184 PSEUDOHADENA. By W. Warren. 



by the diffuse dark median shade; submarginal line pale, preceded by a. blackish lunulate- dentate shade, 

 •which is darker on the folds; hind wing luteous grey with dark cellspot, outer line, and broad terminal 

 border; fringe whitish. One of the smaller species, found in W. and E. Turkestan. 



crassi- p. crassipuncta Pueng. (43 b). Eorewing pale luteous grey, with black irroration; inner and outer 



' lines blackish, the former ill-defined: claviforin stigma large, incompletely defined by black; orbicular and 



reniform of the ground colour, with black outlines; submarginal line dentate-lunulate, defined mainly by 



the darker terminal area; hindwing dull whitish; the veins brown; terminal area towards apex broadly 



brown; a large black triangular cellspot, followed by a dark waved outer line. Aksu, Mongolia. 



rosconitens. P- roseonitens Oberth. (43 b). Forewing reddish ochreous, irrorated with brown; inner and outer 



lines much as in chenopodiphaga; the orbicular and reniform stigmata defined by blackish at sides only; 

 subterminal line indistinct, ochreous preceded by fuscous suffusion, incurved on both folds; hindwing 

 ochreous white with a faint brownish subterminal shade. Recorded only from Biskra, Algeria. 



immunda. P« immunda Ev. (43 a). Forewing fuscous, dusted and suffused with blackish; inner and outer lines 



black, conversely edged with pale grey, the outer strongly dentate; claviforrn stigma small, blackish; 

 orbicular round, pale grey with black outline; reniform large, with dark centre and pale annulus, somewhat 

 marked with white; the median shade forming a dark spot between them; subterminal line ochreous, 

 preceded and defined by a dark, sometimes blackish, more or less continuous, dentate shade; hindwing 

 fuscous, rather paler towards base; fringe whitish; the $ is paler, with a more brownish tinge. Found in 

 the Ural Mts., Russia, in the Altai Mts., W. Siberia, and in W. Turkestan. 



halimi. P. halimi Mill. (43 b). Forewing pale grey brown, as in the $ of immunda, and with similar 



markings; but the lines are not accompanied by any pale edging, and the wing is without dark irroration; 

 tin' orbicular and reniform stigmata are of the ground colour, the latter without any pale annulus; the 

 dark praesubmarginal shade is much less prominent and is darker on the folds; hindwings with the base 

 paler, showing cellspot and outer line. Larva pale bluish green, dorsal and subdorsal lines fine, dark green; 

 spiracular stripe yellowish white, marked with red on middle segments; spiracles very small, ringed with 

 black; another form is yellowish red with the dorsal and subdorsal lines darker red and the ground be- 

 tween yellowish; feeding on Atriplex halimus. S. E. France. 



immunis. P- immunis Stgr. (43b). Differs from the preceding species in being reddish grey finely dusted 



with darker: the median shade and a shade between subbasal and inner lines diffusely darker; the outer 

 line with the teeth pale-dotted on the veins; the two stigmata of the pale ground colour; the outer half 

 of median area darker; submarginal line pale, interrupted into spots, each preceded by dark blotches; 

 fringe with a bright pale line at base followed by a thick dark one; hindwing fuscous grey, becoming 

 almost blackish towards termen. W. and E. Turkestan. 



pexa. P- pexa Stgr. (41 1). Forewing more yellowish in ground colour, with olive-fuscous suffusion; the 



inner and outer lines nearer together; the median shade approximated to the inner rather than to the 

 outer line; the submarginal line much yellower, the preceding dark shade more regularly dentate; the 

 stigmata paler, slightly yellowish ; hindwing dark fuscous, with a dark outer line running to anal angle. 

 W. and E. Turkestan. 



arvicola. P. arvicola Christ. (43 b). Forewing pale ochreous with a pale flesh coloured tinge; the shadings 



blue grey ; the lines, a thick shade before inner line, the outer half of median area, and the terminal area 

 all blue grey; stigmata of the ground colour, with grey centres; subterminal line broken up into spots preceded 

 by a blackish dentate line, more strongly marked below costa; fringe pale, with a dark grey line near 

 base; hindwing ochreous suffused with pale grey, darker towards termen; veins and outer line dark. 

 W. and E. Turkestan. 



coluteae. P» coluteae Bienert (43 b). Forewing uniform pale luteous grey; inner and outer lines finely black; 



median shade thick and diffuse: outer half of median area darker, stigmata pale with slight dark outline; 

 submarginal line preceded by a fine black lunulate-dentate line; hindwing dull greyish fuscous, paler 

 towards base and inner margin, with dark veins and outer line. Persia and Turkestan. 



indigna. P« indigna Christ. (42 b). Forewing unicolorous dull luteous grey; the veins darker; a dark prae- 



submarginal shade; inner and outer lines just decipherable; stigmata pale with dark spot between them; 

 hindwing fuscous with paler base; fringe whitish. A small species, recorded only from Askabad, W. 

 Turkestan. 



contumax. P- contumax Pueng. (43 c). Forewing pale redbrown, slightly irrorated with darker; inner line 



represented by two small points on costa and one below cell; outer line indicated by some brown scales; 

 subterminal line obscure, defined on inner side by small brown spots; hindwing pale reddish brown, darker 

 at termen; fringe yellowish white. W. Gobi Desert, Mongolia. 



