320 



L'LOTRICHOPUS; ECCRITA; ENTOMOGRAMMA. By W. Warren. 



veins 6, 5. and 4, then incurved and forming a sinus below reniform, projecting bluntly above and below 

 vein 1 and mangled on it, preceded by a brown shade and followed below middle by a pale space; termen 

 olive brown between the pale veins, the apex remaining pale; black terminal lunules, filled in with yellowish; 

 hindwing dull pale yellow, with black bands as in hymenaea, the median more rounded on submedian fold. 

 Kaschgar, Tura. Quite a small and distinct looking insect. 



sterlii. 



•4. Genus: Ulotricliopus Wlngm. 



Tongue well developed; frons smooth, with a tuft of hairs above; palpi short, obliquely upturned, the 

 second segment broadly scaled, the third button-shaped, smooth; antennae of cf with fasciculate cilia; femora 

 and tibiae hairy; the hind tibiae spined, dilated with a fold containing an expansible tuft of hair. Type 

 U. mesoleuca Walk. A genus mainly of S. African species, but containing a single palaearctic insect. 



U. stertzi Tung. (63 g). Forewing greyish brown, obscurely sprinkled with darker; inner line sinuous, 

 nearly vertical; outer line outwardly oblique from costa, beyond cell emitting two acute teeth outwardly, then in- 

 wardly oblique and dentate lunulate; renif. stigma a dark cloudy mark; apex somewhat paler; termen faintly 

 crenulate, preceded by small double yellowish dots; fringe grey brown, yellow at base and tips; hindwing pale 

 yellow, somewhat brownish towards inner margin; terminal border broad, black brown, enclosing a small yello- 

 wish spot on termen near inner margin and a larger one towards costa; fringe yellowish white. Described 

 from a single <? from the Dead Sea, Palestine. 



ludicra. 



eervtna. 



gracilis. 



maxima. 



enormts. 



brumnes- 



ct ns. 



5. Genus: Ecci'ita Led. 



Tongue developed; frons smooth, shortly tufted; palpi obliquely upturned, the second segment closely 

 scaled, the third shorter; antennae of cf 1 minutely ciliated; all the tibiae spined; prothorax with a slight crest; 

 abdomen without crests; forewing broad, the apex blunt, rectangular; grey with faint striations ; lines indistinct: 

 reniform stigma black, of varying shapes; collar black. Larva long and slender, contorting itself when disturbed 

 and feigning death; feeding on Vicia in autumn and hybernating, feeding up in spring and pupating in a 

 slight cocoon among rubbish; the imago emerges in summer. Type E. ludicra Hbn. Distinguished from 

 Toxocampa Guen. solely by the presence of spines on the tibiae. 



E. ludicra Hbn. (58 b). Forewing pale ashy grey, thickly and coarsely striated with brownish and 

 fuscous; inner line brownish; median shade brownish, broad and diffuse; outer line imperceptible; a fuscous 

 shade, widest, at costa, before the subterminal line ; reniform stigma a U-shaped brown mark, with black inner 

 edge; its outer with a small black dot at its upper and two larger ones at its lower end; costa shortly striated 

 with dark fuscous: fringe dark at base and apex, with a row of black lunules before it; hindwing fuscous grey; 

 the terminal area darker; in the ab. cervina Stgr. (58b), from the Uliassutai Mts. and Dauria, the forewing 

 is suffused with brown; — gracilis Stgr., from the same localities, is a smaller, more slender form. Larva 

 pale brown; dorsal stripe broad, dark brown, edged with black, and bisected by a white line, the sides with 

 a mixture of whitish scales, with a dark brown stripe above a broad white spiracular line; feeding on Vicia. 

 Occurs in Austria, Hungary, Moravia, the Ural and Altai Mts., Dauria, Ussuri district, Hi, Issyk-Kul. 



E. maxima Brem. (58b). Forewing pale violet grey, with a slight brownish tinge, striated with olive 

 grey; the costa tinged with brown; the terminal area diffusely clouded with fuscous, the veins through it finely 

 pale; lines olive fuscous; the inner angled outwards on subcostal vein, and slightly concave inwards; the 

 median shade sinuous, broadening towards costa; outer line rarely visible, indicated only by the slight 

 submarginal shade, which is dark and distinct only below costa; submarginal line pale, sinuous, indented on 

 submedian fold, the terminal area beyond it darker; a row of black marginal spots: orbicular stigma a 

 black dot; reniform large, black, cut up by the pale discocellular and veins 4, 5, 6 into smaller spots; hind- 

 wing brownish luteous, with a broad blackish terminal border, the extreme termen and fringe again paler. 

 Amu Hand. The form enormis Btlr. (58b) from Japan and Corea is larger, with the inner line generally more 

 outwardly oblique: ab. brunnescens ab. nor. (58c) is a dark brown suffused form, corresponding to the ab. 

 cervina of ludicra I Jim. 



(I. (rcnus: Entomograinma Guen. 



Tongue present; Irons smooth, with tuft of hairs above: palpi upturned, the second segment broadly 

 scaled, the third long; all the tibiae spined; thorax and abdomen without crests; wings ample; the forewing 

 with subfalcate apex and slightly sinuous termen, of dull coloration, with straight oblique parallel lines, with 

 ;i more or less distinct dark subcostal streak. Type K. fautrix Guen. 



