LARENTID.-E—EUPITHECIA. 33 



South-east Russia ; and it is one of the species which extend 

 to Japan. 



Genus 30. EUPITHECIA. 



Antennse simple ; p.'dpi blunt ; head smooth ; thorax 

 usually furnished with a minute tuft or crest at the back ; 

 abdomen slender and smooth, rather short ; fore wings blunt, 

 the apex rounded, the discal cell one half the length of the 

 wings ; hind wings broad, rounded behind, even at the edges, 

 veins 7 and 8 joined far down their length. 



Larvae usually rather short, without humps or excres- 

 cences, the vast majority feeding on flowers, seed-vessels, or 

 seeds. 



Pup^ short, evenly rounded, not acutely jjointed ; in rather 

 tough earthen cocoons. 



A table of this large genus of closely allied species is 

 difficult of accomplishment, but that probably is no reason 

 why it should not be attempted. 



A. Fore wings silvery grey or pale grey. 



B. Surface much divided by slender sinuous black lines. 



E. vcnosata. 

 B'-. Costa spotted, four times, with red-brown. 



E. consignata. 

 W. Surface obliquel}' striped with darker grey. 



C. Wings narrow, the stripes oblique, much angulated, 



dark and shai-ply defined. E. nmuda. 



Or. Wings broad, trigonate, the stripes numerous, as 

 rippled lines, oblique, not sharply angulated. 



E. lariciata. 



Q3. "VViiigs blunt, the stripes or lines more erect but ill- 

 defined. E. castigata. 



A-. Fore wings having the ground colour white. 



D. Having a large blue-black discal blotch. 



E. centaureata. 



