EREMOBIA. 419 



costa to below cell ; postmedial line rather indistinct, dark, bent 

 outwards below costa, then dentate and produced to blackish points 

 on the veins, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some white points 

 beyond it on costa ; subterminal line very indistinct, whitish 

 faintly defined by brown on inner side, waved, slightly excurvod 

 below vein 7 and at middle ; a terminal series of black points ; 

 cilia yellowish white with fuscous line near base. Hind wing 

 whitish suffused with brown, the basal area paler ; cilia white 

 with a slight dark line near base ; the underside white, the costal 

 and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a discoidal point, sinuous 

 postmedial line, and diffused subterminal band. 



Hah. Pkance, Sand Coll., Pyrenees ; Germany, Zeller & Leech 

 Colls. ; Attsiria ; Hungary, Frey Coll. ; Switzerland ; N. Italy. 

 Exp. 40-50 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. Moths Eur. p. 239 ; Hffm. Raup. p. 97. 



Resembles that of Paraslichtis monoglypha. Eood-plant, Hippo- 

 crepis comosa. 



*3255. Eremobia ferrea. (Plate CXVIII. fig. 26.) 



Hadena anilis, Pting. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1896, p. 227 (aec Boisd.). 

 Hadena ferrea, Piing. Soc. Ent. xxi. p. 42 (1900). 



Head and thorax grey-white mixed with rufous; palpi black at 

 sides except at tips; irons with two lateral black points; antennae 

 slightly ringed with black; tarsi black ringed with white ; abdomen 

 grey-white mixed with fnscous. Fore wing grey-white thicklj^ 

 irroraced with fuscous ; subbasal line indistinct, double, waved, 

 from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line double, waved, 

 rather diffused ; claviform minute, faintly defined by fuscous ; 

 orbicular and reniform faintly defined by fuscous, the former round, 

 the latter irregular ; an indistinct diff*used waved dark medial line 

 excurved from costa to submedian fold ; postmedial line blackish, 

 double towards costa, bent outwards below costa, then dentate, 

 incurved below vein 4, some white points beyond it on costa with 

 black points between them ; subterminal line very indistinct, 

 whitish, defined on inner side by slight blackish marks, minutely 

 waved and slightly excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a ter- 

 minal series of black points ; cilia ochreous white with a slight 

 dark line through them. Hind wing grey-white tinged with 

 fuscous especiall J' on terminal area; cilia ochreous at base, white 

 at tips and with slight dark line through them ; the underside 

 white, the costal area tinged with ochreous and slightly irrorated 

 with fuscous, the terminal area irrorated with fuscous, a dark 

 discoidal point and traces of a curved postmedial line. 



Hah. Switzerland, Simplon, type f c^ § in Coll. Piingeler ; 

 N. Italy, Bormio. Exp. 40 millim. 



This may be a variety oi E. platinea. 



