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EUPQ@CILIA THULEANA: A MICRO-LEPIDOPTERON 
NEW TO SCIENCE. 
Expanse 53 to 6 lines. Head and palpi straw-coloured. 
Thorax and patagia somewhat darker and interspersed with 
gray. Fore wings glossy, tawny fuscous. An elbowed whitish 
line extends from the costa at the junction of the middle and 
outer thirds to the anal angle. Apex and hind margin dark 
brown. From the hind margin four dark dashes run towards 
the elbowed line; fringes fulvous. Costa straight, and apex 
pointed. Hind wings dark gray, paler towards the base; fringes 
whitish gray. The sexes are similar, and the species is constant 
in colour and markings. The wings are rather more pointed 
than shown in plate 4, fig. 3. . 
This distinct and interesting addition was discovered by 
Mr. Meek’s collector in the month of June last, in the Shetland 
Isles. .It inhabits the rocky coast of the island called the 
“Mainland,” and flies along the face of the cliffs in the most 
inaccessible places, and consequently its capture is attended with 
great difficulty and danger. 
I should place H. Thuleana between EL. affinitana and FE. flavi- 
ciliana in Wilkinson’s arrangement of the British Tortrices. 
HowarpD VAUGHAN. 
55, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, October 10, 1880. 
LEPIDOPTERA OF THE SHETLAND ISLES. 
DESCRIPTION OF PLATES. 
PLATE 3. 
Figs. 1, 3, 5, 7 & 10.—Males of Hepialus hwmuli var. Hethlandica, with 
dark posterior wings. Figs. 7 & 10 represent males with the brown anterior 
wings of the females. 
Figs. 2, 4, 6 & 8.—Males with light posterior wings. 
Figs. 9, 11 & 12.—Females of Hepialus hwmuli var. Hethlandica. 
PLATE 4. 
Figs. 1, 2.—Scoparia alpina, male ; Fig. 8.—Camptogramma bilineata. 
and female; varieties. Fig. 9.—Coremia munitata. 
Fig. 5.— Hupecilia Thuleana, | Figs. 10,11.—Melanippe montanata 
Vaughan. var. Shetlandica, Weiv. 
Figs. 4, 5.—EHmmelesia albulata | Figs. 12,13.—Dianthecia conspersa. 
var. Thules, Weir. Figs. 14, 15.—Pachnobiahyperborea. 
Fig. 6.—Melanippe fluctuata. Figs. 16,17.—Hepialus velleda, male 
Fig. 7.—Eupithecia venosata. and female. 
