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Bate), 1 c? ; CrPEUs (Glaszner), 1$; Armenia; Asia. Minoe, 

 Amanuslfts., 1 c? ; W.Siberia, Altai; W. Turkestan, Saisan, Issyk 

 Kul, Ferghana ; E. Tuekestax, Hi ; Tibet, Amdo ; E. Siberia, Amur- 

 land, Kamschatka. Exp. 42-48 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 1.30 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 117, pi. 150. f. 2. 



Green often mixed or suffused with rosy purple ; dorsal and sub- 

 dorsal lines dark-edged ; spiracular line white or greenish yellow ; 

 head ochreous or gi'eenish. Food-plants : Galium, Origanum, 

 Achillea, &c. 8-4. 



2499. Enmiclitis solieri. 



Hadena Bolieri, Boisd. Ind. Meth. p. 120(1840); Dup. Lep. Fr., Suppl. 



iii. p. 238, pi. 22. f. 3 ; Herr.-Sehaff. Eur. Schiiiett., Noct. f. 152 ; Mill. 



Tcones, i. p. 213, pi. 4. ff. 3-5 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 171. 

 Eadena arabs, Oberth. Et. Ent. vi. p. 88, pi. si. f. S (1881) ; Staud. Cat. 



Lep. pal. p. 173. 



c? . Head and thorax red-brown mixed with pinkish white ; 

 frons with black bar : tegulie with black medial line ; metathoracic 

 crest blackish ; tarsi black with pale rings ; abdomen pale rufous, 

 whitish at base, the dorsal crests darlv. Fore wing pale rufous 

 irrorated with ochreous-white scales, the medial area slightly and 

 the terminal area strongly suffused with purplish fuscous, the veins 

 Avith dark streaks ; a sinuous black streak below base of cell and a 

 slight oblique streak above inner margin before the antemedial 

 line; subbasal line represented by double black striae from costa; 

 antemedial line double filled in with greyish, the inner line 

 indistinct, angled outwards below costa and in cell and inwards on 

 the veins, excurved below cell and above inner margin ; claviform 

 defined by black, with an oblique streak from its extremity to the 

 postmedial line ; orbicular and reniform defined by black, the former 

 round, the latter with its inner edge straight, some white points on 

 its outer edge which is irregular ; a very indistinct waved medial 

 line, oblique from costa to lower angle of cell, then inwardly 

 oblique ; postmedial line double at costa. then single, bent outwards 

 below costa, then dentate and produced to black and white points on 

 the veins, excurved to vein 4, then strongly incurved, some pale 

 points beyond it on costa; subterminal line indistinct, whitish, 

 angled inwards above vein 7, outwards at veins 7, 4, 3, then 

 incurved, with slight brown streaks in the interspaces from it to 

 the terminal series of black points ; cilia fuscous intersected with 

 rufous. Hind wing yellowish white, the veins brown ; a slight 

 postmedial line ; some slight dark suffusion on terminal area, a fine 

 dark terminal line : cilia ochreous with dark line through them ; 

 the underside with the costal and terminal areas slightly irrorated 

 with brown, a small black discoidal spot and crenulate postmedial 

 line. 



2 . Deeper red-brown ; hind wing wholly suffused with brown, 

 the base slightly paler. 



xib. 1. More suffused with fuscous and less tinged with rufous. 

 — Capri. 



