394 EREMONOMA. By W. Warren. 



excurved above middle, indented on submedian fold, where it forms a large black lunule; orbicular stigma 

 oblique, oval, pale brown in a white ring; reniform large, trilobate, olive fuscous with white outline; subter- 

 minal line preceded by a series of black wedge shaped markings, alternating with others lilac grey; terminal 

 area brownish grey; fringe white, with dark triangles in basal half and brown spaces in outer half beyond 

 each fold; hind-wing as in hueberi, but the white spot in terminal border enlarged into a large tooth, with 

 two or three smaller ones above it. Transcaspia. 



eremophila. A. eremophila Rbl. (701). Forewing whitish, more or less washed with olive ochreous; inner and outer 



lines black, indistinct, except below middle, where they approx'mate and are conjoined on submedian fold; 

 subterminal line white preceded by black wedge shaped marks; a clear space of white ground colour from 

 costa to middle beyond outer line; terminal line black; fringe white, with a brown middle line; hindwing 

 white; cellspot round, fuscous; terminal border black, with a tridentate white blotch of which the middle 

 tooth, between veins 3 and 4, is longest. Syria and Algeria. 



elio. A. clio Stgr. (701). Differs from dentata in the basal area and space between outer and subterminal 



lines being lilac grey dusted with brown ; inner and outer lines brown, becoming black below middle, conversely 

 edged with white; the median space filled in with fuscous brown, except the narrow space between reniform 

 stigma and outer line, which is white; orbicular stigma pale, round, rarely distinct; reniform oblong, with 

 dark outline, also obscure; subterininal line pale, interrupted, preceded by a dark fuscous shade containing 

 indistinct black marks; terminal area brownish grey ; fringe white flecked with black ; hindwing as in hueberi. 

 Transcaspia. 



secunda. A. secunda Ersch. (701). Forewing olive grey brown; inner line black, vertically waved, broadly 



edged with white internally; outer line widely outcurved round cell and indented on submedian interval, out- 

 wardly edged with white; the median area somewhat darker; orbicular stigma round and large, white with an 

 ochreous centre; reniform large, white, with black lunule internally; subterminal line white, preceded by some 

 black scaling, indented strongly on the two folds; fringe white chequered with grey; hindwing grey brown 

 with dark discal bar and outer curved line, with darker terminal border. A smaller species, from Transcaspia. 



Sect. IV. Frons produced as a pointed beak, with a tridentate edge in 

 front below. 



kisilkwnen- A. kisilkumensis Ersch. (70 1). Forewing bone colour stained with pale brown ; inner line black, straight ; 



SiS- outer line pale brown, obscure, excurved above, enclosing a small pale space beyond the reniform, and mark- 

 ed with black below middle; stigmata, which are black edged, the orbicular round, and median area leaden 

 fuscous, the submedian fold marked with ferruginous; a dark band between outer and subterminal lines; fringe 

 grey; hindwing bone colour suffused with fuscous; a darker cellspot and fuscous border; fringe bone colour, 

 with a grey patch below middle; underside pale ochreous, the forewing with a large, the hindwing with a 

 narrow, black cellmark; head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous; face brownish grey. Transcaspia. 



limaia. A. limata Christ. ( ? = elongata B.-Haas) (70 1). Forewing brown in basal third, limited by the oblique 



black, outwardly white edged inner line; outer line finely black, lunulate dentate, incurved below 4, approach- 

 ing inner line on inner margin ; median area leaden bluish with paler scales intermixed ; reniform stigma 

 a black lunule edged with ochreous, followed by a tawny grey patch ; the outer line is edged with pale brown; 

 terminal area slaty fuscous, darker before the powdery subtermmal line; fringe dark and light grey; hind- 

 wing brownish luteous, with broad diffusely edged fuscous terminal border and dark cell spot; fringe white; 

 in the $ the basal area is blackish, the patch beyond cell greyish white; in the hindwing the pale basal area 

 is ampler in $ than in $. Transcaspia. The antennae of the $ are shortly ciliated. 



60. Genus: Eremouoma gen. nov. 



Tongue present; frons flat; palpi upbent, the third segment as long as second, bent forwards at 

 an angle and broadening at apex. Antennae of £ long, with very fine sessile fascicles of cilia; thorax and 

 dorsum smoothly scaled; foretiblae with 5 or 6 spines, one long; midtibiae with tuft of spinous hairs at top. 

 Type E. straminea Bang-Haas. 



