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the pale ground, angled outwards in base of cell and inwards on submedian fold: lines brown, double, 

 filled in with lilacine grey and in the median area diffusely edged with the same; the inner angled out- 

 wards on the subcostal and inwards on the median, then oblique outwards; the outer excurved beyond 

 cell, then oblique: orbicular and reniform stigmata lilac grey, with darker centres; submarginal line fine, 

 lilac-grey, indented on each fold, preceded by dark suffusion; the terminal area dusted with violet grey: 

 hindwing with basal half luteous. outer dark fuscous beyond a darker outer line. Amurland, E. Siberia, 

 Japan. 



S. subornata Stf/r. (41 h). Forewing pale grey flushed with rufous; the costal area to submarginal subornata. 

 line and the median to below cell suffused with dark purplish fulvous; inner and outer lines blackish, 

 conversely lunulate dentate and white-edged at costa; submarginal line pale grey, indistinct, with a faint 

 brown shade internally: claviform stigma small, brown; orbicular and reniform with white annuli and 

 rufous brown centres; hindwing brownish grey, with veins, cellspot, and outer line darker. Taken in the 

 Altai Mts., W. Siberia, the Thian-Schan Mts., E. Turkestan, and in Mongolia. 



Sect. Y. Antennae of o merely pubescent. 



S. fissipuncta Haw. (= ypsilon Schiff., nun-atrum Scriba nee Schiff.) (41 i), Forewing grey, dusted fissipuncla. 

 with blackish, and with more or less reddish brown suffusion; a dark streak from base below cell; inner 

 and outer lines pale, very obscure; submarginal line pale, distinct, generally preceded by dark marks; 

 stigmata of the ground colour, the cell dark fuscous; claviform long, pointed, often followed by two black 

 streaks to outer line; orbicular irregular in shape, often elongate below and touching reniform; hindwing 

 fuscous, often paler towards base; the rarer grey form, with very sparse rufous suffusion repres?nts the 

 fcvpe: the commoner rufous-suffused examples are corticea Esv. (41 i) ; ab. nigrescens Tutt (= fissipuncta co . rtlce(l - 



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Haw. var. B.) is a rare form with blackish forewings; variegata Tutt is purplish blackish; the costa marked mriegala. 

 with a series of short black streaks; orbicular and upper part of reniform pale, likewise the claviform; 

 veins pale, the intervals of the dark ground colour, giving a striated appearance; all the lines pale; — 

 ab. conjuncta ab. nor. (41 i) is; purplish fuscous, the veins and stigmatal annuli whitish, the upper stigmata oonjuneta. 

 strongly conjoined: — in orenburghensis Bartel (41 i) the ground colour is whitish grey, the darker shades j ieMS ,- s >J 

 rufous grey, especially the cell; the orbicular stigma large, whitish grey, prolonged below to touch the 

 reniform, which is dark with a pale ring; the space beyond it rufous grey with the veins pale across it; 

 below the median vein the claviform stigma and the area within the median shade are also pale grey; 

 hindwing with basal half paler, showing a dark cellspot and outer line. Larva grey brown, often reddish- 

 tinged: dorsal and subdorsal lines pale, the dorsal swollen into blotches at the segmental incisions; 

 spiracular stripe broad, reddish-grey, sharply defined; spiracles white, in black rings; feeds on Salix alba, 

 and Poplars, (also '? on birch) living when young in the fresh shoots spun-together, when larger, hiding by 

 day in the chinks of the bark of the trunks. Throughout Europe, except Spain and Portugal; Armenia, 

 Asia Minor, Persia, W. and E. Siberia. 



S. plebeja Stgr. (42 b). Queried by Staudinger in the Catalogue as a var. of fissipuncta; its description plebeja. 

 agrees very closely with the ab. orenburghensis Bart, of that species, but the forewing is browner, more 

 uniform in tint; the $ is said to have the outer and terminal areas suffused with blackish, leaving grey 

 lunules along termen; the anal tuft blackish. Only found in W. Turkestan. 



S. judaica Stgr. (41 d). Forewing reddish ochraceous; a black streak below base of cell; inner and judaica. 

 outer lines black, conversely lunulate-dentate ; median shade distinct, starting from an oblique black costal 

 bar; submarginal line ill-defined itself, but preceded by a deep rufous shade, the terminal area always 

 paler; hindwing and fringe nearly pure white in $, irrorated with fuscous and with a dark lunulate outer 

 line in $. Palestine. 



16. Genus: Phoebopliilus Stgr. 



Tongue developed; frons smooth; palpi upturned, the second segment rough haired in front, the 

 third short, porrect; antennae of <$ bipectinate or fasciculate; thorax densely clothed with hair; the 

 prothorax and metathorax crested; dorsum smooth; forewings long, the lines pale on a dark ground colour. 

 Type Phoebophilus amoenus Stgr. 



Sect. I. Antennae of <J bipectinate. 



P. amoenus Stgr. (41 k). Forewing olive grey-brown; the lines and stigmata white; the inner and amoenus. 

 outer lines conversely brown-edged; the inner inwardly toothed, and lunulate outwardly, the lunule on submedian 

 fold large and pointed: the outer much indented on submedian fold; submarginal line white, toothed 

 outwardly on veins 3 and 4. insinuate below: claviform stigma white, conical; orbicular oval, oblique, with 



