43 NOCTUID.'E. 



white w ifch a rufous line tlirougli them ; the underside white, a double 

 black discoidal lunule, medial line, and double postmedial line 

 excurved to discal fold, then oblique, the latter with rather diffused 

 waved subterminal line just bej'ond it. 



Hah. S. France, Frey Coll. ; Germany, Zeller and Leech Colls. ; 

 Austria; Hungarst, Leech and Frej' Colls.; Switzbuland, Vallais, 

 Frey Coll. ; Spain ; Italy ; Algeria, Hamman-es-Salahin ( WdUing- 

 ham), 1 $ ; Canaries, TenerifFe ; Greece; Russia, Crimea; 

 Rhodesia, Bulawayo, 1 $ ; Orangk R, Colony, Bloemfontein 

 (EcJcersley, Wilson), 2 c? , 1 $ ; B asutol and, Maseru (C/rnfsZiay), 

 1 5 ; Armenia ; Asia Minor, Bithynia, Fontus, Taurus ; Byria ; 

 W. Turkestan, Fergana. Exp, 28-36 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 250 ; Ilflfm. Eaup. p. 130, pi. 34. f. 15. 



Yellow-green, blue-green or pink Avith dark dorsal line, yellow 

 subdorsal line and yellow or crimson lateral stripe. Food-plants : 

 JRhus cotinus, Pistacia ; a succession of broods throughout the year. 



6251. Eutelia blandiatrix. (Plate CLXXV. fig. 8.) 



Eurhipia blandiatrix, Boisd. Ind. Metb. p. 122 (1840). 

 EtUelia inextricata, iVIoore, Lep. .Itk. p. 147 (18S2); Hmpsu. Moths Ind. 

 ii. p. 395. 



Head and tcguloe pale rufous, the latter tipped with white and 

 with some black scales at base ; palpi with some black scales at 

 base ; thorax rufous mixed with whitish and some black-tipped 

 scales, a white line across prothorax ; pectus white ; legs banded 

 brown and white, the spurs white with black ring near tips ; abdo- 

 men grey with patches of fiery red and blackish scales at base of 

 dorsum followed by a white mark and fiery red crests on terminal 

 seo-ments, lateral brown patches on basal segments and white points 

 on 5bh and 6th segments, and sublateral patches of hlack, brown, 

 and fiery red scales. Fore wing brown variegated with grey, the 

 inner margin pale yellow on terminal half, the veins slightly 

 streaked with white ; subbasal line represented by a white striga 

 from costa and double striga from cell, a rufous spot defined by 

 white beyond it below the costa; antemedial line represented by a 

 diffused white band from costa and treble line from cell followed 

 by another curved line ; orbicular represented by a white spot ; 

 reniform grey with white patch at middle and defined by white 

 lines at sides, somewhat produced at upper extremity and angled 

 inwards on median iiervure ; medial line brown, arising from vein 

 6 beyond the cell, excurved to vein 4, then oblique, sinuous ; post- 

 medial line treble, the inner line defined by crimson on inner side 

 between veins 7, 6 and 4, 2 and with metallic blue spot at inner 

 margin, the outer line defined by white on outer side from costa to 

 vein 4, oblique from costa to vein 6, slightly incurved at discal fold, 

 incurved and sinuous below vein 4, some white points beyond it on 

 costa; subterminal line represented by an incurved white line from 

 costa to termen below vein 6 and oblique bar between discal fold 

 and vein 4, the apical area and the subterminal area from vein 3 



