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line; median shade double, grey and straight; subterminal line sinuous, sandy yellow, preceded by black 

 wedge shaped marks and followed by a grey line; a dark festooned terminal line; hindwing dull yellow, slightly 

 dusted with grey: a dark grey cell hmule; a broad fuscous outer band with angled edges; dark terminal 

 patches above and below middle, protruding across the pale fringe. Afghanistan. 



A. scolopax Alph. Larger than catocalis; forewing brownish grey, instead of yellowish; the hindwing scolopax. 

 paler; markings as in catocalis, but all less clearly defined, and brown instead of black. Recorded from Nan 

 Schan, Knku Nor. and Amdo, Tibet. 



A. saisani Stgr. (70 i). Forewing bluish grey dusted with black; the central area white, with slight saisani. 

 grey dusting in the <J, and denser ochreous grey dusting in $; inner line double, thrice outcurved, the outer 

 arm thick and black, the inner dark grey and dentate inwards, filled up with olive yellowish ; outer line black, 

 fine, somewhat bracket-shaped to vein 3, then roundly curved inwards and upwards to touch the reniform, 

 and again bracket-shaped to inner margin, edged throughout by olive yellow and grey; the subterminal line, 

 which is deeply indented beyond cell, and incurved below middle, is preceded by a black shade forming a blotch 

 at costa, and followed by a yellowish line; reniform stigma olive yellowish with darker outline edged with 

 whitish, beyond a dark median shade from costa; hindwing white flushed with fuscous, especially in $; a 

 very broad black border with two white terminal spots, between which the black is deeper, and the fringe, 

 otherwise white, is blackened also. Transcaspia, Afghanistan. Tarbagatai Mts., Hi, Issyk-Kul, Armenia. The 

 form clara Stgr. (70 i) from Mardin, Mesopotamia, has the median area nearly white. clara. 



A. obscurata Stgr. (70 k). Forewing greyish ochreous or fuscous ochreous with darker suffusion; bas- dbscurata. 

 al area leaden grey, edged by the double black brown-filled inner line, which forms a projecting promi- 

 nence on submarginal fold and is then retracted basewards; outer line fine, black, dentate on subcostal 

 vein, and on veins 6, 4 and 3, the veins to each tooth dark; the lower part of outer line is straight and 

 slightly outwardly oblique, in line with the black inner edge of the reniform stigma, which is narrow above 

 and widened below; the pale space before it contains two brown lines forming a shade; submarginal line 

 pale, waved, followed by a darker line and preceded by a velvety black line emitting teeth inwards; the 

 pale terminal area darker towards the dark waved terminal line; fringe brown with pale base; hindwing 

 dirty luteous, with a fuscous terminal border, partly broken by a pale submarginal twice-arched pale cloud ; 

 cell lunule and veins fuscous. Occurs in Central Asia, the Tarbagatai and Ala Tau Mts., Hi, Issyk-Kul, 

 Ferghana and Sarawschan. The cW are larger and generally paler than $$. 



A. cailino Lef. (= caylino Hbn.-Gey.) (70i). Forewing blackish fuscous in basal area and the space between cailino. 

 outer and subterminal lines ; terminal area bluish grey, darker along termen ; space between inner and outer 

 lines brownish ochreous ; inner line double, the outer arm black and straight, bent on submedian fold ; the inner 

 duller and more diffuse, the space between them olive; outer line black, acutely dentate on vein 6, and 

 bluntly projecting on 3 and 4, incurved to below reniform, then vertical, in a line with the black inner 

 edge of the reniform; the pale inner half of median area is traversed by a brown line, separating its ochreous 

 inner portion from the brown outer area, which contains another brown line ; subterminal line grey edged with 

 darker; hindwing white, the cellspot, the median vein, and veins 2 and 3 finely dark; a black terminal 

 border containing a sinus on submedian fold, and a white spot on termen beyond. This species is found in 

 the South of Europe, S. France, Spain, Greece, and the Crimea; in Algeria; and in Asia in Asia Minor, Armenia, 

 Syria, Transcaspia, Hi, and Issyk-Kul. The form philippina Aust. (70 i), from Algeria, described from a single philippina. 

 $, is darker in the forewing, and the terminal border of the hindwing is broader and shows a deeper sinus; — 

 — the ab. obscura Stgr. (70 h), from S. E.Russia and Ala Tau and Tarbagatai Mts., is rather smaller than typical obscura. 

 examples, with the forewing darker and the white of the hindwing discoloured ; the terminal border occupying 

 half the width of the wing. Larva elongate, greyish yellow, with a redbrown appearance, caused by rows of 

 many fine red-brown dots; dorsal line obscure, very slender, redbrown, often interrupted; subdorsal plainer, 

 double, ferruginous on each segment; spiracular line redbrown, obscure; forefeet very long, yellowish 

 brown; feeding on Salix viniinalis, pupating in a grey cocoon. W. China, Mongolia, and Kashgar. 



A. herzi Alph. Resembles picta, but with broader and paler forewings; the reniform larger; herzi. 

 the median band wider; the inner line more waved; the markings of the hindwing more broadly and intensely 

 black. Tura and Armenia. 



A. kusnezovi Johns. Differs from herzi, with which it is easily confounded, in having a protuberant kusnezovi. 

 frons; forewings narrower, more rounded at apex; all the markings slightly variant. Transcaspia. 



