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the costa, and the latter is leaden-grey towards the inner margin. The first double line forms 

 sharp angles outwards on nervule i, in cell \b, and in the discoidal cell, and the second is 

 angulated inwards on nervule i, and on the median nervure, and is marked with black dots 

 on the nervures towards the base, and two parallel dark lines. The hind-wings are banded 

 with grey towards the inner margin, and the first four bands are equally distant from each 

 other. Inhabits Sardinia and Western Asia. 



4. E. Gncneata (Mill). — Shape of Ceiitaiweata ; fore-wings rather more pointed, brick-red, 

 and traversed by a broad brown band, edged with lighter outside. The second line always 

 forms a very acute angle outwards. Hind margin slightly smoky on the third nervure and on the 

 whole inner margin. There is a large black central spot, and the black dashes before the fringes 

 are preceded by four or five black dots, placed between the middle nervures of the wing ; 

 hind-wings short and grey, slightly tinged with flesh-colour on the hind margin, and traversed 

 by several waved and slightly marked lines ; central dot very small, head and thorax flesh-coloured. 

 Abdomen brown in front and flesh-coloured behind. Rather larger than Centaureata. Inhabits 

 Ardcche in August. 



5. E. Brcviculata (Donz.). — Wings rounded, rather broad, and white ; fore-wings with a rusty- 

 yellow spot at the base, expanded on the costa, traversed by two whitish lines, and marked 

 with some black dots ; a large square brown spot at the tip, traversed by the white dentated 

 subterminal line. The second line is double, grey, much waved, and runs to the hinder angle, 

 near a small brown spot. The central dot is small, black, and placed near the basal spot. 

 Fringes brown along the apical spot, and white elsewhere ; hind-wings with several interrupted 

 grey lines. It inhabits South Europe and Western Asia, and the larva is supposed to feed 

 on Clematis. 



6. E. Extrcmata (Fabr.). — Fore-wings yellowish-white, grey at the base of the costa, 

 with a small black central dash and a grey band before the middle, varied with rusty-brown 

 behind, and intersected by a whitish and strongly-dentated double stripe ; the second double 

 stripe pure white, distinctly double on the costa, and bordered outside with dark grey ; below 

 this it is single, and is connected in the middle with the fine zigzag subterminal line ; hind- 

 wings whitish, with the hind margin grey. Expands nearly i inch. A very rare species, 

 inhabiting South Germany and Austria. {E. Glaucoinictata, Mab. {Extrcmata, Guen.), from 

 Corsica and Western Asia, is shaped like Vcnosata, but is smaller, expanding only three-quarters 

 of an inch. The wings are white, more or less washed with pale flesh-colour ; the fringes 

 chequered and clouded with darker brown. Fore-wings with the basal area edged by an 

 oblique, waved, well-marked line, connected with a black triangular spot on the costa by an 

 oblique clay-coloured streak, and the middle of the wing varied with white and bluish. The 

 central streak is narrow, but well marked ; the elbowed line is fine, marked with dots on the 

 nervures, and followed by a large greyish-blue spot on the costa. There is a subterminal 

 clay-coloured band, not extending to the hind margin. Hind-wings with a greyish-blue 

 basal spot, a small central dot, and the extremity washed with grey ; divided by white lines, 

 which are most distinct at the anal angle. Abdomen dark greyish-blue, with the tip white. 

 E. Pantellaria, Mill., is of the size and shape of Glaucomictata, but the fore-wings are nearly 

 black, traversed by three broad, white, continuous waved lines. There is a large whitish spot 

 bordered with black on the inside of the second line, representing the central spot. Hind-wings 

 blackish, with a central white line ; fringes concolorous, preceded by some pale arrow-headed 

 spots. Inhabits the island of Pantellaria in May.) 



* 7. E. Irrignata (Hiibn.). — Fore-wings long and pointed, dirty white, brownish-grey at 



