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basal segment only. Larva cylindrical, with lti feet; the first segment broader than the head: pupates in 

 the ground. Type Myctcroplus puniceayo Bsd. 



M. puniceago Bsd. (47 k). Forewing pale ochreous flushed with reddish in outer half of wing; puniceago. 

 lines double, faint; the outer arm of inner line marked by a redbrown spot on submedian fold, the outer 

 line crenulate, its inner arm marked by a dark dot above vein 5; median shade angled outwards on 

 median vein followed by a redbrown shade: submarginal line waved, pale: ab. viridicolor Krul. has the viridicolor. 

 forewing greenish and the bindwing whitish green, hindwing white. S. Russia, S. E. Roumania; Armenia, 

 Turania. Larva dull reddish yellow, mottled with red; dorsal lines obscure; lateral lines strong, red, pale 

 yellow below: head yellow: feeds on the unripe seeds of Atriplex nitens and C'henopodium polyspernium in 

 early summer, emerging in autumn. 



106. Genus: IMcycla Guen. 



Tongue developed: irons smooth: palpi upcurved, the terminal segment long, porrect; antennae 

 of j with tuberculate fascicles of cilia: thorax and abdomen without crests; abdomen of 2 with last 

 segment long and pointed, with exserted ovipositor. Larva feeding up in spring between spun together 

 leaves, pupating in a cocoon between leaves, and emerging in late summer. Type Dicycla oo L. 



D. oo L. (47 k). Forewing pale yellow, slightly dusted with ferruginous; veins and lines and out- oo. 

 lines of stigmata ferruginous: fringe mottled with the same colour; hindwing yellowish white, washed with 



grey and darker before termen; in the form ferruginago Hbn. the base and the space between outer and ferruginago. 

 submarginal lines are dark: in the ab. renago Haw. (47 k) there is a ferruginous fascia before inner line and renayo. 

 between median shade and submarginal line, united along inner margin; sulphurea Stgr. is wholly sulphur stdyhurea. 

 yellow: the ferruginous scales are sometimes replaced by grey = ab. griseago Schultz. Throughout Central griseago. 

 and Southern Europe, in Asia Minor and Persia. Larva black-brown, clotted with white; lines white; the 

 dorsal irregularly blotched: the subdorsal slender; the spiracular broad; between united oak-leaves. 



107. Genus: Enargia Hbn. 



Tongue present: frons smooth: palpi upcurved, the terminal segment erect; abdomen long, in the 2 

 with the anal segment elongate and exserted ovipositor; wings ampler than in calymnia, with similar 

 markings. Larva feeding up in spring between united leaves of various trees and shrubs, pupating in a 

 web among leaves. Type Enargia paleacea Esp. 



Sect. I. Antennae of $ bipectinate. 



E. ulicis Stgr. (47 k). Forewing reddish ochreous or ochraceous green; the inner and outer lines ulicis. 

 whitish; the two stigmata darker with pale outlines, the orbicular very small; tips of the fringe blackish; 

 sometimes a faint submarginal line is present, broken up into pale spots; hindwing in <J whitish, in $ 

 blackish, with a rosy tinge. Granada, Spain. Larva on Ulex australis in spring; the imago emerges in autumn. 



E. borjomensis Bom. (471). Forewing greyish fulvous; inner and outer lines redbrown, the former borjomensis. 

 outcurved, the latter sinuous; submarginal line pale, indicated by the dark preceding shade; reniform stigma 

 subquadrate, blackish; hindwing pale luteous grey, darker along termen. Described from a single 2 from Borjom. 



E. regina Stgr. (48 a). Forewing pale greyish red in $, deep brick red in 2; inner and outer lines con- regina. 

 versely oblique, pale, the median space between them a little darker; orbicular stigma small, brown, pale- 

 edged, sometimes obsolete: reniform large, dark brown, pale-edged; a small dark spot at base of cell; 

 submarginal line variable, waved, accompanied by small dark spots; hindwing pale reddish-grey in $, 

 fuscous in 2: the fringe reddish. Occurs in Asia Minor, Pontus and Taurus; in Algeria, and Cyprus. 

 The examples from Cyprus, — ab. deleta ab. nov., — differ from the type form in having no orbicular stigma delela. 

 or spot at base of cell, but the Algerian specimens agree with the type. 



Sect. II. q with the antennae ciliated. 



E. staudingeri Alplt. (18 k). Forewing pale luteous, dusted with grey; the veins towards termen whitish; slaudingeri. 

 lines brownish grey; the inner cloudy, ill marked; the outer excurved round cell; the two conversely 

 oblique below; subterminal obscure, indicated by a dark shade before it; stigmata very faint; hindwing 

 paler, with faint grey eellspot and outer line, beyond which the terminal area is darker. E. and W. Turkestan. 



E. paleacea Esp. (= fulvago Hbn.) (471). Forewing pale yellowish ochreous, dusted with rufous; paleacea. 

 the 2 deeper yellow than the ,-J; inner and outer lines fine, reddish-brown; median shade reddish brown, 

 more diffuse, angulated: subterminal line hardly marked; orbicular and reniform stigmata outlined with 

 reddish-brown, the lower lobe of reniform filled up with grey; a series of dark terminal spots; hindwing 

 whitish yellow: ab. angulago Haw. is deep orange instead of pale yellow: teichi Krul. (= fusca Schultz) < ^^ i B °' 

 (471) occurring in Germany and W. Russia has the space, between inner and outer lines or between median 

 and submarginal suffused with reddish grey or brown. Occurs in Britain, in North and Central Europe, 

 and in W. Siberia. Larva pale green dotted with white, the segmental incisions yellow; dorsal and sub- 



