. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. EUFKEPIA.— 205 Bomhi/x punctifjrra, Frever, Neiie Beitr. ii. p. 76, pi. 140. f. 1 c (1834). J'Jmi/dia Candida, Sclniiett. Eur. ii. ff. IH-IS (1843;. Euprepia inquinafa, Eatiib. Cat. Lep. And. p. 223 (18(56). Head and thorax white ; palpi, frons, and branches of antennic 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 spots. I'ore wing white irro
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. EUFKEPIA.— 205 Bomhi/x punctifjrra, Frever, Neiie Beitr. ii. p. 76, pi. 140. f. 1 c (1834). J'Jmi/dia Candida, Sclniiett. Eur. ii. ff. IH-IS (1843;. Euprepia inquinafa, Eatiib. Cat. Lep. And. p. 223 (18(56). Head and thorax white ; palpi, frons, and branches of antennic 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 spots. I'ore wing white irrorated with black ; the costal edge blackish ; two subbasal 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 Fig. 116.—Euprepia cribraria, cJ". \^ 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. Ah. 3. jnmciigera. 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 j-ellow, fore wing with few or no spots, (a) chriisocepliala : fore wing white. (6) inqiihiata : fore wing yellowish white. Hah. Europe except polar region, Britain, France, German}-, Zeller Coll., Switzerland, Ital}', Frey Coll., Spain, Dalmatia, , Urals; Mogador (^Leech); Algeria ; Asia Minor. '32-44: millim. Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 38; Barrett, Lep. Brit. ii. p. 240, pi. GO. 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. chicpdnda. Probosois fully developed ;
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