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white-tipped dashes, followed by a brown cloud, the subapical edge of which is oblique ; hindwing pale greyish. 



As a rule most $2 are brownish, — ab. brunnea Tutt, — - most <J<J grey without the brown; - the form brunnea. 

 deleta Stgr., from the Altai Mts., Amurland, and Kamschatka, is paler, the forewing yellowish, sprinkled with deleta. 

 brown, with less distinct markings; - tatorhina Btlr. (73 g), from Japan, is small, grey in both sexes, with talorhina. 

 dingy fuscous suffusion, and a black spot in cell; the hindwing fuscous; - from W. China (Omei-shan and Ta- 

 tsien-lu) comes a form. — subsp. flexilinea subsp. now., —(73 g) dark grey brown in the?, with the transverse flexilinea'. 

 striae and the shades preceding the lines dark smoky fuscous, the outer line visibly bent above middle; 

 in the gg the dark shading is slight: --a similar but smaller form, ? = indicalis Guen., occurs in the indicate. 

 Goorais Valley. Kashmir, where the outer line has a tendency to bo elbowed on both folds, and the <J, which is 

 quite without dark shading, has a small black dot in cell and a large black spot at its end. Larva vel- 

 vety green; dorsal line darker green, the subdorsal lines paler; head, legs, and tubercles green; feeding on 

 Urtica. The species is found throughout Europe, in N. Africa, throughout Asia to Japan, and in India. 



H. rostralis L. (= variegata Tutt) (73 h). Forewing grey brown, sometimes the grey, at others the rostralis. 

 brown tints predominating, speckled and striated with black and mixed with pale grey; lines' black, converse- 

 ly ochreous-edged; the inner strongly dentate, the outer nearly straight, slightly projecting on each fold; 

 cot a with oblique dark striae; median area, and often the basal as well, darker, especially the coll; orbicular 

 stigma a tuft of raised scales, black or black and white, connected by a long black line with an ill-defined 

 black reniform: subterminal line pale, dentate, generally obscure, preceded by a brown shado; an oblique 

 black shade from apex; a row of black terminal lunules; hindwing fuscous grey; the ab. radiatalis Hbn. radialalis. 

 (73 h) is suffused with fuscous, the costal streak and a broad submarginal space remaining pale dull ochreous; 

 termen with wedge shaped grey marks, confluent with the fuscous suffusion on the two folds ; the lines and 

 stigmata feebly marked: — in ab. unicolor Tutt (73 h) the forewing is uniformly grey brown, nearly all the unkolor. 

 black scaling being absent; — palpalis F. (73 h) is also unicolorous, but dark grey without any brown tint; — palpalis. 

 vittatus Haw. appears to be simply a form in which the costal streak is paler than the rest of the wing; — vitlatus. 

 Mxmetimes the ground colour is ochreous, and when all the markings are well developed as well, we have the 

 ab. ochrea-variegata Tutt (73 h), which is not uncommon, whereas the form ochrea Tutt, a third unicolorous ochrea- 

 form without markings, is very rare. Larva green with pale lines, feeding on Humulus. Common throughout variegaUi. 

 Europe, occurring generally in western Asia, and through Central Asia to Amurland. 



H. whitelyi Btlr. (73 h). On careful comparison this species seems to me to be essentially different from lolritclyi. 

 rostralis; the forewing being longer and narrower, pale ochreous hi ground colour, coarsely speckled with black, 

 and with some slight brownish suffusion ; the inner line, in the specimens seen, is obsolete, but this is some- 

 times the case with rostralis; the outer line is more oblique, straight, without any projection on the folds, 

 and brown instead of black; the termen suffused with brown, and the apical patch whitish; hindwing and ab- 

 domen luteous white. Butler's type, described as a Crambus, in very bad condition, having evidently over- 

 wintered, was from Hakodate, Yesso, and Leech records a second specimen from the same locality as rostratus; 

 the above description is made from a $ in fair condition in the Tring Museum from Ichikishiri, in the same 

 island. 



H. extensalis Guen. (= palpalis Hbn. nee F.) (73 i). Forewing fawn colour, thickly and minutely crfcnsalis. 

 speckled with black, suffused with fuscous in median and with pale brown in terminal area; inner and outer 

 lines black and waved, conversely pale-edged ; the outer bluntly projecting at vein 5, and with a small round- 

 ish projection on submedian fold, followed by a pale lilac grey band; across the brownish terminal area 

 the subterminal line is formed of whitish spots inwardly black scaled in places ; a dark triangular subapical 

 cloud; the stigmata formed of raised black and grey scales; the fawn coloured tint is strongest along the 

 folds: hindwing smooth greyish fuscous; the subsp. armenialis Stgr. from Armenia, Caucasia, and Pontus has armenialia. 

 no brown tinge on forewings, and the apical streak is either absent or very faint. A South European insect, 

 found in S. France, Italy, Corsica, Carniola, Dalmatia, and the Balkans ; also from Asia Minor, Syria, and Meso- 

 potamia. Larva on Parietaria. 



H. obsitalis ^ Hbn. (= costipuncta 2 Tutt) (73 i). Forewing whitish in $, grey in $, more or less suf- obsitalis. 

 fused with grey and fuscous and covered with dark transverse striae; the lines waved, dark with pale edges; 

 the outer angled shortly outwards on each fold and inwards on vein 2, followed on costal half by a grey 

 patch in <f? and a white patch in $; a pale triangular apical patch, edged below by a dark oblique shade 

 from apex, containing three black teeth; the submarginal line pale and wavy, preceded in costal half by 

 black teeth; stigmata marked by tufts of raised dark scales; a row of black dashes along termen; fringe 

 shining grey, with a dark middle line; all the pale areas are intensified in the 2; hindwing fuscous with 

 black "terminal line. A south European species, occurring also in X. Africa, Madeira, and the Canaries; in 



