62 



(August, 



Laeentia infantabta, Guenee, n. s. 



Minima. Alee sericece, cinereo-grisece, nervis nigro albidoquc punctu- 

 latis, lineis mediis saturatiorihus undulato-dentatis^ puncto minimo cell/u,- 

 lari : posticce unicolores. Palpi prominuliy dbtusi. Antennce simpUces. 



It is the smallest of the Larentios, and does not exceed an Eupithecia in size. 

 All the wings are silky, grey, very slightly greenish, the fringes concolorons : su- 

 perior traversed by many fine sinuated and toothed lines, the two most evident of 

 which border the median space, which includes two others and a dot ; behind this 

 space the nervures are dotted with black and pale : inferior a little paler, unicolo- 

 rous above, with traces of lines beneath. Body grey, without markings. Palpi 

 sensibly produced beyond the head, and forming a blunt triangular beak. Antennae 

 filiform ; but I think the specimen before me is a female. 



Larentia catocalaria, Guenee, n. s. 



Media. Alee anticce grisece, lineis punctisque saturatiorihus: posticce 

 aurantiacce, margine lineolisque 2 vel 3 nigris : subtus omnes aurantiacce^ 

 margine lineisque distinctissimis nigris. Antennae pectinatee. 



This charming Larentia resembles in its colours our species of Catocala with 

 yellow inferior wings. Superior blackish cinereous, with the ordinary lines of the 

 Larentits ; the two median darker: inferior beautiful bright fawn-colour, with a 

 naiTOw toothed blacked border, and black fringe ; two median lines sinuated, black ; 

 afterwards is the commencement of a third. Beneath all the wings are golden 

 yellow, with a cellular dot, two fine wavy lines, the border, and the fringe, black ; 

 all the markings very distinct. Body grey above, whitish beneath, without mark- 

 ings. The antennae of the S are strongly pectinated ; those of the ? filiform. 

 The latter sex diflfers only by its scarcely paler colour. 



Genus Eupithecia. 

 Eupithecia cidariaria, Guenee, n. s. 

 Alts suh-angustatce : anticce apice prolong at ce, pallide virescenfes, 

 taenia siih-discali completa brunnea, tunc spatio medio albo-virescente, lineolis 

 denticulatis nigris notato, spatio sub-terminali lituris 3 hrunneis distantibus : 

 posticce grisece, puncto cellulari lineolisque analihus nigricantibus. 



It has almost the size and cut of our abhreviata, and its mai'kings, which are 

 very distinct, resemble those of certain Cidarice. Superior wings pale green and 

 testaceous mixed, but this last colour is probably only faded green ; the base and 

 spaces between the lines green and black ; afterwards comes a broad arcuated and 

 strongly interrupted brown band, touching the two margins, and denticulated ex* 

 teriorily ; the space which follows is greenish-white, traversed by several green 

 denticulated lines, the last but one of which is mixed with black in several places, 

 especially in the cellule, where that colour forms a very distinct arc ; the rest of 

 the win? is (livi»]p<l by the .<?nbterminal line, which is pale, fine, denticulated, and 



