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C. nanna Hmps. Forewing palo ochreous, sometimos rufous-tinged; the basal area suffused nanna. 

 with grey and with fuscous speckling; inner line indistinct, oblique to vein 1, then bent inwards; outer 

 line brown, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, the interval between it and subterminal line fuscous or 

 rufous; some dark points along tormen; reniform stigma diffusedly blackish, with grey lunule at centre; 

 an externally diffuse median band fuscous or rufous, angled outwards on median voin and incurved above 

 and below; liindwing ochreous white; basal area blackish, but with a pale streak below median vein; 

 a large black discoidal lunule; a broad black terminal border, its inner edge curved inwards betweon 

 veins 4 and 1, and with an ochreous blotch on termen between veins 3 and 1; Khamba Jong, Tibet. 

 Allied to dipsacea but smaller. 



8. Genus: Rhodocleptria Hmps. 



Differs from Chloridea Weslw. in the fore-tibia being short and broad, not spined, its apex with 

 a long curved claw on inner side and a short one on outer; the frons with a corneous plate below the 

 rounded prominence; the antennae of <$ simply lamellate. Type R. incarnata Frr. 



R. incarnata Frr. (= boisduvalii Bsd.) (501). Forewing olive green with a yellow tinge; costal edge incarnata. 

 and fringe dull pink; orbicular stigma a dark speck (rarely a flattened oval ring) ; reniform with dark lateral 

 edges, sometimes filled in with dull pink, lying on a darker median shade; postmedian line marked by 

 dark dots; praesubmarginal shade by a costal blotch; hindwing dull ochreous, with smoky base, dark 

 veins, and broad fuscous border; fringe pink. Algeria, Spain, Hungary, Turkey, S. Eussia; Armenia, Asia 

 Minor, Syria, and Central Asia. — ■ Larva pale yellow, the tubercles black; dorsal line dark; subdorsal 

 orange patches on each segment, and faint subdorsal and lateral lines. 



R. I eildi Ersch. (501). Forewing pale olive green; basal area limited by a twice curved line, out- feildi. 

 wardly toothed on median vein, followed by a deep olive shade, which pales off again towards margin; 

 inner and outer lines finely darker; hindwing olive ochreous; a dark cellspot and marginal border; fringe 

 of forewing dark, of hindwing pale. W. Turkestan. 



4. Genus: Cliariclea Curt. 



Differs from Bhodocleptria Hmps. in having the thorax slightly crested; the mid, and hind tibiae 

 more sparsely spined. Type C. delphinii L. 



C. delphinii L. (501). £ Forewing purplish pink, paler along outer margin and fringe, deepest in delphinii. 

 basal area and beyond middle; basal area edged by a pale and pink trilobed line; orbicular stigma 

 ochreous. obscure; reniform large, irregular, edged with brownish purple, attached to the median shade, 

 which with the double postmedian line and space bej'ond forms an irregular darker band; hindwing dirty 

 ochreous, wnth fuscous veins and border, the extreme margin pink; $ darker, with a grey suffusion over 

 both wings. France, Germany, Switzerland, Itaty, and Greece in S.Europe; Sweden and Eussia, formerly 

 in Britain; Armenia, and Asia Minor; — the form darollesi Oberth. (50 .) found in Algeria, Armenia, and darollesi. 

 W. Turkestan is much paler. — Larva violet grey; dorsal line black edged with j^ellow; sublateral bands 

 broadly yellow; thoracic plate black, anal plate yellow; the whole body studded with black tubercles; 

 feeds on flowers and seeds of Delphinium. 



5. Genus; AEdophron Led. 



Differs from the preceding genus in having the foretibia of normal breadth, its apex with a long 

 curved claw on outer side and none on the inner, but in its stead a second on the outer side from the 

 apex of the first tarsal segment; head, thorax, and abdomen rough haired, but without crests. Type 

 AE. rhodites Ev. 



AE. rhodites Ev. (= aurorina H. Sch.) (50 m). Forewing cream colour (sometimes yellowish), suffused rhodites. 

 with bright pink; the cell, short marginal patches between the veins, and longer streaks on eaeh side of 

 vein 5 and below veins 1 and 2 remaining pale; veins deeper, sometimes fuscous; hindwing rosy, with 

 costal area- broadly fuscous, especially in $; fringe white. — An eastern species, occurring in Eussia, Asia 

 Minor, Armenia, and Persia. — Larva stout, dull brownish grey, dusted with darker; feeding on flowers 

 and seeds of Phlomis, preferring withered and dry plants, pupating rather deep in the ground. 



AE. phlebophora Led. (50 m). Forewing sulphur yellow; hindwing white, with the termen yellowish ;phlebophora. 

 in wasted specimens the veins show brownish. — Armenia, Syria, Asia Minor, Persia. — Larva greenish ; 



