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black marginal lunules have delicate white inner edges and beyond there is a fine yellow-white line at base of 
fringe. Fringes with distinct white checks. Hindwings pale grey-brown, duskier at margin. Antennae with 
somewhat longer fascicular cilia than in lepida. Askhabad. 
H. bicruris Hfngl. (Vol. 3, p. 75, pi. 17 h). 
H. filigramma Esp. (Vol. 3, p. 76, pi. 18 f) (13 d). There has been some misconception about this species jiliyramma 
and an examination of the type, which was first described from the Tyrol, has shown that it belongs to - 
xanthocyanea, a species that is widely distributed in Europe. The form from the Tyrol is larger and paler, with 
greater admixture of white and boldly marked with orange. — xanthocyanea Hbn. (Vol. 3, p. 76, pi. 18 f) (13 e) xantlio- 
is the black, dusky form and not a separate species. It is more heavily peppered with black and has almost cyanea 
no orange scales. Widely distributed and extending to Spain, Italy and eastern Europe. — niorosa Schaw. morosa. 
denotes especially dark blackish specimens from Waidbruck. — estonica Drt. (13 e) is a nice uniformly blue- estonica. 
grey mottled form, without white or orange and finely marked with black. Hindwings darker black-grey than 
forewings. From Esthland. polyniita Hbn. (13 e) is a pure olive-brown form, almost free of speckles, with polymita. 
sharply marked transverse lines and stigmata. It also has no white scales, but a slight interspersion of orange. 
Hitherto it has been held to be the genuine filigramma and it occurs in Hungary. — consparcata Frr. (Vol. 3, con- 
p. 76, pi. 18 e). This is also a form of filigramma , the genitalia being identical. A smaller, more gracefully s P arca a - 
built subspecies, richly marked with white and of pure ashy grey ground colouration. The illustration of the 
A in Main Volume is good, that of the $ is probably a <$ of the above mentioned form polymiia. We are 
therefore giving an illustration of a very typical specimen of the $ here (13 e). It is characteristic of this group 
of species that the large claviform stigma is approximately quadrate and elliptical at top. 
H. consparcatoides Schaw. (13 e) is a genuine species closely related to the preceding. It is copiously consparca- 
scaled with white on blackish grey ground. Base of costa, stigmata and a spot behind claviform stigma purer toicles - 
white. There is a considerable admixture of orange at the base. The broad, flat blue-white scales that are 
interspersed on the inner margin towards the base, are very characteristic. Hindwings very pale grey-brown 
with darker marginal band. The species reminds one somewhat of nana Roll. Hitherto only found at Albar- 
racin in Spain. 
H. luteocincta Rbr. (Vol. 3, p. 76, pi. 18 f) is not a form of filigramma ,, as assumed in Main Volume, lutcocincta. 
but a genuine and very different species. The type that is described from Spain (13 e) is small, dusky grey- 
brown, with sparse interspersion of white scales, whilst orange scales are liberally intermixed. Orbicular stigma 
small, round with a minute, but very clear dark central spot. Claviform stigma filled with black to a greater 
or lesser degree. It is always small, round and with black circumscription in contrast to filigramma-xantho¬ 
cyanea. The posterior transverse line is especially sharply dentate. The difficulty of distinguishing from fili¬ 
gramma is greater in the form found in the Tyrol and probably elsewhere in Switzerland — persimilis Drt. persimilis. 
(13 f) which is always much larger and of paler colouration. Thereby it closely approximates the genuine tyrolese 
filigramma in appearance. The shape of claviform stigma helps to distinguish the form. — dubia Trti. (13 f) dubia. 
is the form of luteocincta from the Abruzzi, with identical genitalia, differing distinctly by the wider bluish 
white central area of forewings and the very heavy admixture of orange. — schawerdae Kruger (13 f) is a pale schawcrdae 
blue-grey, uniformly mottled form with indistinct markings and varying orange admixture, in the typical form 
from Karst in Istria this is absent, in specimens from Corsica and from the Caucasus often prominent. — kriigeri kriigeri. 
Trti. (13 f) from Sicily is a very pale, light bluish white but similar form, that is more distinctly marked with 
delicate black and rich orange scaling in antemedian and postmedian areas and in the surrounds to stigmata. 
- tristis Drt. (13 f) in contrast to same, is a very dark form, suffused with black, almost devoid of admixture tristis. 
of white scales and either without or with very sparse orange scaling. It corresponds approximately to the 
morosa form of xanthocyanea and occurs at Elisabethpol. — karagaia A. B.-H. (13 f) forms a transition to the karagaia. 
red central asiatic form. Markings blackish and fairly diffuse, orange scaling profuse, most striking is a very 
large orange patch at base of forewings. From Karagai-tao. — igilicola Warr. (Vol. 3, p. 76, pi. 18 f) and the ignicola. 
extreme form of same, completely covered by orange — intensa Warr. (Vol. 3, p. 76, pi. 18 f) are not held to intensa. 
be separate species, but belong to the group of forms of luteocincta. The illustrations in the Main Volume 
are quite satisfactory. 
H. wehrlii Drt. (13 g) forms a sort of transition between luteocincta and the subsequent species. It differs tcehrlii. 
from the former by its smaller size and pure black colouration especially in basal and postmedian areas, devoid 
of all orange. It is sharply and boldly marked, especially the transverse lines with their long dentations, the 
points of the posterior dentate line conjoined by a second line. In the pale central area a further sharply dentate 
central line is visible. Hindwings dark grey-brown. The genitalia differ from both allied species. Sierra Ne¬ 
vada (Spain). 
H. melanochroa Stgr. (Vol. 3, p. 76) (13 g) is also a genuine species. It is much smaller than luteocincta, melano- 
markings more indistinct and diffuse, colouration darker and duller, orange admixture varies but is generally dhroa. 
only sparse. Basal area generally dark and separated from the somewhat paler central area by an outwardly 
convex arc. Transverse lines quite indistinct. The chief localities are Pontus, Amasia, and Asia Minor. — 
