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H. purpurascens Tausch (= pulchra Be.) (50 f). Pore-wing purple red overlaid with black hairlike purpur- 

 scales; an oblique median band yellowish white enclosing the rufous grey reniform stigma ami crossed by ascens - 

 dark vems. its centre with grey scaling on costa and inner margin; marginal area olive; hindwing bronzy 

 black with white fringe: two yellowish white spots in place of a median hand: underside straw white: 

 forewing with a large basal blotch, not reaching inner margin, the reniform, and terminal border not reaching 

 apex black: himlwing with the whole base black and the border to vein :5 only. Sarepta and theUralMts. 

 in B. E. Russia, Asia Minor, and Kuku Nor, Tibet. — Larva reddish yellow above with a fine dark dorsal 

 line, paler at the sides, pale grey below: tubercles black: head yellow brown; in flowers of Cephelaria 

 tartarica; snbsp. subrosea subsp. nov. (50 f) has the upperside of forewing bright purple without dark scaling; subrosea. 

 a pale yellow streak in base of cell, and the median band broader, yellower and clearer; on the underside 

 the base of cell of forewing is yellow and the apex of forewing and apical half of hind-wing are bright rosy; 

 the fringe of forewing also rosy. Thorax purple, the vertex and shoulders purple tinged. A single $ from Tibet. 



H. imperialis Styr. (50 g). Like purpurascens but the median band grey green, angled outwards imperialis. 

 below costa, then constricted, with a small white spot in the cell on its inner edge; the rest like purpuras- 

 cens; underside like that of its subsp. subrosea, but with no rosy tints. — In N. Caucasus and Armenia. — 

 Larva like that of purpurascens; but larger, pale grey brown above, yellowish beneath, living on flowers 

 of Cephelaria procera. 



13. Genus: Pyrocleptria Hmps. 



Differs from Heliotliis in the forewing being short and broad; the cell of hindwing not shortened; 

 veins 3, 4 and 6, 7 not stalked; frons with rounded prominence. 



P. cora Ev. (= coreta Guen.) (50 g). Forewing olive brown, suffused with darker brown, sometimes cora. 

 speckled: inner line strongly outcurved, outer line sinuous, both double, pale olive grey, like the veins; 

 median shade, a shade before inner line, and one beyond outer line deep brown; fringe brown; hindwing 

 bright yellow with broad black terminal border; the fringe yellowish; cellspot, the base of wing, and 

 inner margin blackish. — Restricted to the Eastern parts of S.Europe, Hungar}^ S.Russia, the UralMts.; 

 also in W. and E. Siberia, Mongolia, and Amurland. In the form odenwalli Herz, from Transbaikalia, the odenwalli. 

 forewing is dark brown; the hindwing with very broad black areas, leaving the yellow band narrow. 



P. copiosa Leech (50 g). Very much like cora, but the median area paler with blackish suffusion; copiosa. 

 the reniform plainer and blackish; a yellowish spot at base of costa; hindwing deeper orange with the 

 markings blacker; the cellspot large and isolated. Houkow, W. China. 



Division VI. Tibiae without claws or spines; eyes simple. 



14. Genus: Xaiithothrix H. Edw. 



Tongue well developed; palpi short, obliquely porrect, the second segment long-haired below; 

 frons with large prominence with raised rim, containing a central corneous process hollow-ed out in front, 

 with a corneous plate below it; antennae of $ simple, lamellate; thorax and abdomen rough haired, without 

 crests; fore tibia with a curved claw at extremity on inner side. Type X. ranunculi H. Edw. from X. America. 

 The claw of fore tibia is reminiscent of the preceding division. 



X. callicore Styr. (50 g). Eorewing grey brown dusted with fuscous and overlaid with long whitish callicore. 

 hairlike scales; inner and outer hues black, double, vertically waved; submarginal line pale, waved parallel 

 to outer line, the terminal area on each side of it darker fuscous like the basal; a dark, blackedged 

 lunule at end of cell placed on an obscure median shade; fringe mottled, black and white; hindwing 

 deep yellow with black cellspot and broad black terminal border, the inner edge of which is indented; 

 base of wing clouded with black scales; the inner margin narrowly black; fringe yellow. Asia Minor, 

 Pontus, Lydia, Taurus. 



15. Genus: Apaustis Hbn. 



Tongue fully developed; frons with a large rounded corneous prominence with raised rim and a 

 truncate process in middle, with corneous plate below it; palpi porrect, short, hairy below; antennae of <J 

 ciliated; thorax and abdomen rough-haired, without crests; fore tarsi with all the segments very much 

 shortened and the ungues large; forew T ing without areole; veins 7 and 11 from cell; 8, 9, 10 stalked. 

 Type A. rupicola Schiff. 



A. rupicola Schiff. (= heliophila Hbn., palliata F., pallium Bkh.) (50 g). Forewing bronzy brown rupicola. 

 grey; the inner, median, and outer lines all somewhat darker, waved and curved parallel to each other, 

 and slightly marked by pale grey scales; submarginal line pale, especially at costa, preceded by a broad 

 waved dark shade; a black lunule on discocellular; fringe white, its basal half black-spotted; hindwing 

 smoky blackish fuscous; fringe as in forewing; the head and shoulders are deep yellow. Austria, Hungary, 

 Bulgaria, S. E. Russia: Pontus, X. W. Kurdistan, Ala-tau Mts. 



A. theophila Stgr. (50 g). Forewing dark to the margin; the fringe yellowish white in the apical theophila. 

 half and dark below the middle. Greece. Lydia. 



