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C. remissa Stgr. (551"). Forewing grey tinged with olive brown, sometimes with a faint purplish sheen; remissa. 

 some examples thickly peppered with dark, others quite undusted; inner line oblique, dark brown or blackish, 

 double: outer line black, strongly angulated, as in electa, finely pale-edged, then followed by a broad brownish 

 olive band: this is edged externally by the pale grey, zigzag siiblenninal line; beyond the inner line an oblique 

 pale space from costa before median shade, which is olive brown and diffuse, more or less obscuring the large 

 reniform: this has an oblique black inner edge and a lunulale dentate external one: veins Inwards Icriucn 

 often black: sometimes traces of a broken black streak oblique from below apex to angle of outer line; the 

 paler spot below reniform rufous-tinged; hindwing dull red, with a narrow black median band, thickened and 

 angled on vein 5 and curved round below, ending before vein 1; terminal border broadly black at apex, its 

 inner edge projecting inwards on veins 2 and 3, with a deep sinus across submedian fold, sometimes reaching 

 fringe; the outer edge of the black border lunulate edged with red, the apex red: fringe while: -- the ab. 

 indecorata ab. nor. (55 f), is grey without any olive brown shading; the inner line hardly marked, the basal indecorata. 

 area within it darker grey; of this form there are two examples, both cfcf, in the Tring Museum, from Merv 

 and "Central Asia" respectively, accompanied by typical examples. Appears restricted to the Transcaspian 

 region, the Tedschen oasis, Merv, Tura, Kashgar. 



C. juncta Stgr. (56 b). Forewing very light grey, the markings resembling those of electa; inner line juncta. 

 black, inwardly light-edged, oblique, subobsolete above inner margin; outer line black, distinct only in upper 

 half beyond reniform stigma, outwardly light-edged, forming more stumpy angles on vein 5 than in electa, 

 running up to below reniform, where it seems to end, the usual lower course being indistinct, but bearing 

 a short narrow black-edged grey fleck, not seen in other species; reniform stigma dark, partly pale-edged, its 

 outer margin indented at middle, preceded by a pale space in cell; submarginal line edged externally by a 

 strongly toothed dark line, containing below costa a short black streak and diffuse shade ; marginal line formed 

 of very black, nearly contiguous streaks: hindwing dull red; median black band narrow, nearly straight, bent 

 a little at middle and lower end; terminal border below middle twice strongly protuberant inwards, with a deep 

 sinus between the protuberances; a large white patch at apex; fringe white. Recorded only from Hi, Turkestan. 



C. titnur Bang-Haas (56 b). Forewing ash grey dusted with darker grey and brownish, varied with tirnur. 

 faint olive brown before inner line, in a band beyond outer line, and round the reniform; inner line double, 

 oblique, fuscous, filled up with paler, dentate inwards on veins, lunulate outwards between them, followed by 

 a broad pale band from costa which includes the pale spot before reniform and the smaller open one below 

 it; reniform obscure, with curved black inner edge, olive brown centre, and outer edge; the median shade 

 olive brown; outer line black, obbque outwards and angled below vein 6, then oblique and lunulate dentate 

 inwards, forming a sinus below and basewards of reniform, sharply angled outwards on submedian fold, 

 and marked with black on vein 1; the olive brown band beyond it, often faint, is edged by the pale sub- 

 terminal line, the lunules of which are edged outwardly by hastate blackish marks ; ■ a row of dark spots before 

 termen; fringe grey; hindwing pale red. with a narrow black median band, which is angled on vein 5 and 

 rounded on submedian fold; terminal border black, broad' at apex, with a sinus on inner edge at middle and 

 on submedian fold: fringe white, the termen marked with red at apex and between veins. Like optima, found 

 in Transcaspia and Turkestan; the two species are easily separable by the course of their outer lines, though 

 otherwise much alike. 



C. amabilis Bang-Haas (56b). Forewing larger and greyer than that of timur, without any brown tint; amabilis. 

 the hindwing deeper red; the terminal border interrupted on submedian fold. Occurs in Transcaspia and Turkestan. 



C. optima Stgr. i56b). Forewing bluish grey, dusted with darker, without any brown or olive shading; optima. 

 the inner line more regularly oblique and nearer base than in timur Bang-Haas ; outer line dark edged with 

 pale, forming a single tooth below vein 6, a minute tooth, much nearer base, below vein 5, then a nearly 

 ■■'ertical curve, outwardly concave, to above vein 2, thence running sinuous inwards and upwards, and forming 

 a broader sinus below reniform. a bluntly rounded tooth outwards below vein 2, another below vein 1, and 

 an inward tooth on it; reniform stigma large, grey, the centre dark grey and annulus pale outlined with black; 

 the space round about it blue grey only, never blackish; hindwing with the fringe wholly white, without red 

 flecking. The Tedschen oasis, Transcaspia, Hi, Turkestan. 



C. contemnenda Stgr. (56c). Forewing light brownish grey powdered with darker; inner and outer 

 lines black, stronger in cf than in ?; the inner oblique, dentate inwards on the veins; the outer strongly angled 

 outwards on each side of vein 5, then at once running inwards, forming a large open sinus below the reniform, 

 and an outward angle on submedian fold; subterminal line wavy, pale; a brownish shade before inner line 

 and a thicker one beyond outer: reniform stigma with a dark lunule at centre and black outline; hindwing 

 luteous white, faintly tinged with red, more strongly on inner margin; a black median band, nearly straight, 

 but thickened at median vein and curved inwards on submedian fold; a broad blackish terminal border: fringe 



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