246 CHLORIDEA. By W. Warhek. 



yellow; a broad pale lateral line enclosing the spiracles, which are black with white rings on reddish pat- 

 ches; — on flowers of flax, Ononis, etc. 



■peltigera. C. peltigera Schiff. (= alphea Cram., florentina Esp., charmione Stoll, barbara F., stramineaDo?!.) (50 k). 



Forewing greyish ochreous, flushed with pale brown, except the narrow marginal area; lines brown, in- 

 distinct; orbicular stigma a dark dot; reniform grey with dark brown edge and centre, joined to a brown 

 mark on middle of costa; a brown band between outer and submarginal lines; a black dot below vein 2 

 before margin; hindwing with broad brown-black marginal border, containing a pale blotch between 2 

 and 4; cellspot dark; fringe white. — Central and South Europe, Morocco, the Canaries, Asia Minor, 

 Syria, Persia; an occasional immigrant only to northern localities. — Larva reddish grey or ochreous, 

 dotted with white; dorsal and subdorsal lines dark; spiracular line white; on flowers of various plants. 



obsoleta. C. obsoletaF. (= armigeraifbw., pulverosa Walk., conferta Walk., uniformis Wlngrn., punctigera W Ingrn. 



umbrosus Grote, insularis Walk.) (50 k). Forewing greyish ochreous, sometimes flushed with rufous; lines and 

 markings indistinct; the dark grey reniform stigma and a grey band beyond outer line generally plainer; 

 the orbicular stigma annular with a dark centre; hindwing ochreous with a broad blackish margin, the 

 discocellular and veins dark. — ■ Larva brownish-red; dorsal line fine, greyish green, with some interrupted 

 grey green subdorsal marks; spiracles black in a yellowish lateral stripe with the centre reddish; the red 

 tints sometimes are replaced by green; on flowers of various plants. — Central and South Europe, Ma- 

 deira, the Canaries, Syria, Kashmir, Afghanistan, China and Japan; only an occasional visitor in northern 

 latitudes, but widely spread and common in warmer climates, where its larva is often injurious to cultiv- 

 fusca. ated plants; — the fuscous shaded examples are the form fusca Ckll. (50 k) ; in this the lines, the veins, and 

 the shading are all brownish fuscous, only the terminal area remaining pale, and the stigmata ochreous; 

 another form, which appears commoner in N. Africa and other warm localities, may be separated as 

 nt/o. ab. rufa ah. nor. (501); this is uniformly dull flesh colour, with the lines and stigmata hardly visible; it is 

 rubreseens. quite distinct from the ab. rubrescens Walk, from Australia; in which the hindwings are orange yellow. 

 The synonyms quoted above, excepting Hiibner's, all refer to extra palaeaictic forms. 



nubigera. C. nubigera H. Sch. (= perigeoides Moore) (501). Forewing greyish ochreous; reniform stigma dark 



grey, attached to the grey costal median spot; orbicular annular with grey centre; outer line lunulate- 

 dentate, the teeth whitish, separated by a brown shade from the subterminal line; hindwing pearly white 

 with broad blackish outer border, containing a double whitish blotch between veins 2 and 4; veins and 

 cell spot dark; fringe white. — Taken in Algeria and the Canaries; in Spain and S. Russia; Asia Minor, 

 Syria, Armenia, Afghanistan, and Turkestan. — Larva redbrown, dorsal line darker, subdorsal band alter- 

 nately black and white; a diffused brown sublateral band. 



assulta. C. assulta Guen. (= temperata Walk., separata Walk., succinea Moore) (501). Forewing yellowish 



ochreous, the lines and markings grey and fairly distinct, especially the reniform stigma and the dark fuscous 

 band between outer and subterminal lines, but th's band is often absent; orbicular stigma annular, with 

 a dark centre; hindwing with an irregular and diffuse blackish border, becoming paler along margin. — 

 Japan, China, and Corea; an immigrant from the warmer countries of Southern Asia. — Larva pale grey 

 green, darker on dorsum; lateral stripe broadly yellow; 4 prominent small black spots on the side of each 

 segment; head reddish; — on Physalis peruviana and probably many other plants. 



maritima. C. maritima Grasl. (= spergulariae Led.). Like dipsacea L., but the apex of forewing more 



produced, the median shade more oblique, and the outer fascia straighter; the terminal segment of palpi 



ferruginea. blackish, without scaling; — in the ab. ferruginea Spul. the forewing is suffused with fulvous and 

 the hindwing with deeper j r ellow. Occurs only in S. W. France, probably one of the local forms of dip- 

 sacea. — Larva either grey green with fine dark dorsal line and broad dark lateral lines above the yello- 

 wish white spiracles ; or reddish grey with two fine dark dorsal lines close together; or bluish grey green 

 with black-brown lateral line; — on flowers of Spergularia on the sea coast. 



dejeani. C. dejeani Oberth. (501). Forewing pale olive-brown, darker along inner and outer margins; the two 



stigmata obscure black patches, the reniform with a black point above it on costa; a dark band before 

 the waved but indistinct subterminal line; hindwing dull white, with base and inner margin smoky black; 

 the discal lunule and marginal border black, the latter with a pale patch on termen, often obsolete, 

 especially in the <$. This species, found only in W. China, is allied to ononis Schiff. 



olivaria. C. olivaria Graes. Forewing olive grey, the lines clear; base of wing light, the median area 



dark; only the reniform stigma present, and that obscure; a slightly darker band between outer and 

 submarginal lines; hindwing yellowish white with the veins dark; a large blackish cellblotch; a broad 

 black marginal border narrowing at each end. — Near C. dipsacea L. — Described by C.raeser from a 

 single <J from the Ussuri district, Amurland. 



