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median area and terminal area beyond subterminal line are whitish grey, while the basal area and space 

 between outer line and subterminal are pale brown; — ab. grisea ab. hoc. (54 b), (a ? of which is in the grisea. 

 Tring-Museum from Uralsk, sent by M. Bartel), is entirely dark grey grizzled with pale grey, without any 

 brown or fulvous tints, the lines black; — subsp. laeta Oberth. (54c), from Algeria, is brighter than S. European i ae t a . 

 examples, the median area at each end dusted with whitish, the subterminal line whitish, and the annulus of 

 the reniform and the spots before and below it white. — Larva grey brown or red brown, finely dark dotted; 

 dorsal tubercles reddish: the hump on segment 9 prominent, with an oval yellow transverse marking edged 

 with black: the hump on segment 12 also strong, with the two hind tubercles on it developed into brown 

 points; head grey with black streaks; feeding on oak in early summer. Generally distributed in Europe; also 

 found in Asia Minor and Algeria. 



mica. 



M. mesopotamica Eusenov (= hetaera Stgr. part, aspasia Stgr. praeocc, staudingeri Beutenm.). Forewing mesopota- 

 olive grey brown; the lines black; the outer with two not very prominent teeth at vein 5; reniform stigma brown 

 with grey annulus on outer side, touching a dark costal mark, followed by a second, with slight whitish spots 

 before it on and below median vein; a small whitish spot below end of cell; subterminal line dentate, preceded 

 by a pale grey shade; hindwing crimson,- median band straight from costa to submedian fold, swollen, then 

 angled and fine to anal angle; terminal border broad at costa, tapering to tornus, its inner edge evenly curved 

 and dentate lunulate; fringe white. Mardin, Syria. 



M. abamita Brem. and Grey (=scortum Christ. (63a). Forewing rufous grey flushed with greenish; abamita. 

 inner line represented by a broad black band from base of costa to just below inner edge of reniform stigma, 

 with slight projecting points on its lower edge on veins 2 and 3, and one on its upper edge; a dark horizontal 

 shade above anal angle; outer line black in upper half, running obliquely outwards, and forming two long 

 teeth above and below vein 5, then obscurely lunulate dentate and incurved, and forming an acute black angle 

 outwards on submedian fold; subterminal line pale, lunulate, with dark rufous edges; reniform stigma pale 

 yellowish, with black outline ringed with white; the spot beneath it luteous grey; hindwing orange red; median 

 band broad above, angled outwards on submedian fold, then narrow to vein J ; terminal border uniformly 

 broad, cutting off a large yellow patch at apex and yellow lunules in the intervals along termen between 

 veins 2 and t>, the band itself generally interrupted in submedian interval; fringe yellow. Occurs in the 

 S. Ussuri district, Amurland. Distinguished at once by the black basal bar. 



M. scortorum Leech. Larger and darker than abamita; the hindwing with broader black bands, scortorum. 

 Ta-lsien-lu. W. China. 



** The following species have yellow hindwings. 



M. neonympha Esp. (54c). Forewing dark ashy grey speckled with darker; a brown line before imier neonympha. 

 line and a brown shade beyond outer; inner line black, inwardly dentate on veins, outwardly curved between; 

 outer line black, obliquely curved outwards from subcostal to tooth above vein 5, then regularly dentate and 

 deeply insinuate to below reniform; reniform with a brown dark -edged lunule at centre outlined with grey; 

 a darker grey shade beyond and below it; a pale space with dentate outer edge represents the subterminal 

 line; hindwing bright clear yellow, with a slightly curved median black band ending abruptly at vein 1 and 

 constricted above and below middle, and a broad black terminal border, widely interrupted across submedian 

 interspace, and containing a small yellow patch at apex; — specimens from Central Asia, Sanka, Tian-shan 

 Mts., Ketmen Tjube, Sussamyr Mts., also some from Uralsk, subsp. variegata subsp. nov. (54 c), are much more variegata. 

 variegated, the ground colour being quite pale grey, showing in a broad fascia beyond inner line reaching to 

 below middle, in a costal patch before outer line, and in the submarginal space beyond it: the base, the 

 median shade, and the termen remaining dark grey; in the hindwing the yellow is paler; — in ab. cohaerens cohuereus. 

 Srim/tz the black border of hindwing is not broken, but confluent with the anal blotch. Larva dark dirty 

 green, the venter paler; a pale yellow lateral stripe, finely black-edged; sides of dorsum down to the spiracles 

 thickly dusted with black atoms; dorsal line bluish; spiracles white, ringed with black; head very small, pale 

 brownish yellow; feeding on Glycyrrhiza. In Europe found only in S. E. Russia; in Asia in Armenia, Kurdistan, 

 Mesopotamia. Transcaspia, the Altai Mts., the Issyk-Kul district, Ferghana, and Samarcand. 



M. bella Btlr. (54 f): Forewing dull dark grey with more or less of a brown tint; dusted with pale bella. 

 grev along costa. bevond inner line, along outer line, "and throughout subterminal line; inner and outer lines 

 finelv black: the inner dentate basewards on veins and irregularly protuberant between them; outer line twice 

 angulated on subcostal, forming a sharp tooth outwards above, and a slighter one below vein 5, those below 

 broader and more rounded, that on submedian fold large: submarginal line lunulate, pale grey edged with 

 darker: reniform stigma indistinct, a dark lunule with paler grey edging: the spot below it pale grey, black- 

 edged, triangular in shape: hindwing vellow, with a broad black median band, narrower on vein 5 and ending 



