14 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



EPUNDA LUTULENTA AND ITS VARIETIES. 

 By W. F. de V. Kane. 



Several variations of this insect are described by Guenee 

 and Herrich-Schaffer, none of which seem to me to correspond 

 to the dark brown form taken in Scotland ; in Galway, by Mr. 

 More ; and in Sligo, by Mr. Euss. This passes I find under the 

 name of luneburgensis, but I think erroneously ; and, if I am 

 correct, it should be described and named as a distinct variety, 

 being constant in coloration, and not confined to either sex or 

 locality. 



E. lutulenta (W. V.) is given as follows : — Of a dark sooty 

 gray, with pencillings scarcely visible, and only the reniform 

 streak and sublateral line somewhat better marked, and joined 

 to shadings of somewhat warm brown. The female darker, with 

 hind wings of a uniform dusky colour. This I take to be pretty 

 much the English normal type of E. lutulenta. 



Guenee describes three varieties as follows : — 



Consimilis (St.), female var. — Of paler gray, but with pencil- 

 lings as slightly marked. 



Lutulenta, Hub., female var. — Of a gray mouse-colour, with 

 the two median lines very slenderly, but distinctly, marked in 

 black, the sublateral being more strongly marked. Hind wings 

 white to the centre, with a median line scarcely visible above, but 

 on under side a well-marked lunule opposite the cellule. South 

 France. 



Sedi, male and female (Bdv. in lift.). — Of ash-coloured gray, 

 with deeper median band ; all the lines well marked, duplicate, 

 bordered with warm brown. The stigmata clearer, but the lower 

 portion of the reniform shaded blackish. The hind wings of 

 female of lighter hue than in the type, with traces of a median 

 line. Central and South France. 



Guenee states that he has never seen var. luneburgensis, but, 

 "judging from the figures of Herrich-Schaffer, considers it to 

 approximate closely to our form," i. e., I presume that of 

 E. lutulenta (W. V.). 



On reference to the illustrations in question, it will be seen 

 that the two female (?) insects are represented of different shades 



