438 NocruiDJc. 



Hah. BiuTAix, Lcccli Coll. ; Fkaxce. Sand Coll, ; Dexmauk, 

 Leech Coll.; (iKKMAXV, Zelk-r, Frey, and Leech Colls.; Austria: 



HrXCJAKY; SWITZEKLAXI) ; IxAlA ; 8cAXDIXAVIA : S. IIUSSIA ; Ar- 



mexia; Asia Mixor, Tontus; W. TrRKEsx.of, Ala Tau ; W.Siberia, 

 Altai. Exp. 40-48 millim. 



L<irv(i. y\e\r. Brit. Lep. j). 04; Barrett. Lcp. Brit. vi. p. 20, pi. 2.'}4. f. 3. 



Dark brown, clort«al and subdorsal lines sometimes .somewhat 

 paler : s]»iracular line whitish, often reduced to spots on somites 

 1, 2, 5, and 11 ; head ochreous brown. Food-plants : Oak, Beech, 

 (SlC. ; often carnivorous and feeding on the larvie of other Lepidoptera. 



2G43. Eiipsilia quadrilinea. (Plate CVTI. tig. 28.) 

 Mesogona quadrilinea, Leech, P. Z. S. 1889, p. 510, pi. li. f. 1. 



2 , Head and thorax greyish rufous suffused and irrorated with 

 red-brown ; palpi deep red-brown, whitish at tips ; abdomen red- 

 brown dorsally suffused with fuscous, the lateral fringes and anal 

 tuft rufous. Foj-e wing red-brown suffused with puqdish grey ; 

 subbasal line rufous, almost straight, from costa to submedian fold ; 

 autemedial, medial, and postmedial lines rufous, almost straight and 

 erect ; a slight dark point at lower angle of cell : subtcrmiual line 

 rather diffused, red-brown, angled outwards at veins 7, G, 4, 3, 2 ; 

 a tine waved red-brown terminal line with slight greyish lunules 

 beyond it at base of cilia. Hind wing red-brown tinged with 

 fuscous ; a fine pale line at base of cilia ; the underside pale slightly 

 irrorated Avith brown, a small discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial 

 line. 



Hah. Japax, Yokohama {Pnjer), 2 $ type. Exp. 44-46 millim. 



2644. Eiipsilia strigifera. (Plate CVI. fig. 13.) 

 Eupsilia strigifera, Butl. A. il. N. H. (5) iv. p. 363 (1879). 



c^ . Head and thorax rufous slightly mixed with grey ; teguUe 

 with brown line just before tips which are grey ; abdomen pale 

 rufous irrorated with fuscous, the anal tuft tinged with ochreous. 

 Fore wing rufous irrorated with fuscous and slightly tinged with 

 greyish ; subbasal line whitish, oblique, straight, from costa to sub- 

 median fold ; autemedial and postmedial lines whitish, oblique, 

 slightly incurved ; slight blackish points at angles of cell ; the veins 

 of terminal area slightly streaked with whitish ; subterminal line 

 ochreous, oblique from costa to vein 7 where it is bent outwards, 

 then incurved and ending on termen at vein 2 ; a fine pale line at 

 base of cilia. Hind wing brownish ochreous, the cilia pale rufous 

 with a slight pale line at base : the underside ochreous, the costal 

 and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a curved postmedial line 

 obsolete towards inner margin. 



Hah. Japan, Yokohama {Pnier), 2 o type. E.ip. 38 millim. 



