28 EUXOA. By W. Wafhen. 



costal streak and upper stigmata pale and the cell deep black: all the lines indistinct: several examples 

 of both sexes sent from Uralsk by M. Bartel. 



puta. E. puta Hbn. (= erythroxylea TV., catalaunensis Mill.) (6 a). Forewing yellowish grey, the costal 



and outer margins reddish; hindwing yellowish white, with outer margin reddish. This type form is very 



renitens. rare and found only in Italy; - ab. renitens H.-G. pale grey in d", darker in ?, basal area more or less 



lignosa. black: reniform stigma alone black, no central shade; — ab. lignosa God. grey with transverse shade 



radius, distinct, the ? darker with 2 dark lines: - - ab. radius Hair, o* (= radiola Stph. ?) grey with longitudinal 



obscura. dark markings; ab. obscura Tutt uniform dull greyish fuscous, with basal area and a costal patch 



nigra, containing reniform darker: - ab. nigra Tutt black with the lines and stigmata deeper, the orbicular 



sometimes paler: this is apparently the extreme dark form of the ?, as obscura is of the cf. The species 



is common and generally distributed throughout Europe : occurring also in Algeria, and in W. Asia , Syria, 



Asia Minor. Persia, Turkestan and Mongolia. -- Larva dull brown, paler above; dorsal segments with dark 



freckles on each side of the black-edged dorsal line : subdorsal line brown with its lower edge pale ; head 



and thoracic plate brown; feeding on various low plants. 



armena. E. armena Ev. (= deserta Stgr.) (6a). Forewing grey with darker freckling; the subquadrate 



orbicular and the reniform whitish: subterminal line diffusely dark; hindwing yellowish white, the termen 



obscura. fuscous: abdomen pale. Resembles cursoria, but paler; Sarepta, S. Russia. — In the ab. obscura Stgr. the 

 forewing is suffused with darker and the markings are obscured. 



bogdanovi. E. bogdanovi Ersch. (= grumi Alph.) (6 a). Forewing rufous ochreous; a distinct rufous median 



shade; stigmata outlined with rufous, the claviform obsolete; hindwing ochreous. A local insect, confined 

 to W. Turkestan: in appearance resembling a Leitcania, to which genus it was originally referred. 



emolliens. E. emolliens Hamps. (= mollis Stgr. nee Walk.) (6b). Forewing shining pale greyish brown; the 



lines mostly obsolete; orbicular and reniform stigmata slightly indicated; a dark shade preceding submarginal 

 line; hindwing whitish, with the margin grey. — W. Turkestan, Transcaspia. 



canariensis. E. canadensis Hbl. (6b). Forewing bluish grey-brown; a short black basals treak below cell; clavi- 



form stigma absent; orbicular and reniform brown, ringed with grey, the cell dark; hindwing brownish white, 

 darker towards margin. This is another local species, occurring in the Canary Islands. 



tibetana. E. tibetana Moore (= modesta Moore, monticola Hamps.) (12a). Forewing dull grey-brown; stigmata 



outlined in black: orbicular and reniform large, with dark suffusion between them; hindwing fuscous; the 

 markings generally obscure, but in some cases distinct. Tibet and Kashmir. 



fissa. E. fissa Stgr. (6 b). Forewing grey with a reddish tinge ; stigmata defined by black ; the rounded 



orbicular and the reniform small and grey; median vein and its branches before outer line streaked with 

 grey: hindwing fuscous brown, paler towards base. Recorded from the Thian-Shan Mts. in E. Turkestan, 

 and from Mongolia. 



humigena. E. humigena Piing. (12 a). Forewing reddish brown ; the lines dark and distinct; claviform and orbicular 



stigmata quite small; the reniform large, dark grey, connected by a streak with outer line; marginal area 

 dark at middle; hindwing paler brown. From Kuku-Nor, Tibet. 



pallidifrons. E. pallidifrons Hamps. (6b). Forewing pale grey-brown, with black dusting; stigmata indistinct, 



the upper two separated by a black spot; outer line strongly dentate; hindwing pale fuscous; palpi 

 blackish; Irons whitish: head and thorax grey-brown in cf, paler, more ochreous, in ?. Described from 

 Central Asia. 



cognita. E. COgnita Stgr. (6b). Forewing grey with dense dark brown dusting; lines all indistinct; stigmata 



obscurely defined by black scales; subterminal line pale; hindwing fuscous. From W. Turkestan. 

 Section IV: Antennae of d* with tuberculate or serrate fascicles of cilia. 

 acuminifera. E. acuminifera Ev. (12 a). Forewing pale redbrown dusted with black ; a costal streak and the median 



vein white; a black streak below cell from base; stigmata black-edged: the claviform small, emitting a pale 

 streak to outer line; orbicular oval, oblique, with a white ring like the reniform: hindwing white, fuscous 

 along termen. From Russia and W. Turkestan. 



submolesta. E. submolesta Piing. (12a). Resembles exclamationis L., but the hindwing is brown in both sexes; 



stigmata paler, the claviform short ; a darker streak before the reniform and a dark geminate streak beyond 

 it towards margin. Kuku-Nor, Tibet. 



adumbrata. E. adumbrata Ev. (= obscura Stgr.) (6b). Forewing dark fuscous brown in d\ black brown 



in ?, with an undertint of red in the paler spaces: stigmata black-edged, the orbicular and reniform in ? 



with whiter rings; hindwing dull grey with a dark cellspot, becoming blackish along termen. Found in 



nofygonides. Russia, Armenia, Turkestan, E. Siberia and Tibet; -- the ab. polygonides Stgr. represents a paler form. 



variegated with grey and brown, and with the markings plainer. 



