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 donia. 



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Sect. II. Antennae of <J, with sessile fascicles of cilia. 



C. magnirena Alpli. Forewing rufous grey-brown, dusted with darker; a black streak on base of magnirena. 

 submedian fold and another, oblique, from inner margin near base; inner and outer lines double, conversely 

 pale-edged; claviform blackish or black-edged, emitting a black streak to outer line; orbicular grey, black- 

 edged; reniform with a large ochreous patch on its outer edge in the <$, in the $ white, the rest outlined 

 in black; submarginal line ochreous preceded by a redbrown shade, the interval between it and outer line 

 paler except at costa; the terminal area dark except at costa; hindwing brownish-grey, darker along termen, 

 and with dark cellspot and outer line. Tibet, Central and West China. 



C. tenerifica Hmps. ('? = atlanticum Rbl. nee B.- Baker) (32 b). Forewing redbrown, with some darker tenerifica. 

 dusting: median vein greyish; a black streak from base below cell; lines all indistinct; the cell and terminal 

 area darker brown; stigmata of ground colour, defined by black, the reniform with some white scaling on 

 its edges; hindwing reddish brown, more fuscous towards inner margin . The Canaries. 



C. melanodonta Hmps. (= porphyrea Leech nee Esp.) (32 b). Forewing grey brown, with a dull 

 pink or fulvous tinge, especially along the two folds, and the costal and inner margins; a thick black streak 

 from base below cell, with a pale grey patch above it at base of costa; a second, equally thick, from inner 

 margin before inner line; lines blackish conversely pale-edged; median area, especially below middle, black- 

 brown; claviform more or less obscured in a black shade between the two lines; upper stigmata large, pale 

 grey, the reniform externally whitish; submarginal line obscure, but preceded by prominent black sagittate 

 marks; hindwing brownish fuscous. Japan. 



C. satura Schiff. (= porphyrea Esp.) (32 b). Shorter- and broader-winged than melanodonta. Fore- salura. 

 wing dull reddish throughout, more or less hidden by the purplish black suffusion; the upper stigmata, the 

 basal patch, the submarginal area, and the subterminal line all dull reddish; the wedge-shaped marks before 

 the last much shorter and less conspicuous; otherwise as in melanodonta; hindwing dark brownish-fuscous, 

 with cellspot and slight outer line marked; a pale terminal streak at anal angle. Occurs throughout Europe 

 except Scandinavia and Spain and Portugal; also in W. and E. Siberia. Larva reddish brown, darker along 

 dorsum; dorsal line interrupted and obscure; spiracular yellowish green; an obscure subdorsal row of oblique 

 grey streaks; feeding on a variety of low plants and shrubs. 



C. adjuncta Moore (32 b). Forewing grey irrorated with fuscous, almost wholly suffused with dark adjuncta. 

 reddish brown; the lines, markings, and stigmata much as in the two preceding species, but the stigmata 

 plainer, with pale annuli; the submarginal line white and subdentate, preceded by blackish wedge shaped 

 marks; hindwing brownish white, often reddish-tinged, the veins and termen darker. Described originally 

 from X. India, but the species occurs in several localities in Kashmir and also at Yatong in Tibet. 



C. adusta Esp. (= porphyrea Scriba, aquilina Bkh., valida Hbn.) (32 c). Forewing rufous-brown adusia. 

 clouded with darker; the veins black dotted with white; a slight black mark below base of cell, and a short black 

 streak from inner margin near base; inner and outer lines blackish, double, forming black white-tipped teeth 

 on the veins; claviform stigma blackish, acute, lying on a black streak joining the two lines; orbicular and 

 reniform reddish grey edged with black, the reniform with some whitish in outer half; submarginal line white 

 preceded by black wedge-shaped marks; hindwing of $ whitish with the termen grey; the cellspot and veins 

 dark; much greyer in $. Of general occurrence throughout Europe and in Asia found in Armenia, Asia Minor, 

 W. and E. Siberia, W. and E. Turkestan and Tibet; — the form vulturina Err., (= pavida Bsd., chardinyi Dup.) vullurina. 

 (32 c), from S. Eussia, has the forewing darker and variegated with white; — duplex Haw. (= satura Stph.) . duplex. 

 is also a dark but unicolorous form, occurring in Scotland and the North of England; — sylvatica Bell.(= grises- sylvatica. 

 cens Stndfs.) is a grey, obscurely marked, insect without brownish tinge, from Corsica; — - septentrionalis seplen- 

 Hoffm. is a small black form from Finland, the Baltic provinces and the Ural Mts., of which moesta Stgr. from moes t a . 

 Dauria is possibly a synonym; — vicina Alph. from Central Asia is paler, more violet brown, with the markings vicina. 

 clearly expressed; anilis Bsd. (= albescens Guen.) is whitish, thickly dusted with black, with no trace of red- anilis. 

 brown tinge. — Larva grey green, suffused dorsally with reddish, with many small fine streaks; dorsal and sub- 

 dorsal lines dark; spiracular line pale, whitish or yellowish; head greenish ochreous; feeding on a variety of 

 low plants. 



C. solieri Bsd. (32 c, d). Resembles adusta, but smaller, the forewing more rounded at apex; ground solieri. 

 colour uniformly testaceous brown; the inner and outer lines generally more approximated on inner margin; 

 the submarginal line less distinct; the terminal area beyond it conspicuously darker; hindwing of the $ whiter, 

 less clouded with dark along termen, with the cellspot and outer line more strongly marked; that of the $, on 

 the other hand, uniformly darker fuscous; ab. grisescens ab nov. (= ab. 1. Hmps.) (32 d) is grey without red tinge; grisescens. 

 from Italy, Capri, and Algeria, Biskra. Restricted to the mediterranean area, occurring in S. France, Spain, 

 N. Italy, Dalmatia, Grece, and S.Russia; in Algeria; 'Asia Minor and Syria. — Larva yellowish brown with 

 fine dorsal line and oblique dark lateral streaks; spiracular line paler, the white, black-ringed spiracles on its 

 upper edge; on different low-growing plants. 



