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P. artnata Alph. (4-2 k). Forewing whitish ochreous suffused with yellowish brown; inner and miter armata. 

 lines brown, marked conversely by whitish; claviform stigma small, faintly edged with brown; orbicular 

 and reniforni small, whitish, slightly defined by brown, the former elliptical; subterminal line whitish, 

 defined on inner side by a slight dark cloud; hindwing grey, terminally fuscous; fringe whitish. Turkestan, 

 and W. China. 



27. Genus: Lmpei'ina Bsd. 



Tongue present; frons smooth; palpi obliquely upturned, the second segment hairy below, the third 

 short, porrect: thorax hairy, with slight crests; abdomen without crests; tibiae hairy; antennae of <J 

 thickened and flattened, beneath with clavate serrations terminating in sessile fascicles of cilia. Larva 

 stout, without markings; the head large and round; thoracic and anal segments with horny plates; feeding 

 at roots of grass: the imago emerges in autumn. Type Luperina dumerilii Dup. 



L. testacea Hbn. (= lunatostrigata Haw.) (43 c). Forewing light to dark fuscous, often with a lesiacea. 

 faint ochreous or brownish tinge; the veins darker; inner and outer lines double, filled in with pale, but 

 varying in intensity; claviform stigma of the ground colour with black line; orbicular and reniform 

 paler with darker centres; submarginal line pale, obscure, often shown only by the dark terminal area 

 beyond it: hindwing whitish with dark veins and black marginal line; of the forms without any ochreous 

 or rufous tinge, ab. obsoleta Tutt is pale grey without definite dark markings; — ab. cinerea Tutt (= var. obsoleta. 

 B. Guen.) (43 c) has the grey darker, more fuscous; — ab. nigrescens Tutt (43c) has the ground colour n i gresc ' ms 

 blackish of varying degrees of intensity; the inner and outer lines are sometimes connected by a black 

 streak: — in ab. unca Haw. (43c), the streak is thin and the two lines well separated; — ab. x-notata unca - 

 Haw. (43 c). has the streak thick and the lines closely approximated. Larva dirty whitish, without lines; 

 head and plates brown; feeding at roots of grasses. Widely distributed in Europe, occurring almost 

 every where, except Spain and Portugal; also in Asia Minor and Armenia. 



L. gueneei DM. Forewing ochreous white suffused with rufous and slightly dusted with darker; gueneei. 

 the postmedian area paler except towards costa; hnes blackish conversely edged with whitish, the inner 

 oblique and dentate to submedian fold, then angled inwards on vein 1 ; the outer angled outwards on vein 

 6, incurved and dentate-lunulate below; subterminal line pale, defined by dark marks on each side; a row 

 of black terminal lunules ; fringe cut with white beyond the veins ; orbicular stigma small, narrowed above, 

 reniform somewhat produced inwards on median vein, both with white annuli defined by dark; hindwing 

 pure white ; a terminal series of dark striae from apex to vein 2 and a faint shade at vein 1 ; — ab. 

 baxteri South is a much greyer form, without any rufous tinge on head, thorax, or forewing. Occurs along baxleri. 

 the coast in X. Wales and Lancashire in Britain and in Central France. 



L. nickerlii Frr. (43 d). Like testacea, but olive grey, without any rufous tinge; inner and outer nickerlii. 

 hnes conversely edged with whitish; a blackish shade before inner line from median vein to inner margin, 

 interrupted at vein 1; claviform stigma broadly blackish; orbicular a minute white spot; reniform sub- 

 quadrate, with fuscous centre and broad white annulus, the area beyond it blackish, submarginal line 

 whiter, preceded, except between veins 6 and 7, by a blackish shade; a row of neat black marginal 

 lunules; fringe dark grey pencilled with light grey; hindwing pure white, with dark marginal lunules and 

 white fringe; the veins dark. Bohemia and S. France. 



L. dumerilii Dup. (= amentata Germ.) (43 d). Forewing whitish ochreous, generally with a pinkish dumerilii. 

 or rufous tinge; the median and terminal areas, a costal patch before submarginal line, and generally the 

 basal area olive brown; inner and outer lines double, dark filled in with ochreous; median vein and vein- 

 lets whitish: claviform stigma minute, brown edged, or absent; orbicular and reniform filled in with 

 whitish, with pale brown centres; space between outer and submarginal lines of the pale ground colour, 

 or slightly tinged with olive brown; submarginal line indicated by the dark terminal area, generally also 

 preceded by a pale brown line; fringe chequered, brown and pale; hindwing white, tinged with grey in 

 dark 22; — ab. sancta Stgr. (43 d) from Palestine and Sicdy, is smaller, darker, with the upper stigmata sancta. 

 snow white: the hindwing with a dark cellspot on the underside; a 2 from Ficuzza, Sicily certainly 

 belongs here; — ab. diversa Stgr. (43 d), from Asia Minor and Armenia, is paler, somewhat larger, with the diversa. 

 markings more diffuse; — ab. uniformis ab. nov. (= ab. A. Guen., desyllesi Stgr. nee Bsd.) (43 d) is wholly uniformis. 

 brownish fuscous; the hnes hardly visible except at costa; all 3 stigmata edged with black; the two upper 

 Tvith pale annuli; hindwing white, with a dark cellspot on the underside, as in sancta Guen.; — Guenee's 

 example was from Lyons; the one described above, a $, from Ficuzza, Sicily. Occurs in Britain (South 

 coast), France, Italy. Sicily, Dalmatia; in Armenia, Asia Minor, Syria, Palestine and Mesopotamia. 



L. desyllesi Bsd. Intermediate between testacea and cespitis; hardly as large as dumerilii. Forewing desyllesi. 

 brownish grey; inner and outer lines fine, blackish, well apart below, externally edged by a fine yellowish 



