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cell; claviform stigma longer than in mendax, orbicular stigma smaller, oval; reniform narrow, crescent- 

 shaped, pale with a dark centre; hindwing dark fuscous, paler at base. Recorded from Asia Minor and 

 Mesopotamia. 



E. renati Obcrth. (= magdalene Oberth.) (20 d). Forewing redbrown, grey-tinged, and partly suffused renati. 

 with fuscous: lines defined b}' white; claviform stigma small, black-edged; orbicular small, obliquely 

 elliptical; reniform large, constricted at middle, conspicuously outlined with white at lower end; hindwing 

 whitish tinged with brown; veins and terminal area brownish; the ¥ only is known: from the Pyrenees. 



E. silenes Ebn. (— sejuncta H.-Sch.) (20 d). Forewing ochreous white with redbrown suffusion; silenes. 

 claviform stigma black; orbicular and reniform large, their centres brown ringed with white; submarginal 

 line white with black wedge-shaped marks in front of it; hindwing brown, deeper towards termen. — Larva 

 pale redbrown; dorsal and subdorsal lines fine, whitish grey; lateral stripe broad and whitish; spiracles 

 white^with black rings ; on seeds of various kinds of Silene. A South European species, found in S. France, 

 Spain, Sicily, Hungary and Macedonia; also in Armenia, Palestine, and Mesopotamia. 



E. christophi Moeschl. (20 d). Forewing white suffused with dark brown in median area and beyond diristophi. 

 cell; a black streak below base of cell, cut by the white subbasal line; claviform stigma black, triangular; 

 upper stigmata white, with brownish centres, the cell blackish; submarginal line white; hindwing brownish 

 white,' with veins and cellspot darker, and dark brown submarginal band; — in the form corrupta Herz cormpta. 

 (=' sejuncta Graes.) all the wings are darker. An asiatic species occurring in the Altai Mts. , Siberia, 

 Turkestan, Mongolia, Tibet, and Amurland; in Europe found only at Sarepta, S. E. Russia. — Larva, 

 according to Hampson, yellowish white, with white dorsal, subdorsal, and lateral stripes. 



21. Genus: Cardepia Hamps. 



Differs from Epia in the frontal prominence being excised below and ending in a central projecting 

 rim, while in Epia the projection is at the lower end of face; claws on foretarsi small, increasing in size 

 towards the extremity of the segments. 



Type C. irrisor Ersch. 



C. ? afra Baker. Forewing pale ochreous grey; lines blackish edged with white, the inner forming a f ra , 

 3 curves; claviform stigma outlined with black; orbicular white; reniform dark grey at centre, ringed with 

 white, and partly outlined with black; submarginal line dentate; hindwing white; cellspot and terminal border 

 dark grey. Egypt. The position of this species is dubious; it may be related to Scotogramma stigmosa. 



C. irrisor Ersch. (= albipicta Chr.) (21b). Forewing grey white; lines double, blackish; claviform irrisor 

 stigma small, black; orbicular of the ground colour, round, with black edge; reniform filled up with 

 blackish; hindwing in ¥ dirty grey, with dark grey marginal border; in cf white with a pale grey sub- 

 marginal shade. The ¥ is always greyer and darker than the cf . The insect bears a remarkable superficial 

 likeness to Scotogramma stigmosa. — An eastern species, occurring in S. E. Russia, Syria, Kirghistan, and 

 Turkestan ; — ab. deserticola Hamps. from Syria has the ground colour of forewing more ochreous. desertkola. 



22. Genus: Trichoclea Grote. 



Differs from the two preceding genera in the frontal prominence being simply rounded, with a 

 corneous plate below it; foretarsi with the first or first two segments bearing long curved clawlike spines 

 on the outer side. 



Type T. decepta Grote from N. America. 



T. albicolon Sepp. (21b). Forewing dull blackish grey; all the markings indistinct, except the albicolon. 

 small white spots bordering the renifoi'm* stigma ; hindwing dingy grey, darker towards termen; ab. brunnea bnmnea. 

 Tutt (= var. A. Gum.) is yellowish brown, with the markings more distinct; the hindwing paler, yellowish- 

 tinged; ab. cinerascens Tutt (== alhicolon Steph) (21b, c) has the forewing ashy grey, dusted with black; cinerascens. 

 all the markings distinct; the stigmata paler and clearer; the white edging of the reniform nearly complete: 

 this is the more general British form; the next 3 aberrations are all from W. and Central Asia; — viz. ab. 

 egena Led., smaller, paler, the forewing luteous grey; ab. arida Led., darker than egena, the forewing egena. 

 reddish grey; ab. odiosa Stgr. (21 d) from Amdo and Kuku-Nor, Tibet, with the forewing dull ochreous arida. 

 brown, and the hindwing uniform fuscous. Found throughout Europe, in Asia Minor, and Central Asia. — odiosa. 

 Larva green, dark-speckled along the dorsum; dorsal line dark, obscurely divided; subdorsal lines interrupted, 

 blackish; spiracular line yellow; spiracles white in black rings; feeds up in autumn on low plants. 



T. atalantica Hamps. (20 d). Forewing dark brown; median area darker; the lines black; stigmata atalantica. 

 indistinct, the orbicular oblique, elliptical; some obscure dark dentate marks before submarginal line; hind- 

 wing fuscous brown. Described from a single d from Porto Santo, Madeira. 



