198 TRIPHAENOPSIS. By W. Warren. 



white, with slight grey centre; sometimes a yellowish tint is seen along the two folds, forming a yellow 

 patch beyond reniform stigma; fringe grey, beyond a row of black terminal lunules; hindwing pale yellow, 

 with black terminal border, broad at apex; fringe pale grey. A Southern insect, found only in Spain 

 and Sicily. 



Sect. II. Antennae of <$ with pedicellate fascicles of cilia. 



sericata. P. sericata Esp. (= sericina Esp., prospicua Hbn., nebulifera Gnen.) (44 g). ForeAving olive green, 



speckled and suffused with darker green, sometimes intermixed with bluish white; veins towards termen 

 black and grey; inner and outer lines double, black, waved, filled up with pale green or bluish grey; the 

 outer line strongly dentate outwardly, and followed on submedian fold by a thick black streak to termen; 

 submarginal line obscure, preceded by a slight dark shade and followed by black dashes to termen between 

 the veins; the 3 stigmata large, of the ground colour, black-edged, or nearly obsolete; hindwing fulvous 

 yellow, the veins darker; a thick rufous bar on discocellular; terminal border black, becoming rufous brown 



riridata. along costa, preceded by a distinct lunulate-dentate outer line; — viridata Bagusa (44 g), from Sicily, is 

 /"" ," paler, more blue-green, with both lines strongly filled in with bluish white; in ab. mediolucens Fuchs (44 g) 

 the median area, especially towards costa, is paler green, without the dark green irroration. — Found 

 throughout Central and Southern Europe, also in Armenia, Syria, and Asia Minor. Larva whitish or 

 yellowish grey; dorsal line paler, edged with black, with pale dots on each side. On various shrubs, such 

 as Lonicera, Ligustrum, Cornus etc. 



Sect. III. Antennae of £ with tuberculate fascicles of cilia. 



propinqua. P. propinqua Stgr. (44 h). Smaller and darker than sericata, the forewing much suffused with 



fuscous, the submarginal line showing paler, the costal portion of median shade conspicuously black; 

 hindwing without outer line; the inner edge of the dark terminal border containing a sinus on submedian 

 fold. Taurus Mts., Akbes, Syria. 



albibasis. P. albibasis spec. nov. (44 h). Forewing olive green as in sericata, but of the same size as propinqua; 



the lines filled in with white; the marginal lunules much deeper and blacker; distinguished at once by an 

 irregular whitish blotch from costa to vein 1 between the subbasal and inner lines; the dark terminal 

 border of hindwing thinned off before anal angle. Sierra de Alfacar, Andalusia, Spain. 



By reason of the structure of the antennae of the <J these last 2 species must be separated from sericata. 



subsericata. P- subsericata H.-Schaff. (42 1). Forewing grey suffused with olive brown, and densely dusted with 



black; median area paler in basal half; inner and outer lines black and double, filled in with grey; sub- 

 terminal grey, dentate, preceded by a dark shade; orbicular stigma small, round, black-edged, the centre 

 olive; reniform greyish white; hindwing brown with black terminal border, and with no discocellular bar. 

 Rhodes, Cyprus, Asia Minor. 



46. Genus: Triphaenopsis Btlr. 



Distinguished from Polypliaenis by the antennae of the <J which are simply pubescent or extremely 

 shortly ciliated; the hindwing has the black terminal border much broader, and the inner margin also 

 broadly blackish. Type Triphaenopsis lucilla Btlr. 



Sect. I. Terminal segment of palpi long and porrect. 



PU rima ^' pulcherrima Moore (= largetaui Oberth., opulenta Btlr.) (44 h). Forewing black brown and olive 



green, mixed with some reddish; inner and outer lines black, conversely edged with pale green; submarginal 

 line pale green, indistinct, preceded by a blackish green shade containing black wedge-shaped marks; an 

 oblique diffuse median dark shade from costa to reniform; claviform stigma rufous with black edge, some- 

 times lost in a blackish suffusion between the two lines; orbicular and reniform olive green with black 

 edges, the outer half of the reniform generally suffused with ochreous or green; hindwing orange with a 

 black border which is twice as wide above vein 5; the inner margin also broadly and diffusely black, not 

 quite reaching outer border; fringe yellow, black between veins 2 and 4, and again slightly towards anal 

 coecata. angle; in the ab. coecata ab. nov. (= ab. 1. Hmps.) (44 h) the reniform is not filled up with pale, and the 

 maculata. whole wing is more or less suffused with purplish green; in ab. maculata ab. nov. (= ab. 2. Hmps.) the 

 reniform is followed by an ochreous patch, while another similar patch stands on inner margin beyond 

 nigrvplaga. outer line; a conspicuously distinct form — ab. njgriplaga ab. nov. (44 h) has the median space between 

 inner and outer lines quite pale green from costa to submedian fold, the lower half being occupied by a 

 velvery black blotch with rounded upper edge; a smaller black blotch occupies the basal area from costa 

 to submedian fold. An Indian species, which is recorded also from W. China and Amurland. 



