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in the first 8 species the wings of the o" 1 on the underside are glossed Avith golden or silvery scales. 



H. obscura Moore (= rudis Moore, nepos Leech) ('24 b). Forewing greyish rufous thickly dusted obscura. 

 with dark: a slight pale streak on median vein and white dot at lower angle of cell, witli a fuscous patch 

 beyond it; an outer row of black dots on veins; marginal area sometimes slightly darker; veins towards 

 margin paler; hindwing fuscous brown; ventral tufts black. The type of nepos Leech from Omeishan, 

 W. China; Moore's types were both Indian. 



H. lithargyria Esp. (= anargyria Bdv.) (23c). Forewing pale greyish rufous, speckled with dark; lithargyria. 

 lines indistinct, dark grey; the outer regularly lunulate-dentate, the teeth marked by black dashes on veins; 

 reniform stigma obscure, ending in a cloudy pale spot at lower end of cell; hindwing greyish ochreous; 

 ventral tufts black. The species varies in coloration: ferrago F. (= ferruginea Scriba) is the reddest ferrago. 

 form: — grisea Hair, is grey without any rufous admixture, with the markings generally clearer; — grisea. 

 fulvescens Tutt is rare, with fulvous in the place of red; — ab. marginata Tutt has silvery grey hind- fulvescens. 

 wings with broad dark border. Generally distributed in Europe, also in Asia Minor, Armenia, Syria, Persia, marginata. 

 Turkestan and Tibet. — Larva brownish yellow; dorsal line white; lateral lines broad, whiter, containing 

 the black spiracles. 



H. albipuncta F. (23d). Forewing rufous brown, dusted with greyr; costal edge whitish; lines albipuncta. 

 brown, conversely edged with paler; outer line obscurely lunulate-dentate, the teeth not marked by dots 

 on veins; submarginal line pale, diffuse, edged outwardly with darker; reniform stigma forming a distinct 

 white spot at lower end of cell; hindwing dark or pale grey, sometimes tinged with rufous or ochreous; - 

 in the form known as italogallica Mill, the wings are darker, dull brown; — flecki Carad. (23d), from italogallica. 

 Rumania and the Bukowina, is rather smaller, the forewing dull grey brown, the hindwing fuscous: -- in /'«#'• 

 fasciata Spul. the darker brown tints are more strongly developed in median area so as to form a kind of fasciata. 

 fascia; besides the above already named forms there appear to be two more, equally deserving of a sepa- 

 rate name; — ab. ochrea nov. (23d) is ochreous, dusted with grey, and with a slight flush, rufous in cf. oclirea. 

 reddish brown in ?, with the lines dark grey and the marginal area darker; the white spot at end of cell 

 as usual; hindwing dirty whitish in o" with termen greyer, more wholly grey in ?; 2 c?d* from Silvaplana, 

 Engadine, Switzerland, and 1 ? without locality; — the other, ab. expallidata nov. (23 e) is quite small, expallidata. 

 smooth pale grey with a flesh-coloured tinge; the inner line hardly traceable, but the outer black and 

 distinct throughout; the lunules and the teeth all alike strongly marked; but the usual marginal dark area 

 is here concolorous with rest of wing; the median vein shows dark below the white discal spot; hindwing 

 dirty white, greyer towards termen: 1 ? from Digne, Basses Alpes, June 1908. — Larva dull reddish grey; 

 dorsal line white, dark-edged; subdorsal line black, edged beneath with white and then a dark shade; 

 spiracles black on a paler stripe. Not so common as lithargyria; occurring in Spain, Italy, Rumelia, France, 

 Germany, and Britain, but only on the south coast; also in Asia Minor, Armenia, and Persia. 



H. argyritis Rami. (23 c). Smaller than lithargijria, most resembling its aberration grisea, but a argyritis. 

 neater insect: pale grey with a faint rosy tinge; markings quite indistinct; hindwing whitish, rosy grey 

 towards termen. Occurs only in S. Europe, Spain, S. France, Italy. 



H. pryeri Leech (24a). Forewing violaceous ochreous; an olive brown streak occupies the cell, pryeri. 

 widening outwards towards apex; the costa above it paler; a black streak from base below cell; reniform 

 stigma represented by a white dot at lower end of cell conjoined to the white outer half of median ner- 

 vure; veins pale lined with brown, the intervals with brown streaks; a whitish oblique apical streak; hind- 

 wing fuscous whitish, darker in terminal half. Recorded only from Japan. 



H. congrua Hbn. (= amnicola JRamb.) (23 e). Forewing greyish ochreous with a flesh-coloured congrua. 

 tint: veins pale with their grey outlines and the streaks in the intervals distinct; median nervure finely 

 pale, swollen into a whitish spot at lower end of cell, with grey suffusion beneath it; the two folds paler; 

 dark outer dots on veins 2 and 5 : hindwing dark grey, in the <? mixed with whitish. A South European 

 species, found in S. France, Spain, Italy, Corsica, Sicily, Dalmatia and Croatia; also in Armenia and 

 Palestine. — Larva reddish grey, with 5 white brown -edged stripes; spiracles black; head and thoracic 

 plate yellow brown. 



H. subsignata Moore (23 e). Forewing yellowish or rufous ochreous dusted with grey; lines obscu- subsignata. 

 rely marked by dark grey dots: orbicular and reniform stigmata pale, the latter followed by a small grey 

 cloud; a grey subapical shade; hindwing greyish ochreous, darker towards termen. A small species, 

 described from X. India, and occurring in the Goorais Valley, Kashmir. 



H. simplex Leech (24a). Forewing rufous ochreous, with little dusting; cell and space beyond simplex. 

 faintly browner: a brown triangular shade below apex; a faint pale spot at lower end of cell; hindwing 

 ochreous whitish, the terminal half dark grey. From Central China only. 



