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SIDERIDIS. By W. Warrex. 



stiff usa. 



odiracea. 



rhodocomma. 



S. comma L. (= turbida Hbn., congener Hbn) (25 a). Forewing like cehdina, but smaller and 

 browner: a long black streak from base below cell: median vein white, with only a small white spot at 

 end of cell and a minute black point above it: veins whitish with black terminal streaks in the intervals: 

 hindwing dark greyish, fuscous. Common throughout Europe, in Armenia, Asia Minor, Turkestan, Siberia, 

 Mongolia : - - ab. suffusa Tutt (25 a) is a melanic brown form common in Britain, occurring, but rarely, in 

 the Alps; — ochracea Tutt (25a) is a brownish ochreous form, also rare, apparently, on the continent. — 

 Larva reddish brown, with scattered black clots: dorsal and subdorsal lines black and fine; venter paler; 

 thoracic plate black with 3 white lines; head brown. 



S. rhodocomma Piintj. Like comma, but the forewings, head, and thorax purplish red. Only from 

 W. Turkestan. 



lineatipes. 



propensa 



deserticola. 



insecuta. 



postica. 



S. lineatipes Moore (= percisa Moore) (25 a). Forewing smooth brownish ochreous, sparsely black- 

 dusted; veins pale, the intervals along termen with pale brown streaks; median nervure and vein 4 white; 

 an olive brown streak from base below median to beyond cell, and a brown shade above vein 4 widening 

 to apex: a small black dot in lower angle of cell; an indistinct outer row of black dots on veins: hindwing 

 whitish, suffused with brownish grey. An Indian species, occurring also in the Goorais Valley, Kashmir. 

 perrufa. In the redder form. -- ab. perrufa nov. (25a) the whole forewing, the head, and thorax are dull pinkish; 

 the streak below median vein deep pink. 



S. propensa Yung. Forewing brownish grey, with a few black scales along costal and inner 

 margins: a hue black basal streak below cell; veins pale grey finely outlined with brown, with brown 

 streaks in the intervals between them: a faint greyer triangle on margin below apex; hindwing dull grey, 

 the veins darker, the fringe white. Described from a single ? from Hi, Turkestan. 



S. deserticola Battel (25a). Forewing brownish ochreous; all the veins whitish; towards termen, 

 like the median vein itself, very broadly white, edged with browii streaks: each interspace with two fine 

 white lines containing a brown line between them; a brown shade below median vein; a black dot in lower 

 angle of cell: hindwing whitish with the centre grey to termen. Ural Mts.. Russia. 



S. insecuta Walk. '-= intermissa Walk., striata Leech) (25 b). Like loreyi Dup., but the cf without 

 any black lateral tufts on abdomen; this species appears confined to China and Japan. 



S. postica Hanifis. (24b). Forewing ochreous white; veins defined by red-brown streaks, and the 

 intervals streaked with red-brown; a diffuse ochreous white streak along both folds; a black dot at lower 

 angle of cell: hindwing fuscous, paler at base. Japan. 



S. sinuosa Moore (24b). Forewing ochreous; median vein brokenly white, slightly hooked at lower 

 angle of cell, edged below by a reddish brown streak broadening beyond cell and running obliquely to 

 apex; orbicular and reniform stigmata pale defined by darker; hindwing dark brown, the fringe paler. An 

 Indian species, but found in W. China. 



S. andereggii Bclv. (= valesicola Gruen., rupicapra Led.) (25 b). Forewing pale olive brown, streaked 

 with dark brown and dusted with black; veins pale, 3, 4 and 6, 7 more broadly and diffusely, the two last 

 sometimes lost in a pale smudge; a blackish streak from base below median vein, and another on inner 

 margin below vein 1: a black dash in outer half of cell, continued beyond cell on each side of vein 5; a 

 black spot beyond upper end of cell ; hindwing dark brown ; — cinis Frr. (25 b) is a darker form with the 

 veins white: engadinensis Mill. (25b, c) is much suffused with brown, the veins more narrowly grey 



or pale; a distinct dark inner and outer line is visible, this latter regularly lunulate-dentate; it is found in 

 the Alps and Pyrenees, and in Bosnia. 



S. lineata Er. (25c). Forewing smooth olive-tinged ochreous; the veins thickly white; a dark 

 brown streak from base below median vein and a shorter one at lower end of cell, continued along vein 5 

 to termen, widening to apex; hindwing fuscous, with dark cellspot and pale fringe: from the L T ral Mts. 

 in Russia. 



S. phlebitis Piing. (24b). Forewing grey brown shaded with darker; paler streaks below subcostal, 

 median, and submedian veins; all the veins pale, especially the median and its branches; a diffuse brown 

 streak along median and vein 5 to margin; a diffuse pale spot on discocellular ; hindwing fuscous. Aksu, 

 Mongolia. Somewhat like a small celutina Ev. 



S. jordana Battel (24c). Forewing pinkish ochreous. the costal area greyer; veins thickly white, 

 strongly defined by blackish scales; the two folds black; discocellular pale, margined on both sides with 

 black; hindwing rufous grey, paler towards base; abdomen with fuscous bands on dorsum. Jordan Valley, 

 Palestine. 



sicula. S. sicula Tr, (25c). Forewing pale ochreous, slightly rufous-tinged; veins faintly defined; median 



nervure white, defined below by a blackish streak from base, and above by a streak in outer half of cell 



andereggii. 



engadinensis. 



lineata. 



phlebitis. 



jordana. 



