398 GEOMETRID A. 
rufous. Hind wing suffused with rufous to the prominent curved 
slightly sinuous black postmedial line; a diffused waved black 
submarginal line with white spot beyond it at middle. 
Hab. Ceylon. Exp. 20 millim. 
Genus EUPITHECIA. Sw 
| as 
Eupithecia, Curt. Brit. Ent. vi, pl. 64 (1825). \ 
Tephroclystia, Heibn. Verz. p. 823 (? 1815), non descr. 
Pena, Wik. Cat. xxvii, p. 130 (1863), 
Hurypeplodes, Warr. P. Z. 8. 1893, p. 382. 
Type, £. absinthiata, Curt., from Europe. 
Range. Universally distributed. 
Palpi usually reaching just beyond the frontal tuft; the 2nd _, 
joint clothed with hair ; antennz of male ciliated ; hind tibie with 
two pairs of spurs; abdomen with slight dorsal crests. Fore wing 
with vein 3 from: near angle of cell; 5 from middle of disco- 
cellulars; 6 from upper angle; 10, 11 stalked, 10 anastomosing 
with 7, 8, 9 to form the areole. Hind wing with vein 3 from near 
angle of cell; 5 from middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 stalked; 8 
anastomosing with 7 to beyond middle of cell. 
Suct. I. (Hupithecia). Palpi with the 2nd joint reaching only just 
beyond the frontal tuft; fore wing usually with a tuft of 
raised scales on discocellulars. 
37/7. Eupithecia eupitheciata, Wik. Cat. xxvi, p. 1720. 
Cephalissa delogramma, Meyer, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1886, p. 195. 
ree dentifascia, Hmpsn. Ill. Het. viii, p. 117, pl. 152, 
g. 1s. 
Dark red-brown, irrorated with black and suffused with fuscous. 
Fore wing with oblique, subbasal, and antemedial lines angled 
below costa; the medial area blackish, with black cell-speck and 
edged by oblique black lines, the outer highly dentate below 
veins 3 and 2; an indistinct waved postmedial line and waved 
erey submarginal line; patches of fuscous suffusion on margin 
below apex and above outer angle. Hind wing with indistinct 
dark antemedial, medial, postmedial, and submarginal lines, 
becoming obsolescent on costal area, which is pale. 
Hab, Khasis; Nilgiris; Ceylon; Shan States; Australia; Fiji; 
Tonga, Hap. 20 millim. 
3775. Eupithecia lucigera, Buti. Ii. Het. vii, p. 115, pl. 187, fig. 11. 
3g. Black-brown; the metathorax rufous; a pure white tuft 
round claspers. Fore wing with a diffused pale rufous fascia 
from the base of inner margin to the large and prominent tuft of 
raised black scales on discocellulars ; a large pale postmedial patch 
touching the costa; a white speck near outer angle. Underside 
of hind wing with traces of cell-speck and antemedial, postmedial, 
and submarginal lines. 
Hab. Dharmsala. Lep. 20 millim. 
