EITBLEMMA. 155 



3Iicra carikami, Berr.-Sch'iiS. Eur. Schmett. ii. p. 438, Noct. f. 558 (1845). 

 Thcdpochares bythinica, B. -Baker, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1888, p. 121. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen white, the hinder part of thorax and 

 abdomen faintly tinged with red-brown ; the palpi, antennae, and 

 legs suffused with rufous. Fore wing white irrorated with pale 

 red-brown ; antemedial line slight, red-brown, waved, a black 

 point on it in cell ; medial line defined on inner side by rufous 

 suffusion, escurved from costa to median nervure and in sub- 

 median fold and angled inwards below the cell and at vein 1 ; 

 postmedial line brown defined on outer side by whitish and 

 with some greyish suffusion before it, excurved below costa, 

 incurved at discal fold, excurved at middle, then oblique sinuous ; 

 postmedial area greyish, rufous towards costa on which there 

 are some white points ; subterminal line white with series of 

 slight black points on its outer edge, excurved below vein 7 and at 

 middle ; the terminal area tinged with grey with an oblique rufous 

 patch at apex ; cilia greyish with white lines at base and middle, 

 the tips tinged with rufous. Hind wing white suffused with reddish 

 brown ; traces of a medial line on inner area and of two sinuous 

 postmedial lines, the outer defined on outer side by white on inner 

 area ; cilia white mixed with reddish brown ; the underside white 

 irrorated with brown, two diffused curved postmedial lines and a 

 terminal series of blackish points. 



Ab. 1, grata, Treit. Smaller and whiter. 



Ab. 2, bytliinica. Fore wing irrorated with violaceous pink. 



Hah. S. Fkance ; Atistkia, Zeller and Frey Colls.; Htjngakt, Frey 

 and Leech Colls ; Spain, Murcia ; S. Rtjssia, Sarepta, Zeller Coll. ; 

 Armenia ; Asia Minoe, Pontus, Bythinia, Lydia ; Peesia, 2 § , 

 Leech Coll. ; W. Tuekestan, Turcomania, Sarawschan. Exjp. 

 26-30 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 287 ; Hjffm. Eaup. p. 141, pi. 36. 

 f. 10. 



Pale grey with a pale dorsal line. Food-plant : Onopordon 

 acanthium. 5-6. 



5218. Eublemma grata. 



Anthophila grata, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 251 (1852) ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. 



p. 226. 

 Anthophila albicans, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 251 (1852) ; Embr. Cat. Lep. S. And 



pi. 10. f. 4. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen white ; palpi and antennae red- 

 brown ; legs tinged with red-brown. Fore wing white, the costal 

 edge red-brown on basal half; a black point in middle of cell ; 

 medial line defined by bright rufous suffusion on inner side, ex- 

 curved from costa to median nervure, angled inwards below the 

 cell, then again excurved ; two slight discoidal points ; postmedial 

 line faint, brownish, excurved below costa and at middle, incurved 

 at discal fold and oblique below vein 3 ; the postmedial area tinged 

 with brown defining the subterminal line, which has a bright rufous 



