EREMOBIA. EUEOMCEA. 425 



and Grote Colls. ; Britain, Shetland, Leech Coll., Scotland, Leech 

 Coll. ; France, Pj-renees ; Attsteia ; Hungary ; Switzerland, 

 Zeller, Prej', and Leech Colls., Zermatt (A. H. Jones), Eiigadine, 

 Frey Coll. ; Iceland, Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls. ; Norway ; 

 Finland ; W. Tttrkestan, Tarbagatai Mts. ; E. Turkestan, Kaschgar ; 

 Mongolia, Aksu. Exj_). 42-60 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 123; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 124, pi. 151. f. 1. 



Ochreous whitish; spiracles black ; head reddish brown; thoracic 

 plate ochreous. Food-plants : stems and roots of grasses, lichens. 

 8-5. 



Genus EUEOMffiA. 



Type. 

 Etirotyioia, Stand. Bom. Mem. vi. p. 632 (1S92) mixta. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to 

 middle of frons and moderately scaled, the 3rd moderate ; frons smooth ; eyes 

 large, round ; anteunaj of male laminate and almost simple ; thorax clothed 

 chiefly with scales, the pro- and metathorax with small spreading crests ; tibiae 

 moderately fringed with hair; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore 

 wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and slightly crenulate ; 

 Teins 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 middle of discocellulars ; 6, 

 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



*3263. Euromoea mixta. 



Euromoia mi.rfa, Stand. Eom. Mem. vi. p. 632, pi. 12. f. 10 (1892) ; id. 

 Cat. Lep. pal. p. 131. 



(S . Head and thorax violaceous grey mixed with some black and 

 olive-green ; palpi black at sides except at tip ; frons with black 

 bar ; tegulse with olive-green medial band and whitish tips ; 

 patagia edged with black ; legs largely mixed with black, the tarsi 

 black ringed with white ; abdomen grey suffused with fuscous. 



Fig. Il.—Euromcea mixta, cj". \. 



Fore wing grey slightly irrorated with black ; subbasal line black, 

 double towards costa, waved, from costa to vein 1, some green 

 siiifusion beyond it on costal area and below the cell ; antemedial 

 line black, double towards costa, oblique, dentate, strongly incurved 

 at vein 1 ; claviform absent ; orbicular green defined by black, 

 rather elliptical; reniform whitish defined by black, with black 



