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beyond which there is a pale streak to termen: a dark fuscous diffuse shade from below apex to inner margin 

 at 3 /4 : outer line marked by brown dots on each side of vein 6 and by an oblique brown line above middle of inner mar- 

 gin: hindwing white. In Europe occurring only in Hungary and S.Russia; in Algeria; in Asia Minor, Persia, 

 Turkestan, and W. Siberia: — achalina Pueng. (26 a) is a form from Aschabad with the brown markings of fore- achalina. 

 wing darker, and the hindwing also suffused with brown. — Larva whitish blue, with seagreen longitudinal 

 lines marked with streaks of black points in the incisions of the segments; on Artemisia. 



C. spectabilis Hbn. (26 b). Forewing resembles jankowskii, but much more suffused with olive fuscous, spectabilis 

 the only pale spaces being a pearly grey patch on submedian fold below cell and a broad submarginal line; inner 

 and outer lines pale, diffusedly edged on each side with olive fuscous, the inner waved, but vertical, the outer 

 lunulate-dentate: upper stigmata both large, filled in with olive brown and with distinct pale annuli; fringe 

 and marginal line dark, intersected by pale rays; hindwing fuscous, paler towards base, with a dark cell spot. 

 — S. Russia: Armenia; W. Turkestan; Altai Mts., W. Siberia. — Larva shining pale yellow, browner on the 

 dorsum: the dorsal and lateral lines dark brown; head reddish; feeding on Artemisia. 



C. mandschuriae Oberih. ('26 b). Forewing bright bluish or lilac grey, much suffused and slightly dusted mandschu- 

 with olive; the cell olive, containing the very indistinct stigmata, which are united along median vein by nae ' 

 a bright white dash: lines very indistinct, olive; the outer curved and followed by an. olive shade which 

 is broader at each end: submarginal shade with black dashes below veins 2 and 5; a slight black streak from 

 base below cell; hindwing brownish fuscous, paler at base. E. Siberia. 



C. fraudatrix Ev. (= pontica Bsd., pyrethri H. Sch.) (26 b). Forewing pale grey suffused with olive fruudalrix. 

 brownish; inner, median, and outer lines oblique outwards parallel to one another, each followed by olive brownish 

 suffusion: the inner line acutely angled on submedian fold, the outer bluntly angled inwards towards it; 

 stigmata pale grey, the reniform large, with a black streak from its lower end between veins 4 and 5, a shorter 

 black streak below veins 2 and 6; a strong black streak from base below cell; hindwing fuscous, basal half 

 paler: fringe white. Only found in the East of Europe, Germany, Hungary, Galicia, Rumelia, Russia; W. 

 and E. Turkestan, W. and E. Siberia. — Larva greenish white, with a slight flesh-coloured tinge; the white 

 surface dusted with green atoms; the warts brown; dorsal line pale with a row of oblique reddish streaks 

 on each side; a subdorsal row of oblique brownish green stripes; lateral line whitish, darker-edged; spiracles 

 pale brown in black rings; on Artemisia vulgaris, in autumn, turning to a yellowish pupa. 



C. maculosa Stgr. (28 a). Forewing purplish grey; a fine dark streak in submedian fold from base maculosa. 

 to inner line, which is strongly dentate outwards between the veins and inwards on them; outer line indi- 

 stinct, with a prominent black spot before it in submedian fold; upper stigmata with brown centres and 

 obscure grey rings partly black-defined; veins black just before termen; a faint black streak above vein 4, and 

 another below vein 2, placed on brownish spots; hindwing fuscous with paler basal half. Ussuri, E. Siberia; 

 described from a single $. 



C. mixta Fit. (= consors Ev.) (26 b). Much like maculosa; both folds paler grey; the subterminal mixta. 

 intervals with brown streaks; hindwing fuscous, with paler basal half; the veins and cellspot darker. — Sarepta 

 and Ural Mts., S. Russia; W. and E. Turkestan. The record from Hungary is doubtful. 



C. graeseri Pueng. (26 b). Forewing whitish, with redbrown suffusion; the veins faintly darker; inner graeseri. 

 line double, oblique, forming diffused black spots towards costa; postmedian line forming similar spots towards 

 both costa and inner margin; upper stigmata reddish brown at centre with yellowish white annuli defined by 

 black; some brown streaks before termen as in mixta; hindwing dirty whitish, the terminal half fuscous. 

 Aksu, Mongolia. 



C. cineracea Frr. (26 c). Forewing pale ashy grey, slightly dusted with darker; the lines fine and cineracea. 

 obscure: the teeth of inner line very strong; claviform stigma long; orbicular and reniform large with black 

 outlines and centres; a fine black line from base along submedian fold; some black streaks towards apex above 

 vein 6; veins finely dark; fringe grey; hindwing whitish, dark grey along termen; the veins dark; the fringe 

 white. The Alps of S. France, the Ural Mts. in Russia, Turkestan, and Mongolia. 



C. defecta Stgr. (26 c). Larger than cineracea; forewing dark ashy grey, without markings; the veins dejecta. 

 dark; lines scarcely perceptible; hindwing dirty whitish, with cell spot, veins, termen, and inner margin fus- 

 cous grey. Dauria; Kuldja. 



C. maracandica Stgr. (= herzi Alph.) (28a). Forewing deep blue grey with ochreous irroration, and ^!™ Cf '"~ 

 at base suffused with ochreous; the lines ochreous; the stigmata defined by ochreous; an indistinct row of 

 ochreous streaks in subterminal area; hindwing ochreous in basal area, fuscous towards termen; fringe pale. 

 W. Turkestan and Mongolia. — A large species. 



C. artemisiae Hufn. ( = abrotani F.) (26 c). Forewing grey with grey brown suffusion along costa artemisiae. 

 and the course of the lines; lines double, dark; the inner angled outwards between and inwards on, the veins, 



