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E. latifascia Walk. {= antiqua Walk.) (21 f). Head, thorax and wings dull white, abdomen blackish laUfascia. 

 with orange-yellow anal wool and whitish base. Pectinations of antennae browTiish yelloAv. — postica Walk, postica. 

 has greyish brown abdomen with white anal tuft, while abdominalis Moore is said to differ from po-slica by the ahdomina- 

 longer and narrower wings. In ab. basiatra ab. nov. the base of the costa of the I'orewing is black and there ''*•. 

 is a black smear at the inner angle. ^ 32, $ 48 mm. Kashmir; also distributed in the Indian region. 



E. flavinata Walk. (23 a), from China, also distributed in India, has in the cJ orange-yellow head, jlavinaiu. 

 thorax and forewing, the latter with deeper orange spot at the apex of the cell and indistinct ante- and 

 postmedian transverse hnes, which diverge towards the costal margin and are scaled with black in the inter- 

 vening area. The markings are often very obsolescent. Abdomen and hindwing lighter, $ with brown anal 

 tuft. 



E. sulphurescens Moore (21 li). from Kashmir, also distributed elsewhere in India. ^ ochreous wliite sidrhurcs- 

 with black abdomen and orange anal wool, forewing with the indication of a median band towards the inner '''"''• 

 margin, hindwing lighter. $ with ochreous abdomen. 



E. montis Leech (23 a). ^J: Forewing yellow, a band consisting of sparse black dusting from the middle inmitl<i. 

 of the wing to the inner margin. Hindwing white suffused with yellow, with a silky gloss. Head and thorax 

 orange. Abdomen black with the exception of the first and last segments, which are orange. Underside 

 silky white. Abdomen and legs yellowish. West and Central China; the type-specimen came from Chang- Yang. 



E. lunata Walk. (21 g). ^ light ochreous, with large black discocellular spot. $ whitish ochreous, ^^^th humtu. 

 ochreous brown anal tuft, cj 34, $ 38 mm. — Larva brown with long tufts of hair anteriorly, posteriorly and late- 

 rally, and \^'ith square white dorsal spots on the thoracical segments and on segments 5 and foUowang. — Kash- 

 mir, also elsewhere in India, especially in the North- Western Himalayas. 



E. cervina Moore (23 a). In the $ head, thorax and forewing brownish yellow, the latter with median cervini. 

 light lines elbowed outwards on the discocellular, and postmedian regularly curved hnes. Fringes of both wings 

 yellow, hindwing and abdomen brownish, q : head yellow; thorax, abdomen and wings ochreous white, slightly 

 suffused with brown; forewing witliout light lines, margin of wings yellow. The species was first described from 

 Ceylon. — In the Palearctic region a variety occurs which in the t^ has darker wings witli less prominent 

 light lines, the hindwing also being darker (kashmirica form. nov.). kashmirici. 



E. vitellina Koll. (= gamma Walk., princeps Walk.) (23 a), from Kashmir. 3' light ochreous, forewing vitellhi'i. 

 with a dark median band with a light edge, forked at the hinder angle of the cell and not reaching the costa, and 

 with one or two submarginal black spots towards the apex ; hindwing lighter. $ with ochreous anal tult. In the 

 form comparata Walk, the black submarginal spots are absent. — • Larva black with white dorsal and lateral roDiiiamir. 

 spots and on each segment a small rusty red hump bearing white hairs. 



E. plana Walk. (= discinota Moore) (21 g). ^ reddish yellow, forewing light orange-yellow, usually j'lona. 

 slightly dusted with black, a rusty red band from near the base of the costa to the middle' of the median 

 vein and from there straight to the inner margin ; a postmedian band excurved at the cell and a black cUscocel- 

 lular spot; hindwing lighter. $ with obsolescent bands. (^ 44 to 54, 9 60 to 72 mm. — Larva dark brown 

 with deep red lateral warts with white hairs, the anterior dorsal warts with white hairs and the posterior 

 ones with silky brown ones. 



E. icilia Stoll (22 g). Like plana, but the whole basal area of the forewing purple-browm, and often icilia. 

 merging together with the postmedian band beyond the cell. (J 38 to 48, $ 54 mm. — ■ Larva purple-brown 

 with short gi'ey hair-brushes, reddish lines and light-spotted dorsal ^warts. India, also the North- Western 

 Himalayas. 



E. albodentata Moore. Body brownish white, forewing ohve-brown, veins and margins lighter; fore- ulhudeniaia. 

 \ving with a postmedian and also an antemedian elbowed^ight hne, the two converging towards the inner margin, 

 and with triangular white marginal spots. Hindwing Ught ochreous brown, with whitish apical area. ^ 45 mm. 

 Kashmir, Burma. 



E. bipunctapex Hainps. (21 h). Reddish bro^vn, a triangular apical area enclosing two sharply defined hipunda- 

 round spots, the costal margin, a rounded triangular inner angular area on the forewing and a broad mar- P"'"- 

 ginal band on the hindwing yellow; a brown discocellular spot is sometimes visible. China, Kashmir, also 

 on Indian territory. 



E. variana Walk. (= pusilla Moore) (23 b). Distinguished from flavinata by the smaller size, more vnriana. 

 prominent light lines of the forewing and the absence of black dusting between them. The orange cell-spot 

 mostly absent. 9 hghter and without markings. In North-India and China, also on Formosa. 



E. argentata Leech (23 b), from Japan, has orange forewing, the basal three-fourths dusted with (irymtaia. 

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