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long as the diameter of the eye. Antennal ciliation in the cT longer than the diameter of Ihe shaft The 

 name-typical form is distributed from S. Russia mid Asia Minor to Transcaspifi. — designata Dietze. More designala. 

 earth-coloured, thus less sharply black-and-white-marked. Somewhat resembles cooptata, but differs in the 

 longer antennal cilialion. Caucasus. — constantina B.-Baker (? = albosparsata Joan.). About midway between conslantiva. 

 typical variostrigata and artemiseata ; more brownish tiian the former, more strongly marked with black and 

 white than the latter, at least from the discal dot obliquely to the hind margin. Algeria. Joannis's type of 

 albosparsata was from Palestine. — artemisiata Const, is a small, strongly brownish form with the black and artemisiata. 

 white markings mostly broken up into dots and streaks. S. France. — The larva of the form artemisiata has 

 been found in the late autumn feeding on flowers and seeds of Artemisia maritima f. gallica (occasionally on 

 Camphorosoma and even Solidago). Imago in September. 



E. santolinata Mah. (13f). Similar to miUefoUata (12 h) but with all the markings much sharper, especially santoUnata. 

 the boundaries of the median area. Discal dot of forewing large, oblique angled markings running from this 

 to the hindmargin, much as in sohrinafa; median vein at its end and the base of the branches which spring 

 from it blackened. Larva in late autumn on Santolina chamaecyparissus. Moth in May-.June. Only known 

 from S. France (between Carcassonne and Narbonne) and Spain (Cuenca). 



E. bastelbergeri Dietze. A small species, characterized by the elongate terminal segment of the abdomen. ^^^^''. 

 Violet-grey, the posterior part of the forewing more or less strongly mixed with ferruginous brown. Discal 

 dot small, black, light-edged. Forewing with 3 oblique light lines, angled near the costa, otherwise nearly 

 straight; 1 or 2 much finer lines proximally to the postmedian; thorax, base of wing and subcostal vein mixed 

 with white scales, perhaps indicating a relationship with bohatschi and rubellata; subterminal line sharply dentate. 

 Hindwing rather dark grey with dentate lines. Underside much less sharply marked, without the characteristic 

 light lines. The cf antenna appears weakly dentate. Syr-daria, Turkestan. 



E, silenata Assmann (12 h). Light brown-grey, so strongly dusted with blackish fuscous as almost to silenata. 

 obscure the ground-colour except in the bands which bound the median area, some interrupted lines or spots 

 in the basal and median areas, however, remaining pale; cell-dot large, black, appearing somewhat raised; 

 subterminal line distinct. Hindwing not quite so dark. Palpus long, about 272 times the diameter of the eye. 



— pseudolariciata Stgr., from the Austrian Alps, has the dark dusting reduced, the principal lines more pseudo- 

 conspicuous. — Larva in the spun-up calyces of Silene inflata. The pupa hibernates. The moth appears in ^'"'**^- 

 June. Local in the Alps, Silesia and Galicia. 



E. carpophagata Rbr. Light grey, somewhat bluish tinged and with scattered blackish scales. Forewing carpo- 

 with 4 sti'ong dark costal spots; median area marked by not very conspicuous parallel waved antemedian and P^^'^S^''''- 

 postmedian dark lines; cell-dot weak, almost lost in a median line. Under surface whitish, weakly marked. 

 Antennal ciliation nearly as long as diameter of shaft. Larva on the flowers and seeds of Silene saxifraga. 

 The pupa hibernates, carpophagata flies in late June and July and rests on rocks. The name-typical form 

 is only known from Andalusia and Central Italy. — cassandrata Mill. (13 f), from the S. French Alps, is larger, cassandrata. 

 the ground-colour more reddish, the bands which limit the median area lighter, all the dark markings broader 

 and more distinct, especially the postmedian line (band) of the hindwing. — teriolensis Dietze, from the Dolomite teriolensis. 

 region of the S. Tyrol and Carniola, is likewise suffused with reddish but appears rounder-winged, less coarsely 

 marked, the hindvdng without very distinct dark band. 



E, venosata F. (= insignata Hbn) (12e). Variable in size and colour but nearly always easily venosata. 

 recognizable by the network of fine, sharply black markings. In the name-type, which is also by far the 

 commonest form, the ground-colour is pale delicate grey, sometimes with a tinge of dove-colour or of reddish. 



— futnosae Gregson (= nubilata Bohatsch, grisea Dietze) is a dark smoke-coloured race from the Shetland fumosae. 

 Islands. — In ab. bandanae (!) Gregson the white bands remain conspicuous on the smoky ground. Among bandanae.S 

 fumosae. — ochracae Gregson {= orcadensis Prout) also has the ground-colour darkened, but ochreous or ochracae. 

 clay-yellowish, not smoky; markings normal or sometimes weakened as in fumosae. Orkney Islands. — The 



larva lives spun up in the flowers of Silene, especially Silene inflata. The pupa hibernates, often passing 

 two winters in this stage, venosata flies in June and is widely distributed in Europe, Transbaikal, etc. 



E. schiefereri Bohatsch (= caeruleata Favre) (12 m). Extremely near to venosata but separable by the schiefereri. 

 genitalia, the cf antenna also, according to Dietze, showing slightly longer ciliation. Ground-colour on an 

 average a shade darker, slightly more tinged with violet; perhaps on an average the median line of the fore- 

 wing in schiefereri is somewhat less sharply expressed and more often passes distally to the cell-mark (in 

 venosata proximally, or crossing it) and the hindwing of schiefereri may be on an average somewhat more 

 strongly marked. — Larva on Silene nemoralis and Saponaria ocimoides. The moth appears in May or early 

 June, thus on an average earlier than venosata. Local, Southern and S. Central Europe to Asia Minor. 



