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lodes Guen., which bears on the dorsum a similar scaleless rasp, but in it the mid and hind tibiae are spined. 

 Type A. polygraphed Koll. 



polygrapha. A. polygraphia Koll. (67 b). Forewing uniform olive fuscous without dark dusting; basal area and cell 



with a few blue scales intermixed; lines black; inner line outcurved, thick; basal area above vein 1 Wack; 

 median shade thick and black, oblique outwards and interrupted by the large reniform stigma, which is black 

 edged and bears a black lunule at centre, below cell oblique inwards and dentate lunulate; outer line oblique 

 outwards as far as vein 7, where it is sharply angled, then lunulate dentate, ending in an acute angle on inner 

 margin; the teeth emitted by the median line run up along the veins in the centre of the lunules; a similar 

 line, more broadly lunulate, emits its teeth inwards between the lunules; an interrupted subterminal line of 

 dark blotches; an interrupted black terminal line; hindwing ochreous at base, olive fuscous along costa; a 

 broad blackish terminal border from vein 6, and an outer black band, which is preceded and followed by 

 bands of bluish scales, the inner one reduced by fuscous suffusion along inner margin to a triangular blotch; 

 cellspot large and black. A North Indian insect occurring in the Punjab, Sikkim, Bhutan, and Assam; also 

 found in Kashmir. 



28. Genus: Catepliia Ochs. 



Tongue present ; frons smooth ; palpi long, upcurved, second segment thickened with appressed scales, 

 third long and sleiider; antennae of (J with fasciculate cilia; thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled; the me- 

 tathorax with a slight tuft; dorsum strongly crested; tibiae rough haired, without spines; forewing elongate, 

 with both angles blunt; the ternien nearly vertical, crenulate; vein 5 of hindwing close above 4. Larva 

 slender, with pairs of tubercles; those on the 5th and 12th segments swollen into points; the first two pairs 

 of prolegs aborted; feeds on oak in autumn; pupates in a slight cocoon spun among leaves, and emerges in 

 spring. Type C. alchymista Schiff. 



alchymista. C. alchymista Schiff. (67 i). Forewing ash -black; lines deep black; inner and outer irregularly dentate, 



partially brown-edged externally; subterminal line light brown, irregular and dilated in places, at costa mark- 

 ed with white; stigmata with deep black edges; hindwing white in basal half, except along inner margin, 

 which like outer half is blackish; terminal spots white, running out into the fringe, at apex and above anal 

 angle. Larva reddish brown, marbled with black and whitish; dorsal tubercles black; head brown; segment 

 2 yellow in front; feeding on oak. Occurs in Central Europe, except Holland, in the Baltic provinces, and in 

 South Europe; in Algeria; in Pontus, Palestine, Persia, and Kurdistan in Asia. The examples captured 

 varia. from time to time on the S. E. coasts of England were certainly stragglers from the continent; the ab. varia 

 Chr. (67 i), from Sarepta, has greenish grey forewings with very strongly marked black lines. 



29. Genus : A iiopliia Guen. 



Tongue present; frons smooth; palpi upturned close in front of face, the third segment porrect 

 outwards; thorax thickly scaled; metathorax Avith strong crest; abdomen of $ elongate, narrowing to end, 

 with long silky anal tuft, the second segment with two upwards curved lateral tufts of hair; strong dorsal 

 tufts on first four basal segments, the third the largest; pectus and legs woolly; antennae of $ pubescent; 

 forewing elongate, with slight scale tooth at anal angle; apex blunt; termen curved, faintly crenulate; hind- 

 wing of $ beneath with a rough-scaled fork on abdominal margin. Larva feeds on Convolvulus and pupates 

 in an earthen cocoon, in Avhich it lives as larva till spring. Type A. leucomelas L. 



leucomclas. A. leucomelas L. ( = ramburii Tr., adepta Hbn.-Gey., acronyctoides Leech nee Guen.) (67 i). Forewing 



purplish black ; inner and outer lines double, deep black ; the inner waved and oblique, the outer lunulate dentate, 

 slightly outbent beyond cell; subterminal line pale, wavy, preceded by a deep black shade; orbicular stigma 

 round, the reniform kidney shaped, dark with pinkish ochreous annuli, the reniform externally marked with 

 white; claviform purple black, followed by a pink patch on vein 2 at base; hindwing white with outer half 

 black; a white subapical and submedian space extending into the fringe; the inner margin narrowly fuscous; 

 rufimixta. in ab. rufimixta ab. nov. (67 i) from Algeria, the forewing has the dark ground colour invaded between the 

 veins by coarse rufous ochreous scales. Larva grey or green, coarsely black-dotted ; dorsal line broadly orange ; 

 lateral lines, narrowly orange ; an orange line above the spiracles, and a yellow line with blackish lower edge 

 below them; head yellow dotted with black; feeds on Convolvulus in autumn. Occurs throughout S. Europe; 

 in Algeria; in Bithynia, Pontus, Armenia, and Persia; recorded also by Leech from Gensan, Corea, 



