278 [M'V, 



Underside : pearly-wliite, clouded with lilac ; the base of both 

 wings pale rufous-brown, both crossed near the outer margin by a 

 zic-zac dark brown band, and a sub-marginal band of paler brown. 

 Anterior-wing with some pale brown lines in the cell, and a lunular 

 black spot between the first and second median nervules, and a large 

 quadrate spot of the same colour between it and the inner margin. 

 Posterior-wing crossed before the middle by a rufous-brown band : 

 clouded with brown near the costal margin ; marked by three black 

 spots centred with white, with above them two spots of white, and 

 below them three pyramidal white spots : a black spot between the 

 first and second median nervules centred with white, with a white 

 spot above it ; a black spot near the anal angle, its centre white, its 

 border above rufous. 



Exp. 2to inch. Hab. Ashanti. 



This beautiful species^ is from the collection of Mr. Chapman, of 

 Glasgow. It is not nearly allied to any other, but is most like IT. 

 Anitorgis. 



Oatlands, Wcybridge : 

 April, 1877. 



DESCEIPTION OF EUPITHJECIA ALBIPUNCTATA, vae. ANGELICATA. 

 BY C. G. BABEETT. 



A very curious variety of Eupithecia alhlpunctata, Haw., has been 

 submitted to me by Mr. W. Prest, of York, and at his desire I sent it 

 to Prof. Zeller for examination. It appears that Mr. Prest had 

 the good fortune to rear five specimens of this form last May, among 

 a large number of the typical alhlpunctata. Prof. Zeller says of it : 

 " It is a melanitic monstrosity which deserves a proper name with a 

 description." At Mr. Prest's request, I therefore propose for it the 

 name of Eupithecia alhlpunctata, var. angelicata. 



Fore-wings smoky-black, with all the nervuros and the diseal spot 

 distinctly blacker, but entirely devoid of the usual faint transverse 

 lines and dots and sub-terminal line of white spots. Cilia smoky and 

 without the usual pale blotches. Hind-wings also smoky, but paler 

 at the base, nervures black. Head, thorax, and body entirely 

 smoky-black. 



If captured at large, this form would have been exceedingly 

 difficult of identification ; but it has the peculiarly broad fore-wings, 

 dilated at the anal angle, which characterize alhlpunctata and its 

 allies, and thus differs from the more narrow-winged trisignntn, to 

 which the smoothness of its coloring and the absence of dappled or 

 dotted markings gives it a superficial resemblance. Its larva feeds, 

 as in the type-form, on Angelica sylvestrls. 

 Pembroke : April, 1877. • 



