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black; inner and outer lines slightly marked; orbicular and reniform black edged, the former oblique and 

 connected below with the reniform; submarginal line indistinct, preceded above middle by an oblique series 

 of short black marks above veins G, 5, and 4; hindwing rather paler, tinged with fuscous along termen; 

 the veins dark. W. Turkestan and Mongolia. 



P. presbytis Hmps. (43 a). Forewing ochreous white tinged with brownish and with some dark presbytis. 

 dusting: a black streak from base below cell: a black costal dot near base; inner and outer lines marked 

 by black spots on costa, then indistinct: the inner oblique and waved; the outer oblique to vein (i, inbent 

 beyond cell, oblique and sinuous below vein 4; subterminal line formed of an oblique series of short black 

 streaks from below apex to vein 5. then by faint dentate fuscous marks; terminal line fine and waved; 

 claviform stigma with slight black outline, connected below with the basal black streak; orbicular oblique, 

 elliptical, reniform with lower half dark, both with pale black-edged annuli; fringe brown with a cream 

 white line at base; hindwing white; veins and terminal area brownish; fringe pure white. Chamil Hanis, 

 E. Turkestan. 



P. idumaea Pueng. (41 1). Forewing dull ochreous suffused with brown and dusted with blackish; idumaea. 

 a black streak in submedian fold from base to inner line, which is strong!}' angled outwards betAveen and 

 inwards on the veins; outer line strongly dentate; submarginal line preceded and defined by a continuous 

 zigzag black shade; claviform stigma small, acute, defined by black; orbicular and reniform strongly 

 defined by black, the former oblique and often touching the reniform; hindwing luteous grey, with dark 

 veins and terminal shade. Palestine. 



P. schlumbergeri Pueng. (411). Forewing ashy grey, dusted with fuscous; the veins black; a black 



schlumber- 



streak from base along submedian fold continued by the long, narrow, black-edged claviform stigma; inner 

 and outer lines and the praesubmarginal shade blackish and distinct, the last two dentate; orbicular and 

 reniform grey with black edges, the former oblique; hindwing grey suffused with fuscous, darkest along 

 termen. and with a dark outer line. From W. and E. Turkestan. 



P. chenopodiphaga Rmbr. (43 a). Forewing sandy grey, speckled with dark grey or fuscous; inner cftewopoat- 

 and outer lines double, partly filled in with greyish white, conversely dentate-lunulate, marked with black 

 on costa, and ending in white spots on inner margin: the veins speckled black and grey; stigmata of the 

 ground colour outlined with black; the claviform long, pointed; the orbicular an irregular flattened oval; 

 reniform broad, open above, and reaching below median vein; submarginal line pale, indistinct, preceded 

 by wedgeshaped black marks, one on each side of veins 3 and 6; hindwing greyish white, becoming more 

 fuscous along termen: the veins, cellspot, and slight outer line darker; fringe white clotted with grey; the 

 ab. erubescens Stgr., from Biskra, Algeria, has a rufous tinge over the head, thorax, and forewing. Larva erubeseens. 

 grey green, sometimes yellowish, covered with dark dots; dorsal and subdorsal lines and some oblique 

 lateral stripes darker; feeding on Chenopodium fruticosum, Atripex portulacoides and other coast plants. 

 A mediterranean species found in Spain, S. France, Italy, Corsica, Algeria, in Armenia, Syria, W. and E. 

 Turkestan. 



P. siri Ersch. (43 a). Larger than chenopodiphaga. pale grey without the sandy tinge and the dark siri. 

 irroration: inner and outer lines double, filled in with pale grey and more distinct across wing; the cell 

 and a median shade darker, somewhat brownish; all 3 stigmata with more distinct grey annuli; the clavi- 

 form shorter and rounded at end; a black streak from base below cell; submarginal line preceded by a 

 dark dentate shade but without black wedge shaped marks; hindwing with basal half paler; a large dark 

 cellspot: the veins and outer hue dark; terminal area with a broader, better-defined fuscous border; fringe 

 wholly white. W. and E. Turkestan, Mongolia. 



P. commoda Stgr. (43 a). Forewing uniform pale grey, with very fine dark dusting; inner and commoda. 

 outer lines black, the inner waved, slightly oblique, the outer irregularly lunulate-dentate ; both sometimes 

 hardly visible, except at costa; a brownish median shade; stigmata of the pale ground colour, with partial 

 black edging: submarginal line indicated only by a faint row of darker wedgeshaped marks, those below 

 veins 5, 6, and 7 black and more conspicuous; hindwing whitish grey, with dark cellspot and outer line, 

 beyond winch the terminal area is fuscous; fringe white: — the form manifesta Christ, from Armenia is manifesta. 

 darker grey. Armenia, W. and E. Turkestan, and Mongolia. 



P. pugnax Alph. (42 k). Forewing pale ochreous brown; the costal area to outer line, the basal pugnax. 

 area, and the outer area except at costa whitish; a slight black streak below base of cell; inner and outer 

 lines double, filled in with white; submarginal line whitish, defined on inner side by small dentate brown 

 marks; the stigmata outlined with black, the two upper large and with whitish annuli; hindwing white, the 

 veins and terminal area tinged w T ith browm; underside glossy white. Songaria, W. Siberia. 



P. minuta Pueng. (43 a). Forewing whitish ochreous varied with fuscous; the inner and outer lines minuta. 

 black, conversely pale-edged and dentate-lunulate; upper stigmata whitish ochreous, black-edged, separated 



