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ZERENID^ . — L ARENTIID^. 
leaving a small ocbreous-white patch on inner margin near the base with two black spots on 
it, and a few ochreous-white scattered specks. Hind wing ochreous white, thickly mottled 
Avitli fuscous ; traces of a postmedial fuscous band. Underside as above, except that the 
hind wing has an ochreous-white streak at base of costa. Thoi'ax and abdomen yellow, 
spotted with black. 
Variety, Wings with the ground-colour darker, and mottled and striated with fuscous : 
fore wing without the reddish-brown tinge of the typical form and not so uniformly 
suffused. Underside with a series of black streaks on the nervules of both wings. 
Abraxas crocearia. (Plate CLII. figs. 17, 8.) 
Expanse, J* If, ? inch. 
Male. Fore wing almost wholly suffused with a dull lead-colour, so that only a few 
scattered spots of the orange ground remain ; a darker spot at end of cell, and indistinct, 
slightly curved postmedial band which reaches the inner margin near outer angle. Hind 
wing dull lead-colour, with a very indistinct mark at end of cell and postmedial band, some- 
times with scattered yellow spots. Thorax and abdomen orange, spotted with black. 
Female. Normally like the male, but with more of the ground-colour remaining on both 
wings, and the postmedial band wanting. One specimen has the orange ground of the fore 
wing and yellow one of hind wing the prevailing colour, and thickly speckled with leaden 
spots and with two broad postmedial bauds across each wing. 
Allied to A. poliaria. 
Eupithecia annulata, (Plate CLII. fig. 11.) 
Expanse 1 j'., inch. 
Male. Smoky grey, with the following palc-ringed black spots : fore wing with two 
between costa and subcostal nervure, one subbasal, the other antemedial ; smaller ones below 
them on median nervure; two others on submedian nervure and inner margin one third 
from base : both wings with a conspicuous ovate spot at end of cell ; a postmedial, slightly 
curved series on the nervules from costa to first median nervule ; a pale lunulate submarginal 
Ime ; cilia alternately pale and fuscous. Underside with the black spots at end of cell and 
postmedial series very conspicuous, but obsolete from second median nervule to inner margin 
of fore wing, and without the pale rings. Abdomen with black spots at sides and above. 
Allied to E. griseipennis. 
