongrey; lines deep brown, thickened towards costa; 

 inner line with a spur beneath orbicular stigma: outer line fine and dentate below vein G; stigmata large 

 with pale edges; orbicular elongate, curved, merged above in costal streak; reniform with irongrey centre; 

 the two separated by a brown triangle; a brownish costal patch before submarginal line; hindwing white, 

 towards termen pinkish grey; cellmark and veins grey. Kuku-Nor, Tibet. — Described by Pungelbr from 

 a single ?; the o 1 has shortly ciliated antennae. 



C. sobrina Bsd. (— mista Frr., lapponica Frr.) (14c). Forewing ashygrey at base, more or less sobrina. 

 strongly dull brickred externally, dusted with blackish, the veins remaining grey; lines and margins of 

 stigmata dark, but often interrupted and obscure; hindwing dull fuscous, paler towards abdominal margin, 

 altogether paler in ?; fringe pinkish. A mountain species occurring in Scotland, Sweden, and Russia, in 

 S. France. Switzerland, and Germany, and in the Altai Jits, in W. Siberia. - The form griineri Guen. grtlneri. 

 (= suffusa Tuft] is greyer, without the red tinge. - - Larva reddish-brown, mottled with grey; the lines 

 slightly ' paler ; on Calluna and probably other low-growing mountain plants. 



33. Genus: Orthopia Tr. 



Frons smooth; mid and hind tibiae spined; foretibiae clothed with hair, without spines; pectus 

 hairy: antennae of d 1 serrate, with sessile fascicles of cilia. In scaling and markings the species resemble 

 those of Antitype Hbn. 



Type 0. caecimacula F. 



O. caecimacula .F. (= millegrana Esp., respersa Brahm) (14c). <? : Forewing grey with black caecimacula. 

 itToration, tinged with brownish in marginal third, especially just beyond the reniform; stigmata large and 

 pale, with brown outlines; the lines obscure, but the inner shows a black brown-edged mark below median 

 vein: submarginal line pale, dentate: hindwing greyish white, the veins darker; a diffuse dark marginal 

 shade: 2 darker, more brownish grey, in both wings. — France, Switzerland, Italy, Sicily, Dalmatia, Ger- 

 many, Hungary, and Asia Minor. — The form sibirica 'Stgr. (14 d) from the Altai Mts. in Siberia, is paler, sibirica. 

 with the ground colour ochreous yellow. — Larva greenish brown , dark brown on dorsum , with fine dark 

 dorsal and subdorsal fines, and a white lateral stripe, feeding on low plants. 



O. senex H.-G. (= vetula Bsd.) (14 d). d*: Forewing pale grey, irrorated and in parts suffused senex. 

 with darker, especially on inner margin in median area and beyond the reniform; claviform stigma small 

 and dark: upper stigmata large, pale grey with dark edges; all the lines indistinct; hindwing white, with 

 veins and margin faintly grey: ? darker grey, the hindwing grey. — Coextensive in range with caecimacula, 

 but not occurring in Siberia. — The form mediorhenana Fuchs (14 d, e) has the forewing uniform grey, medio- 

 without dark dusting, and with scarcely any markings; a faint ochreous flush along both folds. — Larva rh.ena.na. 

 ochreous, dotted with brown; dorsal line slender, dark; lateral broad whitish; venter green; on lowgrowing plants. 



O. indiana Guen. (= violacea BtJr.) (14 e). ?: Forewing dull olive-brown, sprinkled with whitish, Indiana. 

 and with purplish red suffusion at base, along median shade, and before submarginal line; stigmata 

 margined, the reniform also filled up, with reddish; a white dot at lower angle of cell; hindwing brownish 

 fuscous: o* brown, with no reddish tinge whatever; the two lines black and distinct: base of inner margin 

 of forewing beneath with an oblong white patch. — Guenee's type, a d", and Butler's, a ?, both from 

 X. India: but, like so many others, the species extends into Kashmir. 



34. Genus: Ifythimna Tr. 



Frons smooth; pectus rough-haired; foretibiae without spines but thickly haired: antennae of d* 

 ciliated. Forewing with inner and outer lines approximating on inner margin, neither waved nor dentate. 

 Imago emerging in autumn, larva feeding up in summer on forest trees. 



Type M. oxalina Hbn. 



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