408 



NOCTUID^. 



*3240. ? (Ederemia umovi. 



BryopUla umovii, Ev. Bull. Soc. Mosc. 1846, iii. p. 85, pL 2. f . 3 ; id. 



1855, iii. p. 167 ; Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 630 ; Staud. Cat. 



Lep. pal. p. I(i7. 

 Bri/ophila colorata, Krul. Ural. Ges. Nat. Fr. xii. p. 71 (1890) ; id. Ent. 



Zeit. Giiben. t. p. 80. 



Head and thorax pale greenish ; abdomen whitish. Fore wing 

 pale greenish ; subbasal line waved, from costa to vein 1 ; ante- 

 medial line excurved in and below cell ; orbicular represented by a 

 black point ; reniform blackish ; postmedial line bent outwards 

 below costa, then minutely waved, excurved to vein 4, then in- 

 curved, some whitish points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line 

 defined on inner side by small dentate black marks ; a terminal 

 series of small black lunules. Hind wing white ; a diffused dark 

 discoidal lunule, postmedial line excurved to vein 4, then incurved, 

 and diffused subterminal band ; a terminal series of dark striae ; 

 cilia with a slight dark line through them. 



Hah. S.E. Russia, Simbirscieiisi, Urals, Eccp. 34 millim. This 

 species is unknown to me. 



Genus EREMOBIA. 



Type, 



Eremohia, Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Hanst. iii. p. 94 (1829) ochroleuca. 



Ilarus, Guen. Ann, Soc. Ent. Fr. vii. p. 208 (1838) ochroleuca. 



Crymodes, Guen. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1841, p. 238, non descr. ; 



id. Noct. i. p. 184 (1852) cervina. 



Heterographa, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1877, p. 185 (non descr.) zelleri. 



Phcsbophilui, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 21 amczna. 



Proboscis fully developed; palpi uptui-ned, the 2nd joint reaching about to 

 middle of frons and fringed with hair in front, the 3rd short, blunt ; frons 

 smooth ; eyps large, rounded ; antennce of male typically minutely serrate and 

 ciliated ; head and thorax clothed with rough hair and hair-like scales, the 

 pro- and metathorax with spreading crests ; tibice moderately fringed with 

 hair ; abdomen with dorsal series of crests on basal segments. Fore wing 

 triangular, the ajjex rounded, the termen evenly curved ; veins 3 and 5 from 

 near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to 

 form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 

 5 obsolescent from just below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 shortly stalked; 

 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. {Phoehophllus). Antenna} of male bipectinate, with rather long branches 

 to near apes. 



3241. Eremohia amcena. 



P1i(shophilus amcemis, Stand. Stett. ent, Zeit. 1888, p. 21 ; id. Cat. Lep. 

 pal. p. 177. 



c? . Head and thorax ochreous white mixed with dark brown ; 

 palpi brown at sides ; frons white ; tegulaj with dark line near 

 tips ; patagia with dark lines near edges ; tarsi brown ringed with 

 white ; abdomen whitish suffused with brown. Fore wing yellow- 

 brown irrorated with fuscous ; subbasal line double, black filled in 

 with white, angled outwards in cell and ending at submedian fold 

 whcro there is a short black streak beyond it above an oblique 



