182 NOCTUIDJE. 



pink. Foro wing pale flesh-pink ; a large conical rufous patch on 

 medial area from cell to inner margin defined by white; some 

 white points on postmedial part of cosfa; an indistiuct whitish sub- 

 terminal line incurved below costa, excurved at middle and bent 

 outwards to toruus ; cilia rufous with a fine pale line at base. 

 Hind wing yellowish white, the terminal area tinged with pink ; a 

 fine rufous terminal line ; the underside white, the costal area 

 suffused with pink. 



Hub. Austria, Zeller and Leech Colls. ; Hungary, Frey and Leech 

 Colls.; ? C. Italy; Dalmatia ; Greece; Armenia ; Asia Minor, 

 Pontus, Taurus ; Syria, Mardin. Exp. 22-30 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 288 ; Hffm. Raup. p. 141. 



Yellowish white; short and thick with small head and rudi- 

 mentary thoracic plate ; two 1st pairs of prolegs absent. Lives in 

 cases on Coccids on Sloe and Peach. 



*5268. Eublemma rhodocraspis. (Plate CLIV. fig. 7.) 



Eublemma rhodocraspis, Druce, A. M. N. H. (8) iii. p. 462 (1909). 



2 . Head and thorax creamy white ; antennae rufous ; abdomen 

 ochreous white. Fore wing creamy white ; slight rufous subbasal 

 and antemedial points on costa ; a diffused rufous bar from middle 

 of costa ; a black discoidal striga ; a round rufous spot beyond 

 lower angle of cell with curved pinkish band from it to inner 

 margin just before toruus ; the apical area and termen tinged with 

 rufous ; a faint whitish subterminal line defined on outer side by a 

 few black scales, angled outwards below vein 7, excurved at middle 

 and ending on termen above tornus ; a fine rufous terminal line ; 

 cilia tinged with pink. Hind wing creamy white to beyond 

 middle with some black scales on discocellulars ; the terminal area 

 pale pink with some blood-red on its inner edge which is straight ; 

 a series of black points formed of rather scattered scales from costa 

 towards apex to tornus towards which they are placed on slight 

 whitish spots ; a fine rufous terminal line ; cilia whitish tinged 

 with pink ; the underside white slightly irroratcd with black and 

 witli a faint rufous subterminal shade, a terminal series of small 

 black lunules. 



Hub. Fjorm;o, Elopura (PryerY type t $ in Coll. Druce. Exp. 

 26 millim. 



5269. Eublemma carneola, n. sp. (Plate CLIV. fig. 8.) 



d . Head red-brown ; thorax creamy white, the legs suffused 

 with brown ; abdomen creamy white suffused with red-brown and 

 irroratcd with black except at base. Fore wing creamy whito 

 tinged with red-brown, the area from end of cell to* subterminal 

 line paie reddish brown with a purplish tinge except towards costa; 

 a small antemedial red-brown spot on costa and traces of a hinuous 

 line from ceil to inner margin ; a black point in middle of cell and 



