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paulina. P. paulina Stgr. (65 f). Forewing pale brown frosted with white, especially along eosta; inner margin 



at base whitish; lines white, thick, inwardly oblique; the inner angled on subcostal vein, the outer followed 

 by a faint line of whitish scales; orbicular and reniform conversely oblique, finely edged with white scales, 

 like the mark on vein 2; terminal line whitish; fringe brown with pale tips; hindwing pale fuscous, darker 

 terminally; a faint pale median line. Palestine. 



maria. P. maria Stgr. (65 f). Like paulina, but more densely powdered with white atoms; the two lines not 



so oblique and nearer together; the inner preceded and the outer followed by a diffuse whitish line: a faint 

 waved whitish submarginal line; the stigmata and the mark on vein 2 rather darker brown edged with white 

 scales; the orbicular and the mark below irregularly triangular in shape; in paulina the orbicular is narrow 

 and elongate, and the mark below tongue-shaped; terminal line dark edged with pale; hindwing shining pale 

 fuscous, darker towards termen. Palestine, and Mardin, Mesopotamia. 



augusta. P. augusta Stgr. (65 f). Closely allied to maria, but the forewing greyer brown, thickly powdered 



with whitish scales; the veins towards termen white; costa greyer; the two lines white, double, with a grey 

 thread down their centres; stigmata and mark on vein 2 of the ground colour, with fine white edging; sub- 

 terminal line faintly whitish; terminal line white; fringe whitish, with two brown lines; hindwing bronzy 

 fuscous, paler along costa. Occurs at Antioch and in N.W. Kurdistan. 



dorsiflava. P- dorsiflava Stndfs. (65 f). Forewing pale brown, like paulina, with slight pale dusting; the costa 



whitish dotted with brown; the edges of the two stigmata and the mark below finely white; no distinct lines, 

 but the inner marginal area from base to beyond middle blurred and pale ; hindwing pale bronzy brown, paler 

 towards costa. Found in Asia Minor and Mesopotamia. 



In the following species the proximal segment of the hind tarsi in the a" is armed at base with a row of vertical 

 spinous hairs. 



n i P. ni Hbn. (= humilis Walk., significans Walk, extrahens Walk.) (65 g). Forewing grey suffused 



with olive brownish and dusted with black atoms; lines black, double, filled in with pale lustrous scales; the 

 inner forming two small curves between median vein and vein 1, with some lustrous scales before it; the 

 outer irregularly crenulate, nearly straight, followed by a pale grey band; subterminal line followed by 

 lustrous scaling and preceded by black sagittate marks; a straight pale line before termen followed by a 

 double lunulate line; fringe chequered brown and grey, with dark lunules at base beyond a white line; 

 orbicular stigma narrow, oblique, edged with lustrous; reniform obscure, dark-edged; median area just below 

 median vein dark brown, containing a broad gamma-shaped mark, the top of which is bell-shaped with 

 ochreous centre, black edged, and outlined in silvery, attached to an oval silvery tail, sometimes also centred 

 with ochreous; hindwing dull brownish, with dark veins and broad smoky blackish terminal border; the fringe 

 comma, white ; in the ab. comma Schultz (65 g) the stigma below middle forms a y-mark. Larva yellow green ; dorsal 

 line dark, double; subdorsal lines slender; lateral line white, with dark upper edge; spiracles reddish yellow; 

 tubercles black; feeds on various low plants. A south European species, occurring also in Switzerland, Austria, 

 Hungary, Carinthia, and Croatia; in the Canaries and N. Africa; in Asia Minor, Syria, Turkestan, Japan; the 

 few examples taken in Britain were all probably migrants. 



daubei. P. daubei Bsal. (= ciliaris Walk., indicator Walk) (65 g). Forewing pale olive brown, dappled and 



striated with slightly lustrous ochreous grey scales, and dusted with black atoms; the nervures greyish 

 ochreous; inner and outer lines finely brown, the inner outwardly, the outer inwardly edged with lustrous 

 ochreous scales, and on the reverse side with a diffuse powdery band; subterminal line folloAved by similar 

 scattered powdery scales, and preceded by black dashes on veins; the two stigmata and the mark below 

 below median finely edged by lustrous ochreous scales, their centres greyish yellow edged with dark; median 

 area dark brown below middle; a double pale terminal line followed by dark lunules; the fringe shining 

 ochreous grey; hindwing pale fuscous grey, with dark veins and broad brownish fuscous terminal border. 

 Larva red brown above, brown below, with red segmental incisions and oblique blackish streaks on each 

 segment, and strong hairs from the tubercles; feeding on Sonchus maritimus. On the coasts of S. France, 

 Corsica, Sicily, Spain, and Palestine. 



circum- P. circumscripta Frr. (65 g). Forewing dull brownish grey suffused with bronzy fuscous; basal area 



scripta. bronzy; inner line oblique and silvery below middle, obscure above; outer line oblique from the angle on 

 vein 8 to inner margin, with a small indentation on submedian fold, dark, edged on both sides with silvery 

 white; a bronzy fuscous triangular cloud on termen, obscuring the subterminal line, except at extremities, 

 and edged by a bright silvery line along termen; reniform ill-defined, oblique, with bronzy fuscous scaling; 

 on vein 2 two silvery edged spots almost or quite conjoined, placed in a bronzy fuscous patch below median 

 vein; hindwing dull whitish with dark veins and a broad fuscous terminal border. A mediterranean species, 

 found in Sicily, Crete, and Syria. 



