LARENTIDJE—EUPITHECIA. 1 1 3 



a row of raised tufts on the dorsal ridge, black tipped with 

 white; anal tuft compressed and tipped with yellowish- 

 white. Fore wings broad and rather blunt ; costa evenly 

 arched ; apes bluntly rounded ; hind margin regularly curved ; 

 dorsal margin a little filled out; colour reddish-brown ; discal 

 spot small, black ; lines faint and obscure but often rather 

 blackened on the costa, the first curved, the central bent 

 round the discal spot, but both excessively faint ; the second 

 rather more noticeable, somewhat erect, bluntly angulated 

 just below the subcostal nervure ; but about all three is a 

 faint mottling of cloudy black and paler brown ; subterminal 

 line distinct, white, very irregular, and spread into a rather 

 definite spot above the anal angle ; extreme hind margin 

 edged with black streaks or triangles ; cilia blackish-brown, 

 dusted with paler. Hind wings rounded behind, and a little 

 hollowed between the nervures, glistening whitish-brown in 

 front, shading to dull brown toward the dorsal and hind 

 margins ; nervures dotted with black and white ; hind 

 margin edged with black streaks ; cilia grej--brown. Female 

 similar. 



Underside of the fore wings glistening pale grey-brown ; 

 nervures rather darker ; costa clouded with black-brown, and 

 having two smoky-black cloudy spots, one before, the other 

 beyond the black discal spot ; a small cloud of brownish- 

 white lies at the apex. Hind wings smoky-white, dusted 

 with brown ; central spot small, black, followed by a slender 

 brown transverse line ; a small simUar cloudy band lies 

 along the hind margin. Body and legs brown. 



Variable in general colour from light bright brown to dull 

 blackish umbreous ; also in the distinctness of the markings, 

 which in occasional specimens present all the usual lines 

 •with tolerable distinctness, decidedly blackened on the costa, 

 and in some cases forming a fairly marked central band to 

 the fore wings. 



On the wing in ^laj" and June, and as a second generation 

 in August. 



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