220 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



20th, 1895 (E. R. Bankes) ; one female bred from a pine-feeding 

 Tortrix [probably Retinia resinella, of which it is a known para- 

 site — C. M.] at Oxshott, in July, 1901 (Sich) ; I have swept it in 

 Tuddenham Fen, in Suffolk, and upon the Ringstead Downs, 

 near Hunstanton, in August, 1906, and beaten it from birch in 

 the Bentley Woods, May 29th, 1902. 



O. micropterus. — I took the sexes of this new species on 

 Angelica sylvestris flowers at Foxhall on September 12th, 1898, 

 and by sweeping at Ringstead, in Norfolk, on August 21st, 1906 ; 

 the type is in my collection. From O. obscurator, which is the 

 only other black species with the second segment quadrate, it 

 differs in the red palpi ; distinct hyaline area below the stigma ; 

 anterior femora red, with a narrow black streak above ; tibia 

 red, with the hind ones of male infuscate ; trochanters mainly, 

 apices of hind and whole of anterior coxae, red ; basal segment 

 thrice (not twice, as in O. obscurator) longer than apically broad, 

 with the spiracles very much more prominent ; second segment 

 distinctly longer, and, except sometimes at its extreme base, 

 entirely glabrous. The male, in addition, has the flagellum 

 longer and red to beyond its centre. In general facies, O. 

 micropterus is distinguished by its distinctly longer legs, with the 

 tarsal joints, especially in male, elongate ; the wings do not 

 extend to the anus and are narrower, with the apex and anal 

 angle distinctly less prominent in outline. I find no metathoracic 

 modification such as we are accustomed to associate with the 

 brachypterous forms of usually macropterous Cryptinse. 



Monks Soham House, Suffolk : 

 May 16th, 1907. 



NOTES ON THE GENUS EUPITHECIA. 



By Louis B. Prout, F.E.S. 



(Continued from p. 211.) 



Although Klos does not mention unequivocally that his second- 

 brood larvae were feeding on leaves, I think it may safely be 

 assumed that such w r as the case ; first, because he mentions that 

 his experience is analogous to that already well known with 

 E. innotata (see supra), and, secondly, because it would probably 

 be hard to find even whitethorn, to say nothing of blackthorn, 

 still in bloom at the beginning of July, especially in a "forward" 

 district like Gratz. 



In its times of emergence E. virgaureata seems to be rather 

 an erratic species. Moore (Zool. xx. 8208; Weekl. Ent. ii. 92) 

 had most of his moths appear from hybernated pupae in May-June, 

 but a second batch from the same lot of pupae did not emerge 



