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line; towards termen also not so clearly white but shaded with grey; a black dot in cell and one at end; a thick 

 median line; subrnarginal line white, wavy, between darker shades; fringe mottled grey and white; hindwing 

 albina. white, with traces of a dark line above anal angle. Mardin and Damascus, Syria. The form albina Stgr., queried 

 by him as either a summer brood or a possibly distinct species, from Palestine, is whiter, with the dark markings 

 reduced. 



leucota. P. leucota Hmps. (51 n). Forewing white, terminally suffused with brownish ochreous; costa at base 



sprinkled with brown; an oblique diffuse brownish ochreous median band containing a black spot on discal 

 fold, its outer edge incurved below middle; subterminal line indistinct, whitish, containing black points on its 

 outer edge below costa and on both folds; a rufous patch at apex; hindwing white, the terminal area slightly 

 brownish. Described from a $ from Bander Abbas, on the Persian Gulf. 



purpurina. P. purpurina Schiff. (51 f). Forewing with basal half pale greenish ochreous, deeper green before the 



median line which projects angularly in cell, then runs obliquely inwards, followed immediately by the deep 

 rosy tint of the outer half of wing; in this the outer line, which projects somewhat squarely beyond cell, the 

 praesubmarginal shade, and the veins beyond middle are deeper rosy; subrnarginal line whitish, outwardly 

 lunulate, indented on each fold ; a rosy streak from apex, and rosy terminal line ; fringe rosy interlined with 

 secunda. pale; hindwing olive brown, paler in the ^; fringe whitish; — secunda Stgr. (51 f) (probably the summer brood) 

 is much paler, the purplish tints fainter; the hindwing yellowish white, flushed with olive grey along termen. 

 Larva dull blackish green ; lines pale yellowish, strongest at the segmental incisions ; head and thoracic plate black 

 brown; feeding in spring and autumn on Cirsium arvense, pupating in a double greyish brown cocoon. Found 

 in S. E. Europe; in Algeria; in Pontus, Taurus, Armenia, Ferghana, and Samarcand. 



cochylioides. P. cochylioides Guen. (= rosita Guen., phoenissa Led., derogata Walk.) (51 f). Forewing in basal half 



ochreous yellow, tinged with olive along costa and before an oblique median line, beyond which to the subrnar- 

 ginal line the ground colour is rosy, with sometimes an outwardly angled deeper rosy outer line; subrnarginal 

 oblique from close to apex, white, deeply indented and lunulate outwards, with a few scattered black scales 

 on its outer edge, and forming between veins 1 and 3 two larger white spots black-edged outwardly; ter- 

 minal area olive; the terminal line darker; fringe olive with a pale line at base; hindwing whitish tinged 

 wholly or terminally with grey in $, narrowly in $. Guenee's cochylioides was described from specimens 

 from He Bourbon and. He de France; his rosita from Australia; phoenissa Led. from Syria; derogata Walk, 

 calida. from Ceylon; all apparently are one and the same species; in the ab. calida Rbl. (51 g) from the Canaries, as also 

 in the majority of Australian $$, the rosy tinge of forewing is almost or altogether obsolete 



anaehoresis. P. anachoresis Wvngm. (= accedens Fldr., divisa Moore, leonata Btlr.) (51 g). Forewing with the whole 



b as al half cream white washed with bright yellow, sharply limited by a slightly oblique fine black line 

 inwardly edged with white; subrnarginal line white, edged externally with black scales; the space between 

 the lines deep rosy, towards subrnarginal line olive brown; an outer line, angled below costa, is sometimes vis- 

 ible; terminal area and line deep rosy; fringe brown with minute strigulations in £; hindwing yellowish, tinged 

 towards termen with rosy brownish. This African and Indian species, which occurs throughout the Malay 

 islands as far as Australia, is found also in China. 



ragusana. P. ragusana Frr. (cinerina Ghil., psilogramma Led., quinquehnealis Moore, polygramma Hmps. nee 



Dup.) (51 g). Forewing white tinged with rosy grey, the costa and base remaining white; lines slightly 

 darker grey outwardly pale-edged; inner line sharply angled on subcostal and again bluntly on submedian 

 fold, inwardly oblique below the angles; median line projecting beaklike outwards on vein 7 and outer line 

 more bluntly just beyond it; subrnarginal white edged outwardly with dark; apex white with a chestnut brown 

 blotch containing two black dots; terminal line reddish, fringe white; hindwing white, tinged with grey and 

 with traces of lines; terminal line dark and distinct; the $ is larger and paler with only slight rosy tinge; 

 the fringe simply grey; in the <$ the grey fringe is strigulated with dark. Ragusana Frr. was described from 

 Dalmatia; psilogramma Led. from Syria; and quinquelineilis Moore from India; the species is recorded also 

 from N. China, S. Africa, and Australia. Virginea Guen. and dividens Lucas are forms not occurring in the 

 Palaearctic region. 



polygramma. P. polygramma Dup. (= argillacea Ev., nuda Chr.) (51 g). Forewing slaty grey; the costal edge whit- 



ish, before apex brown; inner line dark grey, interrupted; median line white, angled outwards in cell, straight 

 above and below, inwardly darker-edged; outer line oblique outwards from costa, edged inwardly with dark, 

 then waved and lunate; subrnarginal line faint, marked outwardly by a row of black dots, that below costa 

 largest; fringe grey with pale basal line; a black dot in cell, and blackish spot at its end, in the angle of 

 pudorina. median line; hindwing paler grey, the lines visible only near inner margin; pudorina Stgr. (the summer brood), 

 violetta. is paler, with a rosy tinge instead of grey; the ab. violetta Stgr. has the median line less strongly angulated 

 and may be distinct. Found all along the south coast of Europe and in Algeria; in Asia Minor, Syria, Ar- 

 menia, Mesopotamia, Turcomania and Ferghana; the ab. violetta from N. Syria. 



