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E. ochroleuca Esp. (41b). Forewing white, suffused with pale olive brown; lines broadly white, the ochroleuca. 

 inner and outer generally coalescing on submedian fold, the outer line denticulate externally; median area 

 often darker brown, somewhat blackish tinged, especially in the 3; orbicular stigma pale olive, the reniform 

 white with an ochreous centre: submarginal line whitish, indented on each fold and there preceded by 

 some dark lnown scaling; a row of dark marginal lunules; fringe ochreous with two outer rows of dark 

 lunules; hindwing ochreous dusted with luteous grey; a dark cell spot and outer line followed by a pale 

 space before the broad fuscous marginal border; fringe white. — Larva pale green; lines whitish; lateral 

 line broadly white, its lower edge blackish; spiracles black: head pale brown; the tubercles blackish; feeds 

 on the leaves of various grasses, later devouring the seeds. Occurs locally throughout Europe and in 

 Armenia. 



E. deckerti Hmps. Porewing sapgreen dusted with black; the lower half of median area suffused deckerli. 

 with redbroAvn and white scales; inner and outer lines double, black, filled in with white; subterminal line 

 whitish, dentate, preceded by blackish shading, the veins beyond it blackish; claviform blackish at end; 

 orbicular and reniform white, tinged with redbrown and laterally black-edged; hindwing as in ochroleuca. 

 Recorded only from the Altai Mts., W. Siberia. 



12. Genus: Gerbathodes gen. nov. 



Tongue present: irons smooth, somewhat swollen above; palpi upturned, smoothly scaled, the third 

 segment short: antennae of <$ simple, filiform; thorax and abdomen without crests; forewing narrow, 

 elongate; costa slightly curved: ternien obliquely curved, not crenulate. Type G. angusta Btlr. 



The genus is formed for 3 Eastern Asian species, one of which, paupera, was placed by Staudinger 

 in Craniophora Snell. 



G. angusta Btlr. (41 b). Forewing pale grey, almost entirely covered by blackish fuscous suffusion, angusta. 

 the pale scales remaining along the costal area and sometimes beyond the subterminal line; inner line 

 black, irregularly waved and angled; outer line black, irregularly lunulate dentate, strongly excurved beyond 

 cell; submarginal line strongly dentate, pale, preceded by a blackish line; orbicular and reniform stigmata 

 rather quadrate, with broad white annuli and black centres; below the orbicular a similar but smaller 

 round white, dark-centred spot; hindwing brownish fuscous. Japan; in ab. obscurata (= ab. 1. Hmps.) 

 the three stigmata are without white rings. 



G. paupera Stgr. (= connexa Leech) (41 b). Differs from angusta Btlr. in not being so densely paupera. 

 suffused with fuscous, the white scaling more prominent in medio-costal area; the dark areas with slight 

 brown admixture; the submarginal line less concise. Staudinger's type from Amurland; Leech's from Chow- 

 pin-sa. W. China. 



G. ypsilon Btlr. (42 b). Forewing grey with black brown irroration; inner and outer lines black, ypsilon. 

 the former oblique and strongly waved, the latter dentate-lunulate ; subterminal line white, defined by a 

 brown shade before it; a broad oblique diffused brown median shade met below angle of cell by another 

 oblique shade from costa before apex; claviform and orbicular stigmata obsolete; reniform with pale 

 annulus defined above by black and becoming pure white below, constricted at middle, with a black 

 streak before it in lower part of cell and beyond it above vein 4 to submarginal line; hindwing pale 

 reddish brown, the fringe whitish. Japan. 



13. Genus: Atrachea gen. nov. 



Tongue developed; frons smooth; palpi upturned, the second segment broadly and roughly haired, 

 the third short; antennae of £ subserrate, pubescent, with short bristles; thorax and head roughly haired, 

 without distinct crests; pectus and femora woolly; forewing broad; the costa curved; apex blunt. Type 

 A. nitens Btlr. 



A. nitens Btlr. (41 e). Forewing dull fuscous, sometimes slightly tinged with reddish brown, especi- nitens. 

 ally along cell, and in the basal area, along costa, and beyond the outer and submarginal lines, varied with 

 pale green scales, which sometimes are whitish and more or less obsolete; the largest of these green patches 

 are in the submedian interspace, one before inner, the other beyond outer line; claviform stigma small, 

 black, sometimes united by a blackish streak with the black lunule in outer line; upper stigmata pale- 

 ringed with dark centres; submarginal line wavy, pale and interrupted, preceded by blackish lunules; 

 hindwing dark brownish fuscous, deeper along termen, with dark cellspot and outer line; — in ab. muscosa muscosa. 

 Btlr. (41 c) the green scaling and patches predominate; the more sombre type form being the rarer. — 

 A Japanese species only. — The antennae of the $ bear a pair of bristles from each segment, while the 

 dbrsal tufts are less conspicuous. 



