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line sinuous: orbicular stigma a white V; reniform internally edged by an oblique white line, followed by 

 a dark linear mark on discocellular, the outer edge formed of two thick pinkish white bars; submarginal 

 line finely white, with the usual angulations, followed by pale patches at apex and submedian fold; an 

 interrupted silvery white line before termen; hindwing fuscous. Widely spread through India, the islands 

 and Africa; recorded from Hongkong, China; also occurring in Japan. 



E. albomacula Leech (421). Forewing grey suffused with black brown; the veins whitish; inner line albomacula. 

 black, inwardly edged with white, outwardly with yellowish; outer line double, black, filled in with white; 

 subterminal line with the usual angulations, becoming obsolete below middle; orbicular stigma oblique, very 

 narrow, black edged witli white; reniform white, produced at lower outer end to a hook, its centre brown 

 with a black line before it; hindwing fuscous, pale at base. W. China. 



E. miracula Herz. Forewing grey brown; all the lines and markings white edged; inner line marked miracula. 

 by black streaks, inwardly oblique; outer line stronghy excurved above, starting from a bluish white costal 

 spot; subterminal white, dentate, the teeth filled up with black wedgeshaped marks; a white terminal line 

 interrupted by the veins; orbicular stigma small; reniform forming a long outwardly oblique brown rect- 

 angle, white-edged, not dentate at extremities; hindwing dark grey, with traces of a curved line. Corea. 

 Described by Herz from a single £, which he says is close to juventina Cram., but he describes the 

 antennae as filiform and ciliated. 



E. duplicans Walk. (44 e). Forewing pinkish ochreous suffused with black; the veins ochreous; inner duplicans. 

 and outer lines double, black, filled in with ochreous and outwardly margined with ochreous; the sub- 

 marginal line white, forming oblique short streaks about veins 7 and 6, angled inwards to outer line at 

 .3 and obscurely outwards to termen at 4, then obsolescent, defined by black marks beyond it; a fine 

 waved white line close before margin; orbicular stigma V-shaped, dark with white edges; reniform white, 

 oblique and narrow, the centre yellowish edged inwardly by a black line; hindwing dark brown; fringe 

 chequered, ochreous and brown. China, Corea, and Japan, and occurring throughout India; ab. rubrivena rubrivena. 

 ab. nov. from Japan has all the veins orange red, the ground colour itself also redder. 



E. repleta Walk. (44 e). Forewing olive brownish, dusted with black and some pale scales; a large replcla. 

 black costal triangle between the stigmata and another between outer and subterminal line; the veins 

 finely pale; inner line black edged on both sides with pinkish white; outer line double, black, filled in 

 with white, with a whitish line before it and a pale band with grey line on it beyond it, flexuous only, 

 not excurved; submarginal line broad, forming oblique streaks above 7 and 6, inangled to outer line 

 above 5 and strongly to termen at 4, preceded below middle by a fulvous patch, the apex also fulvous; 

 a fine silvery white lunulate line before termen; orbicular stigma an oblique oval, blackish with pale ring; 

 reniform long, oblique, its edges broadly pale, its centre yellowish; claviform stigma cloudy, black-edged, 

 touching an angulated mark of black scales; hindwing pale ochreous, suffused with brownish grey; a dark 

 cellspot and outer line. E. Siberia, Japan, Corea, China; also an Indian insect. 



E. venata Leech (44 e). Forewing pinkish grey, with much blackish irroration and suffusion; the venala. 

 veins of median area pink; inner and outer lines double, black filled in with white, the inner with a pink 

 line on outer side, the outer line with the inner arm dentate; claviform stigma defined above by an 

 oblique pink streak; orbicular oblique, oval, black at centre with a white annulus; reniform with a curved 

 pink lunule at centre inwardly black-edged, margined by an oblique white bar on each side and a striga 

 beyond lower angle of cell; subterminal line with the usual angulations, but not strongly expressed; a row 

 of white partially connected lunules before termen; the fringe mottled; hindwing dark brown. Central 

 and West China ; also occurs in India. 



E. latreillei Dup. (= quieta Tr. nee Hbn., roseitelum Walk.) (44 f). Forewing whitish, suffused latreillei. 

 with pale and dark grey, and in parts with blackish fuscous; inner and outer lines black edged with white; 

 a prominent white spot before inner line on submedian fold; stigmata dark grey, with interrupted pale 

 outlines; the reniform w'ith a white dot beyond lower outer angle; submarginal line powdery white, inter- 

 rupted by the olive or pinkish veins, and preceded by a pink wedgeshaped mark on vein 6; a lunulate 

 white line close before termen; fringe olive yellow, chequered with white; hindwing fuscous, paler towards 

 base in the £. A Central and South European species, found also in Algeria, Madeira, and the Canaries, 

 and in Asia Minor, Armenia, and Syria. — Larva redbrown, with a black dorsal triangle broadly edged 

 with yellow on each segment; lateral lines yellowy with a black spot on each segment; on Ceterach offici- 

 narum and other ferns. 



E. clava Leech (44 f). Forewing ohve brown, mixed with purplish and blackish; slight black streaks clava. 

 at base of each fold; inner and outer lines black, conversely edged with purplish; claviform outlined with 

 black; orbicular round, with a purplish annulus; reniform pink with black lines inside, with a black line 



