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4820. Euterpia laudeti. 



Cleophana laudeti, Boisd. Gen. & Ind. Metb. p. 152 (1840) ; Dup. Lep. 

 Fr., Suppl. iv. p. 391, pi. 82. f. 1 ; Fr. Neue Beitr. pi. 395. f. 1 ; Herr.- 

 Schaff. Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 228-9; Mill. Icones, iii. pi. 128. ff. 1-4; 

 Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 224. 



Acontia cretacea, Ev. Bull. Mosc. xx. 3, p. 80, pi. 6. f. 3 (1847). 



Euterpia roscomarginata, Calb. Iris, iv. p. 44 (1891). 



Head and thorax pure white ; palpi fuscous except at extremity 

 of 2nd joint; antenna? tinged with fuscous ; tibiae at base and tips 

 and the tarsi banded with black ; abdomen white slightly tinged with 

 fuscous. Fore wiug white ; the basal area with a patch of purplish 

 brown and bluish white from costa to vein 1 ; subbasal line repre- 

 sented by black spots on costa and below the cell ; antemedial line 

 black, lunulate from costa to above vein 1, then slighter and angled 

 inwards on vein 1 ; orbicular elliptical, slightly defined by black 

 and open above ; reniform brown irrorated with bluish white and 

 defined by black, constricted at middle and angled inwards on 

 median nervure; medial line brownish, waved, excurved at middle, 





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Fig. 107. — Euterpia laudeti, tf. \. 



the area beyond it suffused with purplish brown to subterminal 

 line ; postmedial line double, black filled in with white, the inner 

 line luuulate, bent outwards below costa, then waved, incurved at 

 discal fold and strongly below vein 4, a blackish patch beyond it 

 on costal area with white points on costa; subterminal line formed 

 by the contrast between the postmedial and terminal areas, waved, 

 with black patch on inner margin and slight white lunule above it. 

 Hind wing white, the veins brownish ; a diffused slightly Avaved 

 brownish postmedial band excurved at middle and bent outwards 

 to tornus ; the underside with slight dark discoidal lunule, post- 

 medial point on costa and diffused waved subterminal band. 



Ab. 1. roseomarginata. Fore wing more or less irrorated with 

 pink. 



Bab. Switzerland, Valais, Frey Coll. : Tyrol, Leech Coll. ; 

 Macedonia; Bulgaria; S. Russia, Zeller and Leech Colls. ; Armenia; 

 Asia Minor, Pontus ; Stria, Antioch, Mardin ; W. Turkestan, 

 Turcomania. Exp. 30-36 millim. 



Larva. Hffni. Eaup. p. 140, pi. 3('». f. fi. 



Head brown with two dark points above ; thoracic shield brown 

 with dark brown marks in front and behind ; body yellowish 

 white with the warts brown. Food-plants: Silent otites and wol- 

 gensis and Gijpsoiihila paniculata. 5-6. 



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