ETJUICKTIS. 333 



Ab. 1. islandice. More or less tinged with reddish brown instead 

 of fuscous ; fore wing less uniform and more variegated. — Iceland, 

 Paroe Is. 



Hab. Geeei^land : Labbadoe ; Faeoe Is. ; Icelai^d, Zeller Coll. ; 

 Lapland. Exjp. 40 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 238 ; Hffm. Eaup. p. 96. 



Eeddish brown above, yellow ventrally. Eood-plants : Hieraceum 

 Leontodon, &c. 5-6. 



2501. Eumichtis sepultrix. (Plate CIV. fig. 8.) 



Mamestra sepultrix, Gueu. Noct. i. p. 200 (1852). 

 Hadena expuUa, G-uen. Nocfc. ii. p. 93 (1852). 

 Hadena, lutra, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 94 (1852). 

 Euplexia emergens, Wlk. xi. 544 (1857). 

 Eu-plexia indocilis, Wlk. si. 545 (1857). 



S (lutra). Head and tegulas red-brown mixed with dark brown, 

 the latter with slight dark medial line and dark tips ; thorax 

 fuscous brown slightly irrorated with white, the patagia with black 

 line near upper edge, the pro thoracic crest with two white points ; 

 tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen greyish brown. Fore wing red- 

 brown suffused with fuscous and greyish, the costal and postmedial 

 areas redder ; subbasal line represented by double black striae from 

 costa and cell; antemedial line indistinctly double, oblique, slightly 

 waved; claviform moderate defined by black; orbicular and reniform 

 defined by black, the former elliptical and forming a lobe below the 

 cell, the latter with dark centre and white annulus, rather con- 

 stricted at middle ; traces of a waved medial line ; postmedial line 

 indistinctly double, bent outwards below costa, then waved, excurved 

 to vein 4, then oblique, some white points beyond it on costa and a 

 prominent yellowish white patch between veins 7 and 5 ; sub- 

 terminal line whitish defined by brown on inner side, minutely 

 waved, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, 

 with black streaks beyond it in the interspaces and before it above 

 vein 7 ; cilia with a fine pale line at base. Hind wing reddish 

 brown tinged with fuscous ; cilia whitish with a fuscous line 

 through them ; the underside whitish thickly irrorated with brown, 

 the terminal area suffused with brown, a discoidal luuule and 

 diffused curved somewhat dentate postmedial line. 



5 {seindtrix). Thorax and fore wing greyer and without the 

 red-brown shades. 



Ab. 1. indocilis. Head and thorax fuscous irrorated with grey ; 

 fore wing fuscous brown suffused with grey and with only slight 

 rufous tinge ; outer part of reniform white and with a large 

 obliquely-curved whitish patch beyond it between veins 7 and 2 ; a 

 whitish patch beyond postmedial line above inner margin ; hind 

 wing with whitish bar below vein 2 just before termen. 



Hah. IST. S. Wales, Sydney {Raynor), 2 $ ; Victoeia (BaJcewell), 

 2 5 , Gisborne (Lyell), 1 $ ; Tasmania {Beaufort), 1 S type 

 emergens {Alport), 1 S ■> 1 $ ^ {Smith), 1 $ , {Douhleday), 1 $ 

 type indocilis, Hobart (J. J. Walker, Norman), 3 $ . E.ty. 38- 

 44 millim. 



