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grey, with two brown lines, outwardly pale edged ; the inner straight, the outer elbowed, oblique and sharply 

 angled below eosta ; termen washed with brown red ; hindwing uniformly brown. Ussuri, Amurland, Corea, N. China. 



71. Genus: Parascotia Hbn. 



Tongue strongly developed ; palpi long, porrect, rough scaled throughout ; antennae in £ bipectinated, 

 hi $ sen'ate, with bristles from each . segment ; head, thorax, and abdomen smoothly scaled; wings broad, the 

 termen crenulate; the coloration and markings alike; vein 5 of hindwing parallel to 4. Larva geometriform, 

 with only two pairs of abdominal prolegs; a fine hair from each tubercle; living on fungi growing on rotten 

 wood, hi cellars and damp places; pupating in a cocoon covered with refuse. Type P. fuliginaria L. 



P.fuliginaria £.(71b). Forewing blackish fuscous; lines yellowish ochreous, edged with black; theouter fuliginaria. 

 dentate, the subterminal waved ; a black mark at end of cell ; hindwing hke forewing; — the ab. flava Horm., flava. 

 from the Bukowina, has hi the <$ quite pale ochreous wings, with two blackish fasciae in middle of wing and 

 almost obsolete terminal spots; the $ is pale yellowish brown, with darker dusting, especially in the basal 

 and terminal areas; — ab. carbonariaSsp. (71b) is wholly black. Found throughout North and Central Europe, carbonaria. 

 in Italy and Rumania, the Ural Mts. in Russia, in Armenia and Asia Minor. Larva black; dorsal stripe white, 

 swollen in places, with a black line hi middle; several fine, interrupted, wavy, whitish lateral lines; tubercles 

 large, with long hairs, those on the sides and the hind pair on each dorsal segment orange; head black, with 

 \-ellow lines; on fungi growing on rotten wood, hybernating small, and feeding up in spring. ■- . 



P. dztersa Stgr. (74 b). Forewing hi basal half blackish brown, in outer half pale red brown mixed with detersa. 

 greyish white; an obscure wavy inner line; a dark dentate outer line excuived above; beyond it two large 

 dark blotches, one at costa before apex, the other at middle of termen, in dark specimens united to form a 

 fascia; terminal line black and crenulate; cellspots large, black. Antioch, Hadjin, Korb. 



P. robiginosa Stgr. (74 c). Forewing narrower and with more pointed apex than in fuliginaria ; lighter red robiginosa. 

 brown in ground colour, with more or less blackish suffusion; two interrupted black cross lines; the inner 

 distinct only below median vein ; outer excurved and dentate, pale-edged outwardly; the cell light red brown; 

 a dark median shade from its lower angle; terminal area dark, leaving a lighter patch at apex; in some in- 

 stances two lines of pale points are visible; hindwing with outer line only, dark edged with paler. Asia 

 Minor; nearest to the next species cognata Stgr. from Amurland. 



P. cognata Stgr. Forewing blackish grey, as in fuliginaria, but the pale dusting is not yellowish, but cognata. 

 violet or violet grey; inner line black, not paler edged; beyond it a black dot in cell, and at end of cell 

 a large black lunule beyond a dark median shade; outer line dentate edged with violet; just beyond it a much 

 clearer, more deeply dentate violet line ; some black wedge-shaped marks between them ; hindwing with large 

 lunule crossed by the black median shade. Like the last a smaller insect, from Amurland. 



P. nysseni Trti (71 c). Forewing yellow ochreous; inner line indistinct; the outer excurved and den- nysseni. 

 tate lunulate to submedian fold; median area between the lines filled in with dark fuscous below cell; the por- 

 tion above f ormhig a pale costal streak of ground colour, crossed only by the lines at their origin ; orbicular 

 stigma a black dash, reniform a black lunule; subterminal line zigzag, yellowish, between two thick diffuse 

 dentate reddish fuscous shades, of which the inner is interrupted by clear yellow patches on each fold; terminal 

 line black and wavy; fringe yellow with fuscous lunules at middle; hindwing with large black cell lunule and 

 waved outer line; the basal suffusion and the two subterminal shades reddish. Algeria. 



72. Genus: Epizeuxis Hbn. 



Tongue present ; palpi smoothly scaled, sickle shaped, with long acute third segment ; antennae thick, 

 in the £ shortly bipectinated; thorax and abdomen, also the legs, smoothly scaled; wings ample; forewing 

 with blunt apex and rounded termen; the imago rests on tree trunks, head downwards, with the wings flattened 

 against the surface. Larva with the first pair of abdominal prolegs aborted; the head small and round; 

 the tubercles large, each crowned with a single hair; feeding on low plants, and pupating in a cocoon formed 

 with grains of sand and rubbish. Type E. calvaria F. 



