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E. albovittata Moore (48 i). Forewing white; costal area dull leaden grey; basal area rufous grey, alboviitala. 

 black at extreme base, with two brown black blotches externally above and below vein 1; cell and space 

 below it above vein 1 velvety brown black, emitting a blunt projection inwards above vein 1, below 

 vein 1 rufous brown; orbicular stigma leaden purple, with fine white lateral edging; reniform large and 

 white, with 2 or 3 grey specks; outer line marked by very obscure double grey dots, the reniform followed 

 by a narrow grey or brownish wisp from costa to vein 4; marginal area leaden purple to vein 4; the 

 anal angle white; hindwing dark fuscous, with white blotches on and above vein 2 beyond the outer and 

 submarginal lilies; head and thorax fuscous. The $ has the head and thorax, and anal half of abdomen 

 black: the costal streak blackish. Found in W. China; originally described from Sikkim. 



E. illustrata Graes. (43 i). Very close to albovittata Moore, from which it differs in the terminal illusirata. 

 black suffusion of forewing being traversed by a clear pale subterminal line, the black before this line 

 being deeper; — in the ab. obfuscata ab. nov. (43 k) the usual white outer half of the wing is suffused with obfuscata. 

 dull brownish grey. Occurs in Amurlancl, Japan, Corea, and W. China, but at present not recorded from 

 India: whereas albovittata is essentially an Indian form, but found also in W. China. 



E. bella Btlr. (= graeseri Stgr.) (43 k). Forewing bluish- white ; costa and median area black; some bella. 

 black markings edged externally with brown on each side of median vein before the inner line; orbicular 

 and reniform large, white, the former conjoined to a costal patch above it and to a large irregular blotch 

 below it reaching to inner margin; the white, black-edged outer line thin and curved, followed by a brown 

 shade and by a black triangle on costa; a black subterminal blotch at middle and another in submedian 

 interval; fringe alternately black and white; hindwing blackish brown, with a white submarginal spot on 

 vein 2. Recorded from Japan and E. Siberia. Smaller by one-third than albovittata. 



E. albidisca Moore (= nivescens Btlr.) (44 b). Forewing dark or yellowish olive green, with all the albidisca. 

 lines finely white or bluish white and delicately waved; median area between subcostal vein and vein 1 

 and the terminal area interruptedly deep olive; orbicular stigma deep olive finely edged with white; 

 reniform a large diffuse chalk white blotch edged with bluish green, extending across the bases of veins 2, 

 3. and 4 which are bluish white, and ending in an inverted white triangle that reaches the submedian 

 fold; submarginal line swollen and whitish towards apex, finer and acutely dentate and yellowish green 

 below middle; marginal lunules dark green tipped with white; fringe ohve green, the outer half pale 

 yellowish mottled with dark ohve crescents; hindwing brownish fuscous, the fringe yellowish green. An 

 Indian species, but occurring also in various localities in W. China. 



E. laetevirens Oberth. (43 k). Forewing deep ohve brown, with patches of golden green in the laelevirens. 

 intervals, the veins themselves white-streaked; inner line white, nearly straight from costa to above inner 

 margin, then bent inwards, emitting a white streak basewards on submedian fold and nearly met by an 

 angle of the white subbasal line; claviform a white lunule; orbicular a small round white spot; reniform 

 white, with two dark dots in upper half, its lower edge excised; outer line lunulate dentate, followed by 

 whitish; subterminal line interrupted, formed of white striae with indistinct black spots preceding them; 

 hindwing fuscous, paler at base, with dark outer line and whitish cilia. E. Siberia and Japan. 



E. picturata Leech (44 a). Forewing yellow ochreous tinged with grey; basal area edged by a picturata. 

 curved rufous band with white on each side and black at costa; inner and outer lines faintly black; clavi- 

 form marked by a dark dot at its end; orbicular pale with the centre rufous, oblique and oval; reniform 

 white, its inner edge reddish; a dark blotch at middle of costa and another between stigmata; submarginal 

 hne whitish, externally shaded with rufous, followed at costa by a dark triangle; terminal area rufous, with 

 blackish streaks on veins 2 and o; hindwing greyish ochreous, with darker cellspot, outer line, and sub- 

 marginal shade. Recorded only from W. China. A small species with a facies of its own. 



E. semifascia Walk. (43 k). Forewing reddish brown, the median area blackish, the outer area semi-fascia. 

 paler; inner and outer lines blackish, approximated on inner margin; orbicular stigma brownish with black 

 outhne, confluent with a spot below cell; reniform ochreous white, black-edged, its centre brown; sub- 

 terminal hne indistinct, pale with dark shading before it; hindwing wholly brownish; — ab. cuprea Moore is cuprea. 

 darker, the forewing being suffused with purplish fuscous, the antemedian and postmedian areas tinged 

 with purplish pink. This species, which comes close to E. lucipara L., is mainly Indian, but occurs at 

 Yatong, Tibet. 



E. aurigera Walk. (= megastigma Walk.) (44 a). Forewing a mixture of olive green and brown auriyera. 

 varied in parts with blackish; the median area darker, except above subcostal vein and below vein 1; 

 the terminal area blackish, except for a pale green patch between veins 2 and 4; veins dark dusted with 

 bluish white scales; a thick black streak near base of inner margin; claviform hidden in a dark suffusion, 

 followed by a pale green lunulate streak below vein 2 from its base; orbicular and reniform olive green 

 conjoined below by an olive green streak; inner line oblique and waved, pale, the edges blackish; outer 



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