390 ALEUCANITIS. By W. Warden. 



white margin beyond the black terminal border of hindwings broader, probably a merely accidental exaggeration ; 

 caspica. — caspica Stgr., from the shores of the Caspian sea, is a darker form, the forewings fuscous or brownish grey, 

 and the white of the hindwing more darkened with fuscous. 



sinuosa. A. sinuosa Stgr. (70 g). Like flexuosa Men., but the ground colour of forewing whiter; the dusting and 



shadings blacker; a white costal striga beyond outer line; markings exactly the same; hindwing with the 

 basal half pure white, except only a slight grey tinge along inner margin. Transcaspia, Bokhara, Afghani- 

 stan. 



tmera. A. tentra. Stgr. (70 g). Forewing dull blue grey speckled with brown; the usual lines brownish, but only 



just visible ; the subtermmal thickened towards costa ; the reniform visible ; hindwing pale brownish with blackish 

 cell mark and broad smoky fuscous marginal border containing a short pale streak on termen at vein 3, 

 embracing a round black marginal blotch; underside pale greyish ochreous with darker borders; cell spots 

 black; both wings with a large black blotch below middle of termen. Recorded from Nariin, S. E. Russia, Ih, 

 anliqua. Issyk Kul; — the form antiqua Stgr. (70 g), from Kashgar, has the forewing paler, luteous grey, the basal 

 area and that between outer and subterminal lines deeper grey; the lines blackish edged with yellow; the 

 subterminal yeUow luteous, distinct ; hindwing grey in basal half with a pale whitish blotch beyond the dark 

 cellspot; apex and a subterminal band bent to termen at vein 2 darker grey, encircling a semicircular 

 white blotch on termen containing a round deep black blotch; fringe white; underside of both wings whitish; 

 the cell spots and outer bands pale brownish grey; a round black submarginal spot in each wing on veins 3 

 and 4. 



aberrans. A. aberrans Stgr. (70 h). Forewing very pale bluish grey; the lines aU starting as oblique black costal 



streaks, the inner line oblique to middle of wing, yellowish from subcostal to vein 1 ; a slight rusty yellow 

 cellspot; the median streak, like the basal, not reaching beyond subcostal vein; outer line black accom- 

 panied by yellow scales, angled on veins 6, 4 and 3, and conjoined below vein 1 by a black streak to inner 

 line; subterminal line pale, hardly visible except just at costa; veins towards margin dark; hindwing 

 sordid whitish, with veins and cellspot brown; a smoky black terminal border with two whitish blotches; 

 fringe white. Hi, Issyk Kul, Kashgar. 



stuebeli. A. stuebeli Calb. Forewing bluish ashgrey, suffused in basal half with blackish, in terminal area more 



brownish, darkest in cell; at end of ceU a yeUowish white oblong externally diffuse reniform stigma; veins 

 blackish, especially before termen; three black costal spots, from which the lines arise; a short tooth only 

 from the subbasal spot with a black mark below it; the inner line forms a short inward tooth, then runs 

 obliquely to below reniform, where it is connected by a black streak with outer line; this is fine, excurved, 

 irregularly dentate; from its projection at vein 5 a blackish shade runs through cell 6 to termen; hind- 

 wing dirty white, dusted with brown at middle; a broad black terminal border, narrowing off to anal angle; 

 on its outside at apex a dirty white spot. Described from a single <$ from the desert, of El Arish, S. E. 

 Palestine. Its position here is not certain. 



Sect. II. Foretibiae without or with very short terminal claws. 

 The first two species have the hindwings yellow. 



catocalis. A. catocalis Stgr. (70 h). Forewing yellowish grey, dusted and suffused in parts with darker; basal 



patch fuscous grey, -limited by the double black waved inner line ; outer line black, slender, descending to vein 2, 

 with a blunt angle on vein 6, incurved to below reniform, then waved to inner margin, followed by fuscous 

 shading to the evenly dentate subtermmal hue, which is pale, emphasised by the black before it; reniform 

 stigma grey, with black outline obscured by a diffuse median shade; the median area on each side of it 

 paler yellow; hindwing deep yellow, with a somewhat triangular black lunule at end of cell, a black dentate- 

 grumi. edged subterminal band, and two terminal patches of black ; fringes grey mixed with yellowish; in ab. grumi 

 Alph. (70 h) the hindwing is pale yellow. Hi, Issyk-Kul, Tarbagatai Mts., Ferghana, Sarawschan. 



langi. A. langi Ersch. (70 h). Forewing pinkish ochreous, dusted with grey; inner line black, curved inwards 



below submedian fold, preceded by a leaden grey band inwardly edged with darker, toothed inwards along 

 median vein to join subbasal line; outer line double, acutely dentate outwards, strongly inangled beyond 

 cell the inner arm running inwards below 3 to beneath reniform, then vertical, the outer arm only curved 

 to inner margin ; reniform subtriangular, grey with black edges, its inner edge in line with lower half of outer 



