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tescens Scholia the white bands are abbreviated, one or the other not reaching the margins ; — in confluens Schultz oblitescens. 

 the white bands are either connected laterally by a cross streak or are approximated to form one complete or semi- confluens. 

 complete broad white band; these last two forms are from Silesia; I have seen nothing like this development 

 in British specimens. A local species occuring in Britain, throughout Europe, in Armenia, Central Asia, Amur- 

 land, and Japan. Larva yellow green; dorsal line darker; subdorsal lines yellow; head green; feeds on Carex. 



E. obliqua Moore (52 f ). Forewing cupreous olive brown, except the basal area, which is pale varied obliqua. 

 with brown and pink scales, limited by a line from costa oblique inwards; the dark area is traversed by an oblique 

 white band from costa beyond middle to near anal angle ; fringe brown ; hindwing fuscous, with the base paler. 

 Occurs in Kashmir, as well as in N. India and Burma. 



E. tripartita Leech (52 e). Forewing olive-brown, suffused, except at costa, with smoky black; a broad tripartita. 

 white band a little before middle of wing, constricted in submedian fold, its upper half quadrate, with a brown 

 costal streak in middle and dark cellspot, the lower half triangular; subterminal line marked by a white bar 

 at costa; hindwing olive fuscous. Described from a $ from Chow-pin-sa, W. China. 



E. candidula Schiff. (= pusilla View.) (52 f). Forewing white; lines double, black, filled in with white; candidula. 

 the inner preceded by brown patches on costa and inner margin, and followed below middle by ochreous brown; 

 orbicular stigma shown by two obliquely placed black dots ; reniform blue grey, obscurely edged, by white dots and 

 black spots, placed on a large semicircular dark costal patch; subterminal line white, marked by slight dark 

 shades on each side, preceded by short black streaks between veins 8 and 5; some terminal black striae; fringe 

 mettled brown and white; hindwing white washed with pale brown, darkest along termen; a faint cellspot, 

 outer line, and subterminal shade. A species of wide distribution; in Europe found in France, Germany, Austria, 

 Scandinavia, and Russia, — Livonia and Sarepta; in Asia in Armenia, Asia Minor, Persia, W. Turkestan, 

 W. and E. Siberia, Mongolia, Japan, and Corea. Larva green; the dorsal and subdorsal lines black; lateral 

 lines whitish; feeding on grasses and Sparganium. 



E. magna Leech (52 f). Forewing pale olive brown; basal half of wing clearer white than in M. signi- magna, 

 fera, without any black subbasal speck; the reniform stigma has no black spot beyond it ; the outer line denticu- 

 late and edged with white, uniting the blotches on costa and inner margin; submarginal line obscure, with 

 some black markings at costa and middle ; hindwing grey. Described from a single $ from Ta-chien-lu, W. China. 



E. culta Btlr. (52 f). Forewing dull olive in median fascia and costal half of praesubmarginal shade, culta. 

 sometimes also in basal area; the costal and terminal areas and the course of the lines pale pinkish; the outer 

 line olive, strongly dentate at middle, containing an oblique black kite-shaped blotch immediately beyond 

 reniform stigma; fringe pinkish grey beyond a row of dark terminal lunules; hindwing olive fuscous. Yoko- 

 hama, Japan. 



E. costimacula Oberth. (52 k). Forewing pale lavender grey, freckled with brown ; a small deep brown triangle costimacula. 

 on costa before inner line and a larger one before outer, including at its apex the black mamilliform reniform 

 stigma; the inner and outer lines whitish; the outer strongly excurved below costa and incurved below middle; 

 subterminal line a row of dark spots in the intervals; hindwing dark grey; the forms from China and Japan 

 differ considerably both from costimacula and from each other; in subsp. serica subsp. nov. from Ichang the outer serica. 

 line is dark with pale edge, more squarely outbent above middle and not strongly incurved below; while in the 

 examples from Yokohama, Japan, subsp. japonica subsp. nov. (52 f), the outer line is indented beyond cell japonica. 

 and the costal area and both folds are white. The type of costimacula was from Ussuri, E. Siberia. 



E. noloides Btlr. (52 f). Forewing white with brown irroration; a triangular brownish patch on costa noloides. 

 before middle; inner line inwardly oblique, angled outwards in cell; outer line white-edged externally; the 

 median area brown except a small patch beyond upper angle of cell; two black points on discocellular with 

 slight white rings ; subterminal line white preceded by a slight brown shade following 3 brown patches, at costa, 

 middle, and inner margin; termen brown with a series of black spots ending in white terminal striae; hindwing 

 white tinged with brownish. Japan. 



E. tegulata Btlr. (52 f). Forewing pure white; costal edge black towards base; a black dot in cell near tegulata. 

 base; a vertical wavy black median line, forming the inner edge of a broad black band widening below; an irre- 

 gularly triangular blotch on termen from apex to tornus, the apex of which touches the median band on the 

 submedian fold ; fringe black brown ; hindwing white tinged with pale brown, especially along termen. An Indian 

 insect, recorded from Foo-chau, C. China. 



30. Genus : Eulocastra Btlr. 

 Tongue fully developed; frons smooth; palpi upcurved, smooth, the third segment short; antennae 



