EPlMECfA. FF.RGAXA. 289 



yoetua ustulata, Gejcr, Eur. Schniett., Noct.f. 857 (1841) ; Dup. Lep. Fi-., 

 Suppl. iii. p. 396, pi. 35. f. 7 ; Boiscl. Eaiubr. & Grasl. Coll. Icon, 

 Cberi., Noct. pi. 22. ff. 1-4. 



Head and thorax white mixed with reddish brown ; palpi and 

 froDs more rufous ; tegulse with two brown lines near base and one 

 at middle ; pectus and legs white, the pectus in front and fore legs 

 tinged with rufous ; abdomen white with rufous dorsal bands. Fore 

 wing white tinged with brown and with rufous on terminal ;irea and 

 sliglitly irrorated with black especially on the veins ; a white fascia 

 in base of cell met by an oblique pale shade from apex throngh 

 upper part of cell ; antemedial line represented by slight double 

 fuscous stripe from costa and points on median ncrvure and vein 1 ; 

 slight white marks in cell above origin of vein 2 and at lower angle ; 

 postniedial line represented by a slight fuscous striga from costa, 



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Fig. 84. — Ejiimecia usiula, (^ . \. 



then by black points on the veins, bent outwards below costa and 

 incurved below vein 4, some white spots beyond it on costa; sub- 

 terminal line represented by a series of small rufous marks in the 

 interspaces defined on inner side by slight white marks and oblique 

 from apex to vein 2, then by some whitish suffusion in submedian 

 interspace ; cilia rufous at base with slight brownish medial line 

 and rufous and whitish tips. Hind wing white, the veins slightly 

 tinged with brown ; a tine rufous terminal Hue ; cilia .with faint 

 rufous line near base ; the underside with the costal area slightly 

 irrorated with brown. 



Hah. France, Sand Coll. ; Austria, Tyrol, Leech Coll. ; Hungary ; 

 Spain, Catalonia, Frey Coll. ; Dalmatia, Leech Coll. ; Eulgaria ; 

 S. Russia, Sarepta (C7tr?>toj3/t) ; ? W. Siberia, Altai. Exp. 2^-62 

 millim. 



Lnrva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 252 ; Hif nin. Eaup. p. 124, pi. 33. f. 4. 



Green with yellowish-white stripes on the back and sides. F'ood- 

 plant: Scabiosa leucantha. 5-6 and 8; forming a thick cocoon like 

 parchment. 



Genus FEEGANA. 



Type. 



Fergana, Stand. Iris, v. p. 166(1892) oreophila. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect, hardly reaching beyond frons 

 which is smooth ; eyes large, round ; antenna- of male ciliated ; thorax clothed 

 chiefly with scales, the prothorax without crest, the metathoras with spreading 

 crest ; build very slender ; tibiae smoothly scaled ; abdomen without crests. 

 Fore wing long and narrow, the apex rounded, the termen obliquely curved 

 and not crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 frOTa upper angle ; 



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