110 ZEKENID^. — LAEENTIID^. 



JeaviuD- a small oclireous-white patch on inner margin near the base with two black spots on 

 it and a few ochreous-white scattered specks. Hind wing ochreous white, thickly mottled 

 witli fuscous; traces of a postmedial fuscous band. Underside as above, except that the 

 hind wing has an ochreous-white streak at base of costa. Thorax and abdomen yellow, 

 spotted with black. 



Variety. Wings with the ground-colour darker, and mottled and striated with fuscous : 

 fore wing without the reddish-brown tinge of the typical form and not so uniformly 

 suffused. Underside with a series of black streaks on the nervules of both wings. 



Abraxas crocearia. (Plate CLII. figs. 17, 8.) 



Expanse, (J If, ? If inch. 



Male. Fore wing almost wholly suffused with a dull lead-colour, so that only a few 

 scattered spots of the orange ground remain ; a darker spot at end of cell, and indistinct, 

 shghtly curved postmedial band which reaches the inner margin near outer angle. Hind 

 wing dull lead-colour, with a very indistinct mark at end of cell and postmedial band, some- 

 times with scattered yellow spots. Thorax and abdomen orange, spotted with black. 



Female. Normally like the male, but with more of the ground-colour remaining on buth 

 wings, and the postmedial band wanting. One specimen has the orange ground of the fore 

 wing and yellow one of hind wing the prevailing colour, and thickly speckled with leaden 

 spots and with two broad postmedial bauds across each wing. 



Allied to A. poliaria. 



LARENTIID^. 



Eupithecia annulata. (Plate CLII. fig. 11.) 



Expanse 1^'., inch. 



Male. Smoky grey, with the following pale-ringed black spots : fore wing with two 

 between costa and subcostal ncrvure, one subbasal, the other antemedial; smaller ones below 

 them on median nervure; two others on submedian nervure and inner margin one third 

 from base : both wings with a conspicuous ovate spot at end of cell ; a postmedial, slightly 

 curved series on the nervules from costa to first median nervule ; a pale lunulate submarginal 

 line ; cilia alternately pale and fuscous. Underside with the black spots at end of cell and 

 postmedial series very conspicuous, but obsolete from second median nervule to inner margin 

 of fore wing, and without the pale rings. Abdomen with black spots at sides and above. 



Allied to E. griseipennis. 



