in the male; it is also distinguished by the ground colour of both wings being olive-grey, with the two transverse lines rather indistinct and not reaching the hindmargin, while the discocellular spot is more conspicuous than in true fascelina.

Forewing black-grey, the light costal area only indicated at the most, but the sharply defined discocellular spot situated in a white patch from whichextend long acute prolongations directed marginad; the outer transverse band is broad and distinct, theinner one diffuse; both dusted with rusty yellow.

— laricis Schille is an almost uniformly ash-grey form with scarcely any black or white irroration,with shortened and obsolescent transverse stripes, living on larches.

and much lighter; hindwing sometimes almost quite white, only in the female somewhat variegated with grey, and dusted with blackish below costally; the light ash-grey forewing bears two obsolescent transverse bands suffused with orange.

are specimens of nivalis from the eastern Tian-shan and the Uliassutai in which the whitish grey forewing is so densely dusted with blackish that the ground colour is almost superseded; the transverse bands almost obsolete.

The larvae feed on various herbaceous plants, such as Cytisus scoparius, Crataegus monogyna, Rubus fruticosus, Calluna vulgaris, Onobrychis viciifolia, Salvia pratensis and Lotus corniculatus.