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C A TO C ALA. By W. Warren. 



Sussamyr Mts. ; a specimen from Gennargento, Sardinia does not seem separable, 

 only a form of deducta Ev. 



This species is probably 



deducta. 



innocens. 



semividua. 



aniens. 



C. deducta Ev. Closely related to elocata, especially the darker, more strongly marked form, but not 

 so large; the forewing grey without yellowish admixture; the markings sharper and more conspicuous; inner 

 half of median area paler, its outer edge straight not waved; the hindwing dull red; the median band, as in 

 locata, not attaining inner margin; three aberrations have been named; — ab. innocens Spul., with the ground 

 colour of forewings and abdomen cream white, without dusting, only the lines and chief shades represented; 

 - ab. semividua Spul., with the outer half of forewing strongly blackened; and ab. ardens Spul., with the 

 red ground colour of hindwing brighter. The species occurs in the S. Ural district and in the Altai Mts. in 

 W. Siberia, but is probably more widely spread. 



oberthurii. C. oberthurii Aust. (=gitana Mab) 55c). Forewing tawny grey dusted with darker; lines and shadings 



slightly darker, edged with yellower scales; hindwing with the edges of the black bands not dentate, the median 



transiens. of uniform width, curved, and ending gradually before inner margin; — the ab. transiens Bang-Haas is darker, 

 more suffused with brown, with the transverse markings, especially the median shade, more prominent. More 

 neatly marked than elocata, which species it represents in Spain and Morocco. 



martyntm. C. martyrum Oberth. Forewing dull grey brown, with the markings much as in elocata, but very 



obscurely defined; a slight diffuse brown median shade beyond reniform, touching outer line below middle of 

 wing; the reniform stigma with dark inner edge and pale, somewhat angled, outer edge; hindwing bright red 

 pink with a narrow black curved median band stopping short at the submedian fold, inangled and thickened 

 into a slight blotch on vein 5; terminal border black, broad at costa, narrowing off to anal angle, its inner 

 edge almost uniformly curved; fringe white; underside of forewing white, with a fuscous grey cloud along 

 inner margin from base, a broad black outer band, quadrately thickened above middle, and a broad brown 

 black terminal border; hindwing rosy pink, with the costal third white; bands as above; a slight black discal 

 lunule; head and thorax grey brown; abdomen pale grey. This description is made from Oberthur's figure 

 of (apparently) a ?, taken at Ta-tsien-lu, W. China. 



repudiata. C. repudiata Stgr. Resembles nupta in forewing, but more like puerpera in the hindwing; forewing 



pale ash grey, almost uniformly finely sprinkled with blackish: the markings more obscure than in nupta, 

 without the brownish-tinted bands of that species; outer line with a more acute biangulation on vein 5; a 

 faint whitish spot below the reniform stigma; hindwing paler red, as in puerpera, with which it also agrees 

 best in the black markings, but the black terminal border is complete, not interrupted on submedian fold. 

 Recorded from Turkestan: Hi, Issyk-Kul, and the Kuldja district. 



neglecta. Q. neglecta Stgr. (55 e). Somewhat smaller than repudiata, to which it is most nearly allied; with 



more whitish admixture and clearer markings; inner line oblique, but variable in dentation; outer forming 

 two angles on vein 5, of which the lower is much less prominent than the upper; the spot under reniform 

 round and whitish ; area in cell before reniform whitish, dusted with dark scales ; a row of black subterminal 

 spots; hindwing dull red, as in repudiata; median band narrower, reaching further downwards, more pointedly 

 curved inwards at end; the black terminal border interrupted on submedian fold. From Hi and Issyk-Kul, Turkestan. 



concubia. C. concubia Walk. Differs from elocata in the head; thorax, and forewing being grey instead of brown; 



in the forewing the outer line is more irregularly dentate, emitting a deep sinus inwards to below reniform; 

 hindwing purer crimson, without any orange tint. On the underside the white areas of the forewing are 

 broader, and in the hindwing the white between the median and marginal bands runs down to vein 3. 

 Originally described from N. India, but recorded by Leech from Ta-tsien-lu and Kwei-chow, W. China. 



adidtera. C. adulters Men. (55 d). Forewing blue grey, densely sprinkled with black scales; the space in cell 



before reniform stigma, the spot below reniform, the area preceding outer line above vein 5 and that following 

 it below the same vein, white with an orange tinge and sprinkled with black; inner line double, waved, filled 

 in with pale blue grey; outer line black, double, filled in with blue grey, the tooth below vein 6 larger, the 

 spot below reniform, formed by the intrusion of the outer line, itself more reniform; a dark blue grey diffused 

 shade across the reniform, which is large, with a curved black edge inwardly, a dark central lunule, and an 

 exlerior dentate edge followed by black scales; subterminal line whitish, lunulate, followed by bluish black 

 lunules; a row of black lunules before termen; hindwing dark orange red with a broad black terminal border 

 and a broad curved median band, reaching inner margin, its inside edge regularly rounded ; fringe white, with 

 black scales on both folds. Found in European Russia, in the Altai and Changhai Mis. of Siberia, and in the 



