Swallow Prominent

Normally whitish, with a brown shaded black stripe along the inner margin of the forewings, and a brownish cloud, with black streaks in it. Towards the tips of these wings; the outer extremities of the veins are white, there is a white wedge-shaped streak between veins 1 and 2, and from the apex of this an indented white line runs to the base of the wing. Sometimes the whole discal area is suffused with brownish. The imago can be easily mistaken with Pheosia gnoma. Seitz- Head and thorax grey or predominantly brown, abdomen greyish brown. Fore«'ing whitish, brownish at the margins, beyond the middle of the costal margin 2 black longitudinal smears, which often merge together in the shape of a band, a black longitudinal line in front of the hind margin from the base to the distal margin; below vein 1 a long white wedge-spot extending to the distal margin, its distal end being filled in with a dark colour; apical portions of veins 2-—4 white. Hmdwing whitish, blackish along anal angle, within this black colour a narrow white marginal line. — Throughout Central Europe, northward to the Baltic provinces of Russia, southward to Northern Spain, Central Italy, Southern Russia, Armenia; also in Amurland. …