EPUNDA LUTULENTA AND ITS VARIETIES. 15 



of brown, with all the lines drawn broadly in a paler tint, as also 

 the outline of the stigmata. Hind wings of both darkly shaded. 

 In fact the darker specimen reminds one strongly of Luperina 

 cespitis in general colour and manner of pencilling. 



The female (?) var. of H.-Schaffer, neither in depth of colour, 

 marking, nor in being confined to one sex(?) seems to correspond 

 to the Scotch and Irish insects to which I refer. 



Staudinger's short description of the two varieties tallies with 

 the above, and more forcibly illustrates the dissimilarity I allege 

 to exist : — 



"Ab. et var. hmeburgensis (Fit., H.-S., Gn.). — Nigricans, 

 fasciis distinct, albis." 



" Ab. et var. sedi (Gn.), lutulenta (Dup., iii., 18, 1). — Omnino 

 cinerascens. fasciis distinct, nigris." 



In the Doubleday European collection there is a dark ashy 

 gray variety, with blackish and light gray delineation, marked 

 " hmeburgensis ; " and in the fine cabinet of Mr. Tugwell, of 

 Greenwich, there are two Scotch specimens, one of which is 

 a dark ash-coloured gray, with sepia brown lines and markings 

 distinctly traced, and not very narrow, bordered with paler 

 shading. Orbicular distinct, of pale area on darker ground. 

 Reniform only partly traceable. 



The above description I wrote down when examining the 

 specimen, and it will be seen to correspond prett}' nearly with 

 Guenee's sedi. 



The other is the dark brown form, which occurs in the West 

 of Ireland also, and is exactly identical. It may be roughly 

 described as having the exact coloration of E. nigra, i. e., a deep 

 sepia brown- black, with (as in E. nigra) pencilling^ indicated, not 

 in colour, but in the glossy texture of the wing. I have seen both 

 male and female of this variety, the hind wings of the latter being 

 dusky. In fact, the insect seems only distinguishable from 

 E. nigra by the antennas of the male, and the dentation of the 

 sublateral line on the fore wings of both sexes. 

 Sloperton Lodge, Kingstown, Co. Dublin. 



