ETJBLEMHA. 1.").") 



Miera carthami, Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Sohmett. ii. p. 438, Nod. P. 558 (1845). 

 Thalpochares bythinica, B.-Baker, Trans. Eut. Soc. 1888, p. 121. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen white, the hinder part of thorax and 

 abdomen faintly tinged with red-brown; the palpi, antennae, and 

 suffused with rufous. Fore wing white irrorated with pale 

 red-brown ; antemedial line slight, red-brown, waved, a black 

 point on it in cell; medial line defined on inner side by rufous 

 suffusion, excurved from costa to median nervure and in sub- 

 median fold and angled inwards below the cell and at vein 1 ; 

 postmedial line brown defined on outer side by whitish and 

 with some greyish suffusion before it, excurved below costa, 

 incurved at discal fold, excurved at middle, then oblique sinuous ; 

 postmedial area greyish, rufous towards costa on which there 

 are some white points ; subterminal line white with series of 

 Blight black points on its outer edge, excurved below vein 7 and at 

 middle ; the terminal area tinged with grey with an oblique rufous 

 patch at apex ; cilia greyish with white lines at base and middle, 

 thf tips tinged with rufous. Hind wing white suffused with reddish 

 brown ; traces of a medial line on inner area and of two sinuous 

 postmedial lines, the outer defined on outer side by white on inner 

 area ; cilia white mixed with reddish brown ; the underside white 

 irrorated with brown, two diffused curved postmedial lines and a 

 terminal series of blackish points. 



Ab. 1. grata, Treit. Smaller and whiter. 



Ab. 2. bythinica. Fore wing irrorated with violaceous pink. 



Bab. S. France ; Austria, Zeller and Frey Colls.; 11 1 xnia. Frey 

 and Leech Colls; Spain, Murcia ; S. Russia, Sarepta, Zeller Coll. ; 

 A km km \ ; Asia Minor, Pontus, Bythiuia, Lydia ; Peksia, 2 $, 

 Leech Coll. ; W. Tckkestax, Turcomania, Sarawschan. Exp. 

 26 30 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 287; Hffm. Eaup. p. 141, pi. 36. 



Pale grey with a pale dorsal line. Food-plant : Onopordon 

 aeanthium. 0-6. 



5218. Eublemma grata. 



Anthophila grata, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 251 (1852); Stand. Cat. Lep. paL 

 p. 22(1. 



hophila albicans, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 251 (1852) ; Kuibr. Cat. L6p. S, 

 pi. 10. f. 4. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen white : palpi and antomuv red- 

 brown ; legs tinged with red-brown. Fore wing white, the costal 

 red-brown on basal half: a black point in middle of cell ; 

 media] line defined by bright rufous suffusion on inner side, ex- 

 curved from costa to median nervure, angled inwards bel<>\\ 

 cell, then again excurved ; two slight discoidal point medial 



line faint, brownish, excurved below costa and at middle, incurved 

 at discal fold and oblique below vein .'> ; the postmedial area tii 

 with brown defining the subterminal line, which has a bright rui 



