epiblema] EPIBLEMIDAE 495 



Britain to the Orkneys, Ireland, abnndant ; N. and C. 

 Europe ; 5, 6. Larva green ; subdorsal line rather broad, 

 reddish-grey ; head and plate of 2 black : on Pinus abies : 8-3. 



12. E. nemorivaga, T</str. {finitimana, Dbld.) 10-11 mm. 

 Face and palpi pale brownish. Forewings silvery- whitish, 

 finely strigulated with fuscous, costa posteriorly strigulated 

 with dark fuscous and white ; some scattered dark fuscous 

 strigulae ; basal patch with edge somewhat bent, central fascia 

 with posterior median projection, and an irregular spot touching 

 termen in middle dark fuscous ; termen hardly sinuate ; a 

 white subapical dash in cilia. Hindwings grey. 



Perth to Sutherland, local ; N. and mountains of C. Europe ; 

 6, 7. Larva pale yellowish ; head dark brown : in leaves of 

 Arctostaplnjlos uva-ursi ; 5. 



13. E. similana, Hb. {bimamlana, Don.) 17-21 mm. Fore- 

 wings dark purple-grey or ashy-fuscous, mixed with ferruginous 

 and somewhat marked with black, costa more or less strigulated 

 with dark fuscous and pale ferruginous ; a rounded or pointed 

 median dorsal blotch, and round tornal blotch whitish-ochreous 

 or white, former often, latter always with a central transverse 

 ochreous or fuscous line ; termen faintly sinuate. Hindwdngs 

 grey, apex sometimes ferruginous-tinged. 



Britain to Ross, Ireland, common ; C. Europe, N. Asia, N. 

 America; 9. Larva grey - whitish ; spots black; head yellow- 

 brown ; plate of 2 grcenish-ochreous : on birch ; 6, 7. 



14. E. pflugiana, Hw. {cirsiana, Z. ; scutulana, Wilk.) 13-22 

 mm. Forewings ferrugiuous-ochreous, sometimes (especially in 



9 ) suttused with dark fuscous except towards apex, broadly 

 striated throughout with leaden-metallic, with four pairs of 

 white costal strigulae on posterior half; a large subquadrate 

 ochreous -whitish median dorsal spot, including two or three 

 small dark dorsal strigulae ; ocellus ochreous-whitish, sometimes 

 (especially in $ ) anteriorly obscured with leaden-metallic, con- 

 taining transverse series of black dots. Hindwings in S grey, 

 sometimes whitish-tinged anteriorly, in $ dark fuscous. 



Britain to the Orkneys, Ireland, common ; C. Europe, WC. 

 Asia to N. Persia ; 6, 7. Larva rosy-fleshcolour ; spots brown ; 

 head and plate of 2 black : in stems of Carduus, Centaurea, 

 and Inula ; 10-5. 



\_E. costipimctami, Hw., from Norfolk, existing only in one 

 old specimen, may be an aberration of a species of this group, 

 but is too doubt fid to admit of quotation.] 



15. E. trigeminana, Stpli. 13-17 nun. Forewings fuscous, 



