UROPYIA; URODONTA. By Dr. K. Grunberg. 293 



latter emerges in May or June, comes to the lamp, and rests by day about 1—2 yards above the ground on 

 the trunks of old Oaks. 



11. Genus: XJropjJa Stgr. 



Antenna in ^ with rather long pectinations to beyond middle, the apical third shortly serrate, in $ the 

 antenna setiform with very short teeth. Palpi small and thin. Proboscis vestigial. Eyes naked. Hair 

 dense and erect on irons and vertex, dense and velvety on middle of thoi'ax. Abdomen 5/3 longer than hindwing. 

 Femora and tibiae densely hairy, hind tibia only with short end-spurs. Forewing elongate, with the apex 

 pointed, the strongly oblique distal margin dentate and as long as the hind margin, with which it forms an ob- 

 tuse angle. Hindwing broadly rounded. In the forewing vems 3 and 4 rather widely separate, 6 together 

 with stalk of 7, 8, 9 and 10 from upper angle of cell or shortly stalked with them, 10 from the stalk proximal 

 to 7 and connected by a short bar with the stalk of 8, 9 at the point where 8 branches off, a small areole being 

 formed beyond the cell, 8 terminating in the apex of wing. In the hindwing veins 6 and 7 on a long stalk, 8 

 free. — Larva with oval head, which is deeply incised above in heart-shape, the incision being much deeper 

 than in Hoplitis, the body increasing in size to segment 9, the last 2 segments again thinner, on segment 1 1 

 a wart-like tubercle; anal fork similar to that of Dicranura, but much shorter. — This genus contains only 

 1 East- Asiatic species. 



U. meticulodina Oberfh. (45 a). An exceptionally beautiful species, with a bright grey-brown ground- meiicuh- 

 colour and characteristic markings. Body grey-brown, the head being somewhat reddish and the centre of *""• 

 the thorax very pronounced dark brown. Forewing grey-brown, with a number of narrow transverse stripes 

 which have pale outer edges, a longitudinal band from base to distal margin dark brown like the back of the 

 thorax, commencing at the base wdth a nearly black hindmarginal spot, being strongly widened in the centre 

 and occupying the entire marginal area from the hind angle to the costal margin. Hindwing and the whole 

 underside uniformly grey-brown. Ussuri district and Japan. — Larva green, head and thorax red-brown, 

 segment 3 laterally green, the brown colour dorsally continued backward and dilated on segments 6 and 7 side- 

 wards to the stigmata, segments 8 and 9 with narrow brown dorsal spots, 10 and 11 with a large rhomboidal dor- 

 sal patch in which there are 2^ — 3 small green spots laterally of the tubercle; anal fork red-brown; segments 

 9 — 11 brown ventrally with a light-coloured median line. July and August, on Juglans mandschurica. The 

 pupa hibernates. The moth appears to be rather rare, the larva less so. 



12. Genus: Uroilonta Stgr. 



Antennae pectinate to ^/i, the branches short in $, longer in (J, basal segment with a long projecting 

 brush of hair. Paljji moderately large, not reaching beyond the frons. Proboscis present. ' — The genus has been 

 separated on account of its characteristic antenna from Notodonta, to which it is otherwise closely allied. 

 The larva (of Urod. nlbimacula) likewise resembles those of the species of Notodonta ; it is cylindrical and bears 

 on the terminal segment a small conical tubercle whose tip is divided into 2 slight small warts. — ■ The genus 

 is restricted to Eastern Asia, and only a few specimens have been obtained of the 4 known species. 



U. albimacula Stgr. (46 c). Forewing violet-grey to black-grey, with a sharply marked white sjjot at albimacula. 

 the apex of cell extending from hind margin forward; 2 subbasal and 2 postmedian parallel transverse lines 

 black, in between them several incomplete black transverse lines and black spots, in front of the centre of the 

 hind margin a whitish spot, which is usually only distmct in ?; before the paler terminal area a rather obsoles- 

 cent, only costally sharply defined, slightly dentate white submarginal band. Hindwing brownish grey with 

 paler median band and black anal patch interrupted by several light-coloured lines. The larva (described from 

 a badly preserved specimen) is pale green with a darker or yellowish dorsal stripe and a short reddish double 

 line on the posterior half of the conical terminal tubercle. — Southern Ussuri district (Vladivostok). 



U. viridimixta Brem. (= lichen Oberth.) (46 c, as lichen). Forewing grey, strongly variegated with, viridimixia. 

 green, some markings black, at the cell-end a large white spot. Anal angle of the hindwing likewise green. — 

 Amurland and Ussuri (Askold, Suifun, Chabarovsk). The moth found early in June at Oak. Also in Japan. 



U. branicki Oberth. (46 c). Forewing brownish grey, an intensely black spot in the centre of cell and branicki. 

 another at the cell-end, between them a black transverse line which runs from the costal margin to the median 

 vein; a row of black postdiscal spots and another of submarginal ones, midway between the rows a single black 

 spot; moreover, some black dots at the costal and huid margins. Hindwing grey-brown with darker anal angle. 

 Both wings with blackish fringe-spots. ■ — Askold, Suifun, Japan. 



U. arcuata Alph. (49a). Forewing ash-grey, with sharply marked luniform, light-edged, discocellular arciiata. 

 spot and several black undulate transverse lines, of which a prediscal one and a postdiscal one are most sharply devel- 



