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21. Genus: JLutophila Hbn. 



Differs from Apopestes in the palpi having the third segment much smaller, sometimes hardly visible, 

 the second much more loosely scaled; the legs less heavily clothed with hair; all the species smaller and of weaker 

 build. Type A. dilucida Hbn. 



A. cataphanes Hbn. (68 c). Fore wing pale ochreous grey dusted with darker grey; costa with dark spots cataphanes. 

 at origin of lines ; lines fuscous ; the inner waved, the outer dentate lunulate, excurved beyond cell ; submarginal 

 pale preceded by a dark grey macular shade; marginal spots dark; orbicular stigma a grey ring; reniform 

 lunular, with dark outside edge ; hindwing grey, with darker outer line, followed by a paler, more ochreous band; 

 fringe pale, glossy; — the subsp. ligaminosa Ev. (68 c), from Armenia, Pontus, Taurus, and Turania, is darker, ligaminosa. 

 with greenish grey forewings, and with a broad blackish border on the underside of both wings; — subligatni- subligami- 

 nosa Slgr. (68 c), from Ferghana, Turania, and Samarcand, is distinguished from ligaminosa by the pale grey nosa. 

 of the forewing and the strong black mark before its apex; — subsp. praeligaminosa $<gr?\ (68d), from the Altai praeligami- 

 and Uliassutai Mts., the Ussuri district, and Japan, is still darker, being dusted with black; another form, oc- nosa - 

 curring in Turania, Ferghana, the Issyk-Kul district, and Kashgar, — ■ ab. maculifera Stgr. (68 c) is reddish grey maculijem. 

 with scattered darker spots on the cross lines of the forewings and one between the stigmata; ■ — subsp. tnaura maura. 

 Stgr. (68 c). from N. Africa, has reddish yellow grey forewings; and ab. roseata Roths., from the northern Sahara, roseata. 

 is very closely allied to maura, but has stronger black markings and appears restricted to the more purely 

 desert areas. Larva very slender, attenuated at both ends ; pale yellowish grey, with several fine, contiguous, 

 dark wood-coloured lines besides the usual well-developed dorsal and subdorsal lines ; spiracular line whitish ; 

 tubercles and spiracles very small ; feeds on Genista purgans and Ulex europaeus. The species occurs through- 

 out S. Europe (except Italy and Russia), in N. Africa, Asia Minor, Syria, Armenia, Turania, Ferghana, Tur- 

 kestan, to N. China. 



A. limbata Stgr. (68 c). Forewing ochreous grey with dark dusting; lines blacker and plainer than in limbata. 

 cataphanes; the terminal area suffused with blackish, and the praesubmarginal shade thick, black, and well- 

 marked; the orbicular a black point, the reniform a dark lunule; hindwing fuscous grey, with dark terminal 

 border preceded by a pale ochreous band; the fringe pale ochreous. In Europe this species is met with in Spain, 

 S. E. France, and Greece; also in Pontus, Taurus, Armenia, and N. E. Persia, where, as well as in Ferghana 

 and Turania, is found the subsp. obscurata Stgr. (68 c), with the forewings above much cloudier and more ob- obacuraia. 

 scurely marked. Larva brownish, mottled all over with brown and pale streaks and spots; a paler lateral 

 hue below the spiracles; forelegs wholly black; head marbled dark and light; living on Astragalus echinus, 

 growing in small bushes. 



A. dilucida Hbn. (68 d). Forewing pale ochreous dusted with grey; the lines grey, obscurely marked, dilucida. 

 starting from grey costal spots; the outer line more waved, less dentate; submarginal line pale, wavy, preceded 

 by a continuous dark grey shade, the terminal area also often dark; orbicular stigma a dark point; reniform 

 an obscure dark lunule; hindwing pale luteous grey, darker towards termen; the fringe pale; the type form is 

 found in Germany, Carinthia, S. Tyrol, and S. Europe generally; also in Algeria; — other forms are: subsp. 

 rosea Stgr. (68 d), from N. Africa, with the forewings reddish yellow; — subsp. asiatica Stgr. (68 d), from rosea. 

 Pontus, Ferghana, Samarcand, and the Hi district, has a more conspicuous brown terminal border to the aswiwa - 

 forewings, and paler underside; — from Turania also the subsp. laetifica Stgr., with yellowish grey sharper laetifica. 

 marked forewings, without terminal border, and paler hindwings with a broad black border; — subsp. sub- subfusca. 

 fusca Christ., likewise from Turania and S. E. Caucasus, is much darker, with stouter transverse lines and very 

 broad border in forewings. Larva dark brown along dorsum, brownish yellow on the sides, varied with grey 

 longitudinal striae; dorsal line blackish, conspicuous, finely edged with yellow; the subdorsal lines pale, edged 

 above with blackish, beneath with red; tubercles conspicuous, black in yellow rings; feeding on Medicago, Ono- 

 brychis, Genista, and other papilionaceous plants, living concealed by day on the surface of the ground. 



A. libanotica Stgr. Forewing much broadened outwardly, fawn colour, with a slight reddish tinge; libanolica. 

 the usual lines obsolete ; submarginal line marked by three black blotches preceding it ; a large one at costa, 

 a small one at middle, and a third on inner margin; hindwing with the dark band stronger, sharper, and 

 straighter than in cataphanes; its underside with a broad black terminal border and sharply marked 

 narrow black median band. Occurs in Syria only; nearly allied to cataphanes. 



