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preceded beyond cell by a blackish patch with two wedge-shaped marks; hindwing dull grey, darker towards 

 termen; the veins, cellspot, and outer line darker. Described from a single <$ from Dras, Kashmir. 



A. dubia Dup. (= caerulescens Bsd.) (33 f). Forewing mealy whitish, speckled and clouded with pale dubia. 

 grey, the median area and costa towards base with darker grey; the two lines grey but indistinctly marked; 

 upper stigmata large, pale grey, diffusely edged, separated by a darker space formed by the median shade; 

 subterminal line indicated by a grey shade preceding it; hindwing dull white, slightly grey along termen with 

 a faint grey cellspot and outer line ; the 2 has the forewing darker grey, with the markings still darker and 

 plainer, especially the median area; the hindwing grey-suffused; — in the form typhonia Mill, the forewings typhonia. 

 are marked with leaden grey; — in rondoui Stertz, from the Pyrenees, they are marked with steel-blue. S. France, rondoui. 

 Spain, Italy, Corsica. Larva reddish grey, pale rosy beneath; dorsal and subdorsal lines fine; small black 

 tubercles on each segment; the spiracles small and blackish; lateral stripe yellow; feeds through the winter 

 and spring, emerging in late autumn: on various low plants, Centranthus, Calitrapa, Cistus, &c. 



A. apora Stgr. (33 g). Very much like dubia, but without the mealy appearance of that species, the apora. 

 speckling finer and thinner; the median area darker grey; the lines and stigmata clearer; hindwing of <J pure 

 white, rarely with the veins terminally dark, of 9 grey, blackish grey at termen. Palestine, and Syria, Bey 

 rout and Amasia. 



A. plumbea Stgr. Forewing pale grey, densely dusted with fuscous; inner line whitish, waved; outer plumbea. 

 line strongly dentate, forming white points on veins; orbicular and reniform stigmata with whitish annuli, the 

 former small and round; subterminal line pale, ill-defined; fringe white, with dark lunules; hindwing of <J pure 

 white, the veins slightly darker towards termen; of 2 fuscous. Palestine. 



A. canescens Dup. (33 g). Forewing luteous whitish, rarely yellowish, with minute olive - fuscous canescens. 

 irroration; the two lines blackish, conversely dentate-lunulate, approximated below vein 2, the teeth marked 

 darker on the veins; upper stigmata large, pale, ill-defined, the reniform with a dark spot in middle ; submarginal 

 line defined by a zigzag grey shade before it; hindwing of <$ white, or with the veins terminally dark; of 2 dark 

 greyish fuscous, base and fringe paler; in asphodeli Bmb. from Corsica, the broader forewing is darker, being asphodeli. 

 more thickly irrorated with fuscous, and less clearly marked; the two upper stigmata stout and conspicuously 

 pale; pumicosa H. G. is also darker, but much dusted with yellow; ocliracca Spul. from Dalmatia has the ground oc }i racea _ ' 

 colour yellow with the markings, especially the submarginal line, stronger and more continuous. A mediter- 

 ranean species found in S. France, Spain, Italy, Dalmatia, the islands of Malta and Rhodes, in Asia Minor and 

 Syria. Larva either pale green, with fine dark green dorsal line traversing a conspicuous reddish blotch on the 

 middle segments; the spiracular line reddish, edged below with whitish; spiracles yellowish with brown rings; 

 head small, brownish green; or dorsally the larva is vinous red with a yellow tinge, and pale yellowish green vent- 

 rally; feeding in spring on Asphodelus microcarpus and other plants. 



A. illecebrosa Pueng. (33 g). Forewing grey suffused with dull olive brown, the outer area, except at illecebrosa. 

 costa, remaining greyer; an orange streak at base of submedian fold; lines double, blackish, filled in with grey; 

 stigmata grey with partial orange outline; subterminal line pale, marked with orange scales, and shaded with 

 darker on each side; fringe whitish with double black mottling; hindwing uniform fuscous brown. Kuku 

 Nor, Tibet. 



A. xanthomista Him. (33 h). Forewing greyish white, thickly dusted with blackish grey, the median xanthomista 

 area filled up with blackish ; the edges of the lines and stigmata and the course of vein 1 picked out with yellow 

 scales; the upper stigmata large and paler, the orbicular with a dark dot in middle; submarginal line preceded 

 by wedgeshaped black marks; hindwing of $ white, with the veins blackish and sometimes a slight grey sub- 

 marginal band before the blackish marginal line; of $ uniform dark grey; — nigrocincta Tr. (33 h), the more nigrocincta. 

 common form, is blacker, with the yellow scales more or less obsolete; — nivescens Stgr. (33 h) from the chalk nivescens. 

 district of the Jura, Switzerland, has the ground colour of the basal and marginal areas much whiter; — 

 statices Gregs. (33 h, i) is a dark smaller race from the Isle of Man; its main difference is that the inner and outer statices. 

 lines edging the blackish median area are more distinctly and broadly white, especially below the middle; the 

 amount of yellow scaling is variable. Found in Britain, France, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Switzerland, 

 Spain, Italy, and S. Russia. Larva reddish-brown, thickly speckled with dark atoms, which form a dorsal 

 and two broader subdorsal lines; tubercles white; spiracles white with black rings; feeds up in spring and summer 

 on a variety of plants. 



A. hostilis Pueng. (33 i). Forewing luteous grey, dusted with darker, the basal area suffused with dark hostilis. 

 fuscous, the terminal with brownish fuscous, the median area remaining pale, on inner margin extending to 

 anal angle; lines obscure; claviform stigma absent; the other two very indistinct; submarginal line preceded 

 by a dark blotch on costa, and by black teeth below middle; hindwing luteous white with the veins and terminal 

 area dark; the fringe pale. Described from a single 2 from W. Turkestan. 



A. pentheri Bbl. Forewing yellowish ochreous, dusted with grey; lines dark grey, double, the outer pentheri. 

 dentate; the stigmata ill-marked; submarginal line denoted by a dark shade; hindwing ochreous, terminally 

 brownish. Asia Minor. Evidently related to calamistis Hmps. 



