436 NOCTUID.K. 



brown ; the underside i)ale thickly iirorated with brown, a small 

 discoid.il sjiot and sinuous postmedial line. 



2 . Head, thorax, and fore wing with the ground-colour ochreous 

 brown to briglit rufous. 



Jlab. Japan, Yokohama (Pn/er), 2^,2$, type. Ux^). 36 millim. 



Genus EUPSILIA. „, 



lype. 



Eupsilia, Hiibn. Verz. p. 231 (1827) salcllitia. 



Scopclosoma. Curt. Brit. Ent. pi. (>;35 (1836) satcllitia. 



Mecoptcra, Giicn. Anu. Sof. Ent. Fr. vi. p. 225 (1837) fa/el/Uia. 



Proboscis fully cleTeloped ; palpi porrect, not extending beyond the large 

 frontal tuft and fringed with long hair below ; frons smooth ; ejes large, 

 rounded; antenna- of male with fasciculate cilia; head and thorax clothed 

 with hair only, the tegultr produced to a slight dor.*al ridge, theprothorax with 

 triangular crest; pectus clothed with long hair; abdomen dorsally flattened, 

 with some routrh hair at base and lateral fringes of hair but without dorsal 

 crests. Fore wing with the termen and cilia strongly crenulate; veins 3 and 

 n from near angle of cell; G from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 

 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3. 4 from ansle 

 of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discccellulars; 6, 7 from upper angle; 

 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



A. Fore wing with the postmedial line bent outwards below 



co.'ita and incurved below vein 4. 



a. Fore wing with the postmedial line excurved at discal 



fold, the discoidal white spots large tripunctata. 



b. Fore wing with the postmedial line incurved at discal 



fold satcUitia. i 



B. Fore wing with the postmedial line incurved from costa ~ 



to inner margin. 

 a. Fore wing with the subterminal line dentate between 



veins 7 and 2 quadrilinea. 



h. Fore wing with the .subterminal line incurved between 



veins 7 and 2 strigifcra. 



2641. Eupsilia tripimctata. (Plate CVII. fig. 27.) 



Eupsilia iripunctata, Butl. A. M. X. H. (5) i. p. 168 (1878) ; id. 111. Het. 

 B. M. ii. p. 30, pi. 30. f. 9 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 210. 



Head and thorax grey irrorated with red-brown ; tegulte with 

 rufous line uear tips ; abdomen grey irrorated with brown and 

 slightly tinged with rufous. Fore wing violaceous grey irrorated 

 with red-brown, some red-brown suffusion near end of cell; sub- 

 basal line fine, red-brown, from costa to snbmedian fold ; antemedial 

 line fine, red-brown, slightly sinuous and almost erect; medial line 

 indistinct, obli(]ue from costa to below cell, then sinuous ; a semi- 

 circular white discoidal spot with small spot beyond its up])er and 

 lower extremities, the spots sometimes slightly tinged with rufous ; 

 l)ostmedial line fine, red-brown, slightly bent outwards below costa, 

 obli()ue to vein 6, then minutely dentate, slightly excurved to vein 3, 

 then incurved; subterminal line red-brown, angled outwards at 

 veins 7, 6, 4, 3, 2, and inwards at discal and submedian fold ; a fine 

 waved red-brown terminal line with slight ochreous lunules beyond 



