170 PABASTICHTIS. By W. Warren. 



scolopacina. P. scolopacina Esp. (40 f). Fore-wing pale ochreous, usually washed with pale brown; a black- 



brown streak on inner margin before inner line; inner and outer lines fine and double, conversely lunulate- 

 dentate on the veins; a dark brown or pale brown median shade, enlarged, like the inner line, on the 

 costa into a cloud; orbicular stigma pale, brown-edged: reniform with brown lunular centre and white 

 annulus, constricted at middle; terminal area brown, traversed close to termen by the paler subterminal 

 line which forms a pale spot at apex; fringe mottled brown and ochreous; hindwing ochreous washed with 

 abbreviate, grey or fuscous; ■ — in ab. abbreviata Haw. (40 f) the ground colour is pale ochreous without the brownish 

 h "" tmonie . n ' swiiusion: in hammoniensis Sanber (40 f) the costal and terminal dark areas are intensified, and the whole 

 subbrunnea. win g is suffused with greyish fuscous; in the Japanese form, however, ab. subbrunnea ab. nor. (40 f), the 

 whole wing is washed with pale brown; the oblique bar near base of inner margin is either brown or 

 obsolete: the dark blotches on costa and the brown terminal area are pale brown; all the lines are 

 obscured, the only clear marking being the whitish reniform; hindwing pale grey or brownish grey, with 

 dark cellspot and outer line; in all the forms the $ is regularly slightly darker than the $. — Larva 

 greenish-grey; dorsal and subdorsal hnes pale; spiracular line yellowish grey edged above with dark; head 

 yellowish with two brown streaks; on grasses, especially Briza, and Luzula. Throughout North and 

 Central Europe, in W. and E. Siberia, and in Japan. 



P. ophiogramma Esp. (= biloba Haic.) (40 f). Forewing pale ochreous suffused with olive grey 

 along inner margin and in terminal area with pale brownish; the inner and outer lines brown, conversely 

 lunulate-dentate; the upper half of median area occupied by a redbrown or black brown blotch bilobed 

 below, the lower lobe being formed by the dark brown claviform stigma; the upper stigmata somewhat 

 paler and with pale annuli; the patch extends narrowly along costa to base and has its lower edge often 

 lined with white scales; submarginal line pale, generally enlarged into an apical spot, preceded by a rufous 

 brown shade and followed by two grey brown patches on the two folds, that on submedian being generally 

 moerens. produced inwards to outer line; hindwing pale grey with dark cellspot and veins; — ab. moerens Stgr. 

 has the whole forewing suffused with leaden grey, the brown areas fuscous. Larva pinkish ochreous with 

 a pale lateral line; the tubercles black; head yellow brown; thoracic and anal plates black brown; on 

 various grasses, especially Glyceria spectabilis. Occurs in marshy places throughout North and Central 

 Europe, in Siberia and Turkestan. 



askoldis. P. askoldis Oberth. (= nivalis Btlr.) (40 f). Thorax chalk white; sometimes also the abdomen; 



forewing chalk white; markings redbrown; viz. the costal streak, the upper half of median area to sub- 

 median fold, the base above median vein and 2 dark spots at termen on the folds; claviform stigma 

 black, with a black streak from it above to outer line, continued to termen; orbicular elliptical, with 

 white centre ringed with brown and then with rufous orange; reniform white, black-edged internally; 

 submarginal line white with brownish grey shades on each side; hindwing of $ whitish ochreous, of $ 

 fuscous. E. Siberia, Japan, W. China. 



Jasciculala. P. fasciculata Leech (40 f). Forewing brownish fuscous ; a patch of pale yellow scales below middle 



before inner line; inner and outer lines black, pale-edged; claviform stigma outlined in black; orbicular and 

 reniform ochreous, black-edged, with grey centres; the reniform externally with a white spot; space bet- 

 ween outer and subterminal lines pale to apex; terminal area dark; subterminal line indistinct, preceded 

 by some slight dark shading; hindwing greyish fuscous, with darker outer line. Described from 3 $$ from 

 Moupin, W. China. 

 repetita. P. repetita Btlr. (40 g). Forewing dull ochreous whitish; basal and median areas suffused with pale 



rufous; the cell and submedian interspace darker, the latter with a brown black streak between the inner 

 and outer lines, which are rather obscure and approach each other on inner margin; stigmata pale, with 

 brownish centres and dark edges; terminal area dark; submarginal line faint, preceded by rufous teeth and 

 conjuncla. a dark cloud on costa; hindwing pale grey, with darker cellspot and outer line; the ab. conjuncta Leech {<$) 

 (= intermedia Leech' ($) ) is paler, without the brown black streak on submedian fold; in both forms the 

 black marginal lunules of forewing are stronger in the $>? than in the 3$. 2 $$ including the type of 

 repetita from Yokohama, Japan, whence also the $ type of intermedia Leech; 2 $<? from Omei-shan, 

 W. China including the type of conjuncta Leech, the other being a typical repetita. 



cuneala. P. cuneata Leech (40 g). Forewing brownish fuscous; the median area darker, more fuscous, follow- 



ed by a pale rufous fascia; inner and outer lines black, double, distinct, conversely lunulate-dentate, the 

 tips of the teeth white-dotted; claviform and orbicular stigmata small, rufous, black-edged; reniform paler, 

 with white annulus; submarginal line dull, preceded by black wedgeshaped marks, of which that between 



semirufa. veins 4 and 5 is large and plainest; in the ab. semirufa ab. nov. (= ab. 1. Hmps.) the basal and outer 

 areas of forewing below middle and the inner median area are rufous ochreous; the hindwing blacker; 

 the reniform stigma rufous. Larger than the type, and possibly a distinct species. Yokohama, Japan. 



brunnea. P. brunnea Leech (40 g). Forewing bright ochraceous; median area, except on submedian interspace, 



and the terminal area blackish; all 3 stigmata blackish with black edges; the reniform with some white 



