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E. recens Dietze. Strongly built, brownish earth-grey, median area of forewing bounded dislally by 2 recent. 

 parallel lines which bend strongly inwards; the proximal of them, which is the stronger, touches l?ie large, 

 elongate (iell-spot at the origin of the P' median vein. Fringe very distinctly chequered. Scheme of markings 

 of egenaria, recalling also innotata. Koko-Nor and Sidemi. — creta Dietze is more uniform, duskier, perhaps creta. 

 more pointed-winged, the pair of postmedian lines equally strong, with sharper angles anteriorly (first basewards, 

 then outwards). Issyk-kul; ? Kuldja. Probably a distinct species. 



E. extraversaria H.-Sch. (== libanotidata Gtien.) (12 e). Not unlike alliaria, but with still larger, oblong, extra- 

 deep black discal mark, the lines remaining extremely fine, only the principal ones present, the antemedian '"^>'^'^>'^"- 

 without the two angles, the postmedian rather abruptly bent distally to the cell, both these lines and the sub- 

 basal somewhat more conspicuous at the costal margin. Differs from distinctaria in having no light transverse 

 lines. Larva on various Umbelliferae : Peucedanum, Libanotis, Pimpinella, etc. Imago at the end of June and 

 in July; S. France to Russia and perhaps Transcaucasia. 



E. centaureata Schiff. {■= oblongata Thnhg., boloniensis Geoff) (12d). Easily recognized by the white centanreata. 

 or whitish ground-colour, deep black discal lunule dark grey midcostal patch and light brown band proximally 

 to the subterminal line. — ab. obscura Dietze. Ground-colour of both wings with a smoky suffusion. Perhaps obscura. 

 developed chiefly in Asia but also recorded from the Tyrol. — In ab. centralisata Stgr., chiefly from Palestine centmlisala. 

 and Central Asia, the markings are weaker, sometimes (except the discal mark) almost entirely obsolete. 

 Often smafler. — Larva polyphagous on flowers, especially Umbelliferae and Compositae. The pupa usually 

 hibernates, but sometimes produces the moth in a partial second generation, centaureata is found throughout 

 the summer. Europe, N. Africa, Asia Minor, Central Asia, common and generally distributed. 



E. subpulchrata Alph. is described as having the shape and habitus of centaureata, the colour and subpiilch- 

 pattern of pulchellata. Forewing pale fleshy brownish, slightly more tinged with greenish distally, the basal ''"^'*- 

 and median bands bluish slate-colour, the latter with a slender band of the ground-colour in its middle. 

 Hindwing greyish, darker in its basal part. Probably related to gueneata. Hi, Ferghana and Transcaspia. 



E. conviva Dietze has shorter palpus, is rather larger, narrower-vnnged, median band with less sharp conviva. 

 pale line, its boundaries less sharply angled, etc. With the preceding. 



E. accurata Sigr. Forewing longer and narrower than in subpulchrata, light grey with the dark median accurata. 

 band oblique, the distal area mostly brownish, with light subterminal line, the fringes chequered. Namangan, 

 N. Ferghana. — inclinata Dietze is darker, browner, markings more oblique, etc. Askhabad. incUnata. 



E. scalptata Chr. (13 g) is similar to certain forms of gueneata, but distinguished by the white lines scalptaia. 

 which bound and traverse the black-grey median area and especially by a broad white streak along the median 

 vein which cuts the light-brown ground-colour and the median band. Shape intermediate between the two 

 preceding. Transcaucasia and Transcaspia. — gluptata Dietze is larger, broader-winged, the ground-colour gluptata. 

 more brownish (in scalptata almost silver-grey), the transverse lines somewhat less oblique and less straight. 

 Alexander Mountains and Askhabad. Recalls subpulchrata. 



E. saisanaria Stgr. Seems to be again similar, the longitudinal streak and the other veins in part saisanaria. 

 brown-yellow, not white. Zaisan and N. Persia. 



E. syriacata Stgr. (= semicaesia Warr.). Similar to guenata, but different, more or less, in all stages, syriacata. 

 Ground-colour less reddish, more leather-colour; median band blacker, rarely pale-bordered; proximal half of 

 fringe less distinctly spotted; hindwing more unicolorous. Larva on Pimpinella cretica, May-June. The moth flies 

 in the spring and is only known from Jerusalem and Beirut. According to Staudinger also the southern Taurus. 



E. gueneata Mill. (12 d). Bright red-brown with dark blue-grey, pale-margined median band, which gueneata. 

 contains a triangular patch of the ground-colour between the S'"^ radial and 2"'' median v6in, reaching as far 

 as the postmedian line. Larva on the umbels of Pimpinella saxifraga, full-fed in September. The pupae of 

 gueneata, syriacata and gratiosata are, according to Dietze, very remarkable in having no movable segments. 

 At times two or three winters are passed in this stage. The moth appears in July and has a restricted range. 

 — S. France, S. Tyrol, Italy, Carniola and Hungary. — busambraria Ragusa, from Sicily, is a pale, almost j''^^.j4'" 

 albinotic form, possibly due to disease. — separata Stgr. (= pseudoseparata Dietze), from Asia Minor, is a separata. 

 little larger, more ochreous than red-brown, but not so pale as busambraria. 



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