GEOMETRIC JE. 



rufous. Hind wing suffused with rufous to the prominent curved 

 slightly sinuous black postmedial line; a diffused waved black 

 submarginal line with white spot beyond it at middle. 

 Hub. Ceylon. Exp. 20 raillim. 



Genus EUPITHECIA. 



Eupithecia, Curt. Brit. Ent. vi, pi. 04 (1825). 

 Tephroclystia, Hiilm. Verz. p. 323 (? 1816), non descr. 

 Pena, Wlk. Cat. xxvii, p. 130 (1863). 

 Eurypeplodes, Warr. P. Z. S. 1893, p. 382. 



Type, E. absinthiata, Curt., from Europe. 



Jianf/e. Universally distributed. 



Palpi usually reaching just beyond the frontal tuft ; the 2nd 

 joint clothed with hair ; antennae of male ciliated ; hind tibiae with 

 two pairs of spurs ; abdomen with slight dorsal crests. Fore wing 

 with vein 3 from near angle of cell; 5 from middle of disco- 

 cellulars ; 6 from upper angle; 10, 11 stalked, 10 anastomosing 

 with 7, 8, 9 to form the areole. Hind wing with vein 3 from near 

 angle of cell ; 5 from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 stalked ; 8 

 anastomosing with 7 to beyond middle of cell. 



SECT. I. (Eupithecia}. Palpi with the 2nd joint reaching only just 

 beyond the frontal tuft ; fore wing usually with a tuft of 

 raised scales on discocellulars. 



3777. Eupithecia eupitheciata, Wlk. Cat. xxvi, p. 1720. 

 Cephalissa delogramma, Meyer, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1886, p. 195. 

 Eupithecia dentifascia, Hmpsn. III. Het. viii, p. 117, pi. 152, 



fig- 12. 



Dark red-brown, irrorated with black and suffused with fuscous. 

 Fore wing with oblique, subbasal, and antemedial lines angled 

 below costa ; the medial area blackish, with black cell-speck and 

 edged by oblique black lines, the outer highly dentate below 

 veins 3 and 2; an indistinct waved postmedial line and waved 

 grey submarginal line ; patches of fuscous suffusion on margin 

 below apex and above outer angle. Hind wing with indistinct 

 dark antemedial, medial, postmedial, and submarginal lines, 

 becoming obsolescent on costal area, which is pale. 



Hab. Khasis ; Nil;iris ; Ceylon ; Shan States ; Australia ; Fiji ; 

 Tonga. Bay. 20 millirn. 



3778. Eupithecia lucigera, Svtl. 111. Het. vii, p. 115, pi. 137, fig. 11. 



tf. Black -brown ; the metathorax rufous; a pure white tuft 

 round claspers. Fore wing with a diffused pale rufous fascia 

 from the base of inner margin to the large and prominent tuft of 

 raised black scales on discocellulars ; a large pale postmedial patch 

 touching the costa ; a white speck near outer angle. Underside 

 of hind wing with traces of cell-speck and antemedial, postmedial, 

 and submarginal lines. 



Hal,. Dliarinsala. Kq>. 20 milliin. 



