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EPIPSAMMIA; DOERRIESA; COENAGEIA; CALAML\. Bij W. Warren. 



Sect. I. Antennae of $ with pedicellate fascicles of cilia. 

 vuleria. S. vuteria Stoll (= nonagrioides Lef., hesperica Smb., incerta Walk., saochari Woll., madagascari- 



ensis Saalm.) (48 f). Forewing pinkish ochreous tinged with yellow, finely dusted with dark, becoming 

 slightly brown just before terrnen, which is marked by a deep purple-black line, beyond which the pinkish 

 grey fringe shows brightly white; a curved series of black vein spots, somewhat near outer margin, re- 

 presents the outer line; in the interval between veins 5 and 6 this series is preceded by a larger black 

 spot, and another like it lies above submedian fold below the middle of cell; hindwing pure white. The 

 species occurs in Spain, S. France, and Italy; in Morocco, Egypt, the Madeiras and the Canary Islands. 

 Larva reddish above, dull yellow beneath; a dark dorsal vessel shows through the skin; spiracles red 

 tinged with black; head brown; thoracic and anal plates shining red; feeds in the stems of maize, several 

 larvae often in one stem; the pupa state lasts for only a fortinght, and there are 2 or 3 broods during 

 the season, which probably accounts for the different size of the imagines. 



Sect. II. Antennae of $ with tuberculate fascicles of cilia. 

 inferens. S. inferens Walk. (= proscripta Walk., albiciliata Snell., tranquilaris Btlr., gracilis Btlr., innocens 



Btlr.) (48 f). Exceedingly like the preceding species, but the fringe of the forewing is silvery white. Widely 

 spread through India and the islands, and occurring in China and Japan. 



Sect. III. Antennae of $ subserrate, ciliated. 

 crelica. S. cretica Led. (= hesperica Frr. nee Bmb., cyrnaea Mab., fraterna Moore). (48 g). Forewing uni- 



form yellowish ochreous, sometimes with slight grey dusting; an outer row of vein-dots is often visible in 

 African examples, while in Syrian specimens a row of faint marginal dots is to be seen; sometimes there is 

 striata, a slight grey shade along median vein and in the terminal intervals; this is the ab. striata Stgr. Occurs 

 in Crete, Italy, Dalmatia, Corsica; Syria, Tura, and Fergana. Larva reddish yellow dorsally, grey beneath; 

 dorsal line dark, interrupted, forming triangular marks on anal segments; spiracles black; head and plates 

 yellowish; in stems of maize. 

 gracilis. S. gracilis Bbl. (48 g). Forewing yellowish white irrorated with brown, the median nervure streaked 



with brown; the veins terminally pale; fringe white; hindwing and fringe pure white. Sta. Cruz, the Canaries. 



117. Genus: Ep ipsa mini a Stgr. 



Tongue well developed; frons flatly rounded; palpi very short, long-haired beneath on both seg- 

 ments; antennae of <J filiform, pubescent; thorax smooth; abdomen slender, with the anal claspers strongly 

 developed in the $, as in A. morrisii Dale. Type Epipsammia deserticola Stgr. 

 deserticola. E. deserticola Stgr. Forewing pale yellow; marked only by a faintly expressed middle band, and 



that chiefly on inner margin, the inner and outer lines that contain it rarely visible; the termen before 

 fringe rather darker; hindwing wholly white. Taken settled on the sand of the steppes at Naruen, near 

 the Volga. A small and little marked insect. 



118. Genus: Doerriesa .stgr. 



Tongue minute, aborted; frons smooth; palpi upturned, the second segment long, towards its apex 

 fringed with scales both above and below, the third small; thorax clothed with scales, and like the ab- 

 domen without crests; forewing with apex subacute, termen oblique, nearly straight; antennae of $ (the 

 only sex known) ciliated. Type Doerriesa striata Stgr. 

 striata. D. striata Stgr. Forewing cream colour, streaked and suffused with bright brick-red and dusted 



with grey, the two folds remaining pale; veins and costal edge narrowly pale; a dark marginal shade 

 before the white fringe; hindwing white tinged with luteous. Recorded only from Ussuri, Amurland. 



119. Genus: Coenagria Stgr. 



Resembles Coenobia Stph., but the abdomen is much shorter and the frons is smooth without any 



projecting process; tongue slender and short; palpi short and thin; the antennae ($) filiform. Type C. nana Stgr. 



nana. C. nana Stgr. Forewing dirty reddish grey, with the veins, especially towards termen, darker, the 



median vein in particular being prominent; the line of outer dots is obsolete; hindwing whitish, becoming 



somewhat darker towards termen. Described by Staudinger from a single $ from E. Siberia. 



120. Genus: (a la in ia Hbn. 



Tongue well-developed; frons smooth, slightly protuberant; palpi porrect, the second segment hairy, 

 the third short; thorax and pectus woolly; thorax and abdomen without crests; antennae of <$ serrate, 

 with sessile fascicles of cilia; a small tuft of hair from base; forewing elongate; the termen more oblique 

 above anal angle; the inner margin lobed at base. Larva on low growing plants; the egg laid in autumn 

 overwintering; pupation in a slight cocoon. Type Calamia virens L. 



The genus has no connexion with the internal feeders on the reed. 

 virens. C. virens L. (48 g). Forewing pale green, without markings except a white reniform stigma, which 



is sometimes edged externally with rust colour; fringe white with the base green; hindwing of the $ 



