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in Dasythorax Jiirsuta. Abdomen very sleek and thin. Wing expanse: 36—41 mm. Uliassutai, also from Aksu, 
the specimens from the latter locality rather more boldly marked. 
A. gracilis Stcjr. was illustrated in Main Volume on pi. 68 d, but omitted from text. It belongs in the gracilis. 
same group, but has rather wider wing contour. Darker than cerealis, very characteristic by the regularly 
spotted black and white costa, which consists of 9 white and 9 black spots. Otherwise forewings pale reddish 
yellow-grey, densely peppered with blackish. Antemedian is interrupted, it is formed of a costal spot, a spot 
below the cell and an angulated hook with its point towards the margin and which is placed on the inner margin. 
A few black scales indicate a punctifonn orbicular stigma. Reniform is a small black lunule filled with white 
or ochreous redish. The posterior, boldly dentate transverse line is as in the other species, proceeding inwards 
towards the reniform stigma on vein 3, projecting outwards acutely on submedian fold and again under vein 
1, where it has a pale outer edge. Subterminal line is boldly and irregularly dentate, it has a heavy dark inner 
shade and forms quadrate projections between veins 6 and 7, 3 and 4 and again at anal angle; it also has a 
pale outer outline. Bold black marginal spots tipped with white outwardly. Fringes yellowish grey-white, 
slightly darker at base and with faint checks. Hindwings grey-brown with white fringes, indistinct central shade, 
widely dark at margin. Underside whitish with bright silvery sheen, costa of forewings regularly marked with 
black and white on costa, wings widely darkened with grey-brown at margin. Fringes grey-yellow, intersper¬ 
sed with blackish. Hindwings flecked with grey-brown also towards costa. F'ringes more whitish than on fore¬ 
wings, with faint yellowish basal line. From Transcaspia: Aksu, Lob-Nor, Kashgar. As the illustration was 
unsatisfactory, we are giving a fresh picture here (24 c). 
21 a. Genus : Ci\ypsoti<li» Rothsch. 
Contour of wings about the same as in the latter species of the preceding Genus. Proboscis developed; 
antennae simple, shortly c-iliate in <$, palpi coarsely hairy and down turned, with short terminal segment. On 
underside at base of forewings, a tuft of hair with a similar tuft at inner marginal base of hindwings. Cell of 
forewings elongate, veins 3, 4 and 5 arising close together. On hindwings 6 and 7 stalked. Hampsost classified 
these next to Eccrita in the Catocalinae. Only 1 species: 
C. maculifera Stgr. (=- wollastoni Rothsch.) (24 b). This species was not mentioned in Main Volume, maculifera. 
Forewings pale reddish yellow, peppered with blackish. Subbasal distinct and dark. Only a costal spot and 
vestiges of an anterior transverse line are present, but there is a large deep black-brown spot attached to it 
on inner margin and which has a slightly pale outer outline. The outer transverse line is formed in quite the 
same way as in Autophila species, it reverts inwards to before the small dark reniform stigma. Marginal area 
is more heavily darkened with distinct pale subterminal line, sharply distinct whitish dots on margin. Hind- 
wings impure white, dusky towards margin. The species was first described as Hydrilla, but it belongs in closest 
proximity to the Autophila species. Palestine, Egypt to the Soudan. 
24. Genus: Toxocampa Guen. 
T. glycirrhizae Rrnbr. (Vol. 3, p. 372, pi. 68 e). — alfacaria Ribbe denotes specimens with paler colour- alfacaria. 
ation, the mark on disco-cellular of forewings is absent. Sierra de Alfacar. Perhaps the name denotes the same 
form as mentioned in Main Volume, as having the pale olive obscure reniform stigma. 
T. craccae F. (Vol. 3, p. 373, pi. 68 f). — perstrigata Rbl. from Transylvania is more grey than brownish; perstrigata. 
it has very prominent transverse stripes. - caliginosa Schaw. from Corsica (Col de Vizzavona) is much darker caliginosa. 
than typical specimens, especially the forewings are dark bluish grey in basal and median areas, the veins appear 
faintly paler. Hindwings and undersides are deep dusky blackish. — plumbea Bankes from England is still piumbea. 
darker, the wings are almost leaden black. 
T. moellersdorfi Herz has narrow and more elongated forewings than lusoria, which it otherwise closely modlendorfi. 
resembles. The reniform stigma also has a dark centre, but it is not so wide at its lower end, whilst on the 
other hand it extends upwards in a streak to the costa. The outer marginal third of the whig is dusky brown 
and veins have no whitish scales. Hindwings grey-black, somewhat paler at base. Wing expanse: 36—38 mm. Corea. 
T. stigmata Wilem. Forewings grey with faint violet tinge, peppered with brownish and with brown stigmata. 
lines and reniform stigma. The anterior transverse line is almost straight, diffusing towards inner margin. 
The posterior transverse line expands towards costa. Between the two, an undulate central line, that becomes 
diffuse below reniform stigma. Outer margin faintly sinuate. On margin in interstices between veins, black 
dots, with white inner edges to the upper ones. Hindwings grey-brown. Wing expanse: 44 mm. Hakodate, 
Yezzo, Japan. 
T. ichmosawana Mats. (24 c) should be classified after recta Brem. (Vol. 3, p. 374, pi. 68 g, li). It closely ichinosawa- 
resembles the latter. The antemedian of forewings is much closer to base, the central line is expanded, bending 
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