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faint yellowish spots preceded by black points; tbe terminal area paler; stigmata small, obscure, with ocbreous 



outlines: the orbicular oblique, elliptical, with a black dot in upper part; the reniform irrorated with black 



in the upper half, and wholly black in the lower; hindwing whitish, suffused with pale brown; with darker 



cellspot, outer line, and submarginal shade; the fringe ochreous. Recorded from Palestine, Jerusalem, only. 



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 A. kindermannii F. i\ B. (= ballotae Dup., consueta H. Sch.) (37 c). Forewing pale ochreous, dusted with mannii. 



olive grey and suffused with pale olive often mixed with reddish; the terminal area always pale ochreous; lines 

 olive grey or fuscous, double, waved and dentate; the outer with black and white teeth on the veins; sub- 

 terminal line darker, waved, but often defined only by the pale outer ground colour; median line distinctly 

 lunulate-dentate; stigmata confused; the orbicular pale, undefined; the reniform with lower half dark, the 

 upper half speckled; a row of dark spots before termen; hindwing grey, the veins and cellspot darker; — • in 

 pauli Sigr. (37 c) the brickred tints predominate over the olive, and the base and costal area of forewing, as pauli. 

 well as the termen, are more conspicuously pale ochreous; in another ab. fuscoliva ab. nov. (37 c, d) the inner and fuscoliva. 

 outer lines are accompanied by broad olive fuscous bands. Larva reddish with broad white lateral stripes; 

 feeding on low plants. Local; recorded from Dalmatia and Sicily?; Armenia, Asia Minor, Palestine. 



A. laevis Hbn. (37 d). Forewing greyish brown with a slight rufous or ochreous tinge; all markings in- laevis. 

 distinct; inner and outer lines double; median shade slight; subterminal line pale, slightly waved and angled 

 on veins 1 and 7, preceded by a brown lunular shade and a slight bar on costa; a row of dark spots before 

 termen: stigmata with pale outlines; orbicular very obscure, reniform filled up with brown, the lower end 

 with black; hindwing fuscous grey. Larva pale brown; dorsal line yellowish; head brown; thoracic plate 

 black crossed by two white lines; on all low plants. France, Germany, N. Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Hun- 

 gary, S. Russia, Asia Minor. 



A. haematidea Dup. (37 d). Forewing smooth, deep chestnut brown, darker along inner margin, paler in haematidea. 

 terminal area; cell and median shade deeper chestnut; lines indistinct, the outer double; submarginal line 

 preceded by a row of small black marks and on costa by a blackish blotch; stigmata small, undefined, pale; 

 the orbicular oblique nearly touching reniform at bottom; hindwing fuscous, the fringe pinkish. S. France, 

 Spain, Italy, Algeria. The forewing has the apex acute and termen oblique. 



A. lota L. (= hippophaes Rossi, munda Hbn.) (37 d). Forewing grey brown or leaden grey, often with lota. 

 a reddish tinge; inner and outer lines double, conversely lunulate-dentate, but rarely visible; a thick dark 

 median shade; stigmata grey, with pinkish annuli edged with rufous, the lower half of reniform black; sub- 

 marginal line nearly straight but angled on vein 7, pale with rufous inward edging; hindwing dark grey, 

 with cellspot and submarginal cloud showing darker; the reddish examples in which the grey tints have enti- 

 rely given place to rufous, form the ab. rufa Tutt (37 d); in rare cases the grey is darkened into black; this is rufa. 

 ab. suffusa Tutt from Ireland; an equally rare form from England, in which the ground colour is whitish- suffusa. 

 grey is pallida Tutt; in a form from Amasia, ab. subdita ab.nov. (37 e), the grey ground is duller and paler in both ^Jfj^' 

 wings, and the black in lower lobe of reniform is much reduced. Larva reddish brown, mottled with black; 

 dorsal and subdorsal lines white, often interrupted; spiracular stripe broadly whitish; feeding on Poplar, 

 Sallow, Alder, Sea buckthorn etc.; when young concealed in the young shoots, afterwards hiding by day 

 in the chinks of the bark. Throughout Europe except Scandinavia; in Armenia, Asia Minor, and the Altai 



Mts., W. Siberia. 



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A. macilenta Hbn. (= flavilinea Haw.) (37 e). Forewing ochreous washed with pale fulvous; the inner macilenta. 

 and outer lines very faint, marked chiefly by the dark teeth on the veins; a dark spot at base of wing; median 

 shade variable; stigmata of the ground colour, with slight pale outlines, the lower end of the reniform nearly 

 always black; submarginal line ochreous edged inwardly with rufous, nearly straight except for the angu- 

 lation on vein 7; hindwing grey, the fringe rufous; — in the ab. nigrodentata Fuchs the basal, inner, and n ^°~ ia 

 outer lines are all strongly marked, blackish and dentate. Larva ochreous or reddish brown; dorsal, sub- 

 dorsal, and spiracular lines all whitish, the dorsal swelling out on each segment into an oval spot; when 

 young feeding on the young shoots of trees, later on low plants, living concealed by day in the chinks of 

 the bark of tree trunks. Throughout Europe except Prussia: also in Asia Minor. 



A. circellaris Hufn. (= fuscago Esp.) (37 e). Forewing yellow ochreous or ferruginous, sometimes much circellaris. 

 dusted with fuscous; the lines and edges of stigmata rufous; the inner line waved, the outer lunulate-dentate; 

 submarginal wavy, ochreous, with a rufous line inside it; lower part of reniform blackish; a small dark 

 spot near base of wing; median shade generally present; hindwing grey, the costal area ochreous, the fringe 

 rufous ochreous. The paler ochreous form is the type; the deep ferruginous examples are ferruginea Esp. ferruginea. 

 (= undata View., undosa Bkh.) (37 e); in macilenta Hbn. fig. 688, (37 f), the forewings are darkened by fuscous macilenta. 

 shading, especially along inner and outer margins; the hindwings are blackish-grey; the ab. fusconervosa Petersen ^ f° ner ~ 

 (37 f) has all the nervures dark throughout; in nigridens Fuchs, a rare form, the cross lines are strongly black and n i gr idens. 

 dentate. Larva reddish brown, dotted with darker; dorsal line pale, passing through a series of V-shaped 

 dark markings; a pale spiracular line with dark markings in a row above it; feeding at first on the buds 



