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tinged, dorsally mixed with blackish and whitish ; spiracular 

 line white : on Convolvulus and Malva ; 6. 7, 9. 



3. E. luctuosa, Esp. 22-26 mm. Forewings brown mixed 

 with dark fuscous ; first and second lines blackish ; an ochreous- 

 white postmedian costal blotch, reaching half across wing ; sub- 

 terminal line partly ochreous-whitish ; outer half of cilia white, 

 with a brown median spot. Hindwings dark fuscous ; a broad 

 yellow-whitish median band. 



S. England to Gloucester and Norfolk, local ; C. and S. 

 Europe, WC. Asia to Turkestan, N. Africa; 5, 6, 8. Larva 

 with prolegs on 7 and 8 shorter; ochreous-grey, sometimes 

 reddish-tinged, darker laterally ; dorsal and subdorsal lines 

 pale, interruptedly dark-edged ; lateral dark-edged ; spiracular 

 dark brown, pale-edged beneath ; subspiracular reddish-brown ; 

 head pale ochreous-grey, with rows of dark dots : on Convol- 

 vulus arvensis ; 6, 7, 9. 



4. E. argentula, Hb. (bankiana, F.) 21-25 mm. Forewings 

 yellowish-brown, somewhat sprinkled with dark fuscous ; a spot 

 at base of costa, two narrow straight outwardly oblique black- 

 edged fasciae, second running to tornus, a costal mark before 

 apex, and a straight subterminal streak shining white ; reni- 

 form represented by a dilation of second fascia. Hindwings 

 yellow -whitish sprinkled with dark grey, more densely ter- 

 minally. 



Norfolk, Cambridge, S. Ireland, in fens, very local ; C. 

 Europe, N. and WC. Asia; 6. Larva slender, with prolegs 

 on 7 absent, on 8 rudimentary ; yellow-green ; dorsal line dark 

 green, indistinct ; subdorsal yellow ; head pale green : on Poa 

 aquatica, P. annua, etc.; 7. 



5. E. uncula, Cl. (uncana, L.) 22-25 mm. Forewings brown, 

 becoming dark brown in disc; broad flesh-coloured streaks along 

 costa and dorsum ; orbicular and reniform flesh-coloured, white- 

 edged, confluent above with costal streak ; three or four pale 

 lines before termen, first straight, white. Hindwings light 

 fuscous. 



Britain to Kirkcudbright, S. Ireland, local ; N. and C. 

 Europe, N. Asia ; 6. Larva slender, with prolegs on 7 absent, 

 on 8 rudimentary ; green ; dorsal line darker ; subdorsal 

 whitish; spiracular pale yellow; head yellowish - green : on 

 Carex sylvatica ; 7, 8. 



6. E. viridaria, Cl. (aenea, Hb.) 17-18 mm. Forewings 

 brown, tinged with olive -greenish ; base of costa, a suffused 

 postmedian and broader terminal fascia dull crimson ; between 



