LARENTJD.-E—EUPITHECIA. 1 1 1 



very minute whitish tufts ; canal tuft depressed and drawn 

 tightly together. Fore wings moderately broad and rounded ; 

 costa flatly arched ; apex bluntly rounded ; hind mai-giu also 

 well curved but not very oblique ; dorsal margin rather full ; 

 colour reddish-brown ; discal spot intensely black, erect and 

 rather large ; all other markings very faint ; basal, first, and 

 central lines so slightly indicated as not to be recognisable 

 except by small brown dots on nervures and blackish streaks 

 on the costa, but the latter is clouded throughout with 

 blackish shades and faint lines, among which these are 

 obscured ; median nervure faintlj- dotted to the middle with 

 black ; second line like the rest, but rather more distinctly 

 indicated by a row of minute faint blackish wedges ; sub- 

 terminal line brownish-white, very irregular and sinuous, 

 nowhere white or distinct ; hind marginal space oirtside it 

 shaded with darker brown, and the margin edged with black 

 streaks : cilia shining grey-brown. Hind wings greyish- 

 white, but the doisal half and hinder region to the middle 

 rippled all over with transverse grey-brown lines and clouds. 

 darkest, and dotted with black, in the dorsal portion ; margin 

 edged with black streaks ; cilia shining grey-brown. Female 

 similar. 



Underside of the fore wings smoky whitish-brown, rather 

 glossy ; costa whiter ; discal spot black ; beyond are two 

 transverse rippled brown lines. Hind wings white ; central 

 spot black ; also followed by two slender curved transverse 

 brown lines. Body and legs brown. 



On the wing in July. 



Larva rather short and thick ; head dingy brown or black ; 

 ground colour light ochreous-brown ; dorsal lines deep brown 

 or black, intersecting and uniting a chain of very strongly 

 defined black or deep brown lozenge-shaped spots placed in 

 the middle of each segment ; subdorsal lines slender and 

 faint, blackish or deep brown ; spiracular and ventral lines 

 dingy black or brown : dorsal spots confluent on the anterior 



