22 NocTuiD.i:. 



EucUdia stupida, Herr.-Scliaft'. Stinnett. Eur. ii. p. 4.'3, Noct. ff. 297-8 



(1845). 

 Grammodes curci/inea, Wlk. Proc. Kat. Hist. Soc. Glasgow, i. p. 3G1 



(1869). 



lleail, thorax, and abflonien vcddlsh brown tinged with grey ; 

 })alpi white at base ; pectus and legs wliitisli tinged with brown ; 

 ventral sni-faee uf abtlonien white. Foi'e wing grey-brown ; a lai'ge 

 triangular black-brown patch from subcostal nervure to inner margin 

 before the erect yellowish white medial band also extending from sub- 

 costal nervure to inner mai'gin ; the outer jiart of medial area black- 

 brown except towards costa ; a narrow yellowish white postmedial 

 band, arising below costa, excm'ved to below vein 3, where it is angled 

 inwards, then again excurved, followed by a rufous band from 

 vein 6 to inner margin with a minute black spot on its outer edge 

 below vein 6, dentate mark at vein 4, points at veins 3 and 2, and 

 dentate mark at inner margin ; a blackish mark from costa towards 

 apex to vein 6, diffused on inner side and defined on outer side by 

 Avhitish ; some blackish at apex and brown at middle of termen ; 

 cilia brown with a hue whitish line at base and white patch at 

 apex. Hind wing fuscous brown ; an oblique wliite band from 

 middle of costa to just above tornus where it narrows to a point ; 

 a subterminal white spot between veins 3 and 2 ; cilia Avhite, brown 

 at middle and tornus. Underside of fore wing with the basal half 

 whitish iiTorated with grey at costa, the terminal half fuscous, a 

 white discoidal bar, Avhite postmedial band slightly excurved to 

 vein 2, then outwardly oblique, a subterminal series of white spots 

 except at middle, sliglit towards costa and confluent towards 

 tornus ; hind wing white, the terminal area fuscous, naiTOwing to 

 tornus, an oblique dark antemedial line and sinuous medial line 

 converging towards inner margin near tornus, an incm-ved maculate 

 subterminal white band on costal area and spot below vein 3. 



Ab. 1. Fore wnng with the white medial band reduced to a nan'ow 

 line from below the cell to inner marojin. 



Ab. 2. stupida. Fore wing with the white medial band reduced 

 to a small spot on iniu'r margin ; hind wing without the white 

 subterminal spot between veins 3 and 2. 



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