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terminal line. Hindwings yellowish white, brownish at margin and with discal lunule reflected through. Fringes 
white. Head and collar a remarkably striking yellowish white, palpi laterally black. Persia (Kendevan Pass 
and Tacht-i-Suleiman), in the Elburz mountains, beginning to middle of July. 
E. ellisoni Bours. (26 1). Fore wings brownish, admixed with yellow, heavily marked. Both anterior ellisoni. 
transverse lines distinct. Claviform stigma only indicated, orbicular as a very small dark dot, the distinct 
reniform with pale centre and dark brown surround. Between them a well marked central shade. Posterior 
transverse line very distinct, dark brown. Postmedian area pale in inner half, forming a wide dark band in 
outer half, behind which lies the distinct subterminal line. Marginal area impure brown with blackish marginal 
streaks in the interstices of the veins. Hindwings brownish white, shaded outwardly and with an interrupted 
marginal line between veins 2 and 6. Wing expanse: 29 mm. Lebanon, from around Bescharre, in Juni and 
August. Perhaps this is only a race of the preceding species. 
E. wullschlegeli Pglr. (Vol. 3, p. 210, pi. 45 b; Suppl. Vol. 3, p. 177) — schwingenschussi Bours. (25 1) schwinyen- 
cliffers from the typical form from Zermatt by the rather more yellowish and paler general colouration and the schussi. 
more distinct and pronounced markings of lines and stigmata. Bithynia (Boli); Ak-shehir (Sultan-Dagh) in 
June and July. 
E. clavipalpis Scop. (= avicula Krul.) (Vol. 3, p. 211, pi. 45 c; Suppl. Vol. 3, p. 178). 
E. scotoptem Pglr. (Suppl. 3, p. 179). 
E. jacobsi Rothsch. ( = Miana lignea Trli.) (Suppl. Vol. 3, p. 179 and p. 160). 
E. atriluna Gn. (= angularis Trt.i.) (Vol. 3, p. 208, pi. 42 g). 
E. flava Obth. (Vol. 3, p. 209, pi. 45 a; Suppl. Vol. 3, p. 176). 
E. casearia Stgr. (Vol. 3, p. 214; Suppl. Vol. 3, p. 181). 
E. distigma Chret. (= halimi Chret.) Suppl. Vol. 3, p. 180 and 182). 
4. Subgenus: Eremodrina Bours. 
Characterised by the frequently unsymmetrical ends of valves and a thimble-shaped basal appendage. 
Type: E. vicina Stgr. 
E. vicina Stgr. (= perspicua Warr.) (Vol. 3, p. 211, pi. 45 c and 213, pi. 45 f; Suppl. Vol. 3, p. 180) 
— rosea Bours. is somewhat larger and suffused with reddish. Lebanon (Sannin). rosea. 
E. asymmetrica Bours. (= perspicua Filipj. nec Warr.) (26 h). Forewings yellowish brown with ob- asymmetrica. 
scure markings, both transverse lines just discernible. Orbicular stigma a slightly darker spot, reniform of 
usual shape, postmedian area very faintly brownish. Hindwings yellowish white, dusky at margin. $ somewhat 
darker, hindwings suffused with brownish. Wing expanse: 28 mm. Germob, from around Askhabad, in July. 
E. belucha Swinh. (Vol. 3, p. 213, pi. 45 f) (26 i). 
E. clara Schaw. (Suppl. Vol. 3, p. 180) (26 i) has hitherto been considered partly as a bermeja form clara. 
and partly as a pertinax form, but proves to be a genuine species. — barbarica Bours. (= perinax inumbrata barbarica. 
Rothsch. nec Stgr.) differs from the typical form by the yellowish brown ground colour with faint salmon pink 
hue, not whitish as in the Spanish form. Size is also considerably larger (36 mm). Algeria (Oran) in October. 
— armeniaca on the contrary is decidedly smaller and has very distinct salmon pink ground colouration, armeniaca. 
Markings are heavier, reniform stigma has several white dots in its lower half and the dark marginal band 
contrasts with the ground colour. On hindwings the dark marginal band is wider and boldly outlined from 
the white ground. Wing expanse: 32—32.5 mm. Armenia (Nachitshewan; Dzhuga near Dzhulfa on the Araxes); 
September, October. 
E. inumbrata Stgr. (Vol. 3, p. 213; Suppl. Vol. 3, p. 180). 
E. filipjevi Bours. S antennae with short fascicles of cilia only at base. Forewings yellowish, both filipjevi. 
transverse lines present. Orbicular stigma is barely indicated, claviform stigma is absent, the brownish reni¬ 
form is of usual shape. Postmedian and subterminal areas are faintly darker than the rest of the wing. Hind¬ 
wings yellowish white, faintly shaded at margin. Wing expanse: 30 mm. Kara-Tjube. S. E. of Samarkand, 
only 1 S known, captured in August. 
E. xanthorhoda Bours. (25 1). Forewings yellowish with faint rosy hue, distinct and clear anterior trans- xantliorlioda. 
verse line and central shade, barely visible orbicular and brownish reniform stigmata. Posterior transverse 
line also clear. Postmedian area widely dusky outwardly, separated from the more brownish marginal area 
by the distinct subterminal line. Fringes pale. Hindwings impure whitish, slightly shaded outwardly. Persia 
(Elburz; Demavend) in July. 
E. cxpansa Alph. (Vol. 3, p. 213; Suppl. Vol. 3, p. 178, pi. 26 i). 
