94 NOCTUID^. 



line indistinct, dark, bent outwards below costa, oblique below vein 

 4 and obsolete below vein 3 ; a black streak above vein 5 and 

 short streaks above terminal parts of veins 6, 5, the veins of 

 terminal area with slight dark streaks ; a curved white mark from 

 termen at vein 3 to toruus with some black beyond its upper part ; 

 cilia chequered fuscous and grej'. Hind wing white, the veins of 

 terminal half and terminal area tinged with red-brown, in female 

 almost wholly tinged with red-brown ; a small discoidal spot ; cilia 

 white with a pale brown line near base ; the underside white, the 

 costal area slightly irrorated with brown. 



Ab. 1. ramosula. Darker ; fore wing with the orbicular and 

 reniform much better defined, confluent below but not defined by 

 such a long curved streak. — Amurland. 



Bab. S.E. France, Leech Coll. ; Gekmany, Zeller, Frey, and 

 Leech Colls. ; Atjsteia, Leech Coll. ; Hungaky ; Switzerland, 

 Zeller Coll.; Spain, Catalonia; N. Italy; Amueland, Fssuri. 

 Ewj). 32-38 miUim. 



Larva. Kii-by, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 251 ; Hffin. Raup. p. 124, 

 pi. 33. f. 3. 



Brownish yellow variegated with whitish on dorsum and with 

 oblique black subdorsal stripes ; a lateral dark stripe. Food-plant, 

 Lonicera. 7-8, 



Genus HYPOMECIA. 



Type. 



Hypomecia, Staucl. Iris, x. p. 291 (1897) quadrivirgula. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely uptui-ned, short, fringed with 

 hair and scales in front, the 3rd joint short, porrect ; frons smooth, rounded ; 

 eyes large, rounded ; antennae of male bipectinate, the apical part serrate ; head 

 and thoi'ax clothed chiefly with scales ; tibiae fringed with long hair ; build 

 slender; abdomen without crests. Fore wing rather long and narrow; veins 

 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing 

 with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing ample; veins 3, 4 from 

 angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discoceliulars ; 6, 7 from angle ; 

 8 anastomosing with the cell near base. 



2189. Hypomecia quadrivirgula. 



Epimecia quadrivirgula, Mab. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1888, p. 51 ; id. Nov. 

 Lep. p. 67, pi. 11. f. 5 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 213. 



S . Head and tegulse white mixed with brown, the latter with 

 brown line at base, two slight medial lines and more prominent line 

 before tips ; thorax fuscous mixed with grey ; pectus and legs 

 whitish mixed with brown ; abdomen white. Fore wing whitish, 

 mostly suffused with fuscous, the costal area tinged with ochreous, 

 the veins with slight dark streaks ; an ill-defined white fascia below 

 basal half of cell irrorated with a few large black scales ; faint traces 

 of a dentate autemedial line strongly angled outwards on vein 1 ; 

 orbicular represented by a faint whitish streak with one or two 

 black scales on it, the reniform by a white point at lower angle of 



