ULIOLEPIS; SARCINODES; EPIRRANTHIS. By L. B. Prout. 5 



veins. Underside of hindwing less white, more concolorous with forewing, more strongly marked than above. 

 Murcia, Tunis, Sicily, SjTia, N. Mesopotamia. 



5. Genus: Uliolepij'i Warr. 



Face and palpus hairy. Tongue wanting. Antenna in $ bipectinate (^ unknown). Thorax densely 

 hairy. Abdomen robust. Cells long, discocellulars biangulate, second radial arising from posterior angle, there- 

 fore near third. — Early stages unknown. Belongs to quite a different section from the preceding genera, and 

 would possibly be better associated with the Biston group in the Geometrinae, but the second radial of the 

 hindwing is well developed. 



U. pilosa Warr. Forewing ochreous grey, dusted with blackish. Lines blackish, excurved anteriorly, pilosa. 

 incurved posteriorly, consisting of a basal, an antemedian and a postmedian, besides a median shade. Discal 

 mark large, diffuse, grey. Hindwing paler, without markings, except an indistinct curved submarginal shade. 

 Under surface much paler, unmarked. Wing-expanse 34 mm. The unique type, a $ from Sefir Kuh (Sefid 

 Kuh ?), Afghanistan, in coll. Rothschild, is unfortunately in very bad condition, and it has not been possible 

 to figure it. 



6. Genus: JSarcinocles Guen. 



This genus, very distinct from all the Palearctic Oenochrominae, belongs essentially to the Indo-Australian 

 fauna, and will be described in Vol. 12, and figured there on PI. 1 of that Volume, but is mentioned here because 

 two of the species have straggled as far as the confines on the Palearctic Region. It may be distinguished 

 by its large size, powerful build, unipectinate (J antenna and by having the second radial of the hindwing 

 connate or even very shortly stalked with the first. 



S. restitutaria Walk. Ochreous reddish with purple reflections, especially in distal area of forewing restitutaria. 

 and median of hindwing (occasionally more purplish all over). A nearly straight, double olive-fuscous line 

 from close to apex of forewing to middle of inner margin of hindwing, enclosing a fine pale line. Underside 

 paler, more pinkish, with a dark line much nearer base, and a line of dots beyond. Borneo to India, Omei-Shan. 



S. aequilinearia Walk. Lilacine, usually much shaded with reddish. Forewing with three, hindwing aequili- 

 with two nearly straight, oblique, equidistant darker reddish lines, the distal one shaded with yellow proxi- ''^^"■i"''"'- 

 mally. Costal edge and fringe also dark reddish. Under surface with distal half much more variegated with 

 yellow and reddish-orange, only the median line present, shortly followed by an irregular line of dark vein-dots. 

 N. India, Omei-Shan. 



7. Genus: Epirraiitliis^6re. 



Face smooth, palpus short. Antenna in both sexes slender, nearly simple. Thorax moderately hairy. 

 Hindtibia with all spurs. Wings ample, thickly scaled. Forewing with distal margin bent in middle, first 

 subcostal anastomosing with costal vein, second subcostal with first and then with third to fourth. Hind- 

 wing with second subcostal arising from cell. A quite isolated genus in Europe, its nearest relatives — 

 so near, indeed, that Meyeick has referred them to the same genus — being the New Zealand genera Xyri- 

 dacma and Xynonia. 



E. diversata Schiff. (= pulverata Thnb., aurantiata F.) (1 b). Forewing light red-brown, dark Mversata. 

 dusted, lines weak, chiefly indicated by black spots on the veins, and by a paler (at costa broad and ochre- 

 ous-whitish, afterwards narrow and glaucous) shading which accompanies the first line proximally and the 

 second distally; the second oblique in anterior half of wing. Hindwing orange, coarsely dusted with fuscous. 

 Both wuigs with very large blackish discal spot. Under surface of forewing orange, of hindwing paler, both 

 wings strongly sprinkled and marked with fuscous, the discal spots as above. Local in Europe, excepting the 

 west and south. — The var. (ab. 1) pallidaria Wendlandt, described from four ,^^ from Wiesbaden, is much palUdaria. 

 paler, less dusted, the hnes obsolescent. — The egg has been described byV. Richter and is ellipsoid, dark orange 

 to flesh-colour, the micropylar pole flattened, pattern hexagonal, a micropylar rosette of 6 to 10 cells. Larva 

 slender, cylindrical, eighth abdominal segment with a transverse protuberance; colour grey, with two lighter 

 dorsal lines and dark grey dorsal spots, the tubercles large, black. Feeds on aspen in May and June. Pupa 

 rather slender, cylindrical, cremaster short, terminating in two crossed spines and on either side two or three 

 booklets. The moth appears in March and April, flying about the tops of trees in the sunshine in company 



