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ENTEPHRIA. By L. B. Prout. 
r civaria. 
juscaria. 
poliotaria. 
neurbouaria. 
nigrifascia- 
ria. 
stellata. 
argentiplum- 
bea. 
punctatis¬ 
sima. 
multicava. 
aurigutta. 
23. Genus: IDiitephrfa Him. 
(See Vol. 4, p. 234; Suppl.-Vol. 4, p. 137.) 
An essentially Palaearctic genus of chiefly mountain Larentiines, with the forewing-pattern adapted 
to the coloration of the rocks on which they rest. External characters nearly as Coenotephria, except that in 
a few species the discocellulars are not biangulate. The only scientific grounding of the genus was given by 
Chapman in 1908, who demonstrated the taxonomic value of the “juxta” and “calcar” of the <$ genitalia in 
separating this from other alpine species of similar facies; until this has been tested in all the outliers, it cannot 
be asserted that our classification of them is accurate. 
E. ravaria Led. (Vol. 4, pi. 13 n). A rather large and glossy species, distinguishable from the most similar 
Entephria by the non-biangulate discocellulars of the hindwing. The forewing has not, in any example known 
to me, such strong colour contrasts as in oitr figure. Chiefly S. Siberian, but 2 large Kashmir (Koksar and 
Rala) seem to agree well. 
E. fuscaria Leech (Suppl.-Vol. 4, pi. 13 e). A rather obscure grey species with darker basal patch and 
median band, otherwise weakly marked. Antennae broken in the unique type, but the short pieces which remain 
become strongly dentate. Hindwing with termen waved, discocellulars simple, 2nd radial arising much before 
the middle. Ta-tsien-lu. 
E. poliotaria Hmps. (Vol. 4, pi. 13 n). A true Entephria by all characters, smaller and darker than the 
Palaearctic cyanata Hbn., not so glossy as nobiliaria H.-Sch., hindwing whitish grey, with cell-dot and on the 
underside indications of postmedian line. Kashmir and Chobia. 
E. neurbouaria Oberth. (Vol. 4, pi. 9 k). Unmistakable in the bright green tint and brown markings. 
The whitish hindwing, both above and beneath, has markedly punctiform lines. By the genitalia not a true 
Entephria. Szechuan and N. Tibet, the type from Ta-tsien-lu. 
E. nigrifasciaria Leech (Vol. 4, pi. 7 i), founded on a $ from Pu-tsu-fong, has a somewhat more crenulate 
and sinuate hindwing than most Entephria. Cfrey with blackish median band and a deeply dentate blackish 
line beyond it. Antenna simple, retinaculum rather large; perhaps akin to Triphosa. 
E. stellata Warr. ( = adjrouaria Oberth.) (Vol. 4, pi. 10 i). Thorax and forewing mixed fuscous and olive- 
yellow and marked with blue-whitish, nearly all the latter markings punctiform, the lunulate sub- 
terminal nearly complete. Hindwing beneath, from cell-dot. outward, traversed by alternate brownish and 
white waved lines. Tonglo, Sikkim, 10 000 feet (loc. typ.) and through Tibet to Szechuan; also in Kashmir. 
This, too, is no true Entephria, but its actual affinities have not yet been ascertained. 
E. argentiplumbea Hmps. (Suppl.-Vol. 4, pi. 17 c). Small for an Entephria, and unusually glossy, with 
whitish hindwing, rather strongly marked on the underside. Face somewhat prominent, nearly smooth, almost 
white. Moderately variable, but not closely like any other known species. Indian Tibet, up to 12 000 feet; 
also known from Bhotan, Sikkim and Kashmir. 
E. punctatissima Warr. (27 e). Perhaps (as Elwes, in coll., suggested) near caesiata Schiff. (Vol. 4, 
pi. 9 f). Palpus longer (over 1%). Slightly rounder-winged; median band of forewing broader, bounded on each 
side by large white vein-dots; subterminal also conspicuously punctiform; the thick black pairs of terminal 
marks alternated (between the veins) with white spots. Sikkim, at high elevations; discovered on the Nepal 
frontier, 10 000—12 000 feet. E. poliotaria, which shows also a tendency towards punctiform markings, is smaller, 
more blue-grey, the median band more narrowed posteriorly, the subterminal line more continuous. 
E. multicava sp. n. (27 f). Similar to the largest, greyest punctatissima. Palpus somewhat shorter 
(scarcely 1%)- more heavily scaled. Abdomen with white dorsal spots very conspicuous. Forewing with termen 
less curved; cell-spot, somewhat enlarged; white spots in part still better developed, all the 3 rows between 
median band and subterminal well formed, the third (nearest the subterminal) much more so than in punctatis¬ 
sima, though a little irrorated with grey; 1st postmedian dark line more strongly outbent opposite the cell- 
spot; the white subterminal dots, especially the large one of cellule 3, set on well-defined black wedge-marks. 
Hindwing slightly more elaongate than in punctatissima , the cell-dot, postmedian line and subterminal shade 
well developed both above and beneath. North Burma: Adung Valley, 12 000 feet, 28 September 1931 (Lord 
Cranbrook), 1 ^ in the British Museum. 
E. aurigutta Prout, (Suppl.-Vol. 4, pi. 13 g). Only the type $ known, collected on Mount Omei at 11000 
feet; in this the areole is undivided, but in all else it seems so typically an Entephria that I suppose the venation 
to represent a “sport”. In its dark slaty-grey colouring and the development of a pale postmedian band on the 
hindwing it rivals or surpasses the darkest form of ravaria Led., or it might be likened to a dark form of flavi- 
