94 NOCTUIDiE. 



lino indistinct, dark, bent outwards bi-low costa, oblique below vein 

 4 and obsolete below vt-iii '.i ; a black streak above vein 5 and 

 short streaks above terminal parts of veins 6, 5, the veins of 

 terminal area with slight dark streaks ; a curved white mark from 

 termen at vein li to torriiis with some black beyond its upper part; 

 cilia cluMjuered fuscous and grey. Hind wing white, the veius of 

 terminal half and terminal area tinged with red-brown, in female 

 almost wholly tinged with red-brown ; a small discoidal spot ; cilia 

 white with a pale brown line near base; the miderside white, the 

 costal area sligiitly irrorated with brown. 



Ab. 1. ramostiia. Darker; fore wing with the orbicular and 

 reniform much better dctined, confluent below but not defined by 

 such a long curved streak. — Amurland. 



J/nb. 8.E, Fhanck, Leech Coll. ; Germaxy, Zeller, Frey, and 

 Leech Colls.; Austria, Leech Coll.; Hungary: Switzerland, 

 Zeller Coll.; Spain, Catalonia; X. Italt ; Amurland, Ussuri. 

 Kvj>. 32-3M millim. 



Larva. Kirbv. Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 2:>1 ; IltTm. Kaup. p. 1-J4. 

 pi. Xi. f. y. * 



Brownish yellow variegated -with whitish on dorsum and with 

 oblique black subdorsal stripes ; a lateral dark stripe. Food-plant, 

 Lonicera. 7-8. 



Genus HYPOMECIA. 



Type. 



Hypomecia, Staud. Iris, x. p. 2'.)1 ( 1897 ) quadrivirfjula . 



Pntboscis fully devoloped : palpi obliquely upturned, short, fringed with 

 hair and scjiles in front, the 3rd joint short, porrcct ; frons smooth, i-ounded : 

 ejes large, rounded ; antennae of male bipectinate, the apical part serrate ; head 

 and thorax clothed chiefly with scales : tibire fringed with long liair ; build 

 ilendcr; alxlomen without crests. Fore wing rather long and narrow; rein.H 

 y and ."> from near angle of cell ; 6 from u))per angle ; \) Iroui 10 anastomosing 

 with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Ilind wing ample-, veins 3, 4 from 

 angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; G, 7 from angle ; 

 8 anastomosing with the cell near base. 



2189. Hypomecia quadrivirgula. 



Epimecia qiiadriviraula, Mab. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1888, p. 51 ; id. ?fov. 

 Lep. p. G7, pi. li. f. 5 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 213. 



J . Head and tegulx white mixed -with brown, the latter with 

 brown line at base, two slight medial lines and more prominent line 

 before tips ; thorax fuscous mixed -with grey ; pectus and legs 

 whitish mixed with brown; abdomen white. Fore wing whitish, 

 mostly suflTused with fuscous, the costal area tinged with ochreous, 

 the veins with slight dark streaks ; an ill-defined white fascia below 

 basal half of cell irrorated with a few large black scales ; faint traces 

 of a dentate antemedial line strongly angled outwards on vein 1 ; 

 orbicular represented by a faint whitish streak with one or two 

 black scales on it, the reniform by a white point at lower angle of 



