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C. illunaris Hbn. (= gracilis B.-Haas.) (62 b). Forewing grey, or dark ash grey, or, more rarely, pale illunaris. 

 bone colour; inner and outer lines blackish, very seldom clear, often interrupted, or even altogether absent; 

 submarginal line pale, only visible in the dark grey examples, always preceded by a black irregularly zigzag 

 line, not reaching costa but blackest below it; orbicular stigma a faint dark dot; reniform a pale figure of 8, 

 often divided into two spots; hindwing pale grey or bone colour, with a broad diffuse grey submarginal band, 

 always darker and better defined in the ?; the pale bone colour forms may be separated as ab. ossea ab. nov. ossea. 

 (= ab. 2 Hmps.) (62 b); in ab. brunnea ab. nov. (= ab. 1 Hmps.) the ground colour of forewing is brown, the brunnea. 

 markings equally obsolete; while in ab. obscura ab. nov. (= ab. 3 Hmps.) the forewing, except at base of inner obscura. 

 margin, is suffused with red brown, the subterminal line alone being visible. A mediterranean species, found 

 in Spain. S. France, and Italy. 



C. sancta Stgr. (62 b). Larger than illunaris; the c? generally paler and smoother grey, the ¥ with a sancta. 

 more perceptible luleous tinge; the inner and outer lines blacker, more clearly defined; the subterminal line 

 on a slightly darker shade; hindwing in cf dull whitish, with the submarginal band darker and broader; in 

 the ¥ luteous yellow, the band black and well defined; the terminal area pale or dark grey; in the ab. 

 obsoleta ab. nov. (= ab. 1, Hmps.) (62 b) the head, thorax, and fore wings are more bone coloured, the wings obsoleta. 

 with slight dark irroration, and with the markings obsolete, except subterminal line. Palestine. 



C. haifae Habich (62b). Rather smaller than sancta, but closely related, and differing as follows: the haifae. 

 ground colour is dark grey; between the outer and subterminal lines there is present, especially in forewing, 

 a blackish shade; the subterminal line is gently curved from costa; the stigmata are conspicuously white; the 

 festooned terminal line has white points at the end of veins. Haifa, Syria, and recorded by Rebel from Egypt. 



C. syriaca Bugn. (= gentilitia H. Sch.) (62 c). Forewing dull luteous grey with darker irroration ; inner syriaca. 

 and outer lines obscurely grey, conversely pale-edged; subterminal line pale luteous, not angulated throughout 

 as in illunaris, but slightly bent at vein 4 and with a small black spot in the angle at 6, preceded by a faint 

 rufous line: the interval between outer line and submarginal generally somewhat darker; reniform stigma 

 grey with darker outline; hindwing dirty luteous, with a broad dark submarginal band, strongest in the ?. 

 The species is found in Syria, Armenia, Asia Minor, Transcaspia, Kashgar, Ferghana, and Uralsk; Staudinger 

 adds Andalusia, Dalmatia, and Sicily. The hindwing is sometimes washed with pale brown, ab. luteosparsa luteosparsa. 

 ab. nor. (= ab. 1 Hmps.); — in ab. dentemaculata ab. nov. (= ab. 2 Hmps.) the forewing is marked with a dentemacu- 

 dentate black spot before subterminal line below vein 7; — a third aberration pulverosa ab. nov. (= ab. 3, m U i^ erosa- 

 Hmps.) has the forewings densely irrorated with fuscous atoms. — ab. albimargo ab. nov. (62 c) has the terminal albimargo. 

 area of hindwing beyond the black border white; ab. pallida ab. nov. (62 c) has the forewing ochreous bone- pallida. 

 colour, the reniform stigma, the outer and subterminal lines, just visible, the last without the black spot at 

 vein 6; the hindwing with the terminal border fuscous; lastly, ab. lapidea ab. nov. (62 c) has pale greyish lapidea. 

 ochreous forewings, the outer line marked with a dark .spot on each fold, the hindwing dull luteous at base, 

 the terminal area and fringe ochreous white, and the dark border broad and inky black; both wings without 

 a dark terminal line; the specimen, a ¥ is from the Tedschen oasis, Transcaspia, and may be a distinct species. 



C. sublunaris Stgr. (62 c). Forewing dull whitish, suffused in parts with fuscous grey and speckled sublunaris. 

 with dark; inner line oblique, waved, fuscous on a pale space; outer line oblique inwards, with a slight 

 outward bend on vein 4, on a pale space; subterminal line pale, prominently angled outwards above veins 

 6 and 3, preceded by a fuscous band which is black in the angles of the line ; orbicular stigma a pale dark- 

 edged dot; reniform a dark-edged lunule, the lower half pale ; a dark wavy terminal line ; hindwing dull whitish 

 in cf, fuscous luteous in ?, with a broad dark fuscous submarginal band, broader and darker in the ¥ ; fringe 

 white. Issyk-Kul. 



C. delunaris Stgr. (62 c). Smaller than sublunaris, intermediate in a'way between it and illunaris. delunaris. , 

 Transcaspia. 



C. terrulenta Christ. (= gentilis Stgr) (62 cl). Forewing dark brownish grey, more or less tinged with ierrulenta. 

 blackish; with three paler, often quite faint, cross-lines, greyish brown lined in middle with black; the stig- 

 mata obscure: the orbicular dot-like, the reniform lunate sometimes divided into two spots, at others outlined 

 with black and forming an oval: the inner line is oblique and denticulate, the outer twice bluntly bent; space 

 between outer line and subterminal filled in with darker with some sagittate streaks; the terminal line fuscous, 

 crenulate: hindwing dull grey brown, becoming darker along termen. A dull coloured and obscurely marked 

 insect. The type of terrulenta was described from Transcaucasia; Staudinger's gentilis from the Dead Sea. 



C. distincta B.-Haas. Forewing pale grey with slight black dusting; lines, where expressed, black, distmcla. 

 plain only towards inner margin; the inner line from 1 / i of costa to 1 / 3 of inner margin, marked black^below 

 middle and with a black spot on costa; outer black only below vein 2, reaching inner margin close to inner 



