•204 EHABINOPTEEYX; EPIMECIA; PEEGANA; STILBIA. Bg W. Warren. 



■with olive brown, the costal space between them dark brown; only the outer line represented, purple 

 brown, finely lunulate-dentate, followed by slight pinkish suffusion towards inner margin, below vein 1 

 continued to near base as two thick purple-brown lines with pinkish white between them; a black mar- 

 ginal line preceded by a bright white line, and this again by a deep olive brown shading broader at anal 

 angle and marked with white on vein 1 and below it; fringe brown with a broad dark middle line; hind- 

 wing whitish washed with olive brow; a darker cellspot, outer line, and terminal shade ending in a pale 

 pinkish band with olive spots. Amurland, China, Corea, Japan. 



61. Genus: Rhabinopteryx Christ. 



Tongue present; frons prominently rounded, with corneous plate below it; palpi obliquely upturned, 

 third segment small; antennae of $ lamellate, with a tuft of hair at base; vestiture squamous; thorax and 

 abdomen without crests, slender; forewing long and narrow; the termen in both wings non-crenulate ; hind- 

 wing with veins 6, 7 shortly stalked. Type Bhabinopteryx turanica Ersch. 



luranica. R. turanica Ersch. (42 d). Forewing whitish overlaid with pale grey brown; a white streak in basal 



half of both folds, the fold itself black; lines indistinct, represented by double series of black dots; a row 

 of black and white spots representing subterminal and terminal lines; reniform stigma only present, white 

 with a dark curved centre; fringe white, interlined and chequered with blackish; hindwing white, the 

 terminal line and the veins dark. Found in several localities in W. and E. Turkestan. 



subtilis. R. subtilis Mab. (42 d, e). Closely resembling turanica, but without the reniform stigma, its place 



being taken by a whitish streak in outer half of cell; the hindwing tinged with fuscous. Biskra, Algeria. 



62. Genus: Epimecia Guen. 



Differs from Bhabinopteryx in the antennae having no tuft of hair at base; the palpi more porrect, 

 the second segment well-haired below; in the hindwing veins 6, 7 are shortly stalked; vein 8 anastomoses 

 with the cell to middle. Type Epimecia ustula Err. 



ustula. E. ustula Err. (= lurida Tr., ustulata Hbn.-G.) (42 e). Forewing dull greyish brown, the veins 



marked with black scales; a white streak in basal half of cell, and an oblique pale streak from apex 

 through upper part of cell; no distinct stigmata, their places being taken by white marks on median vein; 

 lines represented by rows of black dots; the subterminal by a row of slight dark spots ending in a pale 

 suffusion on submedian fold; hindwing white, the veins brownish. Occurs only in South Europe, Spain, 

 France, Dalmatia, the Tyrol, Hungary, Bulgaria and S. Eussia. — Larva green, with yellowish white 

 dorsal and subdorsal lines; feeding on Scabiosa leucantha, pupating in a thick parchmentlike cocoon. 



63. Genus: Fergana Stgr. 



Agrees with Epimecia in the neuration of the hindwing, the costal vein anastomosing with the cell 

 for half its length; but the antennae of the $ are ciliated; the palpi are shorter and the frons smoothly 

 scaled, like the tibiae. Type Fergana oreophila Stgr. 



oreophila. F. oreophila Stgr. (42 e). Forewing pale ochreous grey, suffused with grey brown, except in the 



costal area beyond' middle; inner and outer lines whitish; the first oblique outwards to submedian fold, 

 there sharply bent and oblique inwards; the second bent strongly outwards below costa, then obliquely 

 waved and straight inwards; submarginal line whitish, dentate; a row of black terminal dashes edged with 

 white; stigmata with pale annuli; the orbicular narrow and oblique, the reniform strongly angled jnwards; 

 hindwing whitish tinged with brown, except along inner area. Occurs only in W. Turkestan. 



64. Genus: Stilbia Stph. 



Agrees structurally with Fergana; differs only in the denser, smoother scaling of the forewing; the 

 apex of which is much less produced and the termen more vertical; the larva feeds on grasses. Type 

 Stilbia anomala Haw. 



anomala. S. anomala Haic. ( = hybridata Hbn., stagnicola Tr., anomalata Stph., insularis Fuchs) (42 e). 



Forewing grey, shining; the costa suffused with dark fuscous; inner and outer lines double, blackish, 



