108 LEPIDOPTERA. 



Although there can be no shade of doubt respectino; the 



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occurrence of this species here, the perfect insects have not as 

 yet made their appearance. But from continental types 

 kindly lent to me by Mr. Crewe I am enabled to mention a 

 few of the distinguishing marks of this pug. Both Mr. 

 Crewe and Mr. Doubleday place it in the group " L." of M. 

 Guenee (it was quite unknown when M. Guenee's book was 

 written), between Eup. absijnthiata and Eup. luinutcJa, but 

 it may readily be distinguished fi-om either, or from any other 

 of its more nearly allied congeners, by the less smooth and 

 silky appearance of the fore-wings; the less rounded apex of 

 the wing; the much fainter, almost obsolete, costal markings; 

 the less conspicuously pale patch formed by the expansion of 

 the subterminal line near the anal angle ; the rounder and 

 less distinct form of the discal dot; and by the paler ground 

 colour, especially towards the base, of the hind-wings, which 

 indeed bear a much greater resemblance to those o^ Eup. 

 pimpinellata, Treit., but the fore-wings of the latter species 

 V excepting in the want of silky lustre) differ from those of 

 Eup. campanulata, even more than the members of the ah- 

 syntkiata group. Eup. campanulata slightly resembles 

 also in some points Eup. sulmotata. Dr. Staudinger in his 

 " Catalogue of European Lepidoptera" places this insect 

 between dodoneatay Gn., and tripunctai'ia, H.-S. — but it 

 would seem to be a far more natural arrangement to fix its 

 ordinal position after Eup. suhnotata, and thus form a connect- 

 ing link between that species and group *' L." of M. Guenee, 

 more especially as Eup. vulrjata, the first of the group, 

 differs from its near aUies in wanting the smooth silky surface 

 of the fore-w^ing. A description of the larva and pupa is 

 given Zool. p. 9260 — Ent. Mo. Mag. vol. i. p. 142 — and 

 also in this present '' Annual," in each case from the pen of 

 the Rev. H. Harpur Crewe. 



