218 CONDICA; PEOSPALTA. By W. Warren. 



venuslula. P. venustula Hbn. (= hybnerana F.) (45 i). Forewing white, the basal half tinged with dull pink; 



inner and outer lines double, grey, waved, their inner and outer arms respectively thicker and duller, 

 those enclosing the median area darker and thinner below middle, each preceded by an irregular brownish 

 shade; a broad oblique white streak from apex, interrupting a brown praesubmarginal shade, which is 

 again interrupted above inner margin; submarginal line undefined except at middle where it is preceded 

 by a brown shade containing 2 or 3 black marks the terminal area beyond it and the fringe uninter- 

 ruptedly brown; claviform stigma grey edged with white; orbicular absent, its place taken by a black 

 semicircular blotch on median vein from which black scales run down 'through the brown shade; reniform 

 obscurely marked, pale grey inwardly, with some black scales externally touching outer line; hindwing 

 whitish, tinged with brownish grey towards termen; a grey cellspot and outer line. A local species, occur- 

 ring in heathy places in woods; Britain, France, Spain, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Eoumelia, 

 S.Russia; and in Asia in Armenia, Transcaucasia, Persia, West and East Siberia. — Larva purplish brown; 

 the dorsal line indistinctly paler; 4 th segment with a pale spot at sides; head brown; said to feed on floAvers 

 of Potentilla reptans: difficult to breed in captivity. 



82. Genus: Condica Walk. 



Tongue present; frons smooth; palpi upturned, stout, the second segment rough haired below, the 

 third smooth; thorax and base of dorsum with slight crests; the vertex and frons tufted with hair; the 

 abdomen of $ with lateral tufts of hair; pectus and femora hairy; antennae of <J slightly pubescent; 

 neuration normal. Type C. cupentia Cram, from America. 



siderifera. C. siderifera Moore (45 k). Forewing purplish brown or purplish fuscous; the lines black and double, 



both strongly waved and conversely lunulate-dentate; submarginal line interrupted into spots, preceded 

 by black wedge-shaped marks and followed by slighter ones; claviform stigma large, subquadrate, filled up 

 with brown black ; upper stigmata of the ground colour, the reniform on its outer side marked with a large 

 conspicuous snow white spot with a smaller dot above and two below; hindwing dark fuscous brown. 

 A North Indian species, occurring throughout W. China. 



connivens. C. connivens Feld. (= quadrisigna Moore, placida Moore) (45 k). Forewing pale grey with a slight 



lilac or olive tinge; the lines as in siderifera, but indistinct ; claviform stigma small, brownish edged with 

 black, the inner line, where^ it touches, black ; upper stigmata obscure, separated by a dark quadrate 

 space; fringe grey; hindwing grey, browner towards termenand paler towards base, darker in the $; the 

 fringe white. Also an Indian species, and found in S. Africa, but recorded from Kashmir. Smaller and 

 much paler than siderifera. 



confundens. C. confundens Walk. (= rnacrostigma Snell.) (45 k). Forewing varying from fuscous brown to grey, 



the <$ generally greyer than the $; intermediate between connivens, which is paler grey, and siderifera, 

 which is much darker; the lines and markings similar; claviform stigma large and black, especially in 

 the <J, the outer edge of the dark blotch between the upper stigmata in a line with its own outer edge; 

 reniform stigma with a bluish white spot accompained by clots, as in siderifera, but never so prominent; 

 sometimes only the white dots present, or all obsolete; hindwing of $ brown, of the $ grey, whitish 

 towards base. Another Indian insect, recorded from Kiukiang, Central China. Its various forms seem 

 restricted to Indo-oriental localities. 



S3. Genus; Prospalta Walk. 



Differs from Condica Walk, in its less robust structure, the thorax and abdomen being narrower, 

 and in the broader forewings; the dorsum is without lateral tufts, and the pectus and femora less hairy; 

 as to markings, the forewing is dark with pale lines and stigmata, formed, in the more typical species, 

 of conspicuous white dots, and is always without the large black claviform stigma of Condica. Type 

 P. leucospila Walk, from India. 



siderea. P. siderea Leech (45 1). Forewing deep olive-brown, the lines darker but obscure, all marked by 



round white dots; 6 or 7 close to base represent the subbasal line; claviform stigma a large white dark- 

 edged spot on submedian fold ; orbicular a central white dot with 4 others arranged quadrately round it, 

 the outer two with a smaller dot between them; reniform large, formed of 2 curved rows of large white 

 spots, with two between them sometimes united to form a lunule; the white spots of the inner and outer 



