LARENTID.-E—EUPITHECIA. 5$ 



transverse slender grey or grey-brown lines ; margins softly 

 clouded with grey; discal spot a small black dot. Hind 

 wings white with grey marginal clouding and lines. 



Antennas ef the male simple, faintly ciliated, black-brown; 

 paljji short and blunt, greyish-white clouded with black; 

 head greyish-white, spotted before and behind the antennae 

 with black ; neck-ridge and thorax brownish-white, dotted 

 with grey ; a dark brown shade lying across the back of the 

 collar; abdomen white, much shaded with f)al6 brownish- 

 grey ; apical tuft long, pointed. Fore wings narrow and 

 rather elongated ; costa very gently and flatly curved ; apes 

 rounded ; hind margin long and gently curved, as also is the 

 dorsal margin ; white, rippled all over with grey and grey- 

 brown lines ; basal line oblique, angulated, dark grey, enclos- 

 ing a grey-brown shade on the costa; first line triple, oblique, 

 grey, preceded by a parallel grey-brown shade ; after a short 

 interval commences a series of fine, rather more erect, angu- 

 lated and much rippled grey lines, the first of which embraces 

 the black discal spot, and all bend back to the costa ; before 

 these is often another grey shade ; a soft grey-brown cloud 

 lies along the costal area ; apical region occupied by a large 

 slate-grey spot or cloud which after being penetrated deeply 

 by a white angle, spreads again along the hind margin and 

 is^there divided by the slender rippled white subterminal line ; 

 extreme hind margin edged by alternate white dots and black 

 streaks ; cilia slate-grey. Hind wings rather broad, rounded 

 behind, white; central spot small, black; dorsal half of the 

 wing from the base dotted with grey-black ; along the hind 

 margin are two dotted and clouded lines of the same colour ; 

 extreme hind mare-ln edsed with short black streaks ; cilia 

 greyish-white. Female similar. 



Underside of the fore wings shining pale smoke-colour ; 

 costa shaded, and beyond the middle barred, with darker ; 

 hind margin broadly clouded with the same colour through 

 which the white subterminal line is faintly visible. Hind 

 wings white, dotted and dusted on the nervures and margins 



