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EUXOA. By W. Wahken. 



Section I: Antennae of cf bipectinate to apex; the pectinations long. 



obesa. E. obesa Bsd. {= lipara Ramb.) (5a). Forewing pale ochreous with brownish-fuscous suffusion; 



veins slenderly black on pale streaks, the intervals brown; stigmata large, fuscous, with black edging; 

 claviform darkest; orbicular diamond-shaped, with dark centre; reniform wholly fuscous; cell dark: hindwing 

 in d" whitish, grey towards termen; in ¥ darker; head, thorax and abdomen brownish ochreous. — Occurs 

 in the south of Europe, Spain, France, Italy and S. Russia and in Algeria ; also in W. Asia, Armenia, Syria, 

 Persia and Turkestan. — Larva (teste Milliere) pale green, the dorsum browner with pale middle line; feeds 

 on flowers of Pterotheca nemaucensis. 



scytha. E. scytha Alfh. (5a). Smaller and paler than obesa Bsd., the hindwing white; head, thorax and 



abdomen whitish; the patagia with distinct black submarginal border; found in Spain, Russia and Turkestan ; 

 apparently a good species, not an aberration of obesa Bsd. 



polybela. E. polybela Joan. (5b). Forewing olive ochreous, the inner margin rufous; veins pale with the 



intervals brown; stigmata brown, prominent, the orbicular produced to touch the reniform: hindwing 

 whitish, with grey dusting. — Algeria; described by Joannis from a single ?. 



crassa. E. crassa Hbti. (= huguenini RtihT) (5a). Forewing pale brownish grey; lines and stigmata darker 



but indistinct; hindwing white in cf 1 , dirty whitish with dull grey terminal area in ?. Found throughout 

 S. Europe, in Algeria, and in Armenia and Asia Minor, Turkestan, and Siberia. Larva dirty brown, with 

 lata, double black dorsal line; feeds on roots of grass. — The ab. lata Tr. (5a) is darker, greyer without the brown 

 golickei. tinge; ab. golickei Ersch. (5b) is much paler, with all the markings distinct, and occurs only in W. Asia; a 

 brunnea. third ab. brunnea ab. nor. (5b), occurring in Syria (Haifa), is large and dark reddish brown, with the hind- 

 wings in the ¥ much darker, and often with a black marginal band beneath; the markings plain; 3 cfcf, 

 3 ¥¥ in coll. Rothschild. 



dirempta. E. dirempta Stgr. Forewing sordid pale grey; the inner line vertical; orbicular and reniform 



stigmata bluish grey, the former preceded by an additional small spot; hindwing white, with the outer half 

 broadly black; a dark cell spot showing through from beneath; described by Staudinger from a single ¥ 

 taken in Spain; apparently near E. crassa Jrlbn. 



lasserrei. E. lasserrei Oberth. (? = sabura Mob.) (5b). Forewing reddish ochreous-grey, darker in cell; the 



stigmata plain; the claviform long, with black edging; orbicular pale, with dark ring, flattened; reniform 

 dark grey: veins towards margin dark; submarginal line conspicuous, formed of pale lunules preceded by 

 dark wedgeshaped marks; hindwing white, with a faint outer line of grey points on veins; described from 

 uncttis. Algeria and Tunis, on the N. African coast; the (so-called) ab. unctUS Christ, from West Turkestan 

 and Palestine is bone colour, without any reddish tinge; judged from the figure merely, it might well be a 

 distinct species. 



rugifrons. E. rugifrons Mdb. (5 c). Forewing rufous, the costal area pale ; stigmata edged with black : a white 



streak along submedian fold from the apex of the claviform stigma , as in potybe/a ; hindwing whitish : 

 described from a d" from Gabes, Tunis. 



boetica. E. boetica Bsd. (5c). Forewing yellowish; all three margins bluish grey, with the centre reddish; 



a black basal streak below cell; all the stigmata plain, black edged, the claviform large, the round orbicular 

 and the reniform small; abdomen and hindwing white; a local species, at present known only from the 

 S. W. coast of Spain. 



pierretii. E. pierretii Buyu. (= marsdeni Baker). Forewing greyish ochreous, tinged with rufous; veins and 



reniform stigma pale slaty grey; orbicular pale and round, ringed with black; reniform with inner edge 

 white and black; hindwing pale grey, the fringe white; a small species, with large pectinations to the 

 antennae ; recorded only from Egypt. 



lanza- E. lanzarotensis Iibl. (5c). Forewing white with the margins brownish tinged; the cell rufous; an 



rotensis. oblique black basal streak; stigmata all present; orbicular small, round, with dark centre: reniform grey, 



preceded and followed by black scaling; hindwing white with the veins and costal area brownish; head, 



thorax and abdomen white and rufous. Described by Rebel from a d* from Lanzarote Island, one of the 



Canaries. 



matritensis. E. matritensis Vasquez. Forewing dark grey; costa mottled dark and light; outer line whitish; 



median vein white; claviform stigma elongate, dark; orbicular pale with dark centre; reniform subquadrate, 

 dark; hindwing pale grey, whitish basewards. A small species from central Spain, caught in September; 

 described as a Heliophobus, but placed here by Hampson; possibly the ri" of chetieni Dumont. 



carthalina. E. carthalina Christ. Forewing reddish grey, with a coneshaped blotch in middle of cell; some 



dark streaks in marginal area ; the costa , stigmata , a streak along submedian fold , and the submarginal 



