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the fringe grey, not yellow ; — while the intermediate examples with a grey ground tinged with bluish, or greenish, 



or luteous or fuscous, with more definite markings are probably obscura Spul.; — scortina Stgr. (30 f) is greyish fus- ° bs( " l .'- m ' 



cous, luteous-tinged, with the markings clear, and the fringe pale yellowish ; of this a unicolorous grey form, without 



markings except the black spot in reniform stigma and some costal spots, is separable as ab. unicolor ab. nov. (30 f), unicolor. 



and in the opposite direction a more luteous-tinged example with the black markings strongly developed, and the 



terminal area dark, as ab. mulUscripta ab. nov. (36 f) ; — uniformis Stgr. (36 g) is a more uniform yellowish-grey insect, "',',' //,'),'•,',! '!•."'. 



with the markings more obsolete; — graslini Stgr. is very distinct, the ground colour being brown of different graslini. 



shades strongly flecked with ashy whitish scales, and the markings slightly expressed; — lastly lusitanica Spul., lusitanica. 



from Portugal, has the head and collar and streaks at base of forewing ochreous yellow, the forewing itself a mixture 



of dull dark ochreous and brown with the markings nearly obsolete, except the terminal row of points, the dark 



lobe of the reniform, and a spot near base. The recorded localities are E. Pyrenees, Spain and Portugal, Digne, 



S. France, and Switzerland. To judge merely from the Digne forms, the species seems more nearly related to 



duubei than any other. 



C. daubei Dup. (36 g). Forewing stone grey with a luteous tinge and speckled with black in basal area and daubei. 

 along inner margin; submarginal line formed of a series of blackish spots, commencing as a brown bar or shade 

 on costa, shortly angled on vein 7; median shade sometimes visible, dark grey, angled on median vein; the 

 other lines obsolete, marked only by black spots on costa; reniform sometimes expressed by a black spot or two 

 at base and faintly outlined; a marginal row of black dots: hindwing fuscous, paler along costa, with dark cell- 

 spot and terminal area, and sometimes an outer pale-edged line; — ab. pallida ab.nov. (36 g) has the ground colour pallida. 

 whiter, without the luteous tinge, the speckling and lines stronger; — ab. innotata ab. nov. (36 g) is luteous grey, with innotata. 

 still fainter markings and smaller in size; ab. submarginata ab. nov. (36 h), marked like the type, is also smaller, sm6 ~ . 

 with the hindwing pale, showing a dark cellspot and diffuse submarginal band. In all the forms the underside 

 shows a large crescentic dark cellspot and more or less plain dark outer line. — Larva green; dorsal and sub- 

 dorsal lines darker green behind, like the dorsum; spiracular line broadly white, edged below with black, and 

 diffuse above; head yellowish; feeds on Vaccinium and Buxus. A local species found only in S. France. 



60. Genus: Omplialoscelis Hmps. 



Distinguished from Conistra and its allies by the frons not being smooth, but bearing a semicircular 

 corneous projection with raised rims and a corneous plate below it; palpi obliquely porrect, hairy below, the 

 terminal segment short; antennae of <$ serrate, with sessile fascicles of cilia. Larva on grass and low plants. 

 Agreeing in habits with the allied genera. Type Omplialoscelis lunosa Haw. 



0. lunosa Haw. (36 h). Forewing varying from pale greyish ochreous to rufous and dark purple brown, the lunosa. 

 veins generally pale; upper stigmata distinct and filled up with dark, with distinct pale outlines; inner and 

 outer lines double with paler centres, the inner obliquely outcurved, the outer simply sinuous; submarginal 

 line pale, preceded by a row of dark spots, and on costa by a black blotch or bar; hindwing whitish, suffused 

 with grey, especially in the $, with large grey cellspot and interrupted submarginal band. The type form is , 

 dull red without pale veins; the red forms with pale veins are ab. rufa 'Tutt ; — the palest form of all is obsoleta obsoieto. 

 Tutt without pale nervures; a somewhat darker, more brownish form, with the veins pale is humilis H. & Wwd. humilis. 

 (= pallida Spul.) (36 h) ; brunnea Tutt (36 h) has the ground colour deep redbrown with pale veins ; in sub jecta Dup. ^™?^' 

 (= neurodes H. Sch.) (36 h) it is dark grey brown, th'e extreme development of which, agrotoides Guen. (36 h), is agroioides. 

 blackish grey; — olivacea Vasq., from Spain, has the forewing pale olive ochreous, and rubra Vasq., also from olivacea. 

 Spain, has it pale reddish ochreous. Larva greenish or reddish-yellow, sometimes wholly green; the dorsal and 

 subdorsal lines pale; spiracular fine, black-edged; on grasses and low plants. — Local, and found only in 

 Britain, France, Spain, and Algeria. 



61. Genus: Spudea Snell. 



Differs from Conistra in the antennae of the <$ possessing short pedicellate fascicles of cilia; the vertex 

 and face hairy; the abdomen not so broad or flattened. Larva feeds up in spring and summer, spins a slight 

 cocoon in July among leaves but does not pupate till late autumn, and the imago appears in quite early spring. 

 Type Spudea ruticella Esp. 



S. ruticella Esp. (= serpylli Won., ilicis Bsd., saportae Err. per err.) (36 i). Forewing greyish red, with ruticella. 

 the lines and markings well-developed; inner and outer lines double; median shade distinct; submarginal pale 

 with a black bar at costa; stigmata obscure: the orbicular round and pale, the reniform with slight pale outline 

 and a blackish spot in lower lobe ; hindwing rufous fuscous ; a greyer form exists without the red tints, and with all 

 the markings dull and the hindwing greyer, ab. grisea ab. nov. (36 i) ; and on the other hand a dull red brown form, in grisea. 

 which the markings are all more or less obscured, and the hindwing dark reddish fuscous, may be defined as ab. 

 castanea ab. nov. (36 i). Larva brown with pale wavy markings ; dorsal line faintly darker ; spiracles black ; head round, castanea. 

 shining black; on oak. Occurs throughout Europe, except Britain, and Scandinavia; and in Syria and Asia Minor. 



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