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P. squalens Led, (62 e). Differs from albidentaria, which it much resembles, mainly in the course of squalen*. 

 the outer line, which has more strongly projecting teeth on veins 3 and 4, and then runs more deeply in- 

 wards along vein 3, forming a quite narrow curve between veins 3 and 2, a wide one across the submedian 

 interval, and a smaller curve below: both lines arc blacker ami more distinct. Recorded from Palestine 

 and Cyprus. 



36. Genus: Cortyta Walk. 



Tongue present; frons smooth, with a tuft of hair above ; palpi upturned, the second segment moderately 

 scaled, the third porrect, of moderate length; antennae of d 71 ciliated; mid tibiae only spined; abdomen smooth, 

 without crests. Type: C. canescens Walk. 



Sect. 1. Mid tibiae of d 1 dilated, with a groove containing a fringe of large scales. 



C. fasciolata Wan: {== eremochroa limps) (62e ?, 63a cT). Forewing whitish grey; basal area dark grey, fasciolata. 

 limited by the black inner line, which is minutely angled outwards on subcostal and inwards on vein 1, vertical, 

 not oblique inwards: outer line forming small curves, not angled, bent inwards below middle; median area with 

 brownish grey bands or lines alternating with white; reniform stigma blackish, with a pale patch obliquely 

 below it in a curve of the outer line: subterminal line pale, in the grey terminal area; hindwing whitish, 

 with the termen grey, and the lines hardly visible: ? uniformly dark ashy grey, with the markings less 

 conspicuous: the hindwing paler grey; in the ab. bifasciata ab. nov. (= ab. 2 Hmps.) the basal patch and the bifasciata. 

 interval between outer and subterminal lines are filled in with blackish. From Shendi, and Nakheila on the 

 Albara River. Egypt. The type of eremochroa Hmps. is a grey ? from Aden. In the form subsimilis subsp. subsimilis. 

 nov., from Algeria, the difference between the sexes does not obtain; the ?? are as large and brightly colured 

 as the dV. 



C. dispar Pting. Larger than fasciolata, the ground colour paler, the markings more distinct. This form dispar. 

 occurs in Palestine and E. Turkestan. 



C. vetusta Walk. (62 e). Forewing dark grey; all the lines darker, obscurely double, vertical, and vetusta, 

 somewhat outcurved between the veins, and dentate inwards on them: the dark cellspot close to the median 

 line; outer line excurved beyond cell, indented below it, and marked with black on submedian fold; sub- 

 terminal irregularly sinuous; terminal line crenulate, grey,, double ; hindwing the same, but without inner line; 

 the $ is paler, the ground colour wdiitisb. Described originally from India, where it occurs at Mhow, Ajmere, 

 Karachi, this species is found in Afghanistan, Syria, and Algeria; the form rosacea Rbl., from Socotra, and rosacea. 

 also found in Algeria, is flushed with reddish: the ab. acrosticta Pilng. (62 e) has a black spot at apex, and acrosticiu, 

 being described as reddish, strictly speaking, belongs to rosacea, but specimens without the red tint and with 

 the black apical spot occur, and in the white ?? this black spot is more conspicuous. 



Sect. II. Mid tibiae not dilated. 



C. profesta Christ. Forewing powdery grey ; all the lines obscurely double, slightly darker, starting profesta. 

 from blackish costal spots; the outer line with its inner arm black, excurved round cell, indented on vein 5, 

 and incurved from below 4 to 2, then vertical, with a short strong, black tooth outwards on submedian fold; 

 a black line on discocellular followed generally by a pale ochreous and white space; outer arm of outer line 

 thick, fuscous, followed by whitish scaling; subterminal line waved, indistinct; terminal dots black; fringe 

 crenulate, deep grey: hindwing duller, with inner and outer dark double lines. The & type from Askabad, 

 the ? from Samarcand. The form sacra Stgr. from Palestine seems to differ only in the greater clearness sacra. 

 of the markings. 



C. grisea Leech. (63a) Forewing pale grey dusted with darker: lines black, starting from dark grey costal grisea. 

 marks; the inner wavy; the outer on a white band of varying width, marked by black spots on veins and 

 swollen at each end; subterminal line black, serrate, outwardly edged with ochreous; terminal line double, 

 black and very wavy; stigmata dark grey with black outlines, the reniform large, placed on a brownish grey 

 black-edged median band: hindwing pale brownish grey; median and outer lines black, wavy, the former 

 edged with white, the latter externally with ochreous, and followed by a diffused blackish band: in the ab. 

 luteola ab. nov. ('= ab. 1 ffmjis.) the wings are tinged with yellow. Occurs in China and Japan. Meola. 



