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an interrupted dark shade and followed by a dark spot at apex; the terminal area rufous and fuscous; hind- 

 wing white, more or less grey tinged, especially in $; subterminal band black, its inner edge nearly straight, its 

 outer protending a quadrate black blotch to termen below middle; fringe white; this border is much narrower 

 in the <J; underside of hindwing with two separate black submarginal blotches; — a paler form occurs, — ab. 

 denotata ab. nor. (70 f) — ■ in which the $ is more uniformly pale grey, like the typical <J, with the lines denotata. 

 and markings not black, and the <$ is dull white, with no grey dusting, the reniform stigma black and distinct. 

 Transcaspia, Afghanistan, Tura. A smaller species, distinguished by its black and white mottled appearance. 



A. fricta Christ. (70 d). Forewing pale grey dusted with darker, in $, as also in some <$$, with a brown, fricta. 

 ish grey or dark grey suffusion from base along and below cell to apex before subterminal line; inner line 

 interrupted, blackish, outcurved in middle and inwardly oblique from submedian fold; outer line interrupted 

 below costa, dentate and black below median; an obscure dark cell spot; subterminal line whitish, preceded 

 by a dark shade with a strong sharp projection on vein 4; fringe mottled dark and white; veins Ik fore sub- 

 terminal line often blackish ; hindwing white ; the base tinged with grey or ochreous ; a diffuse irregular sub- 

 terminal dark band, emitting a subquadrate blackish blotch to termen below middle; in the ab. ochrea ochrea. 

 ab. nov. the ground colour of forewing is ochreous grey, the markings very distinct, and the basal half 

 of hind whig yellow ochreous. Transcaspia. 



A. hilgerti Roths. (70f). Larger than fricta, suffused with brownish grey, the suffusion stronger in hilgerti. 

 the 5; veins all blackish throughout; lines edged with pale, not so much interrupted, the outer distinctly 

 outcurved below costa; the projection on vein 4 of the subterminal line blunter; the terminal black spots 

 stronger; fringe mottled pale and dark grey brown ; hindwing white throughout ; the subterminal band much 

 broader and blacker in the $, diffuse as in fricta in the <J; in the ab. brunnea ab. nov. (70g) the forewing and brunnea. 

 fringe are wholly brown, with the veins and terminal spots only black. The Algerian Sahara. 



A. fractistrigata Alph. (70 g). Forewing pale grey, powdered with darker; often with a brown tinge fractislri- 

 along both folds; inner line interrupted, angled outwards in both folds and inwards on median vein; outer 9ata " 

 line black, excurved to. vein 2, indented on it and vein 1, followed by a distinct white edging ; subterminal 

 white, preceded by a dark grey, sometimes blackish shade, projecting above 6 and below 4; the veins dark; 

 a row of black terminal dots; cell spot dark, generally indistinct; fringe pale mottled and streaked with grey; 

 hindwing white, in basal half tinged with ochreous and grey, with an outer line followed by a pale band; 

 the terminal area diffusely fuscous grey, with a black blotch below middle; the terminal line black; fringe 

 white. Transcaspia. 



A. sabulosa Roths. Forewing yellow ochreous, suffused with greyish fuscous; inner and outer lines sabulosa. 

 blackish comparatively vertical, the inner slightly excurved' below middle, the outer bent below 6, crenulate; 

 subterminal white, indented on both folds; outer line also edged with whitish; veins dark; termen and 

 fringe ochreous; terminal black and white spots; hindwing whitish, suffused with grey -brown; a median 

 line, the termen, and fringe white; a black blotch between veins 2 and 4 attached to subterminal band. 

 The Algerian Sahara. , 



58. Genus: Aleucaiiitis gen. nov. 



Differs from Leucanitis Guen. in the mid tibiae not being spined, but armed with tufts of spin- 

 ous hair, chiefly below the upper end; the foretibiae in many cases with a pair of terminal claws. Type 

 A. cailino Lef. 



Sect. I. Foretibiae with distinct terminal claws. 



A. flexuosa Men. (70 g). Forewing pale grey dusted with darker, the basal and terminal areas suffused flexuosa. 

 with brownish fuscous; inner line double, black, oblique, indented on vein 1 ; outer line blackish, broken up into 

 spots, incurved from vein 4 to 2, then' oblique outwards, followed by a dark fuscous shade edged by the 

 pale subterminal line, which is deeply indented on both folds and marked with white scaling at costa ; a blackish 

 spot at apex; reniform stigma an obscure dark lunule; hindwing white, suffused with fuscous, except along 

 the broad black terminal border, which in its turn is edged with white, except at veins 3 to 4, where there is 

 a deep black blotch; the fringe white. Occurs in Bokhara, Transcaspia, Sarawschan, Ferghana, Hi, Issyk- 

 Kul, Korta, Kashgar. The form singularis Koll. from Persia has the forewing yellowish grey, and is usually singular™. 

 somewhat larger than the type; mongolica Stgr., described from a single ? from the Uliassutai Mts., has the mongoUea. 



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