EUPKEl'IA. — HELIACTIXIDIA. 



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Bomhyx piincfir/rra, Freyer, Neue Beitr. ii. p. 70, pi. 140. f. I c (1834). 

 Kiiijjdia Candida, Kerr.-ScliafT. Sclnnett. Eur. ii. fT. 75-78 (1840;. 

 Euprepia inquinata, Ramb. Cat. Lep. And. p. 223 (186G). 



Head and thorax white ; palpi, frons, and branches of antcnnnc 

 hhickish ; tegulae and patagia witli black spots ; legs streaked with 

 black ; abdomen white, the terminal half tinged with yellow and the 

 base with brown ; dorsal, lateral, and ventral series of blackish spots. 

 Pore wing white irrorated with black ; the costal edge blackish ; 

 two subbasaL blackish points : a curved antemedial series of five 

 small diffused spots ; two medial series of six or seven spots ; two 

 discoidal points ; a subterniiual series of nine short streaks and a 

 terminal series of points. Hind wing brown, the cilia white. 

 Underside of fore wing brown. 





Fig. IIG. — Euprepia cribraria, (^'. 



Ab. 1. ripperti. Fore wing suffused with black-brown. 



Ab. 2. hifmciaia. Fore wing with the first of the two medial series 

 of spots absent. — Corsica* 



Ab. 3. 2'unctif/era. Fore wing with the spots much reduced ;. hind 

 wing largely white on inner half. 



Ab. 4. Candida. Fore wing with the discoidal and sometimes a few 

 terminal spots only. 



Ab. 5. Head with the vertex yellow, fore wing with few or no 

 sjjots. (a) clirijsocepliala: fore wing white, {h) iiKitdnata: fore wing 

 yellowish white. 



JIah. Europe except polar region, Britain, France, German}-, 

 Zeller Coll., Switzerland, Italy, Frey Coll., Spain, Dalmatia, C. Russia, 

 Urals ; Mogador [Leech) ; Algeria ; Asia Minor. Exp. 32-4-i 

 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 38; Barrett, Lep. Brit. ii. p. 240, pi. GO. f. 2. 



Brown ; tubercles black ; hairs black and whitish ; dorsal line 

 pale or whitish, subdorsal line sometimes whitish ; head dark brown. 

 Food-plants, grasses, Erica, etc. 8-2. 



Genus HELIACTINIDIA, nov. 



Type, H. chirpiinda. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect to just beyond frons; antenniB of 

 male bipeetinate with moderate brandies ; build slender ; tibia^ with the .'<piirs 

 moderate. l<^ore wing with vein .3 ironi lung bolbre angle of cell ; ;"> from abovo 

 angle; G from below upper angle; 7, 8, 0, 10 stalked, 7 from bofore 10; 11 

 from rell. Hind wing with vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 5 from above 

 angle ; 0, 7 stalked ; 8 from before middle of cell. 



