438 NOCTITIDiE, 



Hub. Britain, Leech Coll. ; France, Sand Coll. ; Denmark, 

 Leech Coll. ; Germany, Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls, ; Austria : 

 Hungary ; Savitzerland ; Italy ; Scandinavia ; S. Russia ; Ar- 

 menia ; Asia Minor, Pontus ; AV. Turkestan, Ala Tau ; W. Siberia, 

 Altai. Exy. 40-48 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 64 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. vi. p. 20, pi. 234. f. 3. 



Dark brown, dorsal and subdorsal lines sometimes somewhat 

 paler ; spiracular line whitish, often reduced to spots on somites. 

 1, 2, 5, and 11 ; head ochreous brown. Food-plants : Oak, Beech, 

 &c. ; often carnivorous and feeding on the larvse of other Lepidoptera. 



5-(;. 



2643. Eupsilia quadrilinea. (Plate CVII. fig. 28.) 

 Mesogona quadrilinea. Leech, P. Z. S. 1889, p. 519, pi. li. f. 1. 



5 . Head and thorax greyish rufous suffused and irrorated with 

 red-brown ; palpi deep red-brown, whitish at tips ; abdomen red- 

 brown clorsally suffused with fuscous, the lateral fringes and anal 

 tuft rufous. Fore wing red-brown suffused with purplish grey ; 

 subbasal line rufous, almost straight, from costa to submedian fold ; 

 antemedial, medial, and postmedial lines rufous, almost straight and 

 erect ; a slight dark point at lower angle of cell ; subterminal line 

 rather diffused, red-brown, angled outwards at veins 7, 6, 4, 3, 2 ; 

 a fine waved red-brown terminal line with slight greyish lunules^ 

 beyond it at base of cilia. Hind wing red-brown tinged with 

 fuscous ; a fine pale line at base of cilia ; the underside pale slightly 

 irrorated with brown, a small discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial 

 line. 



Hah. Japan, Yokohama {Fryer), 2 $ type. Exp. 44-46 millim. 



2644. Eupsilia strigifera. (Plate CVI. fig. 13.) 



Eupsilia strigifera, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) iv. p. 363 (1879). 



cJ . Head and thorax rufoas slightly mixed Avith grey ; tegulas 

 with brown line just before tips which are grey ; abdomen pale 

 rufous irrorated with fuscous, the anal tuft tinged Avith ochreous. 

 Fore wing rufous irrorated with fuscous and slightly tinged with 

 greyish ; subbasal line whitish, oblique, straight, from costa to sub- 

 median fold ; antemedial and postmedial lines whitish, oblique,, 

 slightly incurved ; slight blackish points at angles of cell ; the veins 

 of terminal area slightly streaked with whitish ; subterminal line 

 ochreous, oblique from costa to vein 7 Avhere it is bent outwards, 

 then incurved and ending on termen at vein 2 ; a fine pale line at 

 base of cilia. Hind wing brownish ochreous, the cilia pale rufous 

 with a slight pale line at base ; the underside ochreous, the costal 

 and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a curved postmedial line 

 obsolete towards inner margin. 



Hah. Japan, Yokohama {Pnjer), 2 (S type. Exp. 38 millim. 



