392 ALEUCANITIS. By W. Warren. 



caucasica. A. caucasica Kol. (= astrida Ev.) (70i). Forewing bluish grey or brownish grey; inner line black, 



faintly curved, abbreviated at each end, preceded by a dense brown shading ; outer line black, starting from 

 subcostal vein (the costal portion being obsolete), incurved beyond cell and shortly projecting on veins 3, 4, 

 incurved to below reniform, and obliquely curved outwards to inner margin; followed by a broad brown shade 

 merging into paler brown or bluish grey; sometimes a subterminal line is present, dividing the dark inner 

 from the paler outer area; black terminal lunules before fringe; reniform stigma grey, with dark centre, very 

 indistinct; median area in $ broad, in $ narrower, pale grey, the inner band between subcostal vein and vein 

 1 fulvous ; in both sexes dusted with grey, and darkest along costa ; hindwing dull whitish, with broad blackish 

 terminal border containing a pale blotch on margin at vein 3, sometimes curved and continued to termen 

 above vein 5; a dark lunule at end of cell connected with the border. Armenia, Kurdistan, Sarawschan, 



aksuensis. Ferghana, Ili, Issyk-kul, Transcaspia, Siberia ; the ab. aksuensis Fuchs (70 i) has the interval between inner 

 and outer lines from subcostal vein to vein 1 brighter yellow; the hindwing blacker with all the white 

 areas greatly reduced. 



hyUaeoides. A. hyblaeoides Moore (= caucasica Alph. nee Kol.) (70k). Forewing dark blue grey or slaty grey, 



finely dark-dusted; lines darker, hardly visible; inner line curved, nearly vertical; outer line only plain in 

 the lower part below reniform, which is dark and cloudy; subterminal line paler, fairly distinct, followed 

 by a thick rusty fuscous line or shade wider at each end; marginal lunules dark; fringe brownish; hind- 

 wing whitish tinged with grey; the cell-lunule and veins blackish; a broad blackish terminal border with a 

 Hncta. large somewhat angled whitish patch from below vena 2 to 4; fringe white; hi the ab. tincta ab. nov. (70 k) 

 the two parts of the median area are dull rust colour like the edge of subterminal line, and the dark shad- 

 ings are more defmed. Kashgar, Pamir, Kappak, Alexander Mts. ; the aberration from Turkestan. 



sesquilina. A. sesquilina Stgr. Resembles cailino in markings and coloration, but darker; the brownish middle 



band and the large tooth shaped blotch above it never mixed with white; the blotch shorter and less sharply 

 dentate, uniform light brown in colour; the basal half of hindwing and underside of both wings dirty 

 sequax. whitish grey, not white; the subsp. sequax Stgr. has the hindwings snow white, with broad black terminal 

 border and with no dark cell lunule, and the underside of forewings broadly and deeply black; the single 

 example was from N. W. Kurdistan; the type form from Samarcand, Ferghana, and Thian shan Mts. 



yerburyi. A. yerburyi Btlr. (= schematias Meyr.). Forewing dark slate grey; inner and outer lines black, the 



inner oblique outwards, irregularly waved, followed by a broad curved pure white band; outer line squarely 

 outcurved beyond cell, running in along vein 4 to below reniform, thence to inner margin, forming below 

 middle the outer edge of the white band; reniform stigma dark grey, black-edged, followed by a white blotch 

 in the curve of outer line; subterminal line sinuous, starting from a white costal tooth; terminal area paler 

 grey, with the veins darker; a black festooned terminal line; fringe fuscous; hindwing white in basal half, 

 the outer half slaty fuscous; extreme termen white with a black terminal blotch beyond veins 3 and 4; a fus- 

 cous brown streak to base along median vein and another along vein 1; fringe white, fuscous towards anal 

 angle. Aden. 



sculpta. A. sculpta Pilng. Forewing pale grey with dark grey and fuscous suffusion; inner line black, oblique 



outwards, excurved below middle and incurved basewarcs, edged by white and preceded by a slaty fuscous 

 band, the basal area within it being pale grey; reniform stigma dark, swollen outwards below, edged internally 

 by a black white-margined bar; outer line black acutely dentate on veins 6, 4, 3, curved inwards and up- 

 wards along vein .3 to below inner edge of reniform, then slightly outwards to inner margin; median space 

 brownish fuscous; space beyond reniform dull white with grey clouds; subterminal line white, preceded by 

 bkvk wedge-shaped marks, indented on each fold, followed by a whitish band before the dark termen; a black 

 festooned terminal line; fringe dark grey with a white line at base; hindwing white smudged with grey, 

 with grey cell lunule and veins; a broad dark fuscous terminal border, with diffuse whitish patches at end of 

 vein 2 and beyond cell. From Togus-torau. 



indecora. A. indecora Johns (70 k). Forewing dull grey densely powdered with darker grey; the veins finely 



blackish; lines blackish, obscure; inner line double, obliquely waved outwards, angled on submedian fold, 

 the inner arm thick and grey, the outer fine and black; outer line sharply indented on vein 5, then rounded, 

 running up along vein 3 to below the indistinct grey reniform, then sharply dentate to inner margin, the tooth 

 on submedian fold nearly touching the angle of inner line; subterminal line pale, oily visible at costa; a dark 

 festooned terminal line; fringe mottled dark grey and white; hindwing whitish, in basal half suffused with grey, 

 except just beyond the blackish cellspot; terminal border smoky blackish, with two rather large whitish 



