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P. epigramma Stgr. Very near to polygramma Dup., but a little larger; the grey more mixed with epigramma. 

 yellow or brownish; first pale line, that beyond middle, broader, with broader internal olive brown edging, 

 diffused inwardly; the spot on discocellular larger and more diffuse; outer line rounded to costa, but faint, 

 beyond a row of irregularly toothed marks, paler externally and often subobsolete, especially in the ^; apical 

 streak olive brown ; hindwing light grey with a broad abbreviated whitish fascia on inner margin. Issykkul. 



P. gratiosa Ev. Forewing pale greyish clay yellow ; on the discocellular a large diffuse blackish spot ; graliosa. 

 just beyond it a sinuous whitish line, sharply defined and entire, preceded by clay-yellow, followed by a leaden 

 grey band edged by a row of black dots; another fainter before termen; hindwing with pale antemedian 

 and a postmedian line of blackish points. Recorded from the Kirghiz steppes and the Thian Shan Mts. 



P. parallela Frr. (= concinnula H. Sch. fig. 256 nee Bsd.) (51 g). Forewing white, dusted with olive parallela. 

 grey; the lines all bluntly angled on or below subcostal vein, then inwardly oblique and parallel; inner line, 

 as usual, indistinct ; median preceded by a diffuse olive grey shade, containing in the angle two small black 

 dots on the discocellular ; outer line fine, dark grey, the space between it and median forming a white band, 

 externally grey-dusted; submarginal line white, broad, outwardly edged with black specks, sharply angled 

 on vein 6, its oblique costal portion curved; a dark grey apical spot with a small black dot on its lower edge; 

 fringe white with the centre grey; hindwing whitish, greyer towards termen, with a faint pale submarginal 

 band, clearest at anal angle; ab. densata ab. nov. (= var. A. Guen.) (51 g) is larger and darker olive grey, densata. 

 with all the markings better developed; the median shade more broadly bent, rather than angled, in cell; 

 the hindwing in both sexes much darker. From the analogy of respersa, it might be supposed that this larger 

 darker form represented the ordinary spring brood, and the typical parallela, a smaller, paler, summer brood. 

 Gucnee's pair were from the same locality as his parallela, the Ural Mts. ; Spuler refers his larger (and greener) 

 specimens to Pontus; of the 3 examples in the Tring Museum, one, from the Felder Collection, is without lo- 

 cality, the other two from Syria, the $ from the Amanus Mts., the <J from Marash. Other localities for the 

 species are Taurus, Armenia, Kurdistan and ? Persia. 



P. pusilla Ev. (= proxima Fisch., concinnula Bsd.) (51 g) Smaller and paler than the preceding species pusilla. 

 parallela; the pale bands and dark lines and shades more concisely marked and separated, more sharply 

 angled above middle, the dark shading smoother olive grey; a grey streak from base along each fold, the 

 upper one with a black dot in cell; the hindwing in both sexes whiter; in the ab. gracilis ab. nov. (51 g) from 

 Uralsk, the only distinct markings are the outer edge of the median band and the dark terminal border, 

 both wings being whiter. Recorded from S. E. Russia, the Altai Mts. in W. Siberia, and Tarbagatai Mts. 



P. fugitiva Chr. Forewing white, with a faint brownish outer and submarginal line; two dark spots jugitiva. 

 below apex; a black dot in cell and a larger one at its end; hindwing with two inconspicuous grey bands. 

 Distinguished from hansa by the slighter build, the clear white ground colour, the absence of a middle 

 line, and the two dark apical spots. Recorded, from Persia only. 



P. albicans Guen. (= grata Guen. nee Tr., gueneei Spul.). Forewing creamwhite, the lines faintly mark- albicans. 

 ed with pale brown; the median and outer rounded, subparallel ; the subterminal pale on a brownish suffusion, 

 close to and parallel with the termen; a dark dot in cell, and a patch of brown scales on the discocellular; 

 some brown marks along termen; hindwing white, greyish towards termen; the fringe white; underside of 

 forewing blackish, of hindwing white dusted with dark; 2 smaller than $. Spain. 



P. faroulti Roths (52k). Forewing chalkwhite, towards termen tinged with rosy grey; costal edge faroulti. 

 brown; lines brown, starting from oblique costal streaks; the inner quite faint, marked only by a few 

 scattered scales, followed by a minute black dot in cell; median and outer lines close together, quadrately 

 bent beyond cell; a brown subquadrate spot on discocellular, its inner edge thick and darker; subterminal 

 line whitish grey, traversing the darker grey terminal area, the veins before it paler, its outer edge marked 

 by spots of a few black scales between veins, that above vein 7 strongest, with a dark cloud above it in the 

 praeapical fringe ; terminal line bright ferruginous ; fringe white at base, lilac grey in middle, and rufous grey 

 at tips; hindwing white washed with pale brown, forming a dark submarginal band; the terminal area whiter 

 before the ferruginous terminal line ; the veins brown ; fringe glossy white ; head, thorax, and abdomen white ; 

 the palpi tinged with pale brown. Algeria. 



P. candicans Rmb. <$ (= extraria Rmb. $) (51 g). Forewing of $ white suffused with brownish ochreous, candicans. 

 except the cell and basi-costal area; of $ nearly uniform fuscous grey; lines brownish, diffuse; the inner waved; 

 median and outer excurved above and incurved below middle, the latter edged outwardly with whitish ; 

 subterminal line white, with small blackish spots on outer edge; some dark scales in middle of cell and a 

 black striga at its end; hindwing white suffused, except at base with pale brown; the ab. extranea Rmb. is extranea. 

 a form of the $ with whitish ground colour as in the $, with brownish suffusion before subterminal line in 

 both wings. Occurs in Spain and Algeria. 



