16G PARASTICHTIS. By W. Warren. 



fold between the claviform stigma and outer line; inner and outer lines pale, with dark edges; claviform 



small, dark-edged; upper stigmata large, of the ground colour or paler, with pale rings and dark outlines; 



the orbicular varying in shape, generally oblique and elongate, sometimes shortened, and more rarely 



rounded; submarginal line pale, zigzag, preceded by black wedgeshaped marks, the terminal area, except 



;ii apex, darker; inner margin usually marked with white scales, developed beyond outer line into a more 



or less prominent pale patch reaching submedian fold; hindwing dirty greyish, with darker cell spot and 



pallida, veins, with a broad fuscous marginal border preceded by a dark outer line; — ab. pallida Fuchs (39 g) is 



wholly whitish ochreous, with all the black streaks plain, the stigmata black edged; the central area and 



tin! terminal washed with brownish grey; hindwing whitish with an ochreous grey faintly marked border; 



inlacla. — in intacta Petersen (39 g) the usual pale patch beyond outer line on inner margin is absent, the whole 



obscura. wing being suffused with grey or grey brown; — ab. obscura Th. Mieg. (? = obscura Tutt) (39 g) repre- 



infuscata. s^nts a suffused brown or grey brown form; — infuscata Bucli. White (— uniformata Weym.) (39 h) is a 



Northern form with the markings more or less obscured and hidden by blackish suffusion, of which 



brunnea. brunnea Tutt (39 h) is a brown black offshoot; the extreme form of this, when all markings are lost in 



aetkiops. an intense black suffusion, is aethiops Tutt (39 h); in all these dark-suffused forms the hindwing 



is much darker, especially in the terminal half. — Larva dull whitish grey or dark grey; dorsal 



line pale: lateral line broadly pale; tubercles large and black; head and thoracic plate brown black; 



at roots of grass. Occurs throughout Europe, and Western Asia, in Turkestan, Siberia, and Mongolia. 



polyglypha. P. polyglypha Stgr. Smaller than monoglypha; forewing fuscous and grey without any admixture 



of redbrown or ochreous. and agreeing with the ab. intacta Petersen in the absence of the pale patch on 

 inner margin beyond outer line; the orbicular stigma smaller, more rounded; the hindwing paler. Re- 

 corded from Palestine by Staudinger. 



submargi- p. submarginata Leech (39 h). Forewing redbrown suffused with purplish fuscous; an obscure black 



streak from base below cell; lines blackish, double, the inner waved and oblique, the outer filled in with 

 whitish, the teeth marked by black and white points on veins; subterminal line also whitish, preceded 

 by black toothshaped marks; claviform stigma small, black-edged, emitting a black streak to postmedian 

 line; orbicular oblique, elongate, black-edged and with some black scales in centre; reniform internally 

 black-edged, with some white scales in centre and white points on outer edge; hindwing cupreous broAvn, 

 darker terminally. Described by Leech from a single <J from Omei-shan, W. China. 



boopis. P. boopis Hmps. (39 h). Like sodalis Btlr., but more rufous; the dark brown areas the same and 



also the lines and stigmata, except the reniform, which in its outer half is whitish grey, instead of being 

 ochreous and undefined. Recorded from Wa-shan, W. China ; originally described from N. India. 



purpurina. P. purpurina Hmps. (39 i). Forewing purplish red; the lines indistinct, the outer dentate, with 



series of black and white points beyond it on veins; claviform stigma small, outlined in red; orbicular very 

 narrow, oblique and elongate, also outlined with red; reniform fuscous, with white dusting and red outline, 

 somewhat inbent along median vein; subterminal line faint, dentate, the veins before termen fuscous; 

 hindwing dull brown, the fringe rufous. This species also was originally described from a single $, from 

 Yatong, Tibet. 



lateritia. P- lateritia Hufn. (= molochina Hbn.) (39 i). Forewing dull purplish redbrown, darker towards the 



costa; costal area and veins sprinkled with white scales; inner and outer lines double, lunulate-dentate, the 

 teeth marked dark and light on the veins; claviform stigma absent; orbicular and reniform dark redbrown 

 with incomplete white annuli, the orbicular generally obscure and without white outline; submarginal line 

 indistinct; the terminal area, except at apex, rather darker; hindwing fuscous, greyer towards base, with 



H-liakf ^ ie ce H s P°t an d veins dark; — ab. borealis Strand, from Lapland, is still darker brown; — ab. derufata 



expallcscens.ub. nov. (39 i) is pale purplish red, without the dark redbrown tinge; — the form expallescens Stgr. (39 i), 



from Turkestan and Tibet, is pale reddish ochreous, flushed with brown or grey brown, the terminal area 



/estiva, always dark brown; — ab. festiva ab. nov. (40 a), from Transcaucasia, rather smaller than expallescens, is 



sordida. pale brickred, somewhat roughly scaled; lastly, ab. sordida ab. nov. (40 a), a decidedly smaller form, is 

 dirty brownish fuscous, with the inner and outer lines well-marked and approximated on inner margin; 

 of this a fairly long series, all (J(J, is in the Tring Museum, from Pescocostanzo, Italy. Larva dull dark 

 grey; the head brown; the thoracic and anal plates black; at roots of grass. Not found in Britain, or 

 Spain and Portugal; otherwise occurring throughout Europe; in Armenia, W. and E. Turkestan, Mongolia, 

 Amuiland, Japan, and Kashmir; also common in North America. 



fervida. P- fervida Hmps. {= violacea Stgr.) (40 a). Forewing dark redbrown mixed with grey; inner and 



outer lines dark, thick, but indistinct; subterminal line pale olive brown, with dark brown clouds on each 

 side; claviform stigma hardly visible; orbicular and reniform with dark centres and pale annuli edged with 

 black, the reniform with three white dots at lower end, one on inner side, and two on outer; hindwing 

 greyish redbrown. Kuku Nor, Tibet. 



