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lines; pectus and ventral surface of abdomen whiter. Fore wing 

 pale olive-ochreous, the postmedial area suffused with red-brown 

 and tinged with pink with a white patch on costal area; a slight 

 daik streak below base of cell ; short rufous streaks on medial area 

 before the indistinct diffused rufous medial line which is angled 

 outv^^ards at lower angle of cell, then oblique ; a black discoidal 

 point with a minute wedge-shaped white mark before it ; a diffused 

 oblique postmedial brown bar from costa ; the postmedial area with 

 rufous streaks in the interspaces becoming black at cosfca and 

 towards the subterminal line, .which is pure white, excurved below 

 vein 7 and at middle and slightly angled inwards at discal fold and 

 below vein 3, some rufous suffusion beyond it and a black spot at 

 apex ; a fine brown terminal line with a yellowish-Avhite line before 

 it; cilia yellowish white with a rufous line iiear tips. Hind wing 

 yellowish white tinged with red-brown ; cilia white ; the underside 

 white, the costal area slightly irrorated with brown, a blackish 

 discoidal point and terminal series of slight points. 



Ab. 1. cestivalis. Much paler, yellowish white; fore wing without 

 any pink, the markings indistinct. 



Ab. 2. carthami. Fore wing almost uniform yellowish white. 



Ab. 3. porphyrina. Fore wing whiter with dark medial and 

 postmedial bands. 



Hah. EpvITain, England ; Fkaxce, Leech Coll., Cannes ( Walsing- 

 Jiam); S. W. Germany; Austria, Carniola; Swjizkrland, Leech- 

 Coll. ; Spain, Leech Coll. ; Italy, Rome, Zeller Coll., Itri, Zeller 

 Coll. ; Sicily, Zeller Coll, ; Algeria, (Mrs. Niclwll), Philippeville, 

 {Walsingliam), Hammam-es-Salahin (IValsinyham); Morocco, 

 Tangier, Leech Coll. ; Canaries, Teneriffe ( Walsinc/ham), Madkira ; 

 Greece; Eujielia; S. IIussia, Sarepta, Leech Coll.; Armenia; 

 Asia Minor (Lede7'er); Hhodes, Zeller Coll.; Cyprus [Glasznev) ; 

 Syria, Lebanon (Pratt), Mardin ; Egypt, Maryut (Graves), 1 .9 ; 

 Persian Gulf, Fao (Cuminc/), 1 J; W. Turkestan, Turcomania, 

 Ferghana, Sarawschan, Issyk Kul, Tarbagakai Mts ; W. Siberia, 

 Altai ; Mongolia, Uliassutai ; Bombay, Deesa (Nm^se), 2 S , 4 § . 

 Exp. 18-28 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Motlis Eur. p. 288 ; Hffm. Raup. p. 142. 



Greenish with pale dorsal and subdorsal lines ; warts brownish, 

 each with a single long hair; head dark brown ; two anterior pairs 

 of prolegs absent. Food - plants : Carduns and Heliclirysum 

 angiistifolium ; three broods. 



5148. Eublemma staudingeri. (Plate CLII. fig. 2.) 



Thalpochares stmtdivgeri, Wllgrn. CEfv. Vet.-Akad. Forli. 1875, p. 112. 

 Eublemma preiorite, l)ist. A. M. N. H. (7) i. p. 225 (ISUS). 



c? . Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous suff'used with reddish 

 brown. Fore wing ochreous suffused with reddish brown ; a slight 

 black streak in sul)raedian fold ; a slight subbasal black streak below 

 vein 1 : a slight black streak in the cell from before middle to the 

 small discoidal black spot placed on the somewhat diffused medial 



