418 XOCTTTID^. 



3253. Eremobia alpigena. 



Hadena alpigena, BoiscT. Icones, pi. 84. f. 5 (1832) ; Mill. Icones, iii. 



p. 308, pi. 139. f. 1 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 159. 

 Hadena meissonieri, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 92, pi. 8. f. 9 (1852). 



$ . Head and thorax white mixed with pale red-brown ; palpi 

 blackish at sides ; tegulse with strong black medial line ; tarsi 

 blackish ringed with white ; abdomen gre5'-white tinged with 

 brown especially towards extremity. Pore wing grey-white 

 slightly irrorated with brown, the medial area tinged with brown, 

 except towards inner margin and the terminal area except towards 

 apex and tornus ; a sinuous black streak below base of cell ; 

 subbasal line represented by a slight dark striga from costa ; ante- 

 medial line double filled in with whitish, slightly angled outwards 

 below costa and in cell, then excurved ; claviform defined by black, 

 acute at extremity ; orbicular and reniform large, whitish defined 

 by black, the former elongate elliptical and with slight fuscous 

 centre, the latter with its centre defined by fuscous ; a medial 

 brown line, diffused from costa to median nervure, then incurved 

 and dentate ; postmedial line black defined by whitish on outer 

 side especially below vein 2, with double black strife from costa, 

 then dentate, touching the extremities of reniform and angled 

 outwai'ds at vein 5, then incurved, some white points beyond it on 

 costa; subterminal line indistinct, whitish defined by brown on 

 inner side, excurved below vein 7 and at middle, with black streaks 

 beyond it above veins 6, 5, 4, and ending at a strong black fascia 

 in submediau fold ; a terminal series of black lunules ; cilia 

 chequered brown and ochreous white with a pale line at base. 

 Hind wing white, the veins brown, blackish on terminal half, 

 the inner and terminal areas irrorated with brown ; a diffused 

 waved black terminal line ; cilia white with a brown line through 

 them ; the underside with the costal and terminal areas irrorated 

 with brown, a blackish discoidal spot, indistinct postmedial line 

 with short dark streaks on the veins, and terminal series of lunules. 

 Hah. S.E. France, 1 $ ; Algeria. Exjp. 38 millim. 



3254. Eremobia platinea. 



Folia platinea, Treit. Schmett. Eur. v. 2. p. 34(1825); Dup. Lep. Fr., 

 Suppl. iii. p. 444, pi. 39. f. 3 ; Herr.-Schiiff. Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 40, 

 487 ; Frr. Aeiie Beitr. pi, 618. ff. 3, 4 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 172. 



Head and thorax white mixed with brown ; sides of palpi and 

 frons with blackish marks ; tarsi fuscous ringed with white ; 

 abdomen white tinged with brown. Fore wing white irrorated 

 with brown : subbasal line represented by double striae from costa ; 

 antemedial line with double striae from costa, then single, minutely 

 waved, indistinct, oblique from costa to submedian fold ; claviform 

 absent; orbicular and reniform whitish, undefined or almost 

 obsolete, the former rounded : a sinuous medial line oblique from 



