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NAviA ; Russia, Sarcpta {Cliristaff) ; Aemenia ; Asia ^Fixor, Pontiis, 

 Taurus, Amauus Mts., 1 c^ ; Syria, 1 rf , Mardiii ; Persia; W. 

 iSiBERrA. E.rp. 34— iO inillim. 



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



Blackish; an irregular dorsal and slender sul)dorsal white line ; 

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

 dots white; head black. Food-plant, Oak; among leaves S[iuii 

 together. 4-5. 



Genus ENARGIA. 



Type. 



F.nargia, Hiibn. Verz p. 235 (1827) paleacca. 



Etiperia, Guen. Ann. See. Ent. Fr. 1841, p. 242, non descr. ; 



id. Nout. ii. p. 5 (1852) faleucca. 



Proboscis fully developed ; jialpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to 

 mildle of frons and moderately frineed with hair in front, tiie .3rd moderate; 

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

 clothed with hair only and witiiout crests; tibia; moderately fringed with 

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

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

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

 angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 111 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. Anteumt of male bipeetinate with rather long branches, the apical 

 part serrate. 

 K. Fore wing with the antemedial 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 sti-aight from 



below costa to vein 4 7-cgiria. 



B. Fore wing with the antemedial line almost erect horjuiiicims<. 



4610. Enargia ulicis. 



Cosmia ulicis. Stand. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1859, p. 214 ; Herr.-Sciiaff. Neue 

 Schmett. ff. 121, 122; Kmbr. Cat. Lep. S. And. pi. 1 ] . f. 6; Staud. Cat. 

 Lep. pal. p. 204. 



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

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

 suffused with crimson except at base. Fore wing crimson-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 atinulus ; reniform narrow, defined 

 by whitish except on outer side where it is hardl}- traceable, and 

 with a blackish har on inner edge of 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 



