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I. longivitta Piing. Like albivitta Alph., but with the white streaks in cell and from the base broader longivitia. 

 ami longer. — Also from Tibet. 



I. leuconeura Piing. Forewing green; costa except at base ami all the veins broadly white; a leuconeura. 

 long fine white line along submedian fold; hindwing dull grey, with the fringe a little lighter. Antennae 

 brownish red. with short stiff pectinations: head and thorax green; abdomen whitish. Described by 



42. Genus: AHiuofhi Hbn. 



Frons smooth; mid and hindtibiae spined; foretibiae fringed with hair only; antennae of cf ciliated; 

 palpi porrect, hairy below; wings with termen subcrenulate ; forewings marked by longitudinal dark streaks 

 between the veins: lines more or less interrupted and obsolete; the subterminal resolved into wedgeshaped 

 marginal streaks. The larvae of all the species known at present feed on Hypericum only, hiding by day on 

 the ground beneath leaves, pupating in a slight cocoon; the larvae of the first brood are fullfed in July, 

 emerging in August, those of the second fullfed in September hybernate as pupae, and emerge in spring. 



Type A. polyodon CI. 



A. radiosa Esp. (= lyncea Hbn.) (15 d). Forewing olive brown; some pale horizontal streaks from radiosa. 

 base: orbicular stigma elongate, horizontal, narrow, pale-edged; reifiform large, vertical, brown with white 

 linear centre and outline; veins towards margin black, defined by pale olive and whitish, forming sharp 

 wedgeshaped markings separated by dark intervals, and produced as fine white pencils through the 

 dark brown fringe; an interrupted pale outer fascia; hindwing black with a whitish outer fascia from 

 costa to vein 2, crossed by black veins; cell lunule' large, black: fringe white. -- Throughout southern 

 Europe, and in Asia Minor and Armenia. — Larva reddish greybrown ; dorsal and subdorsal lines dark with 

 oblique streaks between them; lateral lines pale-yellow with a reddish tinge along centre, with an elongate 

 blackish mark on each segment above it; thoracic and anal plates brown; head yellowish-brown; on 

 Hypericum. 



A. polyodon CI. (= perspicillaris L.) (15 d). Forewing bone-colour suffused with olive brown along polyodon. 

 costa and inner margin and interrupted^ along termen; the reniform stigma also placed on an olive brown 

 cloud: costa and space between veins 2 and 4 tinged with purplish pink; a black streak from base in sub- 

 median fold and a double one from inner margin near base; reniform stigma large, pale olive with linear 

 centre and outline creanvy white; veins towards margin dark, forming centre of wedgeshaped marks, 3, 4 

 and 7, 8 broadly edged with ground colour and cutting the dark fringe; outer line marked by dark 

 dots on veins: hindwing bone-colour with broad brownish margin and blackish veins. Widely spread 

 through north and central Europe, occurring in Britain and Scandinavia, Italy and Switzerland, France, 

 Germany and S. E. Russia; also in Armenia and through Siberia and Turkestan to Japan. - Larva red- 

 brown, dotted with black; a subdorsal row of oblique brown marks; dorsal and spiracular lines yellow; 

 head brown: on Hypericum. 



A. hyperici F. (15 d). Forewing grey; a thick black streak from base below cell, above which hyperici. 

 the basal area is whitish, and below it dark fuscous reddish; this colour often also filling the cell and sub- 

 median fold, and the terminal area beyond subterminal line, which is marked by a series of thick black 

 streaks between the veins; outer line finely lunulate-dentate; orbicular and reniform stigmata brown with 

 pale rings, the former flattened; hindwing brownish, paler in the cf; examples from Spain (Andalusia), cfcf, 

 have the hindwing white, tinged with grey, and the veins dark: the abdomen pale grey, with the lateral 

 and anal tufts pinkish; a very distinct form which may be called ab. laetior nb. nov. — Occurs in south and laetior. 

 central Europe and in western Asia, Armenia, Asia Minor, and Syria. — Larva redbrown; dorsal and sub- 

 dorsal lines yellow, edged by dark brown: spiracular line broad and yellow; on Hypericum. 



A. conjuncta Piing. (15 d). Forewing grey irrorated with black; a black streak from base below conjuncta. 

 cell: orbicular stigma narrow, oblique; reniform whitish, joined to orbicular below by a curved white 

 streak: inner and outer lines dentate: subterminal line ending in a white patch above anal angle; terminal 

 area dark: hindwing whitish suffused with brown, with white patches on margin at middle and anal angle, 

 fringe whitish. — Kuku-Xor, Tibet. 



43. Genus: Palaeagrotis Hanvps. 



Frons with slight truncate prominence ; antennae of cf ciliated ; mid and hindtibiae with one or two 

 spines only: foretibiae without spines. 



Type /'. inops Led. 



