370 PANILLA; APOPESTES. By W. Warren. 



19. Genus: Paililla Moore. 



Tongue present; palpi short, obliquely porrect, the second segment well fringed with hairs below, the 

 third quite short; antennae of <$ ciliated; metathorax and dorsum with slight tufts; tibiae without spines, in 

 the J with fringes of long hair the coxae of forelegs in,^ with tufts of long hair; forewing short and broad, 

 the apex blunt; termen slightly crenulate; hindwing with the same markings as forewing. Type P. dispila 

 Walk, from India. 



This genus is analogous to the Indian genus Moepa Walk., which has the mid tibiae spined. 

 It contains some half dozen species from India and the Malay islands, and as many more from Australia and the 

 Solomons; two only are known from the palaearctic region. 



petrina. P. petrina Btlr. (= costipunctata Leech). Forewing pale brown, powdered with fuscous; the lines black- 



ish, starting from black costal spots; the inner indented below costa; the median wavy, slightly curved; the 

 outer also wavy and more strongly curved; subterminal line pale, indistinct; a large blackish cloud on costa 

 before subterminal line, with a smaller cloud below it; terminal area suffused with dark brown; hindwing with 

 dark brown inner and blackish outer line, with a fuscous brown shade between; cellspot linear, black ; terminal 

 area, as in forewing, dark traversed by a paler subterminal line. Butler's type was from Japan ; Leech recorded 

 costipunctata from Chia-kou-ho, Moupin, and Omeishan, all in W. China, and from Satsuma, Kiu-shiu. 



fasciata. P. fasciata Leech. Forewing pale reddish brown, with. some strongly sinuous transverse whitish lines 



on basal area, and some longitudinal whitish streaks on the terminal ; inner and outer lines dark brown ; the inner 

 curved, somewhat dentate, swollen on costa; the outer sinuous, broken up into spots, and followed by a wavy 

 pale line ; the median space between the two lines ashy grey dusted with darker ; a terminal row of diamond- 

 shaped dark spots edged with white; reniform stigma dark brown; hindwing pale chocolate brown with dark 

 brown inner line and median band ; this latter has its inner edge traversed by a pale line and its outer edged 

 by a white one. Described from a pair only, the c? from Changyang, Central China, the $ from Chia-kou-ho, 

 W. China. This species is a third as large again as petrina, which is about the same size as dispila Walk. 



20. Genus: Apopestes Hbn. 



Tongue present; frons slightly bulged, with a tuft of hair above; palpi upcurved, the second segment 

 thickly and roughly haired beneath, the third long, erect, pointed, slightly curved in front; antennae of $ 

 with fasciculate cilia; thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled; pectus and femora woolly; forewing with costal 

 and inner margins nearly equal in length, the apex blunt, the termen rounded. Larva with 16 feet, slender 

 and very lively; feeding in spring on Papilionaceae, pupating in a slight cocoon spun among the twigs or 

 dead leaves; the imago appears in autumn and hybernates. Type A. spectrum Esp. 



spectrum. A. spectrum Esp. (= socrus Giorna, genistae Vill., indica Moore) (68 a). Forewing ochreous brown 



irrorated with black scales; lines blackish; the inner strongly waved; the median, as a rule, inconspicuous; 



outer line irregularly waved, outcurved round end of cell ; reniform stigma obscurely outlined with dark ; 



a series of pale subterminal specks with blackish patches inside them towards inner margin; terminal spots 



black; hindwing fuscous, with the fringe luteous; underside of both wings with a narrow median black band; 



fasciata. — ab. fasciata Spul. (68 a) differs in having a broad blackish median shade, traversing the reniform stigma, 



obscura. on upper side; ab. obscura Spul. (68 a), from Wallis and S. Tyrol, has the ground colour dusted with blackish 



phantasma. grey; subsp. phantasma Ev. (68 a), occurring in Armenia and Mesopotamia, has the usual black markings very 



faint and subobsolete, the ground colour of forewing grey, of hindwing dark fuscous brown, and a dark lunule 



innotata. on the hindwing beneath; in a form from Amasia, Syria, — subsp. innotata subsp. nov. (68 b), the ground 



colour is pale ochreous grey, with the markings quite faint, the stigmata very obscure, the hindwing paler, the 



maura. underside pale glossy ochreous with the lines nearly effaced; — ■ the Algerian form, — subsp. maura subsp. 



centralasiae. nov. (68b) — is brighter in ground colour, the lines blacker but finer, not diffuse ;— finally ; — subsp. cenlralasiae 



subsp. nov. (68 b) from the Goorais Valley, Kashmir, Issyk-Kul, Tibet, Afghanistan, and Persia agrees with 



phantasma Ev. in its grey tint and in having a dark cell lunule on underside of hindwing, but the forewing above 



is thickly and coarsely sprinkled with blackish and marked with one. large black blotch before subterminal line 



on submedian fold. Larva yellow, with four black subdorsal lines enclosing the yellow dorsum; on each side 



a row of black spots and dots ; a double black line above the feet ; head yellow with black dots ; feeds on Genista 



and Sarothamnus. Occurs throughout S. Europe except in S. W. Russia; in Algeria and Morocco; in Asia Minor 



Palestine, Armenia, through Central Asia to Amurland; also found in India. 





