400 PROTHYMIA; RAPARNA. By W. Waeebn. 



calvaria. E. calvaria F. (= calvarialis Hbn.) (71 c). Forewing blackish fuscous, powdered with white; inner and 



outer lines thick and black, wavy, conversely white edged; median shade thick and black ; subterminal line wav- 

 ed, whitish, preceded by a dense black shade; a row of blackish terminal lunules; fringe grey, the outer 

 hah paler; orbicular stigma a yellowish dot; reniform large, yellowish, with two black dots or a lunule at 

 centre; hindwing dark fuscous grey, with three darker pale-edged waved bands, more obscure in the <$. Occurs 

 from Central Europe southwards, Italy, Sardinia, Greece, the Bukowina, and S. Russia; also in Armenia, Pon- 

 tus, Kurdistan, and Persia. Larva brown with two rows of large black tubercles clown the back and one on 

 the sides; spiracles black, small ; head, thoracic, and anal plates uniform dark brown; feeds on dry and withered 

 leaves, hybernating small. 



curvipalpis. E. curvipalpis Btlr. ( = quadra Graes.) (74b). Forewing dark smoky brown, with a faint purplish reflection; 



beyond the centre crossed by three partly white-edged irregularly zigzag black lines; a terminal series of sub- 

 confluent black triangular spots, followed by a whitish line at base of fringe, which is grey with a brown 

 line at middle; a partly white edged zigzag black line near base; cellspots small, buff; hindwmg like forewing. 

 Japan. 



73. Genus : I*rotliyniia Hbn. 



Tongue present; frons smooth; palpi upcurved, the second segment thickly and roughly scaled below, 

 the third short, pointed; antennae in the $ pubescent; forewing triangular, with hairlike scales; marked 

 with bands rather than lines; 7, 8 and 9, 10 stalked, 8 anastomosing with 9 to form areole; in hindwing 

 3, 4 shortly stalked. Larva in autumn on Polygala; the imago emerging in the folio whig spring. Type P. viri- 

 daria CI. 



viridaria. P. viridaria CI. (= laccata Scop., purpurata F., latruncula Esp., olivacea View.) (71 d). Forewing 



olive brownish ; the costa at base, and an outer and terminal fascia deep rosy purple ; the outer band 

 varying hi width; a pale line of ground colour between them; hindwing olive with a median and ter- 

 fusca. minal darker band more or less tinged with purple; in ab. fusca Tutt (= modesta Carad.) the purple tints 

 aenea. are replaced by dark brown; — hi aenea Hbn. ( = cincta TV.) the ground colour is olive grey or fuscous in- 

 suffusa. stead of green; ab. stiff usa Tutt is a rare form, blackish fuscous with a still darker terminal border. Larva 

 green with darker pale-edged dorsal line; the other lines pale, the subspiracular becoming white on anal seg- 

 ments; feeding on Polygala. — A widely spread species, common wherever its food plant abounds. Found 

 throughout Europe except the extreme north, in N. Africa, Bithynia, Pontus, Armenia, the Altai Mts., 

 Tarbagatai Mts., Hi and Issyk-Kul districts, Fergana, Kentei Mts., E. Siberia. 



sanctiflo- P. sanctiflorentis Bsd. (71 d). Forewing grey brown or greenish; the costa and inner and outer lines 



rentis. <jark brown; when fresh tinged with reddish; the inner line curved and waved, obscure; the outer broad and 



straight; a faint waved dark subtermmal shade; a dark dot in cell and pale 8-shaped reniform with each 



half dark centred; hindwing with dark median and terminal shades; both wings yellowish on underside. Spam. 



Uda. P. leda H.-Sch., (Fig. 553) (74 a). Forewing fawn colour suffused with greyish fuscous or with brick red ; the 



inner and outer lines, which approximate somewhat on mner margin, and the praesubterminal shade brown; 

 hindwing uniform grey. Occurs in Western Asia, Pontus, Taurus, Antioch, Armenia, and W. Kurdistan. 



erubescens. P. erubescens Bang-Haas (= ? leda, H.-Sch. Fig. 594) (74 a). Forewing whitish flushed with rosy in the 



terminal half, with the lines all finer and less marked than in leda typical. 



74. Genus : Baparua Moore. 



Tongue present; frons rounded, smooth; palpi sickle-shaped, the second segment thickly scaled, the 

 third also in the <$ and slightly shorter, in the $ slender and acute, as long as second; thorax and dorsum 

 smooth, without crests; tibiae moderately scaled; antennae of (J finely ciliated and with bristles. Type R. 

 ochreipennis Moore. 



