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patches on termen; underside dull white, speckled with grey in hindwing; costa of forewing dark grey; black 

 cellspots and a dark grey subterminal band on each wing; terminal area of forewing grey, of hindwing 

 whitish with a black marginal spot at end of veins 3 and 4. From Turkestan. 



A. axuana Piing. Forewing brownish grey mixed with whitish, coarsely scaled, with 2 large pale axuana. 

 blotches; the first oblique, limiting the oblique inner line, toothed outwards on median vein and submedian 

 fold: the second filling the curve of outer line beyond the reniform, strongly constricted at middle; subter- 

 minal line pale; veins terminally dark; terminal dots black; hindwing whitish; a large black cell lunule; a 

 blackish subterminal band; below middle of termen a large white space containing a black blotch. Described 

 from 2 33 from Aksu, E. Turkestan. 



59. Genus: Arniada Stgr. 



Tongue well developed; frons with a strong chitinous projection varying in shape; palpi sinuous, the 

 second segment slightly curved and oblique upwards, the third porrect, both closely scaled; antennae of 3 

 simple, lamellate; mid tibiae of 3 with a tuft of spinous hairs at top; abdomen of 3 long, with strongly 

 developed anal tufts; forewing with veins 7, 8 and 9, 10 stalked, 8 and 9 forming the areole; hindwing with 

 veins 3, 4 shortly stalked. Type A. dentata. 



Sect. I. Frons with the projection laterally flattened, prow -shaped. 



A. panaceorum Men. (=beckeri Stndfs.) (70k, 1). Forewing ochreous grey with brownish grey suffusion panaceorum. 

 and shading ; inner and outer lines ochreous edged with black; inner line slightly angled outwards on subcostal 

 vein, more strongly on submedian fold, and more acutely below vein 1, on which it is acutely mangled; the 

 submedian fold black from base to inner line; the veins paler; outer line projecting on veins 3, 4, insinuate 

 on submedian fold; orbicular stigma oval, oblique, brown in an ochreous ring; reniform oblong, elongate, 

 reaching below median, brown, with dark outline and ochreous ring ; subterminal line pale, preceded by black 

 wedge-shaped marks, followed by a brownish terminal space; terminal line black; fringe ochreous, with a 

 black middle line and brown tips; hindwing white, the extreme base grey; a subquadrate black cell mark 

 and broad black terminal border, containing a pale subtermmal spot on and above vein 2; fringe white, 

 with a dark patch between veins 3 and 4. S. E. Russia the Kirghiz steppes, Taurus, Armenia, Trans- 

 caspia, Samarcand, Ferghana, Tibet; Egypt, Algeria. 



Sect. II. Frons horizontally flattened, the projection ending in a tri- 

 dent a t e edge. 



A. hueberi Ersch. (70 1). Forewing cream white; inner line thick, black, projecting on submedian fold; hueberi. 

 outer line black, excurved to submedian fold, lying in a white band; subterminal line interrupted, formed of 

 pale spots preceded by bkvk wedge shaped marks; median and terminal areas filled up with brown and leaden 

 blue scales; stigmata small, black with some white scales; fringe mottled white and leaden grey; hindwing 

 white; a large subquadrate fuscous cellspot; a broad fuscous terminal border, with a white spot in it be- 

 tween 2 and 3; inner margin smoky brown. Transcaspia, Ferghana, Samarcand. 



A. eylandti Christ. (74a). Forewing cream white; the cellspot, some costal spots, and the two lines eylandti. 

 black brown; both lines much interrupted, the median in the middle, the subtermmal on the folds; fringe 

 brown in basal half, mottled with white in outer half; hind wings luteous brown, whiter towards base, with 

 a slight dark cellspot. Transcaspia. This species is said to have the same tridentate edge of frons as hue- 

 beri, but it scarcely looks as if it belonged here. 



Sect. III. Frons cylindrically produced and truncate, with a central 

 conical projection. 



A. dentata Stgr. (701). Forewing ochreous, varied with lilac grey and ochreous grey; inner and outer dentata. 

 lines black andcastinct; the inner wavy, angled outwards on submedian fold; the outer deeply and squarely 



