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Section II: Antennae of cT simply ciliate. 



L. dovrensis Wocke (21c). Forewing pale grey speckled thickly with dark grey; the lines and dovrensis. 

 shading blackish; outer line acutely dentate: stigmata very obscurely defined, pale with black outlines - 

 space between outer and submarginal line blackish, marginal area pale grey; fringe mottled; hindwing 

 brownish fuscous, with a slightly paler postmedian band, showing a dentate outer line and dark cellspot; 

 fringe white. Mountains of Norway. — altaica Stgr. from the Altai Mts., W. Siberia is larger; the fore- altaica. 

 wing with a yellower tinge, the black before subterminal line more conspicuous. 



L. kenteana Stgr. Like dovrensis in the upperside of forewing; but the underside of forewing and Itenteana. 

 hindwing is white with a broad black terminal band. Kentei, S. E. Siberia. — ab. mongolica Stgr. has mongolica. 

 no dark terminal band on the underside of either wing. Found in the Uliassutai Mts., Mongolia. 



L. elwesi Humps. (20 e). Forewing violaceous grey, dusted with black; the median area wholly elwesi. 

 blackish; lines blackish, indistinct, except the submarginal ; stigmata grey, partly outlined with black; hind- 

 wing fuscous brown with traces of outer line and cellspot. An Indian insect, occurring at Yatong, Tibet. 



L. deliciosa Alph. (21c). Forewing olive grey, with fine dark dusting; lines dull black, dentate, deliciosa. 

 edged by pale scales mixed with yellowish; stigmata pale grey, the median area, especially in cell, rather 

 darker: submarginal line ill-defined: hindwing dark fuscous with white fringe. Kuku-Nor, Tibet; Kashmir. 



L. persa Alph. (20 e). Forewing grey tinged with olive brown and dusted with darker; the cell persa. 

 dark brown: inner and outer lines conversely pale-edged; submarginal line yellowish white preceded by a 

 row of black lunules; claviform stigma small and dark; upper stigmata olive brown at centre, with pale 

 rings: fringe yellowish white, mottled: hindwing brown, the fringe yellowish. Demavend, North Persia. 



L. meraca Piing. (21 c). Near persa Alph., but the forewing shorter and broader, greyer, with a meraca. 

 white mark in place of the claviform stigma; the orbicular larger, the reniform more obscure; the outer 

 line more strongly dentate; a yellowish brown tinge in submedian interval; hindwing brownish grey. 

 E. Turkestan. 



26. Genus: I^asioiiycta Aurw. 



Like Lasiestra Hamps., but the hairy clothing coarser: the abdomen w r ith a dorsal series of crests; 

 antennae with tuberculate fascicles of cilia. 



Type L. shraelingia H.-Sch. 



L. bryoptera Piing. (20 e). Forewing olive yellow, dusted with black, the veins with grey scales; bryoptera. 

 inner and outer lines double, filled in with grey; submarginal line waved, whitish, with blackish suffusion 

 on its inside; claviform stigma marked with black at extremity; orbicular and reniform with dark centres 

 and grey and yellow annuli, laterally defined by black; hindwing fuscous grey, the term en itself j^ellowish 

 with dark line ; the fringe yellowish. Kuku-Nor, Tibet. 



L. lurida Alph. (21 c). Forewing olive grey suffused with olive fuscous and dusted with grey and lurida. 

 yellow scales; median area darkest; the inner and outer lines black, conversely edged with whitish, the 

 former deeply lunulate dentate; claviform stigma blackish, broad; upper stigmata with olive centres and 

 distinct white outlines; submarginal line white, preceded by a concise row of blackish wedge-shaped marks; 

 hindwing yellowish straw colour, the veins, cellmark, outer line, and broad marginal shade olive fuscous; 

 the fringe paler. Kuku-Xor, Tibet. — ab. laetior nov. (21 c) has the hindwing yellower, not clouded with laetior. 

 fuscous except towards apex, the veins thickened towards termen. 



L. skraelingia H.-Sch. (20 e). Forewing dark fuscous irrorated with bluish grej r ; inner and outer skraelingia. 

 lines black conversely edged with pale; the area between them darker; submarginal line marked by pale 

 dark-edged lunules: stigmata black-edged, with fuscous centres ringed with white; fringe cut with white; 

 hindwing fuscous, the fringe grey. Sweden and Lapland. — ab. alpicola Hamps. from the Altai Mts., alpicola. 

 W. Siberia, has a patch of orange scales on inner margin bey-ond basal line; claviform large, extending 

 nearly to postmedian line. 



L. altaica Hamps. (20 f). Forewing pale bluish grey, irrorated with fuscous; lines black, fairly altaica. 

 distinct; claviform stigma short, outlined with black; upper stigmata white, with grey centres, denned by 

 black; submarginal line white; hindwing dark fuscous; some white scales along termen at anal angle, and 

 a white patch above it from inner margin to vein 2. Described from a single ? from the Altai Mts., 

 W. Siberia. 



27. Genus: Haclula Stgr. 



Like Polia but the frons has a rounded prominence with a corneous plate below it, instead of being smooth. 

 Type H. insolita Stgr. 



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