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POLIA. Bv W. Wabren". 



ptodiica. P. ptochica Piing. (16 h). Forewing pale grey shaded with brownish, especially in median area; 



a black dash from base bent up to median vein and followed by a dark curved streak; claviform stigma 

 black-edged, sometimes filled in with brown: upper stigmata pale, the cell brown; hindwing dirty whitish 

 with grey marginal band and cellspot. A small species occurring in W. and E. Turkestan and Afghanistan. 

 Examples from the vicinity of Merv are browner, darker, and slightly larger than those from Askhabad and 

 Afghanistan. 



consanguis. P. consanguis Guen. (= zacliii Bhlscli., .stolida Leech, abbas Baker) (16h). Forewing ochreous grey, 



dusted with dark grey: median and marginal areas dark fuscous; a black bent dash from base below cell; 

 claviform stigma small, dark; orbicular and reniform pale, the former round or oval, the latter narrow, 

 somewhat 8-shaped, with darker centres: space between outer and submarginal lines generalh' pale; hindwing 

 fuscous, darker towards termen; Egypt, Syria, Kashmir, and Japan. A widely spread species, described from 

 India, and occurring commonly in S. Africa, also in Sumatra and Australia. 



alba. P. alba Vail. Forewing pale testaceous grey; inner line double, zigzag, with a black spot on its 



outer edge at middle; outer line faint, marked only on inner margin by a blackish blotch; orbicular stigma 

 small, round and pale; reniform large, grey, its lower half blackish; subterminal line indicated by a row of 

 whitish lunules, preceded by a dark shade on costa and inner margin; hindwing pule grey, with dark cellspot 

 and broad blackish marginal border, swollen at anal angle. — Bone, Algeria. — Perhaps a form of con- 

 sanguis Gitai.. which occurs in central and south Africa. 



mortua. p. mortua Guen. (= nigerrima Wan:, afra Grae*., kala Sicinh.) (16 h). Forewing purplish brown- 



black; the lines and edges of stigmata still deeper black; the reniform with some orange dots on its outer 

 edge; hindwing bronzy fuscous, paler towards base. Amurland, W. China, Tibet; also occurs in India. 



persicariae. p. persicariae L. (16 h, i). Forewing purplish black; the lines and edges of stigmata blacker; reniform 



tilled up with cream white round a rufous centre; submarginal line yellowish white broken up into spots 

 preceded by black wedgeshaped marks; hindwing dirty whitish with broad blackish terminal border; the veins 

 and cellspot blackish; fringe paler. -- Common throughout Europe, in Armenia, and through Central Asia 



accipitrina. to W.China and Japan. Japanese examples are all larger than European. — ab. accipitrina Esp. (= unicolor Styr.) 

 (16 i) has the reniform dark with a slight paler external border; it does not occur in Britain, though common 

 in Europe, nor have I seen it from Japan, but Obeethue records it from Askold Island. — Larva pinkish 

 brown and green ; dorsal line pale; a series of thick green V-shaped marks on dorsum, those on 4, 5, and 11 

 broader, the 11 th segment humped; — on all low plants. 



praedita. P. praedita Hbn. (18b). Forewing grey, darker in basal half between the margins; a black streak 



below cell from base; claviform stigma subobsolete, with a dentate pale mark beyond it at base of vein 2; 

 orbicular and reniform brown ringed with white and again with black, the former oblique, elliptical; median 

 nervure and nervules finely whitish; subterminal line with brown on both sides; hindwing brownish white, 

 the termen darker. An Eastern species, found in SE. Russia, Armenia, Kashmir, and Turkestan. 



furcula. P. furcula Stgr. (16 i). Forewing grey suffused with brown, darkest in median and marginal areas; 



claviform broad, triangular, the pointed apex followed by a bidentate blotch of pale ground colour at base of 

 vein 2; upper stigmata conversely oblique, the orbicular pale, the reniform dark; submarginal line pale, the 

 teeth on veins 3, 4 produced to termen, preceded by black wedgeshaped marks: hindwing dull white; the 

 base and inner margin smoky fuscous; veins dark; a broad black marginal band; the fringe white. Kashmir 

 and Turkestan. 



cversmanni. p. eversmanni Stgr. (18b). Very close to furcula Stgr., but larger; the orbicular stigma round, not 



elliptical; submarginal line whiter, the area beyond it darker. E. Turkestan. 



sdineideri. p. schneideri Stgr. (18b). Also like the two preceding species; as large as' eversmanni Stgr., but 



with the orbicular stigma elliptical as in furcula, only larger. - - W. and E. Turkestan, and Kashmir. 



perdentata. p. perdentata Hamps. ( = bifida Piing.) (16 i). Forewing olive brown with a purplish tinge; inner 



fine acutely dentate below vein 1; claviform stigma large, blackish, with a pale dash above it at end, and 

 a long pale streak along base of vein 2; upper stigmata conversely oblique; the orbicular brown with bright 

 pale outline; the reniform filled up with leaden grey; a blurred pale smudge beyond cell from outer line 

 to termen; submarginal fine toothed to termen on veins 3, 4; hindwing dull fuscous, darker along termen. 

 Turkestan and Kashmir; also from India. 



furca. p. furca Er. (= fusca H. Scli., colleti Sp.-Schn.) (18b). Forewing violet grey; claviform stigma large, 



pointed, brown with black outline, followed by a bidentate white mark on vein 2 at base, which is connected 

 by a white fine with the elliptical orbicular which is small and pale; reniform narrow, grey, ringed with 

 pale and dark; submarginal line with blackish dentate marks before it, the marginal area blackish; hindwing 

 fuscous brown, paler at base. An Asiatic species found in Turkestan, Mongolia. Tibet, and E. Siberia: also 

 occurring in Norway and Finland. 



