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E. roblginosa Stgr. (6 c). Forewing dull rust colour, the markings almost obsolete ; the edges of the robiginosa. 

 stigmata dark; hindwing pale grey becoming rust coloured in outer half. Described by Staudinger from a 

 single ? from Palestine. 



E. cursoriodes Hamps. (6 c). Resembles the preceding species , but reddish-ochreous in tint , and cursoriodes. 

 with the lines and stigmata plain; the claviform small and brown; hindwing hyaline whitish in basal half, 

 ochreous beyond. 1 o 1 from Syria. 



E. heringi Stgr. Also like the preceding species, but yellowish-ochreous with the markings in- heringi. 

 distinct except a dark submarginal shade; hindwing ochreous white with brownish veins and fuscous 

 margin. From Asia Minor and Persia; — in ah. signata Stgr. the markings are stated to be more conspicuous, signata. 



E. viguraea Piing. (6c). Forewing pale ochreous grey dusted with darker scales; the costal area viguraea. 

 whiter : markings almost absent ; the reniform stigma dark grey, ill-defined ; a faint dark submarginal shade ; 

 hindwing white in o*, in ? brownish along termen. Aksu, Mongolia. 



E. homlcida Stgr. (12 f). Like adumbrata Er., but smaller and paler ; hindwing whitish with brown terminal homitida. 

 area, broader in ?. Asia Minor. 



E. confusa Aiph. (= subconspicua Stgr). Forewing brownish grey; claviform stigma black-edged; confusa. 

 orbicular and reniform whitish, with incomplete outline; hindwing pale brown, ochreous along inner margin; 

 abdomen with yellowish anal tuft. Turkestan and Mongolia. 



E. moechilla Piing. Forewing uniform dull yellow grey, with two dark costal spots; stigmata nearly moediilla. 

 obsolete, reniform with lower lobe dark; outer line a curved row of dots; hindwing paler, the veins dark. 

 Described from a single cf from Aksu, Mongolia. 



E. subdecora Stgr. Like decora Schiff., but smaller, with narrower darker wings; both wings dark subdecora. 

 grey, the forewing with yellowish scales intermixed, the lines and stigmata with yellowish edging. Fergana, 

 Samarcand, Issykkul. 



E. clauda Piing. (= subdecora Hamps. nee Stgr.) (6c).. Forewing yellowish grey, varied with whitish; clauda. 

 the inner line nearly vertical, straight; stigmata absent; hindwing white with veins and termen fuscous, the 

 fringe white; abdomen with ochreous anal segment. Known only from Asia Minor and W. Turkestan. 



E. birivia Schiff. (= honoratina Donz., dolis Grote) (6c). Forewing dark ashgrey, with pale dusting; birivia. 

 lines themselves ill-defined , but marked by paler scaling ; orbicular and reniform stigmata ochreous , or 

 with the centres dark but ringed with ochreous; hindwing fuscous grey, paling towards base. Occurs in 

 S. Europe, in the French and Swiss Alps, in Italy,, Austria and Hungary; — in the ab. taurica Stgr. the taurka. 

 pale scales are ochreous yellow, instead of white; this form occurs in Asia Minor and Turkestan. Grote's 

 description of dolis as American was due to an erroneous label. 



E. grisescens F. (= candelisequa Hbn., ? ignicola Hbn., latens Boisd., corrosa H.-Sch.) (6g). Fore- grisescens. 

 wing shining pale or brownish grey; the lines black and very distinct; orbicular and reniform stigmata ill- 

 defined, but separated by a quadrate black spot, sometimes placed on a broad median shade; hindwing dull 

 white, towards termen fuscous brown ; a widely spread species in Europe, occurring in the Mts. of France, 

 Switzerland. Italy, Hungary and Scandinavia; the 2 forms thianshanica Stgr. and hyrcana Stgr., — thianshanica. 

 the former smaller, with whitish grey, less marked, forewings, the latter yellowish grey, — both occur hyrcana. 

 only in W. Asia, the former in Turkestan, the latter in Persia. — Larva (teste Ruhl) brownish green, with 

 white lines and dark oblique subdorsal streaks; the head yellow green varied with dark; feeding on Leon- 

 todon taraxacum. 



E. impexa Piing. Forewing grey, with the inner and outer lines well-marked, lunulate, approximated impexa. 

 on inner margin; superficially much like E. grisescens ab. thianshanica Stgr., but apparently a good species. 



E. parnassiphila Stgr. Forewing narrow, dark greenish grey, darker in middle of inner margin; pamassi- 

 markings faint; outer line the plainest, edged with pale; orbicular stigma pale, reniform with a pale ring; phila. 

 costa with dark and light mottlings; hindwing blackish with yellowish fringe. A mountain species described 

 from a d" from the Ala tau Mts., placed by Staudingeb between decora Schiff. and birivia Schiff. 



E. haverkampfi Stand f. Allied to decora Schiff.; forewing narrower and brighter, pale bluish grey; haverkampfi. 

 the dark lines and stigmata mixed with yellow scales; fringe mottled; hindwing grey. Occurs only in Corsica. 



E. decora Schiff. (— nebulosa Hbn., marcens Chr.) (6d). Forewing dull ashgrey, sometimes with decora. 

 a brownish or ochreous tinge; lines dark, often obscure; stigmata pale, sometimes ochreous; claviform, 

 when present , yellowish ; hindwing dull fuscous , with the base paler in <?. Common on the Mountains of 

 Central Europe and in Armenia; — in ab. livida Stgr. (6d) the ground colour is dark purplish grey and the livida. 

 stigmata well-defined; the orbicular round and sometimes filled up with ochreous. 



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