EUTELIA. By W. Warren. 287 



Subfamily Eutelianae. 



The two leading characteristics of the species of this subfamily are the paired anal tufts, or single long 

 tubular process, of the abdomen and the more simple frenulum of the ?; this is double, consisting of one long 

 stout bristle and one shorter and finer, which is often hidden and masked by the stronger one ; but in no case 

 examined has it proved to be single, as in the Stictoperinae. The eyes are large, without hairs or overhanging 

 cilia; the tibiae are more or less hairy, without spines; in minor details of structure they exhibit similar variety 

 to that existing in other subfamilies. 



The larva have all the prolegs present; the tubercles bear single hairs; but otherwise they are smooth; 

 as might be expected hi a group of mainly tropical insects, but few of them are known ; these feed exposed on 

 various shrubs and low growing plants. Pupation takes place in a spun cocoon among leaves or debris on the 

 surface of the ground; hi some cases a succession of broods appears to occur throughout the year. 



1. Genus: fhitelia Hbn. 



Tongue present; irons smooth; vertex with tufts of hair; palpi upcurved, the second segment broad, 

 rough-haired, the third long and smooth; antennae of 3 with the shaft broad and flattened, with pedicellate 

 or tuberculate fascicles of cilia hi basal half and a strong tuft at base ; abdomen thickly scaled, the third segment 

 with a dorsal mat of hairs, those beyond crested; anal segment with a bifid tuft of hairs in $; forewing with 

 termen bent and crenulate; when at rest the wings are partly folded, and the abdomen is raised and recurved. 

 Larva with 16 feet, short and broad in front, narrowing behind; feeding up in summer and pupating in an earthen 

 cocoon; the pupa short and blunt at both ends. Type E. adulatrix Hbn. 



Sect. I. Antennae of <$ with pedicellate fascicles of cilia. 



E. geyeri Fldr. (= guyra Leech) (53 a). Much larger than adulatrix; the forewing darker, filled with geyeri. 

 pale olive brown suffusion in the <J and with purplish fuscous in the $ ; the vems finely white ; the white lines 

 on the two folds strong; the large reniform stigma with the top and bottom marked with fulvous outlined in 

 black, the centre white, confluent with a diffuse ochreous white (sometimes fulvous) spot in cell beyond it, lying 

 in the angle of the median shade; the outer line from vein 4 to 1 uniformly curved, not lunulate dentate; 

 the pale spaces towards termen olive grey instead of white; the two brown lines beyond outer line be- 

 coming on inner margin bright orange beyond the blue crescent; all the white lines and markings near 

 base with a pearly grey sheen; in the hindwing the pale basal area is not so purely white. China and Japan; 

 also in N. India. 



Sect. II. Antennae of $ with tuberculate fascicles of cilia. 



E. adulatrix Hbn. (53a) Forewing white; inner line white edged with black, wavy and strongly pro- adulatrix. 

 jecting outwards in submedian interval, the basal area .filled up with pale brown, crossed by a line similar to the 

 inner; outer line oblique outwards to 6, then lunulate dentate, red above cell and between veins 2 and 4, black 

 in cell and below 2, followed by a bluish white line edged with black, then by a pale brown space with two dark 

 brown parallel lines edged by a white one ; the bluish white line swells out on inner margin into a crescentic 

 spot; the white submargmal line is preceded by brown scaling from costa to vein 3, then by creamy white; 

 followed above vein 6 by a creamwhite blotch and below it by a narrow area of brown scales mixed with blue 

 on veins 3 and 4; a row of black and white lunules before termen; median shade thick and outwardly oblique 

 at costa, interrupted by the large white reniform stigma, then linear, oblique and waved, near and parallel to 

 outerline, the space between them, except on costa, filled up with pale brown ; a pale line along both folds, stronger 

 in cell; hindwing with basal half whitish with dark veins; outer half fuscous traversed by a pale broad sub- 

 marginal line ; a row of black dashes on white scales before termen ; fringe whitish, with a fulvous median line ; 

 the crenulations on veins 2 and 3 and a blotch at anal angle dark. Larva green, sometimes with a bluish or reddish 

 tinge; dorsal and subdorsal lines pale, the latter only distinct; spiracular line yellowish; feet green: feeds in 

 summer on Rhus cotinus and Pistacia lentiscus, emerging either in autumn or the following spring. A south 

 European species occurring along the coast of the Mediterranean; also in Algeria and 'once at Tenerife; in 

 Switzerland, the Tyrol, Carniola, Hungary, the Crimea; in Asia found in Armenia, Bithynia, Pontus, Taurus, 

 Syria and Fergana. 



E. blandiatrix Bsd. (= inextricata Moore) (53 a). Differs from adulatrix in being grey brown instead blandiatrix. 

 of red brown, with the white markings more yellow; the apex yellow, with a sinuate white subterminal line 

 before it ; the inner margin beyond middle yellow ; hindwing much as in adulatrix. N. China and Japan ; occurring 

 also in N. India and Ceylon. 



E. adoratrix Stgr. (53 a) . Forewing dull grey brown, overlaid with slaty grey; a faint pale line along adoralrix 

 each fold, sometimes distinct in the cell; the reniform subquadrate, grey, indistinct, with pale lateral margins; 

 lines black, thick ; the inner excurved and preceded by grey lines,' forming a band ; the outer oblique out- 



