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with dark veins, subterminal shade and white fringes. Length of forewings: 15 mm. From the desert around 
the Lake Aral. 
18. Genus: I*ronotestra limps. 
The name of this Genus was misprinted in the Main Volume as “ Protonestra" , which is rectified here. 
P. silenides Stgr. (Vol. 3, p. 82, pi. 20 c). The illustration is not recognisable and a better figure is given silenides. 
here (13 d). — pallidior Strd. (= Hmps. ab. 1) is a paler form which occurs everywhere among the type form, pallidior. 
19. Genus: Aglossestrsi Hmps. 
A. mariae-ludovicae D. Luc. (15 a). Forewings quite pale reddish brown sparsely bestrewn with brown, mariae- 
with dentate blackish transverse lines that have wide whitish edges on averted sides. Orbicular stigma large, ladomme. 
pale with black surround; reniform stigma of same colour as the ground with white inner edge and with grey 
centre in lower half; claviform stigma large, dull blackish. Subterminal line white, sharply dentate, with inner 
dark shade and dull sagittate marks anteriorly. Fringes faintly checked. Hindwings white with greater or less 
slight grey suffusion and darker marginal band that is sometimes only visible subterminally. Algeria. 
20. Genus: ICpia Him. 
E. picturata Alph. (Vol. 3, p. 82, pi. 20 c). The species extends westwards as far as the Urals. The pidurata. 
illustration was not satisfactory and is replaced by a better one (15 a). 
E. irregularis Hfngl. (Vol. 3, p. 82, pi. 21 a). The illustration of this pretty species is much too dark irregularis 
and consequently unrecognisable. It is replaced by a better illustration here (15 a). — hellwegeri Schaw. differs hellwegeri. 
from the type in that the whitish stigmata are as yellow' brown as the ground colour. Described from Waidbruck. 
E. aberrans Ev. (Vol. 3, p. 82, pi. 20 c). The description was not quite correct, only the area between aberrans. 
the anterior transverse line and the subterminal line is rather more suffused with brown, basal and marginal 
areas are yellow-white like the thorax. 
E. nisus Germ. (Vol. 3, p. 82, pi. 21 a) is being again illustrated more satisfactorily here (13 c), the illus- nisns. 
tration in the Main Volume would not enable one to differentiate the species from II. lepida. — sancta Stgr. 
should be deleted here. It is a form of H . silenes (vide p. 102). 
E. nieildax Stgr. (Vol. 3, p. 82, pi. 20 c) is not recognisable from the illustration. A fresh figure is given mendax. 
here (15 a). 
E. mendica Stgr. (Vol. 3, p. 82, pi. 20 c). The illustration is also not satisfactory, a fresh figure of the mendica. 
species is given of a specimen from Marash (15 a). 
E. renati Obtlu. (Vol. 3, p. 83, pi. 20 d) should be removed from here as it belongs in the Genus Conisania 
(vide p. 110). 
E. silenes Him. (Vol. 3, p. 83, pi. 20 d) should also be removed from here and classified with Harmodia 
(vide p. 102). 
E. christophi Mschlr. (Vol. 3, p. 83, pi. 20 d) is a genuine Epia which has no connection with corrupta christophi. 
Herz (vide under Harmodia p. 102). The illustration in the Main Volume was not satisfactory and we are giving 
a fresh illustration of this species here (13 c). 
21. Genus: Card epia Hmps. 
C. afra Baker (Vol. 3, p. 83). We are able to give an illustration of this little known species from a aim. 
perfect specimen from Egypt in the collection of Andres (15 a). Possibly it should not be classified in the 
Genus Cardepia as it would appear to be more suitably placed under Scotogramma, but in no case should it 
be connected with stigmosa. It is easily distinguishable by the curiously coloured hindwings. 
C. irrisor Ersch. (Vol. 3, p. 83, pi. 21 b). We have to mention the form from the high plateaux of Algeria 
— subsp. mauretarsica Rothsch. (15 b) which has rather shorter and more rounded forewings with browner or maure- 
more reddish ground colour with less whitish intermixture, markings of forewings are less distinct and hind- tamca - 
wings are much less white, deserticola should be deleted as a form. 
C. deserticola Hmps. (= affinis Rothsch.) (Vol. 3, p. 83) (15 b) is a genuine species and not a form of deserticola 
irrisor. It is certainly exceedingly similar to the preceding species but can be differentiated by the shape of 
the projecting process on the frons; irrisor has a round flat process without a turned over edge, whilst deser- 
