g4 BRITISH MOTHS 



Species 28. — Eupithecia sobrinata h. — (Plate LXX., Fig. 9.) — " Griseous-brown or dusky ; anterior 

 wings varied with numerous waved black streaks, repeated in pairs, and some of them edged with whitish ; the 

 central streaks angulated, and of a deeper black ; posterior wings also with waved dusky streaks, abbreviated 

 towards the costa ; fringe of all the wings griseous, with a row of black dots at the base. Found in June, on 

 the mountains of Arran, and other parts of Scotland." Stephens' MSS. Boisduval states that it occurs near 

 Paris, in places where juniper abounds. 



i" Synonvme. — Genmetra sobrinata, Hiibner, Ge. t. 90, f. 465 ; TreitBchke, vi. t. 112 ; Dup. vii. 477, t. 204, f. 4. 



Species 29. — Eupithecia angustata ' — (Plate LXX., Fig. 10) — Measures 8 or 9 lines in expanse, and has 



the fore wings very elongated and sublanceolate, of an ashy colour, with the middle of the wing darker, and with 



three oblique nearly equidistant whitish strig» ; the first straight, but very oblique, running from the middle of 



the hind margin to the costa, interrupted by the dark central ordinary spot ; the second twice as broad, slightly 



n waved, beyond that spot ; and the third more distinct, but slenderer, and undulated near the apical margin ; 



^,2i. hind wings elongated, ashy, with very indistinct paler strigse. Taken m woods, about the begmning of August. 



' Synonyme. — Phalisna angustata, Haworth ; Stephens ; Wood, fig. 686. 



Species 30. — Eupithecia plumbeolata ■> — (Plate LXX., Fig. 11) — Measures 7 or 8 inches in expanse; 

 wings leaden-ashy coloured, with numerous nearly obsolete darker and lighter strigae, without the ordinary dark 

 dot in the middle of the wings. Found in woods, especially in the neighbourhood of Darenth, Kent, about the 



end of May. 



' Synonyme Phaltena plumbeolata, Haworth ; Stephens ; Wood, fig. 674. ' 



Species 31. — Eupithecia subfulvataI^ — (Plate LXX., Fig. 12) — Measures H or 12 lines in expanse; 

 fore wings fulvous or reddish-brown, with the costa and apical margin brown ; the former with paler markings, 

 indicating the origin of the ordinary strigse ; the disc with the ordinary dark dot, and with a subapical whitish 

 waved striga; hind wings brown. Taken in woods, about the middle of August, but not common. 



^ Synonymes Pkalcena subfulvata, Haworth ; Stephens ; Wood, fig. 675. 



Larentia oxydata, Treitschke (?). 



A.-i/ i't-.L 



Species 32. — Eupithecia cognata ' — (Plate LXX., Fig. 13) — Measures 11 lines in expanse of the fore 

 wings, which are ashy, slightly marbled with reddish-brown and whitish, with four waved paler strigae — one 

 towards the base, the second in the middle, the third beyond, and the fourth subapical ; the costa marked with 

 darker intermediate patches ; several of the veins streaked with black, and with the ordinary black spot on the 

 disc ; hind wings paler, with a distinct darker striga. Taken in several parts of Scotland. 

 ' Synonyme. — Eupithecia cognata, Stephens, Tllust. Haust. 3, p. 288 ; Wood, fig. 676. 



Species 33. — Eupithecia succentukiata ™ — (Plate LXX., Fig. 14) — Measures 11 to 12 lines in expanse, 

 and has all the wings whitish-ashy, and but slightly clouded : the costa of the fore wings marked with broad 

 darker patches ; disc with the ordinary dark dot, succeeded by a slightly-indicated dusky waved striga ; and the 

 apical margin of all the wings darker brown, and bearing an undulated whitish line. The caterpillar chocolate- 

 brown, with white stripes on the sides ; it feeds on the wormwood, and the moth appears in July, in the woods 

 of Kent and Surrey, but is not very common. 



■» Synonyme. — Phalana Geomeira suecenturiata, Linnseus ; Hiibner ; Haworth ; Stephens; Wood, fig. 677. 



„ Species 34. — Eupithecia piperata " — (Plate LXX., Fig. 15) — Measures 9 or 10 lines in expanse ; "wings 



/^ whitish, anterior thickly sprinkled throughout with minute darker or cinereous atoms, somewhat disposed in 



