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E. solida Ersch. Forewing pale grey, without any markings except the black marginal lunules. solida. 

 Described by Erschoff from a single cf from Khokand; perhaps an extreme from of sabuletomm Boisd. 



E. tristis Stgr. Nearest to tritici ab. eruta Hbn.; all the wings much darker; the lines and stigmata tristis. 

 clear; underside of hindwing with the basal two thirds pale, with a dark lunulate cellmark; antennae of cf 

 ciliate only, not serrate. Dauria and Mongolia. 



E. basigramma Stgr. (7 b). Forewing grey, with purplish, sometimes red-brown, suffusion; the lines sub- basigramma. 

 obsolete; the costal area slightly paler; a black basal streak below cell; stigmata with dark outlines; the cell 

 black: hindwing whitish, with fuscous suffusion; a sombre species found in S.E.Russia and Turkestan only. 



E. privigna Piing. Forewing pale luteous grey; stigmata pale with black outlines; cell dark; a short privigna. 

 dark streak from base below cell; outer line obsolete; hindwing white. Atschan, E. Turkestan; described 

 from a single $. 



E. fallax Er. Like some forms of tritici L., but the ground colour whiter, with coarser dusting; fallax. 

 the inner and outer lines marked by points on veins; submarginal broadly pale, the margin beyond dark- 

 grey: hindwing of & white, of ¥ grey, darkest along termen; palpi whitish. From the Kirghiz Mts. 



E. sulcifera Chr. Forewing reddish fuscous; the nervures, some lines between the nervules, and sultifera. 

 the two upper stigmata luteous; fringe luteous with dark mottling; hindwing luteous grey. Kasikoparan, 

 Armenia. Perhaps near tritici L., but neither sex nor antennae are given. 



E. vitta Esp. (7 b). Distinguished from recussa, and islandica and the forms of tritici by the broad vitta. 

 greyish white costal streak; a local species, found only in Switzerland, Austria and Hungary. 



E. arenosa Stgr. Forewing pale ashgrey; costal streak broadly and median vein narrowly white; arenosa. 



claviform stigma slight and dark; orbicular and reniform ringed with white; cell black; hindwing white, 



with termen grey. Described by Staudinger from a single ¥ taken on the sand dunes of Chiclana, Spain, 

 and according to him nearest to vitta Esp. 



E. islandica Stgr. (= rossica Stgr., nigra Stgr.) (7 b). Like recussa, but with longer and narrower islandica. 

 wings. Described in the first instance from Iceland, but since found also in Livonia and the Ural Mts. in 

 Russia, in Mongolia, Siberia, Amurland and Kashmir. 



E. lidia Cram. (7c). Forewing velvety obve-black, sometimes vinous-tinged beyond outer line; lines lidia. 

 white, sometimes pinkish-tinged, edged with black; subcostal and median veins finely white; base of cell 

 and both stigmata chalk white, the stigmata with rufous and grey centres; a small white subapical blotch; 

 claviform stigma deep black, sometimes followed by a vinous streak; hindwing whitish brown, fuscous 

 before margin; fringe white; head and thorax mainly black; the shoulders pinky white; anal tuft of 

 abdomen rosy. A local species, found only in Holland and N. Germany; — the ab. inexpectata Alph., inexpectata. 

 recorded from Ussuri, E. Siberia is larger, with grey instead of white markings. 



E. oberthuri Leech (7c). Forewing purplish red-brown; costal area pale, towards base ochreous oberthari. 

 white: claviform stigma black; orbicular and reniform grey, with dark centres; the cell blackish; hindwing 

 ochreous fuscous, darker in ?. From Japan and W. China. 



E. intracta Walk. (= ambigua Btlr.) (7 c). Forewing dark liver brown ; the lines black , double ; intracta. 

 stigmata unicolorous, with black edges, the reniform externally with a partial ochreous ring ; teeth of outer 

 and submarginal lines dotted with ochreous; hindwing dark fuscous, paler towards base in cf. Found in 

 Japan, W. China, Kashmir and Tibet; also occurring in various localities in N. India, whence it was 

 originally described. 



E. xanthiodes Humps. (7c). Forewing rufous ochreous; the lines obscure; orbicular and reniform xanthiodes. 

 stigmata paler, indistinct, separated by a brown cloud; hindwing greyish ochreous, the fringe and termen 

 yellower; the ? is paler, and shows the markings more distinctly. Kashmir. 



E. honesta Stgr. (12 g). Forewing grey brown; the median vein whitish; upper stigmata grey with pale honesta. 

 outline, the orbicular open above; cell, claviform stigma, and submedian space before it black; hindwing 

 brown. Mongoba, Siberia. 



E. duosigna Hamps. (7d). Forewing fuscous, with the stigmata much as in exclamationis, but the duosigna. 

 reniform more irregular, its lower part always angled inwards along the median vein; hindwing not so 

 white in the cf. Kashmir. 



E. informis Leech (7c). Like exclamationis but larger, darker in colour, and with stronger markings; informis. 

 hindwing white in cf, suffused with brown in ?. Japan. — hi ab. confluens Leech the two upper confluens. 

 stigmata coalesce. 



