la'TKKI'IA. 



369 



4820. Euterpia laiidetL 



Cleophana laudeii, Boisd. Gen. & Ind. Meth. p. 152 (1840) ; Dup. Lep. 

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

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

 Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 224. 



Aconiia cretae.ea, Ev. Bull. IMo.sc. xx. 3, p. 8<). 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; antennas tinged with iuscous; tibite 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 spot.s 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 biownish, waved, excurved at middle, 



Fig. 1G7. — Ktitcrpid luiidrii, 



the area beyond it f^uflnsed with purplish brown to subterminal 

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

 line lunulate, 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 })ostmcdial and terminal areas, waved, 

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

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

 browni>h jtostmedial band excurved at middle and bent outwards 

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

 medial point on costa and diffused waved subterminal band. 



Ab. 1. Tosi'tmarginaia. Fore wing more or less irrorated with 

 pink. 



Huh. Switzerland, Valais, Frey Coll. : Tvrol, Leech Coll. ; 

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

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

 Turcomania. Exp. 30-3G millira. 



Larva. HfTm. Rnup. p. 140, pi. W. f. (i. 



Head brown with two dark points above ; thoracic shield brown 

 with dark brown marks in front and behind ; body yellowish 

 white v.-ith the warts brown. Food-plants : S'dene otiks and ivol- 

 ■icnsin and 0)ipsophiIa punindata. 5-0. 



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