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segment 7 in the male) bordered with yellow above ; on the under surface segment 2 is quite 

 white, and segment 4, at least, is bordered with yellow. Wings suffused with yellow externally; 

 front coxae white or yellow ; the broad band and the margins of the fore-wings blackish-brown, the 

 latter dusted with pale yellow ; the disco-cellular nervule of the hind-wings is thick, uniformly 

 broad, and scaled with blackish. Expands nearly three-quarters of an inch. It inhabits South- 

 Eastern Europe, as far as Bavaria, and Asia Minor. 



18. S. Empiforinis (Esp.). — Bluish-black ; thorax with three yellow longitudinal stripes, the 

 eye-caps dark in front, the antennae suffused with yellow at the sides, the abdomen more or 

 less dusted with yellow, and segments 2, 4, and 6 (as well as 7 in the male) bordered with 

 whitish above ; front coxEe pale yellow ; the middle band of the fore-wings black ; and the hind 

 margin blackish in front, and golden-yellow behind between the nervures ; hind-wings with the 

 disco-cellular nervule broadly black as far as nervule 5, and finely scaled with yellow beyond ; 

 the space between the inner margin and nervule lb forms a long square. Expands nearly 

 three-quarters of an inch. Common throughout Eastern and Central Europe (except England) 

 and Western Asia from June to August. The larva lives for two winters in the roots of the 

 cypress spurge, entering them through broken stalks. The moth is figured at PI. 20, Fig. 14. 



19. .S. Astatifonnis (Herr. Schaff.). — Very like Empiformis ; the male brownish-black, and the 

 female bluish-black ; the middle line on the thorax is wanting in both, and the eye-caps are yellow 

 in front. In the female the abdomen is not dusted with yellow, and the black anal tuft is only 

 slightly mixed with yellow. The front coxs are whitish, and the hind margin of the fore-wings is 

 pale yellow ; the disco-cellular nervule of the hind-wings is densely scaled to beyond nervule 5, 

 and the space between their inner margin and nervure \b forms a shallow segment of a circle. 

 Expands rather under three-quarters of an inch. Inhabits South- Eastern Europe and the Altai 

 in June and July. The larva lives in the roots of spurge. (S. Monspeliensis, Staud., is probably a 

 variety of this. It is darker ; and the hind-legs, which are unicolorous in Astatifonnis, are ringed 

 with black. It expands about three-quarters of an inch, and is found in South France and Spain 

 in May, flying over the flowers of Etiphorbia, on the roots of which its larva is supposed to feed.) 



20. 5. Triannidiformis (Freyer). — Resembles Evipifonuis, but the antennae are not suffused 

 with yellowish, the front of the eye-caps and the front coxse are white, and the abdomen has a row 

 of small yellow spots on the back, but is otherwise not dusted with yellow. There are distinct 

 white borders to segments 2, 4, and 6, which widen into large triangular spots on the sides in 

 the female ; the anal tuft is but little mixed with yellow. Hind-wings as in Astatifonnis, but 

 the segment of a circle on the inner margin is wider and more strongly rounded. A little smaller 

 than Astatifonnis. It inhabits Eastern Europe ; and the larva lives for one year in the roots of 

 Rimiex acetosella. 



21. S. Dokrifonnis (Herr. SchafF.). — Brownish-black; the hind margin of the fore-wings with 

 dull yellow stripes ; and dull yellow spots on the hinder segments of the abdomen in the male, 

 which are nearly obsolete in the female. Segments 4 and 6 in the male, and segment 2 in 

 the female, are bordered behind with white. Anal tuft with two dull yellow stripes. This species 

 may easily be distinguished from its allies by the densely hair)- hind tibia:. Expands rather 

 under 1 inch. Inhabits Turkej' and Greece. 



22. i". Umbrifera (Staud.). — Smoky brown ; hind margin of the fore-wings \\ith dull yellow 

 stripes ; fore-wings beneath and spots on the back of the abdomen dull yellow ; hind-wings 

 transparent, with the hind margin and the transverse stripe in the middle broadly brown ; 

 segment 4 of the abdomen belted with white behind. Expands about i inch. It appears to 

 be not uncommon at Corfu. 



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