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Central Europe, throughout Southern Europe, Syria, Persia 

 and Eastern Asia. 



Genus 5. EUTHEMONIA. 



Male with pectinated antennaB, the pectinations solid and 

 fringed with minute bristles ; fore wings very broad behind, 

 with nearly straight margins ; abdomen long and slender. 

 Female with simple antenna? ; narrow fore wings ; and stout 

 body. 



1. E. russula, Z. — Expanse \\ to If inch. Male, fore 

 wings broad, yellow with red spot and margins ; hind wings 

 whitish with blackish spot and border. Female, fore wings 

 narrow, orange-red with a red spot ; hind wings reddish with 

 the base, margin, and spot black. 



Antennas of the male regularly and densely pectinated, and 

 fringed with rather short bristles ; shaft yellow, pectinations 

 grey. Head and thorax dull yellow, covered with long loose 

 scales ; abdomen long and slender, pale yellowish, with a central 

 dorsal row of smoky black spots or bars ; anal tuft pale yellow. 

 Fore wings nearly triangular ; narrow at the base, very broad 

 behind, with the costal and dorsal margins nearly straight ; 

 apex bluntly angulated ; hind margin rather rounded, not 

 very oblique ; dull yellow, with the margins and cilia light 

 scarlet, and at the end of the discal cell a large kidney-shaped 

 spot of a reddish colour, containing in its lower portion four 

 small blackish spots. Hind wings long and of moderate 

 breadth, very regularly rounded, glossy whitish, often clouded 

 with grey from the base ; having a more or less distinct broad 

 cloudy-grey band before the hind margin, which is often 

 divided by pale nervures, and in the middle of the wings a 

 large kidney-shaped grey or blackish spot ; cilia broadly light 

 scarlet. 



Female quite different, considerably smaller, with much 

 shorter and stouter abdomen, narrower fore wings and 

 smaller hind wings, antennae threadlike, rather short, red- 



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