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P. spinaciae View. (= dysodea Schiff., flavicincta-minor Esp., chrysozona llkh., ornata 17//., ranuncu- spinaciae. 

 \m& Haw., dysodea of Plate 17 f). Forewing pale- or greenish-grey, dusted with dark grey ; median area darker; 

 all the lines and markings picked out with orange scales; claviform stigma dark ; the upper two grey; hindwing 

 dull grey in o"\ dark grey in ?, with broad dark border, the veins and cellspot dark; caduca H.-Sch. (17 g) caduca. 

 is a pale grey form with very little yellow scaling: in innocens Stgn. (17 g) the median area is blacker, and the innocens. 

 inner and outer, by comparison, paler, the yellow scaling slight; koechlini T/i.-Mg. (= turbida Hofm.) is a koechlini. 

 darker form with the orange markings strongly developed. Throughout Europe: in Asia Minor, Persia, 

 Syria, Kashmir, Turkestan, and China. — Larva yellow green, freckled with brown; dorsal line pale, dark- 

 edged: spiracular line yellowish; spiracles black ; on flowers and seeds of Compositae, sonchus, lactuca. 



P. subflava noo. (17g). Forewing pale stone colour (grey) without dusting; the lines and edging sub/lava. 

 of the stigmata black: the median area slightly darker, containing a median shade; claviform quite small; 

 orbicular round; reniform large, with some yellow scales internally on both sides; submarginal line in- 

 distinct, marked by pale yellow lunules; a row of black marginal lunules ; hindwing pale grey, with a 

 broad darker grey terminal border; the fringe whitish. One d* taken in June, from Kyssyl Fart, Turkestan. 

 Possibly a very pale from of spinaciae. 



P. maderae Baker (18c). Forewing grey dusted with fuscous; median area darker; all 3 stigmata maderae. 

 white outlined with dark; the claviform oblong; orbicular round; lines black and white; hindwing dull 

 whitish; the veins and terminal area fuscous. Recorded from Madeira only. Perhaps an extreme (insular) 

 form of serena; a ? from Ouled Farsch, S. E. of Mazagan, Morocco, seems intermediate. 



P. confusa Leech (18c). Forewing whitish, suffused with olive fuscous and dusted with black; a confusa. 

 black basal streak below cell: lines black edged with white; claviform black-edged, followed by a small 

 triangular white spot; upper stigmata white denned by black, the orbicular small and round; hindwing dark 

 fuscous brown: abdomen also fuscous brown, contrasting with the thorax which is white. Described by 

 Leech from a single ? from W. China. 



P. mediana Moore (17 g). Forewing pale hoary grey; median area and marginal area beyond sub- mediana. 

 marginal line concisely dark grey; orbicular and reniform pale grey, blurred, contiguous; hindwing grey, 

 paler towards base, the veins darker. A North Indian insect, found also in the Goorais Valley, Kashmir. 



P. fasciata Leech (18 d). Resembles mediana Moore, but the ground colour of forewing is brownish fasciata. 

 grey, and the median area uniform dark fuscous brown, edged by the white inner and outer lines; all 

 stigmata absent; marginal area brown; hindwing dark brown. Described, like confusa, by Leech from a 

 single ?, from Kiukiang, Central China: possibly only a dark form of mediana. 



P. bohemanni Stgr. (18 d). Forewing dai'k brown dusted with grey; the lines obscure; claviform bohemanni. 

 indistinctly black-edged; orbicular and reniform small, the former round, ringed with grey and then with 

 black: hindwing orange yellow, with brown cellspot and broad terminal band; fringes chequered brown and 

 yellow. An arctic species, found in Lapland, N. Russia, and E. Siberia; superficially resembling Anuria, 

 in which genus it is placed by Staudinger. 



7. Genus: Harmoclia Hbn. 



Agrees in general characters with Polia Tr., but distinguished by the abdomen of ? being elongated 

 and conically produced, the ovipositor long and exserted; the insects composing the genus form a natural 

 group, their larvae, all very much alike, feeding on the seeds of Gariophyllaceae, Lychnis, Selene, Saponaria, etc. 

 Their pupae also are marked by a slight knobshaped swelling at the extremity of the tongue-sheath. 



Type H. compta Schiff. 



H. rivularis F. (= rivosa Strom, cucubali Esp.) (17 g). . Forewing brownish fuscous with a violet riv ularis. 

 sheen; the lines double; claviform stigma large, black; orbicular and reniform grey with yellowish or whitish 

 outlines, conversely oblique and contiguous on median vein; veins dark outlined with grey; submarginal line 

 yellowish or white, dentate; hindwing brownish fuscous, darker in?: the ab. behenis Fir. has the outer half behenis. 

 of costa of forewing pale; — mandarina Leech (17 h), from Japan and China, is rather larger and darker, mandarina. 

 the markings in consequence somewhat less distinct. The species occurs throughout Europe, except the S-E., 

 in Armenia and Asia Alinor; in Kurdistan, Turkestan, Amurland, China, and Japan. Larva greenish grey 

 or yellowish, dotted with white: dorsal line dark with a row of oblique reddish grey stripes on each side; 

 in seed-capsules of Lychnis and Silene, eating out the seeds; when full grown and too large for the capsules 

 hiding among the lower leaves of the foodplant, like the rest of the genus. 



H. bicruris Hfngl. (— capsincola Esp., impressa Esp.) (17 h). Distinguished from rivularis F. by the bkmris. 

 absence of the violet sheen; the markings white instead of yellow; the upper stigmata not conjoined; a con- 

 spicuous black blotch above inner margin near base; hindwing fuscous. Co-extensive in range witli the 



