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LKUCOMELAS: OONOSPILE1A. Bv W. Warren. 



obfuscata. 

 latimedia. 



radapicta. 



kabylaria. 



roda. 



schlum- 

 bergeri. 



small and has the central area most varied with ochreous; the form with wholly fuscous centre may be 

 separated as ab. obfuscata ah. nov. (= ab. 1 Hmps). (62 g); another form ab. latimedia ab. nor. (62 g) has the 

 median band broad and erecto the basal patch being smaller, with its outer edge waved and nearly vertical 

 instead of oblique. Besides the coloration of the central area the insect varies in size, the larger specimens, 

 especially the $?, being darker, with the black border of hindwing broader; these are the subsp. radapicta 

 Stgr. (62 g) the c^c/ 1 of which appear to have the median fascia and reniform stigma rufous. The species is 

 recorded from varions places in Transcaspia and from the Hi and Issyk-Kul district. 



L. kabylaria Bang-Haas. (62 g). Forewing blue grey along all three margins; the interior filled up 

 with red brown; a short yellowish basal streak, edged with blackish beneath; the subterminal line alone 

 expressed, reddish yellow, with slight black scaling internally; a small black spot in the apex; the two stig- 

 mata coalescent, open towards costa, dirty reddish yellow, sometimes with black edges; the outer, reniform 

 in shape, with two white spots at end, the orbicular not usually represented in this genus; fringe blue grey 

 and brown: hindwing at base broadly snow white, with a slight discal mark; a broad black subterminal band, 

 running out into termen and fringe above and below middle. Becorded only from Tunis. 



Sect. II. Claws of fore tibiae minute. 



L. roda H. Sch. (= rada Bsd.) (62 g). Forewing dark slaty fuscous: inner line thick, black, waved, 

 1 in ceded by a brown line and followed by ochreous and grey suffusion; outer line finer, black edged 

 with brown, oblique outwards, bent above vein 5, forming a blunt projection on vein 2, then recurved 

 to below reniform stigma, thence vertical to inner margin, with an indentation on submedian fold, inwardly 

 edged throughout with paler; subterminal line ochreous grey, preceded by a blackish cloud at costa; reniform 

 stigma rufous grey, constricted in middle; hindwing with basal area fuscous white; a black cell lunule conjoined 

 with a broad black terminal border and followed by a white blotch; a whitish streak along submedian fold 

 from base, bent downwards below cellspot towards anal angle; two marginal flecks and the fringe white, 

 except at middle between the two flecks; head and thorax dull brickred. Becorded by Guenee from the Crimea, 

 and said to be very rare; Staudinger, while querying this locality, gives Armenia, Transcaspia, Saisan, Hi, 

 Issyk-Kul, and Korla: but confusion with the next species is possible; the ab. schlumbergeri Fuchs is larger, 

 the forewing more uniform blue grey; in ab. beta Kusnazov the forewing is blackish with a blue grey tinge; 

 the basal area blacker. 



The species included in the two following Genera differ from all the others of the Subfamily in having 

 the eyes small, laterally compressed; nearly, if not quite, all of these insects are day-fliers; and disport 

 themselves in the sunshine. 



40. Genus: L<eiicoiiielas Hmps. 



Tongue well developed; frons smooth, with tuft of hair above; palpi upturned, moderately scaled; 

 antennae of cT minutely ciliated eyes small, compressed; thorax and abdomen without crests; tibiae slightly 

 hairy: mid tibiae only spined-; wings broad and short; black with white outer band. Type A. juvenilis Brem. 



juvenilis. L. juvenilis Brem. (62 h). Forewing dull black; crossed beyond middle by a broad snow white fascia 



running to anal angle, the inner edge hardly curved, the outer angled externally on vein 6; fringe black, 

 white from below apex to middle and at anal angle; hindwing with the fascia starting at vein 6, narrowing 

 to a point at end of vein 1; fringe white from apex to middle and beyond submedian fold, elsewhere black; 

 underside powdered with bluish white towards base of both wings. Ussuri district, Amurland. 



41. Genus: Gonospileia Hbn. 



Tongue present; palpi obliquely upcurved, the second segment loosely and roughly haired beneath, 

 the third slender, slightly porrect; eyes small, slightly compressed laterally; antennae of o 71 typically ciliated; 

 thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled; mid tibiae spined: forewing broad and short; the apex blunt; termen 

 smooth. Larva with the first two pairs of abdominal prolegs aborted; smooth, very elongate; the head large; 

 resting with the lore segments coiled up beneath; feeding on Trifolium and allied plants. Pupa in a cocoon 

 spun among moss and litter on the ground. The imago flies by day in the sunshine. Type G. munita Hbn. 



Sect. I. Fore and hind tibiae spined as well as the middle ones. 



Subsect. A. Antennae of cf bipectinate to apex. 



fortaUtium. Q. fortalitium Tausch. (= fortatilium Hbn.) (62 h). Forewing dark grey along all three margins in the 



cf, paler grey in the ?; the interior blackish fuscous; the three veins from base whitish grey; inner line wanting; 



