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P. virginalis Oberth. (51 h). Forewing creamy white; the costa pure white; terminal line finely yellowish; virginalte. 

 hindwing pure white; the ab. caid Oberth. has in the forewing a faint blackish streak from before end of cell to caid. 

 a subterminal series of black points ; also a brownish flush towards apex below costa; the fringe brownish-tinged. 

 Sebdou, Algeria. 



P. griseola Ersch. (= pallidula Ev. nee H. Sch., squalida Stgr.) (51 m). Forewing cream colour, slightly griseola. 

 dusted with darker, with oblique median and outer lines incurved to costa, the space between them filled up 

 with dull leaden grey; the terminal area darker; hindwing luteous, with slightly darker outer band. Occurs 

 in Persia, Armenia, Turcomania, Samarcand, Ferghana, Issykkul, and Hi. 



P. uniformis Stgr. (51 m). Forewing, like head and thorax, dirty greyish white, or yellowish white; in uniformis. 

 the yellower $£ a row of dark subterminal dots; in the $ a faint dark streak appears in the cell; hindwing 

 luteous. Recorded from Persia, Armenia, Samarcand, Issykkul, and Hi. This does not seem very distinct from 

 i I lota Chr. 



P. albivestalis Hmps. (= vestalis Stgr. nee Btlr.) (51 i). Head, thorax, and wings white; forewing with albivestalis. 

 a black dot at end of cell; costa of both wings on underside broadly brownish; palpi, legs, and abdomen also 

 brownish. The Dead sea, Palestine. 



P. deserta Stgr. (51 i). Forewing somewhat elongate, chalk white with more or less dark dusting; usually deserta. 

 with a faint dark streak along the cell, and two or three pale brownish horizontal streaks above it towards 

 apex ; the intervals between the veins are occupied in the $ by dark streaks ; fringe light yellow ; hindwing dirty 

 white, with white fringe. Biskra, Algeria. Nearest to subvenata Stgr. ; the markings are often almost or quite 

 obsolete. 



P. illota (52a) Christ. Forewing dirty luteous whitish; the costa and base of wing pale yellow; the illota. 

 terrnen with a faint rosy tinge; a series of minute black dots before termen; a faint spot at end of cell, and 

 oblique brownish streak from apex; hindwing greyish white. Turcomania. Allied to griseola Ersch. and uni- 

 formis Stgr. 



P. leucanides Stgr. (51 i). Forewing generally uniform chalk white, with a slight yellowish or brownish leucanides. 

 tinge, sometimes greyish yellow or brownish yellow, in one instance dark grey brown; some specimens shew 

 faint dark streaks in cell and beneath; in others there is a row of black points just before termen; and again a 

 faint interrupted outer line is visible; the darkest $ has the veins and termen dirty brown; hindwing mostly 

 white, with a slight dark terminal line, or pale or dark grey, or light brownish. Kashgar. The species has the 

 appearance of a Leucania, whence the name; it would appear to vary much in coloration. 



P. suppuncta Stgr. (51 h). Forewing whitish faintly flushed with sulphur yellow; median line brownish suppuncta. 

 yellow; outer line of the same colour, distinct and broad in the $, faint or obsolete in the <$; followed by 

 two brownish yellow bands separated by the pale submarginal line, also fainter in $ than in $; hindwing 

 of <J dark grey with white fringe, of $ white with narrow dark outer band; according to Statjdingbr nearest 

 to compuncta. Led. and ab. gratissima Stgr. of albida Dup. Recorded from Marash and Mardin, Syria, and Konia, 

 Asia Minor. 



P. pura Hbn. (51 i). Forewing creamwhite, with a black dot in cell and another at the end; between pura. 

 them a faint yellow brown median line slightly indented in cell; a rufous brown shade along termen, contain- 

 ing a row of dots of black scales, indicating the outer edge of a submarginal line ; fringe whitish tipped with 

 rufous; hindwing white with the terminal line rufous. S. France, N\ Italy, Spain. 



P. suppura Stgr. (51 i). Very close to pura Hbn., distinguished by the broader forewing with more suppura. 

 rounded apex, by the absence of a dark terminal line and pale line at base of fringes, which are pale brown; 

 the faint pale yellow median line, which is often absent, does not reach either costa or inner margin; hindwing 

 also without dark terminal line. Cilicia, Taurus, Antioch, Syria, Malatia. 



P. pallidula H.Sch. (51 i). Forewing white with a slight curved dark shade beyond middle; a black pallidula. 

 dot in cell and another at its end; a slight brown shade before termen, not marked with black dots as in pura; 

 fringe speckled grey with bright white basal line; hindwing white with dark terminal line and white fringe. 

 Recorded from Pontus, Taurus, Mardin, and Turcomania. — the ab. cypriaca Stgr. from Cyprus is a darker cypriaca. 

 form with luteous forewings and the hindwings darkened with the same colour; — mardina Stgr., from Mardin mardina. 

 and N. Armenia, is only half the size of the typical pallidula, pale strawcolour, with the cell dots obsolete, and 

 the rufous terminal line fine and faint. 



P. lutosa Stgr. Described by Staudenger in the first place as a dark form of suppura; forewing brownish lutosa. 

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