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C. canicostata Graes. Forewing red-brown mixed with fulvous and dusted with grey ; costal area wholly canicostala. 

 grey as far as outer line; veins grey; inner and outer lines grey, conversely edged with dark; upper stigmata 

 with grey annuli; subterminal line macular, preceded by brown shading; hindwing dull ochreous at base, beco- 

 ming fuscous terminally, with a dark cellspot; fringe fulvous. Ussuri, E. Siberia; the $ only known. 



C. ciliata Stgr. Forewing ochreous to grey brown or chocolate brown in the <$, reddish yellow in $; sub- eiliata. 

 basal and inner lines ill-marked except in the darkest examples ; stigmata with slight dark centres and pale annuli ; 

 outer line obscure; submarginal line defined by black marks preceding it; hindwing dark, paler at base; fringe 

 yellowish white. Also from Ussuri, E. Siberia; the species is queried by Staudinger himself as probably the same 

 as the previous one, canicostata Graes., the difference being much the same as that between erythrocephala and 

 its ab. glabra ; both are possibly identical with ardescens Btlr. in one or other of its forms. 



C. politina Stgr. (35 h). Forewing greyish white, with slight lilac grey irroration; the veins paler; inner politina. 

 and outer lines indistinct, double, the former oblique and waved; median shade diffuse and fairly prominent; 

 stigmata grey with pale, brown-edged, annuli, the lower half of reniform fuscous; submarginal line preceded 

 by a short black streak from costa and dark spots between the veins; hindwing yellowish white, clouded with 

 brown; — in the ab. subspadiceana Stgr. the thorax and forewing are suffused with pale chestnut red in the <$ and sU" sl P a ~ 

 with purplish red in the $; in the latter the markings are distinctly defined by grey and the veins grey; in the 

 £ all markings are obscure, except the subterminal spots. Eecorded only from W. Turkestan. 



C. veronicae Hbn. (= dolosa Hbn., intricata Bsd.) (35 h). Forewing purplish overlaid with grey, some- veronicae. 

 times with brown or black irroration; all the markings slightly darker, but inconspicuous; the stigmata of the 

 ground colour, with pale annuli, the lower end of reniform somewhat darker; submarginal line preceded on 

 costa by a brown bar and broken up, like the outer line, by the pale veins into rufous lunules ; a row of black dots 

 between veins before the ternien; hindwing greyish fuscous; the fringe pale, tinged with rufous; — ab. obscura obscura. 

 Spul. has the forewing deep redbrown, with the veins, the annuli of stigmata, and the lines yellowish; another 

 form, ab. conspicua ab. nov. (35 i) has the ground colour dull grey brown, without any trace of red, with the veins sonspicua. 

 brown, and all the lines and edges of the stigmata distinct and brown; the thorax, abdomen, and hindwings 

 all paler. — Larva dark brown, mottled; dorsal and subdorsal lines fine, pale yellow; spiracles black; head 

 and thoracic shield black, the latter with two yellow lines; on various low plants. A South European species, 

 found in France, Switzerland, Italy.. Germany, Austria, Hungary, Macedonia, and Asia Minor. 



C. ardescens Btlr. (35 i). Forewing light or dark redbrown, sometimes with a slight grey tinge ; all the markings ardescens. 

 inconspicuous; the lines rather darker than the ground colour; the inner and outer double, filled in with paler; 

 the bent median shade generally evident, its angle touching a square black blotch in the lower end of the reni- 

 form, which is nearly always prominent; submarginal line formed of interrupted lunules, generally rufous brown 

 lying on a paler band; hindwing greyish fuscous, the fringe rufous ; in the ab. unimacula ab.nov. (35 i) the ground colour unimacula. 

 is grey tinged more or less deeply with rufous, the lines showing only as faintly darker waved shades, with no distinct 

 markings except the black blotch in the reniform; in a second ab. nigroliturata ab. nov. (36 a) the rufous ochreous !"?!?,/" 

 ground colour is densely sprinkled with black atoms, especially below the middle of wing; the lines are all blackish 

 and distinct, but interrupted by the pale veins to form series of spots and lunules, the cell showing brickred, with 

 the stigmata pale and the black blotch of reniform less prominent ; in pall idistigma ab. nov. (= ab. 1 . Hmps.) (35 i) the ^2f a l " 

 forewing is dark brown, with the veins, the upper stigmata, and the terminal area pale ochreous ; lastly in ab. 

 unit ormis ab. nov. (36 a) the whole forewing is dall grey brown with all the markings indistinct, the fringe of both wings uniformis. 

 grey brown. Japan, Yokohama. The species is as large as erythrocephala, but the wings are broader, more 

 strongly elbowed near base. 



C. albipuncta Leech (36 a). Forewing nearly uniform rufous and like the aberration unimacula of the previous albipuncta. 

 species, but instead of the black mark in reniform a prominent white one. Japan, Yokohama. Perhaps, in 

 fact, a form of ardescens. 



C. vaccinii L. (36 a). Forewing dark or light chestnut brown, with the lines and edges of stigmata rather darker vaccinii. 

 but not conspicuous; lower lobe of reniform filled in with fuscous; a median shade often visible, especially in 

 its lower half; submarginal line represented by a series of dark dots; hindwing dark, sometimes blackish, fuscous, 

 with the fringe rufous. The species varies greatly both in colour and in clearness of markings. The lighter chest- 

 nut brown ground colour may become ochreous yellow, ab ochrea Tutt, apparently a very rare form; again ochrea. 

 the two shades may be prominently intermixed, the lines, the submarginal band, and often the median area being 

 light brown, while the shadings are darker; the hindwing paler, and showing a diffuse rufous outer band and 

 terminal area as well as fringe ; this is ab. mixta Stgr. (36 a); — glabroides Fuchs (36 b) is one development of this form, ""f , \ 

 where the whole of the forewing, except the pale band containing the subterminal spots, is suffused with dark rich 

 brown, sometimes mixed with blackish ; — another is the form spadicea Hbn., (36 b) where, the median and submarginal spadicea. 

 areas remaining paler, the shade before the inner line, generally more or less reaching the base, and that beyond 

 the outer line, as well as the narrow terminal space, become black brown or black ; the ground colour in this form 

 is sometimes dark brown or grey brown as well as light; this form is conspadicea Fuchs; — when this black conspadicea. 



