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P. sordida Bkh. (= contigua Haw. nee Vill, infesta !/V., aliena Dttp. nee W/w.) (89 h). Forewing sordida. 

 grey speckled with darker, and more or less tinged with brown; the veins dark; inner and outer lines 

 double, dark filled in with pale ground colour, conversely lunulate-dentate; the inner line sometimes 

 forming a sharp outward angle below vein 1, meeting the median line, sometimes rounded ami remote 

 from it: claviform brown, darker-edged, variable in size, often quite small; orbicular and reniform pale with 

 dark centres, the latter with white dotted annulus and often followed by a pale patch; marginal area dark 

 grey beyond the pale submarginal line, wdiich is preceded by brownish patches at costa and on both 

 folds: hindwing dirty whitish, with darker cellspot, veins, and outer line, the terminal area diffusely 

 fuscous, with the submarginal line showing paler along termen; in typical sordida the brown tints are 

 confined to the two folds: — in anceps Hbn. (40a) these brown tints pervade more or less the whole anceps. 

 forewing: — ochracea Tutt (40 a) has the ground colour paler and the suffusion moie rufous brown; — ochracea. 

 renardii Bsd. is a very pale form with the markings subobsolete; while engelhartii Duurloo represents a renardii. 

 pale form from E. Jutland with indistinct markings; — ab. mediana ab. nov. (40a) appears very distinct; me( iiana. 

 the brown grey ground colour is without dark speckling; the inner and outer lines are single, black and 

 distinct, the outer with clear black teeth on the veins; the median shade, generally inconspicuous, is 

 thick and black, distinctly angled outwards oir subcostal and veins 1 and 2; the space between it and 

 outer line deeper brown: the markings of the hindwing clearer; the <$ specimen here described is from 

 Germany without precise locality. Larva pale brown; dorsal and subdorsal lines faintly darker; on each 

 segment laterally an oblique black streak; head and both plates black-brown; feeding up on grasses in 

 spring. Found throughout Europe; also in Armenia, Asia Minor, Persia, and E. Siberia! 



P. oblonga Haw. (40 b). Forewing blackish fuscous; the space between outer and submarginal lines oblonga. 

 paler, brownish grey, the upper stigmata filled in with white or ochreous; the median area and terminal 

 area on each side of submarginal line blacker; a deep black streak from base below cell and a thick black 

 space along submedian fold between claviform stigma and outer line; hindwing dull ochreous grey with 

 dark veins and cellspot; the terminal half fuscous and the fringe whitish; — lunulina Haw. (40 b) is blacker, lunulina. 

 with both stigmata dark, the reniform with a few pale dots on outer side; — fribolus Bsd. (40 b) is uni- fribolus. 

 formly black with all markings obscured; the only pale markings being the whitish dots on outer edge of 

 the reniform and the praeapical costal dots; — ab. variegata Stgr., from Armenia and Turania, has the varieaaia. 

 thorax variegated with white; the forewing with whitish suffusion beyond reniform and at apex; the black 

 markings strong; the hues defined by whitish, and the stigmata with white annuli; this must be very 

 nearly the same as oblonga Haw., wdrich Staudinger has ignored; the grey brown form with the markings 

 fairly plain is abjecta Hbn. (= nigricans View, nee L.) (40 b), of which the extreme form, unicolor Tutt ^icolor 

 (40 b), with the markings obsolete, and the whole wing grey brown, is the usual form in the East of 

 Britain. Larva pinkish ochreous; tubercles pale redbrown; head and thoracic plate redbrown: feeding on 

 various species of Poa, especially on river banks and fenny places. Occurs in North and Central Europe, 

 Britain, France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Hungary, Sweden, and Prussia; also in Asia Minor 

 and Armenia, W. and E. Turkestan, W. and E. Siberia. • 



P. jankowskii Oberth. (40 c). Forewing pale ochreous, almost wholly suffused with brownish fuscous, jankowsltii. 

 the basal area below* median vein, the area between outer and submarginal hues, especially on inner 

 margin, the upper stigmata, and the lines remaining paler but tinged with brownish grey; the median and 

 terminal areas darker fuscous^ also a costal patch before submarginal line; the pale lines with dark edges; 

 the two stigmata with grey brown centres and whitish annuli; claviform small and black; submarginal line 

 pale, dull, indented on each fold; hindwing dark fuscous with a paler outer line. Eecorcled from E.Siberia 

 and Corea. 



P. illyria Frr. (= scortea H. Sell, part) (40 c). Forewing dark fuscous sprinkled with grey scales, illyria. 

 and with a dull redbrown tinge along both folds; the veins blackish, with pale dots; median area darker, 

 especially in lower half; also the basal area below a black line from base; inner and outer lines black, 

 conversely edged with grey; claviform stigma brown with black edge; orbicular and reniform with dark 

 grey-speckled centres and pale annuli with black outlines; terminal area dark grey; submarginal line pale grey 

 with dark shading before it; hindwing grey, darker towards termen, with dark veins and cellspot. — 

 Larva, according to Habich, short and thick, luteous yellow with a pale lateral stripe; on grasses. The 

 remark ..found in spring under Veronica" applies merely to the larva's shelter, not its food plant. Occurs 

 in Finland, Scandinavia, Bussia, in Germany, Austria, Hungary, Croatia, and in the Alps of Switzerland 

 and X. Italy. 



P. leucodon Ev. (= bidens Ev.) (40 e). Forewing pale olive grey brown suffused in places with leucodon. 

 darker grey brown; the lines and stigmata whitish; veins towards termen finely dark; basal and costal 

 areas much mixed wuth whitish scales; a whitish smudge below median on submedian fold, following a 

 short dark streak from base; a white hookshaped mark at base of cell; lines narrow, wdhte; the inner 

 oblique and excurved between veins, retracted tow r ards base below vein 1 and more broadly white; outer 



