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orbicular elliptical, pale, with brown centre and black edge: reniform dark grey, its inner edge black and 

 white: veins finely dark, the interspaces brown: hindwing white; in ? with a grey shade along outer 

 margin. — Restricted to Corsica and Sardinia : the imago emerges in October, and the larva is said to feed 

 on grasses on sandhills. 



E. distinguenda Led. (= aquilina Bsd. non llbn., hastit'era Dons. fig. 2 only) (5f). Exceedingly distinguenda. 

 like aqtiilina, but the o* has the antennae clothed with long fascicles of cilia; claviform stigma large, out- 

 lined in black: hindwing white. - - Found in S. France. Switzerland and Hungary: originally recorded from 

 the Altai Mts. in W. Siberia. 



E. spinifera Hbn. (= spinula Hbn., [biconica Koll. , exigua Roll, spiculifera Guen., aristifera Guen., spinifera. 

 farina Fell/., hodnae Oberth.) (bg). Forewing pale ochreous, in the ? suffused with fuscous; stigmata distinct, 

 black-edged; the claviform very elongate, black brown: reniform fuscous; orbicular flattened, elongate; the 

 cell before and beyond it black brown : subterminal line alone plain, dentate, preceded and followed by dark 

 wedgeshaped marks ; hindwing white. Flies along the mediterranean coasts of Europe and Africa ; in the 

 Canaries and Sicily: and in the West of Asia, in Syria, Persia and Kashmir (also throughout Africa and 

 Southern India). Larva, according to Milliebe, on grasses; greenish grey, with the dorsum ochreous; the 

 dorsal lines black, the lateral white. 



E. cinerea Schiff. (= obscura Hbn., murina Ev.) (bg). Forewing ashy grey, with darker irrora- cinerea. 

 tion: claviform and orbicular stigmata obsolete: reniform a small dark lunule; a distinct diffuse dark median 

 shade: hindwing whitish, in the ? grey-tinged. — A local species, but widely distributed throughout Europe 

 and in Western Asia. - Larva greenish grey, with the dorsal and subdorsal lines pale, edged with dark; 

 the spiracular line dark; feeds on roots of grass, thyme, sorrel, etc.; — in the ab. alpigena Tur. the alpigena. 

 wings are paler and the markings indistinct , while in ab. 1 i vonica Teich (5 h) they are very much livonira. 

 darker. — ab. fusca Bsd., a ?, is larger than the typical form, and black brown; — subsp. tephrina fusca. 

 Stgr. (bg) is smaller, with forewing narrower, and the markings much clearer; this form is tephrina. 

 confined to the South of England. Tutt, writing in 1892, Brit. Noct. 11, p. 76, evidently with only 

 British specimens before him, did not notice that the British race was per se distinct from continental 

 forms, so that the aberrations which he there put forward must be considered as applying solely to the 

 British race: — these are ab. pallida Tutt, pale grey without median shade and all cfcf; — ab. obscura pallida. 

 Tutt nee Hbn. a unicolorous dull brown form generally (but not always) confined to ??; and ab. virgata obscura. 

 Tutt pale grey with a distinct reddish median shade, and all <?<?. virg<7 "' 



E. christophi Stgr. (5h). Forewing greyish ochreous; the costal area paler, but the costal edge christophi. 

 dark : a black streak at base below r cell ; the cell blackish , the two stigmata brown with grey rings and 

 black outlines: claviform small and black, emitting a dark line along fold; veins dark beyond middle; 

 marginal area fuscous, except at apex; hindwing ochreous white, with veins and margin brownish. — 

 Known only from S. Russia and W. Turkestan. — . In the ab. lugens Stgr. the forewing is darker and lugens. 

 more uniform in colour. — Larva, according to Hampson, ochreous with darker mottling: the lines in- 

 distinct, except the dorsal, which is said to be double; tubercles brown; stigmata black. 



E. proleuca Humps, (of). Forewing dull grey-brown; costa ochreous grey, interlined with dark ; proleuca. 

 cell dark between the stigmata; orbicular produced and pointed basewards; all the lines obscure; hindwing 

 whitish with grey margin. A small species, described from a single d 1 from S. Russia; very close to 

 basigramma Stgr. 



E. hastifera Donz. (oh). Forewing purplish fuscous; costa broadly pale ochreous to outer line; cell hastifera. 

 blackish; stigmata outlined with black; orbicular and reniform with brown centres and ochreous rings, the 

 former round: hindwing white, with grey margin. S. Europe, France, Austria, S. Russia, Transylvania: 

 West Asia, Armenia, Asia Minor, Persia and the Altai Mts. 



E. obelisca Schiff. (= praticola Hbn., declarans Walk.) (5h, ij. Forewing purplish brown; costa obelisca. 

 pale to outer line: cell dark brown; stigmata large, greyish ochreous: the claviform dark; hindwing in <f 

 white, with narrow grey shade along margin, in ? more or less grey-tinged throughout. — Widely distributed 

 throughout Europe, except Great -Britain and Scandinavia: Algeria, and Asia except the extreme East; — 

 in ab. fictilis Hbn. [fig. 710] (5i) the forewing is more variegated, the submarginal line preceded by a row fictilis. ' 

 of distinct black teeth; — ab. ruris Hbn. (5i), larger than typical, reddish grey or reddish brown, with or mi is. 

 without the pale costa: stigmata large and pale: — ab. villiersii Guen. (5i) is also larger than typical; villiersii. 

 forewing ochreous grey with costa and both stigmata whitish, darker in the ?; — ab. plectoides Guen. the pledoides. 

 same size as type, forewing with more acute apex, deep shining violet brown, with traces of subterminal 

 only: costa and stigmata (which are small) pale testaceous; the orbicular somewhat angulated, the reniform 

 constricted in middle: claviform obsolete: the cell deep black; hindwing very dark; described from a 2 

 only from Lapland; omitted by Stauddjgeb, but probably a distinct species: — a very distinct form from 

 the Urals, which may be called ab. carbonls not. (6a) has the ground colour purplish black, with the carbonis. 



