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whitish green, of the o more or less suffused with grey except along costa, showing a pale curved outer 



band; fringe white; — in ab. immaculata stgr. (48 g) the whole forewing is uniformly green, with no trace immaculate/,. 



of a white reniform. and the hindwings of the <J are not fuscous; — ab. thalassina ab. nov. (48 g) has the thalassina. 



forewing glossy dark sea-green, with the outer half of fringe greenish; the hindwing green flushed with 



darker green and the veins green: head and thorax sea green like the forewings; the abdomen white as 



in typical circus: the description is made from 1 q and 2 $$ in the Tring Museum, unfortunately without 



locality label, but probably of German origin; 1 $ has a diffuse whitish smear on the discocellular, the 



others are immaculate: the ab. rufata ab. nov. (= ah. 2. Hmps.) (48 g) has the reniform filled up with rufous rufaia. 



fuscous or with the white discocellular edged with rufous, and the whole hindwing brownish grey with the 



fringe white. Occurs throughout Central Europe except Britain, S. Sweden, S. W. Russia, S. E. France, 



Spain, and S. Italy: the form immaculata in Hungary, S. Russia, Armenia, Asia Minor, Altai Mts., Persia, 



Issyk-kul, and the Tarbagatai Mts. Larva dark greenish brown; dorsal line fine and conspicuously pale; 



tubercles black; head redbrown. the thoracic and anal plates black; feeds up in spring on numerous low 



plants, Alsine. Plantago, etc., and pupates in a slight cocoon. 



121. Genus: Spliragifera Step: 



Tongue well developed; irons smooth; palpi upcurved in front of face, the second segment long, 

 slender, reaching vertex of head, the third distinct, pointed; antennae of ^ filiform, simple; thorax and 

 abdomen stout, smoothly scaled, without crests; forewing marked with a brown subapical blotch and with 

 traces of lines. Type Sphragifera sigillata Men. 



S. sigillata Men. (48 h). Forewing white speckled with grey-brown, most thickly along inner margin; sirjillalu. 

 inner and outer lines grey brown, obscure; the inner oblique and waved, the outer visible only above 

 inner margin where it is angled outw r ards on vein 1 ; above it is a narrow white reniform stigma with 

 dark brown outline, often obsolete; beyond it a large roundish chocolate brown blotch, reaching from costa 

 to vein 3, bluntly pointed outwards on vein 6; the area below and beyond it often diffusely grey brown; 

 a grey brown submarginal curved streak from vein 5 to inner margin, preceded by an indistinct pale 

 submarginal line, and followed by a grey festooned line from costa to anal angle, close before the dark 

 marginal line; fringe grey brow r n, whiter at apex; hindwing white, dusted with grey, which forms a suf- 

 fused band along termen; cellspot grey. Amurland and Japan. 



S. biplaga Walk. (= subapicalis Walk., biplagiata Walk.) (48 h). Smaller than sigillata; the sub- biplaga. 

 apical blotch smaller, nearer apex, its inner edge straighter, paler brown; instead of the grey lines of 

 sigillata. an oblique bright brown band from costa before middle merging below median vein in a diffuse 

 fuscous or brown grey blotch lying below the brown subapical blotch; a white lunulate reniform with dark 

 brown outline, followed by some dark brown scaling, through which sometimes can be traced an outer line; 

 a blackish festooned line just before termen, containing black spots below veins 2, 3, and 4; fringe pale 

 grey; hindwing white, with a cloudy grey terminal border, especially in the §. China and Corea. 



S. rejecta F. (= bimacula Walk.) (48 h). Forewing white; costa with 3 brown spots indicating the rejecia. 

 origin of inner, median, and outer lines; the second prolonged into a short streak; the outer line brown- 

 grey, entire, excurved above and dentate-lunulate, the teeth forming dark brown points on veins; submarginal 

 line starting from a large black brown blotch, somewhat gamma-shaped, the tail curving outwards above vein 6, 

 and continued as a vertical grey brown shade to anal angle; a row of blackish dashes between the veins 

 close before termen; fringe white; hindwing white, with black marginal spots. China: also found in N. India. 



122. Genus: Cliasminotles Hmps. 



Tongue present; irons smooth; palpi upturned, smoothly scaled; antennae of <J ciliated; scaling 

 smooth and glossy; thorax without crests; forew-ing broad, the apex squared, the termen sligthly curved; 

 forewing without areole; 7, 8, 9 stalked; 10, 11 from cell. Type G. albonitens Hmps. 



Distinguished from Chasmina Walk, by the absence of the areole. 



C. albonitens Brem. (48 h). Forewing and hindwing pure shining white; a slight dark spot at albonitens. 

 lower end of cell, and faint dark dots along termen; the third segment of palpi black at tips. Amur- 

 land, Japan, Corea. Larva between united leaves of lime in spring. 



C. Cilia Stgr. (48 h). Forewing white, with a small black spot at lower end of cell; beyond it a brown cilia. 

 outcurved outer line; a row of black dots along termen and four on costa before apex; hindwing white. Amurland. 



C. nervosa Btlr. (48 h). Forewing bluish white, with the veins and termen blackish; hindwing nervosa. 

 similar. A small species from Japan. 



C. atrata Btlr. (= borussica Stgr.) (48 h). Forewing and hindwing deep black, with the extreme alrala. 

 base of both wings white; the abdomen white. Amurland and Japan. 



C. nigrilinea Leech (48 h). Larger than cilia Stgr., without cellspot; the outer line grey and thick, nUjrilinea. 

 incurved on submedian fold; the black terminal spots stopping at apex; fringe white tipped with rufous 

 grey; hindwing with an outer line, beyond which the apical half of terminal area is grey; a dark marginal 

 line; fringe white with a grey patch at apex. Japan. Described from a single $. 



