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silvery grey marginal area. The distinctly double transverse lines are intertilled with grey, as is also the reni- 
form stigma. Hindwings white-grey, marbled with darker shades and blackish veins and 2 transverse lines. 
The specimens are also slightly larger (wing expanse: 32— 35 mm). 
C. veronicae Hbn. (Vol. 3, p. 147, pi. 35 h) is reported by Oberthur to occur at Lambessa in Algeri a. veronicae. 
— nigrovenosa Preissecker is a form with especially prominent veins; from the Tyrol. uigro- 
venosa. 
C. ardescens Btlr. (Vol. 3, p. 147, pi. 35 i). As the type form is not recognisably shown, we are giving ardcscms. 
a fresh illustration (18 1) of a specimen from the Pungeler collection. — obscurior Strd. is darker brown, the obscurior. 
subterminal and the rather pale area anterior to same, is reddish ochre. Orbicular and reniform stigmata with 
pale centres, hindwings darker; from Yokohama: probably this form is the same as pallidistigma Warr., which 
would then have priority. — purpurea Wilem. is described as having crimson brown forewings, pale ochreous purpurea. 
stigmata and submarginal band, as well as with blackish hindwings with red-brown fringes. From Yezo. This 
form also may well be synonymous with pallidistigma, a description of which was published in January 1911, 
purpurea only later. 
C. nawae Mats, is a larger species. Forewings brown with reddish brown markings, dusted with leaden nuwac. 
grey in costal area, more reddish in inner marginal area. Anterior transverse line angulated on mediana with 
pale grey inner edge. Orbicular stigma large, indistinct, oval, elliptical at top with red-brown surround. Reni¬ 
form stigma similarly with a black-brown spot at lower angle of cell. The mediana red-brown. The distinct 
posterior transverse line oblique with pale grey outer edge. The obsolete pale subterminal line is reddish in 
every interstice. Hindwings, as the forewings, with somewhat darker discal spot. Wing expanse: 40 mm. 
Honsho (Gifu). 
C. vaccinii L. (Vol. 3, p. 147, pi. 36 a). This variable species, of which so many forms have already 
been denominated, has again been favoured with further names, of which many would appear really super¬ 
fluous. — fusca Lenz a deep brown form, like glabroides Fuchs but without pale bands. — - mixfa-grisea Lenz 
like mixta but with grey median area. — grisescens Obth.-Culot is extensively dusted with grey, thorax however 
is red-brown. robusta Engramelle is a reddish yellow form, markings and marginal area are rusty brown. - 
hiitmeri Culot (= polita IF. V. nec Hbn.) is almost grey-black, veins very delicately paler, subterminal area 
also paler. — flavofasciata D. Luc. forewings and thorax brown admixed with reddish or almost black with 
subterminal line formed of yellow dots. Algeria. — obscuro-spadicea Heinr. combines the characteristics of 
obscura and spadicea , dark grey ground colour with black shaded bands. From around Berlin. — caerulescens 
Preiss. & Galv. has bluish dusting over costal area, two-thirds of inner margin of central area and around trans¬ 
verse lines. From the Enns valley. — mixta-spadicea Spul. combines the pale brown mixta characteristics with 
the black transverse bands of spadicea. — spadicea-grisea Obth. has dark transverse bands on pale grey ground 
colour. Martigny. 
C. ligula Esp. (Vol. 3, p. 148, pi. 36 c) differs from vaccinii by the more pointed, slightly protracted 
apex and rather more bulging margin of forewing. Generally too it is slightly smaller. - brigensis Bsd. is a 
somewhat larger form, it tends to bluish grey with rather paler subterminal area. Valais. — pulverulenta Culot 
from Collioure is a small, pale sandy brown form, a transition to brigensis. — jullieni Culot originally described 
as a species, is according to Vorbrodt, certainly only an aberration of ligula. It differs by the posterior trans¬ 
verse line, which is not dentate, but which appears as a delicate parallel double line. The central shade also 
is not oblique, but vertical to inner margin. Described from Geneva. 
fusca. 
mixta- 
grisea. 
grisescens. 
robusta. 
hubneri. 
flavo¬ 
fasciata. 
obscuro- 
spadicea. 
caeru¬ 
lescens. 
mixta- 
spadicea. 
spadicea- 
grisea. 
ligula. 
brigensis. 
pulveru¬ 
lenta. 
jullieni. 
C. torrida Bsd. (Vol. 3, p. 148, pi. 36 d, e). — amaura Schaw. costa is not paler. 
amaura. 
C. rubighiea F. (Vol. 3, p. 148, pi. 36 d, e). As is the case with vaccinii , so also with this very variable nibiginea. 
species, a large number of forms have received new names. — modesta and — conipleta described as “fulvous”, modesta. 
should have been described as fuscous. Actually Oberthur is the author of these two forms, as he denominated completa. 
them 2 years before Hampson. — modestissima Obth. is quite pale ochreous yellow, the angulated central shade modestis- 
is distinct. — fereunicolor Obth. ha? rather more markings than the monotonous unicolor Tutt. — delicatula sima' 
Obth. is coloured and marked as unicolor , but subterminal line is indicated by a row of white dots. —- favrei 
Obth. is a completa form, in which there are traces of white markings. — barettik Obth. is an english form, delicatula. 
in which there are scarcely any black spots on forewings, the entire marginal area of hindwings is widely ^ arrc ^:. 
ochreous. — albistigma Dhl. are unicoloured specimens, pale yellow, fuscous or deep brown having only the albistigma. 
merest faint indication of stigmata and minute white dots on each side of centre of same. Described from S. Ty¬ 
rol. — euanthes G. M. Schultz is brick-red with creamy yellow marginal band and stigmata, spots in basal euanthes. 
area and around the reniform stigma are also creamy yellow. Bolzano. — elsa G. M. Schultz has an expansion clsa. 
of the creamy yellow colour, the brick-red shade is now restricted to the central area, sometimes even to the 
lower half of central area. Bolzano. - anteniarginalis Dhl. is unicoloured fuscous with blackish subterminal ante- 
band. N. Germany (Hanover). marginal is. 
