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edges of the dark area; an ochreous streak just before termen at middle; fringe dark with white patch at the tips 

 at apex; hindwing dark brown, the fringe pale; in ab. costiplaga ab. nov. (= bicolora $ Hmps.) (52 h) the costiplaga. 

 forewing is black brown: basal area with some olive yellow scales; an oblique dull olive yellow bar from costa 

 at middle, and a pale yellow triangular spot on costa beyond it; a form of the $ occurs, — ab. parvimacula parvimacula. 

 ah. nov., — in which the forewing is paler, without so much olive yellow; with three subterminal ochreous spots 

 below middle, and a terminal row of black points. Japan, Corea, and Central China. 

 Sect. II. Veins 3, ± of hindwing from cell. 



T. olivacea Hmps. (52 h). Forewing silvery white at base and along costa, the costal edge olive brown, olivacea. 

 the apical area tinged with yellow; rest of Ming olive brown with bluish white suffusion, diffusely edged above 

 with yellow ; an indistinct brownish lunule at end of cell, defined by white ; outer line whitish edged with yellowish, 

 obliquely sinuous from cell to inner margin ; a roAV of terminal dark lunules edged inwardly by a waved white 

 line: hindwing olive brown; the basal area whitish in ?. Originally described from the Nilgiri Hills, S. India, 

 the species is recorded from Shanghai in North China. 



T. secta Own. (52 i). Forewing pure white; inner line double, greyish brown, vertically waved; the secta. 

 terminal area reddisb grey brown, its inner edge angled at vein 7 and incurved below end of cell ; outer line mark- 

 ed b}- a small brown spot on costa in the white area and a partially double lunulate black line in the dark area ; 

 subterminal line white preceded by some black marks; terminal black lunules inwardly white edged; orbicular 

 stigma indicated by grey points on inner and outer edges; the reniform by a black point at end of cell; hindwing 

 semihyaline white, with a terminal brown border narrowing to anal angle ; the fringe white. Atbara, Abys- 

 sinia. 



T. urania Friv. (= eversmanni Kol.) (52 h, i). Forewing cream white, faintly flushed with ochreous urania. 

 and pink; inner line brownish, double, waved, not reaching inner margin; orbicular stigma a small black ring; 

 the reniform oval, partly black-edged; a brown spot on costa at middle and a smaller one beyond; terminal 

 area redbrown to pink suffused with some silvery blue, its inner edge at middle with an olive patch ; obliquely 

 excurved to vein 3, thence retracted to below end of cell, and angled outwards on vein 1, below cell defined 

 by the black outer line, and followed in submedian interval by some bluish scales ; subterminal line yellowish, 

 denticulate in lower half; the terminal black lunules edged inwardly with yellow; hindwing white; the veins 

 tinged and the termen suffused with brownish; the $ has the hindwing more uniformly redbrown. Found in 

 Hungary and Bulgaria in S. E. Europe, and in Syria and Asia Minor. Larva violet brown; feeding on Althaea 

 cannabina. 



T. lucida Hufn. (= Solaris Schiff., rupicola Bkh., titania Frr. nee Esp., triradiata Walk., triangulum lucida. 

 Costa) (52 i). Forewing white in basal half, with a grey tinge at base; a black spot in cell beyond the grey sub- 

 basal striga; an oblique fuscous bar from costa and slight mark above inner margin in place of imier line; orbicu- 

 lar stigma minute, a bluish white ring; reniform 8-shap'ed, finely edged with bluish white; terminal area olive 

 brown shading to purple grey at termen; a quadrate white costal patch beyond middle, the outer line rising 

 from it. lunulate and blackish, strongly incurved below 4, marked on submedian fold by a black and grey 

 spot, and followed by a waved white line from vein 3 to inner margin ; subterminal line white, the veins beyond it 

 in lower half white ; hindwing white, Avith diffuse dark streaks from base at costa and inner margin and along med- 

 ian vein; a broad blackish terminal border; — in the ab. albicollis .F. (52i) the head, thorax, basal hah of forewing, albicollis. 

 and often the dorsum as well, are wholly white, the dark border of hindwing being narrower and regular ; while 

 lugens Alph. (52 i) has the dark tints amphfied, the basal area of forewing mostly ohve brown, and the hind- lugens. 

 wing more or less wholly black; both of these forms, however, seem to be connected with typical lucida by 

 intermediates; — ab. irregularis ab. nov. (52 i) is a form of albicollis in which the inner edge of the dark terminal irregularis. 

 half of forewing is nearly vertical, not cut by the usual wedge shaped pale projection; the costal spot before 

 apex is narrow and triangular; while the dark border of hindwing is wider, as in lucida, with the inner edge 

 towards anal angle irregular; the specimen was taken along with typical albicollis at Entrevaux, Var, S. France; 

 — in the form insolatrix Hbn. (52 i) the median fascia is narrow, interrupted above middle, and filled in with insolatrix. 

 pale ohve yellow instead of purple brown, the edging only remaining dark; an extreme form of this, ab. evanes- evanescens. 

 cens ab. nov. (52 i) has the fascia marked only by a fuscous costal streak and fuscous spots on inner margin 

 and on outer edge, the white ground colour running through to fringe below middle of wing, intersected 

 only by the greyish brown shade before submarginal line ; in the hindwing the dark terminal border is still nar- 

 rower and reaches only from apex to vein 5 ; this example is from Uralsk. The species occurs throughout S. Europe 

 and X. Africa; in the Canaries, Madeira, Crete, Rhodes, and Cyprus; in Western Asia, Persia, Kashmir, W. 

 Turkestan, and W. Siberia . Larva grey brown, tinged with red, on dorsum mixed with black and white; spira- 

 cular line white; feeds on Convolvulus and Malva. 



T. titania Esp. (52 k). Forewing white flushed with olive yellow; subbasal and inner lines represented titania. 



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