EUMICKTIS. 333 



Ab. 1. island'ue. More or less tiuged with reddish brown instead 

 of fuscous ; fore wing less uniform and more variegated. — Iceland, 

 Faroe Is. 



Hah. Geeexland ; Labrador ; Faroe Is. ; Iceland, Zeller Coll. ; 

 Lapland. Exp. 40 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 238 ; Hffm. Eaup. p. 96. 



Eeddish brown above, j-ellow ventrally. Food-plants : Mieraceum 

 Leontodon, &c. 5-6. 



2501. Eumichtis sepultrix. (Plate CIV. fig. 8.) 



Mamestra sejyultrix, Gueii. Noct. i. p. 200 (1852). 

 Hadena e.rpulsa, Guei:. Noct. ii. p. 9.3 (1852). 

 Hadena Intra, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 94 (1852). 

 Eiiplexia emergens, Wlk, xi. 544 (1857). 

 Eiiplexia inducilh, Wlk. xi. 545 (1857). 



S (lutra). Head and tegular red-brown mixed with dark brown, 

 the latter with slight dark medial line and dark tips ; thorax 

 fuscous brown slightlj' irrorated with white, the patagia with black 

 line near upper edge, the prothoracic crest with two white points ; 

 tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen greyish brown. Fore wing red- 

 brown suffused with fuscous and grejash, the costal and postmedial 

 areas redder ; subbasal line represented by double black strice from 

 costa and cell; antemedial line indistinctly double, oblique, slightly 

 Avaved; claviform moderate defined by black: orbicular and reniform 

 defined by black, the former elliptical and forming a lobe below the 

 cell, the latter with dark centre and white aunulus, rather con- 

 stricted at middle ; traces of a w^aved medial line ; postmedial line 

 indistinctly double, bent outwards below costa, then waved, excurved 

 to vein 4, then oblique, some white points beyond it on costa and a 

 prominent yellowish white patch between veins 7 and 5 ; sub- 

 terminal line whitish defined by brown on inner side, minutely 

 waved, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, 

 with black streaks beyond it in the interspaces and before it above 

 vein 7 ; cilia with a fine pale line at base. Hind wing reddish 

 lirown tinged with fuscous ; cilia whitish with a fuscous line 

 through them ; the underside whitish thickly irrorated with brown, 

 the terminal area suffused with brown, a discoidal luuule and 

 diffused curved somewhat dentate postmedial line. 



5 {sepultrix). Thorax and fore wing greyer and without the 

 red-brown shades. 



Ab. 1. indocilis. Head and thorax fuscous irrorated with grey ; 

 fore wing fuscous brown suffused with grey and with only slight 

 rufous tinge ; outer part of reniform white and with a large 

 obliquely-curved whitish patch beyond it between veins 7 and 2 ; a 

 whitish patch beyond postmedial line above inner margin ; hind 

 wing with whitish bar below vein 2 just before termen. 



Hah. N". S. Wales, Sydney {Raynor), 2 $ ; Victoria (Bakewell), 

 2 5 , Gisborne (Lyell), 1 5 ; Tasmania (Beaufort), 1 c? type 

 emergens (Al^jorf), 1 c? , 1 $ > (Smith), 1 j , (Douhleday), 1 $ 

 type indocilis, Hobart (J. J. Wallcer, Norman), 3 $ . Exp. 38- 

 44 millim. 



