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line .suffused with brownish; the form conjuncta Spul. appears to be one in which the pale basal and conjuncta. 

 outer areas are united along eosta above the dark median area. Larva yellowish brown; dorsal lino yellow 

 strongly margined with black: lateral lines dark grey brown clouded and margined above and below with 

 black: spiracles black; venter yellowish grey; head brown with two black curved marks; on grasses. 

 Occurs in Sweden. Finland. North Britain, Germany, Austria, Russia and the Ural Mts. 



P. ribbei Pueng. (40 d). Forewing larger and greyer than in pabulatricula ; the -whole median area ribbei. 

 darker, brownish fuscous, except the two stigmata, and with a, black bar on Snbmedian fold between the 

 two lines: a black streak from base below cell; the inner and outer lines more sharply angulate and 

 dentate, conversely edged with whitish; veins towards termen dark; submarginal line pale, interrupted, 

 preceded by black wedgeshaped marks, of which those on each side of vein 4 are most conspicuous;, 

 terminal area with two dark triangular clouds, one beyond each fold; hindwing whitish, with the termen 

 grey: the veins and cellspot brownish. Recorded only from Andalusia. 



P. arabs Oberth. (40 d). Forewing greyer than the two preceding, suffused with brown; a sinuous arabs. 

 black streak from base below cell; and a black streak on inner margin before inner line; lines 

 black conversely edged with whitish; the inner strongly dentate outwards between the veins, the angle in 

 submedian fold joined to outer line by a black dash; claviform obsolete; orbicular, small, elongate, pale 

 with black outline: reniform with the lower part only defined ; submarginal line whitish, dentate, preceded by 

 small dark teeth, and followed bj^ brown marks in the interspaces; hindwing white, the veins and terminal 

 area brownish-tinged. Recorded from Algeria only. 



P. basilinea F. (— nebulosa View.) (40 e). Forewing dull hlac grey, flushed with fawn colour, basilinea. 

 especially in median area; a black, semibifid streak from base below cell; lines brownish, double, indistinct; 

 the median shade dark grey or fawn colour, diffuse and prominent; orbicular stigma pale, black-edged; 

 reniform large with grey centre, blackish in lower lobe, with pale annulus and black outline; claviform' 

 small, with dark outline; submarginal line dull, with darker shades in places on each side; hindwing 

 greyish fuscous, paler towards base; — in basistriga Stgr. (= cinifacta Graes. nee Grote) (40 e) the ground basislriga. 

 colour is bluish grey except the median area, and the black basal streak is stronger; this form is recorded 

 from W. Turkestan, E. Siberia, Japan, and China, also from Norway; a small series from Pescocostanzo, 

 Italy seems referable here; — ab. grisescens Stgr. from Tibet and Turkestan is altogether paler and greyer; cjrisescens. 



— ab. unicolor Tutt (40 e) is a melanistic form from the North of England, in which the ground is dark unicolor. 

 reddish brown with a purplish tinge, the stigmata and lines more or less obscured; hindwing much darker; 



— pallida Tutt and cinerascens Tutt (40 e) are both grey forms without any rufous admixture, the former P allula - a 

 being pale ochreous grey, and the latter dull ashy grey, the one from Ireland, the other from North 

 England; this latter form probably occurs, however, in other localities, and is distinct from Staudinger's 

 Central Asiatic form grisescens, for which Spuler quotes Finland and Esthland with a ? as localities. 



Larva grey brown with black tubercles; dorsal line broad, whitish; subdorsal finer; spiracular line broadly 

 whitish, edged above with dark; feeding when quite -young in autumn in the grains of corn and after 

 hybemation in the fresh lower leaves and on grasses. Generally distributed throughout Europe, and 

 Central Asia to China and Japan. 



P. commixta Btlr. (= tychoona Leech) (40 e). Forewing black brown with a purplish reflection; in commixia. 

 costal half, especially along the cell and at base of wing above the black basal streak, tawny fulvous; 

 inner and outer lines dark, conversely edged with pale; claviform stigma small, black-edged, emitting a 

 black streak to outer line; orbicular round or oval, with rufous centre and pale annulus; reniform tawny, 

 pale-edged, and followed by a tawny patch; submarginal line pale fulvous, preceded by black wedgeshaped 

 marks; hindwing fuscous, -with dark marginal border, cellspot, and outer line. Superficially much like 

 Bit. siguum F. The type of tychoona Leech is a dwarf $. Recorded from Japan only. 



P. intermixta Leech (40 e). Forewing reddish ochreous with much black suffusion; inner and outer intermixla. 

 lines black edged with reddish ochreous, united along submedian fold by a black streak; orbicular and reni- 

 form stigmata of the ground colour, with dark grey centres, the annuli edged with black; the median space 

 between the two folds remains of the clear ground colour ; the paler area between outer and submarginal 

 lines interrupted by 3 triangular blackish blotches, one at costa, one below middle, the third on inner 

 margin: fringe blackish; hindwing dull fuscous grey, darker along termen, with a large dark lunular cell- 

 spot. Japan. 



P. aureopuncta Hmps. (40 e). Forewing deep fuscous brown, suffused with purplish grey, the aureopuncia. 

 median area only along costa and inner margin; inner and outer lines black, conversely edged with yel- 

 lowish white, and swollen into black blotches at costa; submarginal line finely pale, preceded by a diffuse 

 black brown band: orbicular stigma round, purplish grey edged with black and white scales; reniform 

 large, with reddish yellow centre defined by yellowish white and black; hindwing dark brown with yellow 

 fringe. Tsu-shima, Japan. 



