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Bomhyx punctigera, Freyer, Neue Beitr. ii. p. 76, pi. 140. f . J c (1834). 

 Kmydia Candida, Herr.-Schaff. Schmett. Eur. ii. ff. 75-78 (1846J. 

 FAiprepia inquinata, Eamb. Oat. Lep. And. p. 223 (1866). 



Head and thorax white ; palpi, frons, and branches of antennae 

 blackish ; tcgulae and patagia with black spots ; legs streaked with 

 black ; abdomen white, the terminal half tinged with yellow and the 

 base with brown ; dorsal, lateral, and ventral series of blackish spots. 

 Fore wing white irrorated with black ; the costal edge blackish ; 

 two siibbasal blackish points ; a curved antemedial series of five 

 small diffused spots ; two medial series of six or seven spots ; two 

 discoidal points ; a subterminal series of nine short streaks and a 

 terminal series of points. Hind wing brown, the cilia white. 

 Underside of fore wing brown. 



Fig. 116. — Eiqjrepia cribraria, cf. t- 



Ab. 1. ripperti. Fore wing suffused with black-brown. 



Ab. 2. bifasciata. Fore wing with the first of the two medial series 

 of spots absent. — Corsica. 



Ab. 3. punctigera. Fore wing with the spots much reduced ;. hind 

 wing largely white on inner half. 



Ab. 4. Candida. Fore wing with the discoidal and sometimes a few 

 terminal spots only. 



Ab. 5. Head with the vertex yellow, fore wing with few or no 

 s])ots. (a) chrysocepliala : fore wing white. (6) inquinata : fore wing 

 yellowish white. 



Hab, EiJKOPE except polar region, Britain, France, Germany, 

 Zeller Coll., Switzerland, Italy, Frey Coll., Spain, Dalmatia, C.Russia, 

 Urals ; Mogador (Leech) ; Aj^geria ; Asia Minor. E.vp. 32-44: 

 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brif.. Lep. pi 38 ; Barrett), Lep. Brit. ii. p. 240, pi. 69. f. 2. 



Brown ; tubercles black ; hairs black and whitish ; dorsal line 

 pale or whitish,, subdorsal line sometimes- whitish ; head dark brown* 

 Food-plants,, grasses. Erica, etc. 8-2, 



Genus HELIACTINIDIA,. nov. 



Type, H. chiguinda. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect to just beyond frons ; antennge of 

 male bipectinate with moderate branches ; build slender ; tibiae with the spurs 

 moderate. Fore wing with vein 3 from long before angle of cell; 5 from above 

 nngle ; 6 from below upper angle ; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked, 7 from before 10; 11 

 from cell. Hind wing with vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 5 from above 

 angle ; 6, 7 stalked ; 8 from before middle of cell. 



