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COENOCALPE; HORISME. By L. B. Prout. 



wing large and roundish. Both wings beneath lighter, with large black' cell-spot, curved fuscous postmedian 

 stripe and subterminal row of black internervular spots, that between the 3'''' radial and 1 ^' median usually 

 wanting. A S. Indian species, but recorded from Japan by Wileman. 



B. Palpus less elongate. Cell-spot not appreciably raised (Pseudocollix Wan:). 



sparsata. C. sparsata Tr. (=; sparsaria Hbn., [noin. praeocc], melanoparia Grasl) (13 o). Smaller and more Eiipi- 



thecia-like than the other species, upperside weakly marked except at costa, cell-spots small, the veins, especially 

 in distal area, alternately black and white dotted. Underside paler, especially of hindwing; both wings with 

 large cell-spot and distinct postmedian line, angulated in the middle. Egg oval, somewhat flattened, pale green. 

 Larva elongate, hght green with indistinct pale longitudinal lines and yellow lateral stripe. It feeds in August 

 on Lysimachia vulgaris. The pupa hibernates, the moth appearing in June. Local; Central Europe, Ussuri 

 district and Japan. 



flavovenata. C. flavovenata Leech. The unique type (?) has lost its head, but no doubt belongs here. Forevping 



more pointed than in sparsata, hindwing even more deeply dentate. Apart from the darker, less dotted 

 upperside, with slender cell-mark, quite different postmedian line, etc., flavovenata may be at once distinguished 

 by having the veins beneath broadly yellow ochreous. Ta-chien-lu. 



minuta. C. minuta Btlr. Distal margin of hindwing so weakly crenulate that at first sight it appears like a 



Eupithecia. I have only seen worn specimens but it is very distinct in the very broad median area, the 

 curved, denticulate-edged whitish outer band being placed unusually near the distal margin, and especially 

 by the remarkable underside, which is white, the forewing and costal margin of hindwing with the veins very 

 broadly ochreous, both wings with curved fuscous postmedian and terminal bands, the latter (at least on the 

 forewing) forked anteriorly. Japan: Yokohama. 



mauularia. C. macularia Leech (lie), described as a Phihalapteryx, seems referable here. Face smoother. Very 



distinct in pattern, especially characterized by the large costal and submarginal spots of the forewing. Under 

 surface pale brown, in part suffused and clouded with fuscous, not so sharply marked as in the other species. 

 Founded on a single cf (not ?) taken at Omei-shan, W. China, in July. 



78. Genus: Coenocalpe Hhi. 



Very different in shape from Eupithecia and Collix, (more recalling Zola), the hindwing elongate costally, 

 its distal margin somewhat sinuous and waved but not dentate. General characters of Horisme, but the disco- 

 cellulars of the hindwing biangulate, the abdominal crests so slightly developed that Meyrick has not separated 

 the species from the Cidaria group. 



Only one species known, exclusively Palearctic. 



lapidata. ^- lapidata Hbn. [= subrufata Haic, curata Ev.) (131). Cannot possibly be confused with any other 



species. Lines fine, discal dots minute or wanting, apex of forewing with an oblique shade as in Horisme. 

 milUerata. The name-typical form is pale. — millierata Stgr , from S. E. France, is more liver-coloured, more obscurely 

 marked, the hindwing more darkened distally. — The egg hibernates. The larva has been reared on Clematis, 

 but possibly feeds in a wild state on Thalictrum; nearly cylindrical, dorsally with longitudinal lines and stripes 

 of ochreous and brown or fuscous, ventrally more reddish, lateral stripe pale, tubercles and spiracles black. 

 Pupa cylindrical, rather blunt at ends, surface polished; reddish brown, lapidata is local in Central and 

 N. Europe, N. Italy, the Altai and Changai Mountains and E. Siberia; chiefly a mountain species. 



79. Genus: Horisme Hhn. 



Characters of Eupithecia, areole double, metathorax generally crested, as well as abdomen, palpus strong 

 but never very long, distal margin of hindwing slightly or moderately crenulate, never so irregular as in Collix. 



The larvae are commonly attached to Clematis and have much in common with certain Cidaria, as 

 G. procellata. The pupa hibernates. 



A rather small but widely distributed genus, apparently wanting in South America. The early stages 

 and the genitalia indicate that Meyrick is wrong in uniting it with his Eucymatoge (= Eupithecia part.), not- 

 withstanding that the imago shows many characters in common. 



