DIC rCLA . — E NARGIA. 235 



tjavia ; RtrssiA, Sarepta (Christoff) ; Armenia ; Asia Minor, Pontus, 

 Taurus, Amanus Mts., 1 S ; Syria, 1 r$ , Mardin ; Persia ; \Y. 

 Siberia. Exp. 34-40 inillim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 118; Barrett, L°p. Brit. v. p. 312, pi. 223. f. 3. 



Elackish ; an irregular dorsal and slender subdorsal white line ; 

 spiracular line broad, yellowish white, traversed by a fine dark line; 

 dots white ; head black. Pood-plant, Oak ; among leaves spun 

 together. 4-5. 



Genus ENARGIA. 



Type. 



Knargia, Hiibn. Verz p. 235 (1827) paleacea. 



Euperia, Guen. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1841, p. 242, 11011 descr. ; 



id. Noot. ii. p. 5 (1852) paleacea. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, ihe 2nd joint reaching about tn 

 mi Idle of frons and moderately fringed with hair in front, the 3rd moderate; 

 frons smooth; eyes large, round: antennae of male typically ciliated : thorax 

 clothed with hair only and without crests; tibia? moderately fringed with 

 hair ; abdomen with some rough hair at base and lateral fringes of hair but 

 without crests. Fore wing with the apex rather produced and acute, the 

 terraen slightly crenulate and oblique towards tornus ; veins 3 and 5 from near 

 angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the 

 areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3. 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obso- 

 lescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 shortly stalked or from angle; 

 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. Antenna- of male bipect.inate with rather long branches, the apical 

 part serrate. 



A. Fore wing with the anteniedial line very oblique. 



a. Fore wing with the postmedial line slightly excurved 



from below costa to vein 4 ulicis. 



b. Fore wing with the postmedial line straight from 



below costa to vein 4 regina. 



B. Fore wing with the antemedial line almost erect borjomensis. 



4610. Enargia ulicis. 



Cosmia ulicis, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1859, p. 214 ; Herr.-Schaff. Neue 

 Schmett. if. 121, 122; Rmbr. Cat. Lep. S. And. pi. 11. f. 6 ; .'Staud. Cat. 

 Lep. pal. p. 204. 



§. Head and thorax crimson-red mixed with some whitish ; 

 pectus, mid femora, and hind legs whitish ; abdomen whitish 

 suffused with crimson except at base. Pore wing crimsou-red, 

 the base and basal half of costal area with a whitish tinge ; an 

 oblique red antemedial line defined by whitish on inner side ; 

 orbicular a faint minute whitish annulus ; reniform narrow, defined 

 by whitish except on outer side where it is hardly traceable, and 

 with a blackish bar on inner edge o.t centre ; postmedial line red 

 defined by whitish on outer side, bent outwards below costa. 

 excurved to vein 4, then oblique to inner margin near antemedial 

 line ; subterminal line very indistinct, whitish, defined on inner 

 side by black scales from costa to below vein 7, where it is angled 



