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of leaves spun together. Notwithstanding the resemblance of the imagos. it may well be thai these two are 

 distinct species, the foodplants and habits of the larvae being so different. 



P. herrichi Stgr. (= renardi Led. nee />., uralensis Bell, nee /•>., eversmanni Stgr., bellieri Kirby) herrichi 



(05 e). Nearest to sirfa-ifeni /•>., having an olive brown appearance, without the rosy basal area and double 

 rosy outer line of renardi; the veins not pale: the reniform kidney-shaped, whereas in renardi it is only a 

 small silver (leek. Altai Mts.; Ala Tau Mts. ; Hi and Issyk-Kul, Tibet; Dauria. 



P. modesta Hbn. (65e). Forewing olive green; basal area dusted with paler; the costa and veins pale: modesta. 

 inner line double, white, tilled up with greenish grey, angled on subcostal and again on median vein, then 

 oblique inwards: outer line double, white, angled close to costa, then oblique and slightly curved inwards, 

 the outer arm not quite parallel, also fdled up with greenish grey; subterminal line from apex to anal angle; 

 subterminal interval brown at inner margin: terminal space brown at apex and below middle; terminal line 

 white: fringe pinkish green; a faint diffuse pale median shade before outer line; orbicular stigma oblique and 

 narrow, white, touching inner line; reniform stigma and the mark on vein 2 brown, with fine pale outlines; • 

 the olive median area darker along the limiting lines: hindwing greenish fuscous, darker along termen; the 

 ab. viridis Sttfr., from Asia Minor and Taurus, has the forewing greener. Larva green, thickly dotted with viridis. 

 black, intermixed with larger whitish spots, especially along the sides; feet green; venter whitish green; 

 tubercles black ringed with white, each bearing a single hair; spiracles white in black ring; the ordinary lines 

 not marked: feeding on Pulmonaria and Cynoglossum. Occurs in Germany, France, Switzerland, Austria, 

 Hungary, Galieia. the Bukowina, and the Ural Mts.; in Armenia, Dauria, Ala Tau, and the Ussuri district. 



P. uralensis Ev. (= uraliensis Frr.) (65 e). Forewing glossy pale olive green, the basal and terminal uralensis. 

 areas pearl grey; inner and outer lines white; the inner angled on subcostal and median veins, and oblique 

 inwards, the outer shortly angled beneath costa, then sinuous; the lines internally darker edged; stigmata and 

 the droplike mark on vein 2 olive green, with fine brown outlines; subterminal line whitish, preceded by a 

 dark line and above inner margin by an olive shade; terminal line dark; fringe olive yellow; hindwing shining 

 pale greenish fuscous, with the veins and an outer shade darker; fringe pale. Known only from the Ural Mts. 



P. cashmirensis Moore (65 e). Forewing pale greyish ochreous, tinged with olive brownish, the last cash- 

 strongest in lower half of median area, in a patch on inner margin before subterminal line, and another on mi)emis - 

 costa between the stigmata: lines pale and glossy; inner indistinctly double, oblique inwards and plain below 

 median vein: outer line sinuous, edged by a dark line; stigmata very obscure, conversely oblique, the sub- 

 cellular mark drop-shaped with pale outline; subterminal line pale, with a darker shade before it; the termen 

 darker before the pale terminal line; hindwing olive brownish, with a paler diffuse outer line. Described from 

 Kashmir, and also occurs in the Punjab, N. India. 



P. inconspicua Graes (65 f). Forewing pale ochreous tinged with olive; the median area and a shade ineonspicua. 

 before the lower half of subterminal line deep olive; inner and outer lines white edged with brown, both 

 oblique inwards; the inner shortly angled basewards above median vein, the outer symmetrically sinuous; 

 the three stigmata with dark outlines; subterminal line pale with an olive shade before it; fringe faintly 

 pinkish; hindwing pale olive fuscous, with darker central and terminal shades; the veins brownish. Issyk- 

 Kul district, Tibet. 



P. gerda Pliny. (65 f). Forewing pale stone grey with a few fine brown striae; the shadings olive gerda, 

 green and brown; inner and outer lines pale edged w T ith dark, sometimes obsolete; the inner obliquely incurved 

 below middle, sometimes forming a quadrate projection basewards in cell; the outer symmetrically sinuous; 

 the median area, broad on costa, filled up with olive brownish; the stigmata darker with fine pale edges; 

 subterminal line pale, sinuous, preceded by an olive green shade throughout; terminal area with an olive 

 patch at apex and below middle, the latter darkening the fringe; the veins towards termen darker; hindwing 

 greenish fuscous, with dark median shade and diffuse terminal border; the fringe paler. Issyk-Kul, Tibet. 

 The antennae of this species are acutely subserrate in both sexes. 



P. emichi Bgnkfr. (63 g). Forewing olive grey, thickly sprinkled with whitish scales, especially along emiehi. 

 costa; median area olive brown, limited by white lines: the two stigmata and the mark below delicately 

 outlined with white; terminal area pale reddish, limited by an oblique whitish line; some whitish scales along 

 termen: the terminal line white; hindwing uniform brown; the ? darker than the cT, the white lines being 

 narrower. Armenia: Taurus Mts. 



