LARENTID.E—EUPITHECIA. 69 



and has been received from Egypt. It must therefore have 

 a wider range. 



16. E. lariciata, Fn\ — Expanse 1 inch. Pore wings 

 elongated, grey-white, with numerous dark grey or grey- 

 black, rather oblique and bent, transverse stripes or lines ; 

 •discal spot rounded, black ; nervures streaked with black. 

 Hind wings very similar ; white in front. 



Antennas of the male simple, minutely ciliated, purple- 

 brown ; palpi small, rather blunt, black-brown tipped with 

 pale yellow ; face and head ashy-grey, dusted with black ; 

 thorax brown, similarly dusted ; abdomen ashy-grey much 

 dusted with black, and having black tips to the segments on 

 the dorsal ridge ; anal tuft small and compressed. Fore wings 

 rather forming a long triangle ; costa very flatly arched ; 

 apex bluntly rounded ; hind margin also curved, and the 

 dorsal margin a little filled out ; pale greyish-white dusted 

 with black ; almost all the abundant markings composed of 

 black dusting; basal, first, and two succeeding lines all 

 oblique, parallel, much angulated and bent back near the 

 costa, and all shaded off inwardly with black dusting, the 

 fourth of these embraces the discal spot, which is conspicu- 

 ously black ; beyond this, in a stripe of the pale ground 

 colour, is a central cloud of very pale fulvous ; it is followed 

 by an oblique stripe of smoky-black clouds each containing a 

 black streak, and this by the second line — a dusky slender 

 thread in a pale stripe ; hind margin more broadly filled by 

 two, still parallel, stripes of black dusting, separated by the 

 sinuous, faint, pale subtermiual line ; extreme hind margin 

 streaked with deep black ; cilia pale grey spotted with black 

 clouds. Hind wings broad, rounded behind ; the front area 

 broadly glistening, dusky white ; remaining portion pale 

 brownish-grey, repeatedly barred from the dorsal margin with 

 dark grey cloudy stripes, blackened on the nervures ; hind 

 margin edged with black streaks ; 'cilia smoky grey dashed 

 with black clouds. Female similar. 



