EL-BLIlMM-i. 137 



defined b}' white on outer side ; two minute black diseoidal points ; 

 postmedial line brown slightly defined on outer side by white, 

 exc-urved from below costa to vein 4, then incurved and sli<i;htly 

 sinuous, some whitish points beyond it on costa; an oblique rufous 

 shade from apex to the excurved part of postmedial line with some 

 slight white marks on its outer edge representing the subtcrminal 

 line and minute black points towards apex; a fine brownish 

 terminal line ; cilia ochreous with a fine white line at base and 

 brownish line towards tips. Hind wing white tinged with ochreous, 

 the terminal area suffused with brown ; a browm terminal line ; 

 cilia white ; the underside white, the apical area slightly irrorav^d 

 with, brown. 



Ab. 1. ruhefacta. Fore Aving more suffused with rufous. 



Ab. 2. nijmpliodora. Hind wing nearly pure white. 



Hah. S. Britain ; S. Francio ; Austria. Frey Coll., Gnlicia, 

 Carniola, Croatia ; Spai.v, Leech Coll. ; Corsica, Leech Coll. ; Italy, 

 Rome, Zeller Coll., Pegli, Frcy Coll., Capri (C. S. Browne) ; Sicily, 

 Zeller Coll. ; Algeria, Hammam-es-!Salahin (Wahingham), 1 (S ; 

 Morocco, Tangier, 1 J , Leech Coll. ; Canaries, Tenerife 

 ( WalsingJiam,) 1 J ; Grkece ; Turkey; Kumelia ; Armenia; Asia 

 Minor, Pontus, Pithynia, Taurus; Syhia, Eeyrut (Lederer), 1 J, 

 Mardin ; Egypt; Persian Gulf, Fao (Cuming), 1 J , 1 $ ; W. 

 Turkestan, Turcomania; Punjab, Kangra(i)Hf(7fon), 5 $ , Allahabad, 

 2 $ , Ferozpur (i\^nr*«), 1 c? ; Bengal, Pusa (Ze/ro//), 5 $, Nainpur 

 (Lefroy), 2 c? , 5 § ; Bind, Karachi (Swinhoe), 1 $ type chalyhea ; 

 JioMBAY, 1 $ ; "W. Australia, Carnarvon, type t c? nymphodoni in 

 Coll. Meyrick. Exp. ] (5-20 millim. 



Larva. Barrett, Lep. Brit. vii. p. 196. 



Feeds in the flower -shoots of Inula montuna and viscosa, Gen- 

 taurea calcitrapa, and in India in the flowers of Kukraunda. 7. 



5182. Eublemma rivula. (Plate CLII. fig. 28.) 



Thalpochares rivula, M»ore, Lep. Atk. p. 140 (1S82) ; Hmpsn. Moths Inrl. 



ii.p. 841. 

 Thalpochares puailla, Bull. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1886, p. 404. 



Head and thorax white; palpi except at tips, antennae and legs 

 tinged with ochreous ; abdomen ochreous, the ventral surface white. 

 Fore wing ochreous white, the basal costal area and terminal half 

 exce})t at costa suffused with rufous ; an oblique ochreous brown 

 medial baud, ils outer edge slightly sinuous ; two black diseoidal 

 points; postmedial line ochreous l)rown slightly defined on outer 

 side by white, bent outwards below costa to near termen, oblique 

 and sinuous below vein 4, a brown patch with some black on its 

 outer edge beyond it in submedian interspace ; an oblique ochreous 

 brown shade from apex with a black point below it ; a fine 

 ochreous brown terminal line ; cilia ochreous with a fine white line 

 at base. Hind wing white, the terminal area suffused with brown : 

 a brown terminal line ; cilia Avhite tinged with brown at apex ; the 



