AGEIOPIS. EUMICHTIS. 321 



2488. Agriopis pryeri. (Plate CIV. fig. 4.) 

 Ettrois prj/eri, Leech, Ti-aus. Eut. Soc. 1900, p. 92. 



Head and thorax grey and fuscous more or less mixed with 

 olive-yellow ; tarsi with pale rings ; the fore femora with black 

 spot at extremity ; abdomen grey-brown. Pore wing greyish 

 more or less completely tinged with olive-green and irrorated with 

 fuscous ; the veins streaked with fuscous grey ; a slight black 

 streak below base of cell ; subbasal line represented by a slight 

 striga from costa ; antemedial line obligue, waved, angled inwards 

 oa vein 1 ; claviform defined by black except above, with bidentate 

 grey patch beyond it and a black streak from its lower side to 

 postmedial line ; orbicular and reniform large, rounded, greyish 

 defined by black ; an indistinct waved medial line ; postmedial 

 line indistinctly double filled in with grey, bent outwards below 

 costa, then minutely dentate, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, 

 some pale points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line pale, defined 

 on inner side by somewhat dentate olive-green marks, excurved 

 below costa and at middle and angled inwards in discal and sub- 

 median folds, some slight black streaks beyond it ; a terminal 

 series of black lunules. Hind wing whitish tinged with brown 

 especially on the veins and terminal area; a slight dark mark at 

 extremity of vein 2 ; a dark terminal line ; cilia brown with a 

 fine pale line at base ; the underside whitish, the costal area irro- 

 rated with brown, a small discoidal annulus. 



Hab. Japan, Yoliohama (JPryer), 5 (5,3 § , tj^pe. Exj''. 38-40 

 millim. 



Genus EUMICHTIS. 



Type. 



Eumichtis, Hiibn. Verz. p. 211 (1827) lichenea. 



Orino, Hlibn. Verz. p. 216 (1827) sommeri. 



Epunda, Dup. Cat. Meth. p. 141 (1844) lichensa. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint fringed with hair, 

 the third typically short ; f rons smooth ; eyes large, rounded ; head and 

 thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, the pro- and metathoras with 

 spreading crests ; tibiae fringed with long hair ; abdomen with dorsal series of 

 crests and lateral fringes of hair. Fore wing rather short and broad, the 

 termen crennlate ; 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 

 with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 

 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. {Eumichtis). Antennte of male bipectinate, with rather long branches 

 to apex. 



A. Fore wing with the subterminal line whitish lichenea. 



B. Fore wing with the subterminal line yellowish muscosa. 



2489. Eumiclitis lichenea. 



Noctua lichenea, Hiibn. Bur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 562-3 (1827) Dup, Lep 

 Fr. vi. p. 420, pi. 99. f. 2 ; Oberth. Et. Ent. xix. p. 35, p 6. f. 42 ; 

 Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 179. 

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