143 KCCTniD-E. 



Sect. T. (I/iii)ior/,f„i i. Fore wmg with the teriiieii excised bchjw apex, Uicn 

 exciirvtd. 



4-J91. Ipimorpha retusa. 



Korfita rcfum, Linn. Faun. Suec. p. 321 (1761) ; Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 17"^. 

 f. 1: Iliibn. Eur. i^chniett., Noct. f. 214; Diip. Lep. Fr. vj. p. Ub, 

 pi. 82. f. :i ; Fir. Beitr. iii. pi. Uo\ Staud. Cal. Lep. pal. p. 205. 



^'ochM vetula, Hiibn. Beitr. pi. 2, H (179 J). 



^octua gracilis. Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 2C8 (1809); Stcph. 111. Brit. Ent., 

 Ilaiist. iii. p. 57. 



Cosinia curvaia, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1880, p. 131. 



Head and thorax reddish brown slight!)' mixed with grey ; 

 pectus ■with some whitish ; abdomen grev-bro\vn, the ventral 

 surface greyer. Fore wing reddisli brown tinged with grey and 

 with slight dark irroration, the costal area irrorated with whitish ; 



Fig. 43. — Ipimorpha retusa, cJ. }. 



subbasal line whitish, oblique, from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line 

 whitish defined by a brown shade on outer side, angled outwards 

 below costa, then oblique, slightly cxcurved at snbinedian fold ; 

 orbicular and renilorm very large, dark brown with whitish annuli, 

 the former elliptical and slightly constricted at middle, the latter 

 strongly constricted at middle ; a rather diffused oblique sinuous 

 brown line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; ])ostraedial 

 line whitL-^h slightly defined by brown on inner side and strongly 

 on outer, arising from costa towards apex, oblique, slightly sinuous; 

 subteiiniiial line slight, pale, defined hy dark brown on outer side, 

 minuloly waved, oblitjue from costa to vein 5, excnrved at middle 

 and angled inwards in submediau fold ; a slight brown terminal 

 line ; cilia with a slight brown line at middle. Hind wing glossy 

 grey-brown ; cilia brownish white with a slight brown line near 

 base ; the underside whitish tinged and irrorated with brown, a 

 small brown discoidal spot, obli(iuely curved postmedial line and 

 rather diff'ased subterminal line from costa to termen at submcdian 

 fold. 



Ah. 1. curvata. Fore wing somewhat redder. — Japan. 



Hah. Brtt.mx, Leech Coll. ; FiuxcK, Sand and Leech Colls. ; 

 Gkiimaxy, Zeller and Leech Colls. ; Austkia, Leech Coll. ; Hungary ; 

 Switzerland, Frey Coll.; N. LrALY ; S. Kussia, Leech Coll.; W. 

 Siberia, Altai ; E. Siberia, Amurland, Ussuri ; Japan, Yesso 

 (Pri/er), 3 c? , Fukushiina (Lciris), 1 J type curvata, Yokohama 

 (Pri/er), 2 $ . A'.-p. 36-34 millim. 



