324 NocTuroiE. 



*2492. Eiimiclitis albostigmata. 



Ejmnda cdbostigniata, Beth.-Baker, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1891. p. 20G ; Staud. 



Cat. Lep. pal. p. 172. 

 Hadena atlanticum, Beth.-Baker, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1891, p. 207; Staud. 



Cat. Lep. pal. p. 172. 



o" . Head and thorax purplish red mixed with a few black 

 scales ; i^alpi blackish at sides ; lower part of frons black at sides 

 and with a black bar above ; tegute with black medial line ; patagia 

 with some black scales near upper edge ; abdomen ochreous tinged 

 with rufous and irrorated with brown, the base whitish, the anal 

 tuft rufous. Pore wing purplish red largely suffused and irrorated 

 with black-brown, especially on medial and terminal areas ; sub- 

 basal line represented by black striae from costa and median 

 nervure ; a diffused sinuous black streak below base of cell ; ante- 

 medial line double, the inner line indistinct, angled outwards below 

 costa, then oblique and slightly angled inwards on vein 1 ; claviform 

 defined by black, acute at extremity and with a black streak from 

 it to postmedial line ; orbicular and reniform white defined by 

 black, the former oblique elliptical, open above and with slight 

 brown line in centre, the latter large with brown centre ; an in- 

 distinct medial line angled outwards below costa and on median 



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Fig. 106. — Eiimichtis albostigmata, <^ . 4- 



nervure, then waved ; postmedial line double at costa, bent out- 

 wards below costa, then dentate, incurved below vein 4, some 

 white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line formed of small 

 whitish lunules, defined on inner side by small dentate dark marks 

 and with short black streaks beyond it in the interspaces, angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of 

 small black lunules ; cilia fuscous with ochreous line at base and 

 intersected with ochreous. Hind wing fuscous brown mixed with 

 some whitish, the veins darker, a slight dark discoidal lunule ; a 

 dark postmedial line angled at vein 4 and fine dark terminal line ; 

 cilia ochreous with a fuscous line through them ; the underside 

 whitish irrorated with brown, a large black discoidal lunule and 

 sinuous postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. atlantica. Much brighter and more uniform purplish red ; 

 fore wing with the terminal area only suffused Avith black-brown, 

 the orbicular round without any white, the reniform with a little 

 white in centre and white line on outer edge; the medial line 

 distinct ; the subterminal line jjurplish red and more continuous, 



Hab. Madeira, type t and type t atlanticum in Coll. Bethune- 

 Baker. Kv2). 50 millim. 



