3 20 L EPID OP TERA . 



common over the greater part of Central Europe. Middle and 

 Northern Italy, Dalmatia, Southern Eussia, and Bithynia. 



5. E. orbicularia, Ruh. — Expanse 1 to 11 inch. Wings 

 soft dull pale slate-grey, dusted with red and dark grey ; on 

 each wing is a central red, purple-red, or red-black ring with a 

 white centre, and beyond it rippled red-grey transverse lines. 



Antennae of the male pectinated, for two-thirds of their 

 length, with solid ciliated teeth, thence simple, whitish-grey ; 

 palpi smooth, dark brown ; tongue long and slender ; eyes 

 golden-brown ; face convex, shining, deep dark brown ; top 

 of the head and the thorax slightly roughened with raised 

 scales, pale slate-grey, mixed with purple-red ; abdomen 

 smooth, pale grey, barred and mottled with black ; lateral 

 tufts spreading; anal tuft conical. Fore wings not broad; 

 costa decidedly arched ; apex angulated ; hind margin im- 

 mediately below it very faintly hollowed, rather curved, or 

 l)ent. in the middle, more obliquely curved towards the anal 

 angle ; dorsal margin straight, strongly ciliated ; colour pale 

 grey much dusted with dark grey and clouded with purple- 

 red ; first line only visible as a series of purplish-black streaks 

 or nervures, and second line as an oblique curved row of 

 obscure black dots ; discal spot a distinct purple-red ring; 

 immediately outside it ia a gracefully curved and scalloped 

 purple-red central stripe throwing off points outwardly 

 on all the nervures; immediately beyond the second line is 

 a partial row of red or red-black cloudy spots ; extreme hind 

 margin dotted or streaked with black ; cilia purplish-grey. 

 Hind wings rather rounded at the apex and anal angle, 

 faintly crenulated behind and having a very blunt angle in 

 the hind margin ; colour as in the fore wings, and the dorsal 

 half of the middle of the wings much clouded with purple- 

 red ; central spot a red-black ring with a white centre ; near 

 the base is a transverse line of red-black spots or streaks, 

 and beyond the middle a more complete line of the same 

 colour, dotted or irregularly angulated, and excessively 



