20 I.El'lDOPTF.RA. 



in Southern France, Central and Northern Italy, Corsica, the 

 Malkan States, Cyprus, Bithynia. Armenia, Tartary. and 

 IVrsia. 



(ireatlyas I dislike to point out the errors of otlier writers, 

 it seems absolutely necessary here to draw attention to the 

 circumstance that, in Mr. K. Newman's "Natural History of 

 British i5utterllies and Moths." the fiiifures of the last two 

 species have be.-n transposed (p. 77), that called Andalin 

 hi^rtnla beinsf actually a fiurure of A. trit/rmiiiatc. and the 

 converse. 



7. A. herbariata, Feb. — Kxpanse j inch. Winprs all 

 very pale biown. or brownish-white, each with two or three 

 transverse series of waved and rippled brown clouds. One 

 of the smallest species in the genus. 



.\ntenn;e of the male short, rather thick, simple, ciliated, 

 whitish-brown: palpi minute, purple-brown; eyes black; 

 face conve.x, purple-brown : head, thorax, and abdomen 

 whitish-brown ; tutts verv small. Fore wings short and 

 blunt ; the costa much arched ; apex obtusely angulated ; 

 hind margin l)ut little rounded : dorsal margin almost 

 straight, strongly ciliated : colour brownish-white, much 

 dusted with scattei'ed purplish-brown scales, basal portion 

 most distinctly so ; first and second lines unusually near 

 each other, rather erect, very slender, curved and irregular, 

 purpllsli-brown : between them is a black discal dot placed 

 in a considerable transverse cloud of the dusting already 

 mentioned ; outside the second line is an irregular stripe or 

 series of loops of similar clouding ; extreme hind margin 

 dotted with brown: cilia shining brownish-white. Hind 

 wings rounded behind, coloured and dusted as in the fore 

 wings, and having very similar transverse lines and clouded 

 or looped markings, but outside the latter is some additional 

 clouding close to the hind margin : the latter is tlotted with 

 brown as in the fore wings, and the cilia are of the same 

 shining brownish-white. Female very similar. A rather 



