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EUPITHECIA. Bv L. B. Prout. 
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daThousien- 
sis. 
gigantea. 
karafutonis. 
pini. 
debrunneata. 
bilunulata. 
nageli. 
analoga. 
rufescens. 
linariata. 
nigrofascia- 
ta. 
aesiiva. 
granadensis. 
pyreneata. 
fletcheri. 
hypo/gnamp- 
ta. 
$ 42 mm), indeed decidedly larger even than gigantea, to which it seems nearer in its darkened colour. The form 
from Yatong, Indian Tibet, will be considered in more detail in Vol. 12. — ab. dalhousiensis Strand is more 
uniform red-brown. Only known from a $ from Dalhousie. A $ from Simla is greyer, a S from Gurais Valley paler. 
E. gigantea Stgr. (Vol. 4, jx 276) I am now inclined to treat this as a separate species, but have not 
been able to make any first-hand examinations. I omitted to mention the large size (length of a fore¬ 
wing 16 mm). 
E. karafutonis Matsumura, described as Cidaria (Euphyia), is evidently, from both figure and descrip¬ 
tion, a close ally or form of pini. Palpus long, black. Abdomen with 6 black crests. Areole double. Forewing 
dark greyish, with fuscous reddish-brown markings; cell-spot large, conspicuous, with 2 costal spots near it; 
postmedian shaped as in pini, followed by a pale costal patch; reddish subterminal band also as in pini. Hind¬ 
wing with 2 lines between cell-dot and postmedian, which is perhaps more distally placed than in pini. Under¬ 
side perhaps more weakly marked, as only the cell-spots and postmedian line are mentioned. S. Saghalien: 
Ichinosawa, 2 So, 5 July and August. 
E. pini Betz. (Vol. 4, pi. 13 k). The areole, though generally double, is not invariably so. Stolze 
has recorded the successful breeding of a few ab ovo, on pine cones, the parent $ having been found by 
chance on the stem of an apple-tree far from the foodplant and the latter (spruce = Fichten) being inacces¬ 
sible to him. Paul Spessivtseff has published (Meddel. Staatens Skogs-Forsoksanst., Vol. 21, p. 295—307) 
a long account of the ravages of this species and bilunulata. — debrunneata Stgr. I assume this to be the Us¬ 
suri race of pini and gigantea a different species (see above), thus restoring to them the status originally given 
by Staudinger, who relied on Bohatsch's observation that the palpus was too long (evidently a lapsus for 
too “short") for bilunulata. I notice, however, that both the Ussuri examples figured by Dietze have the 
median area narrowed and the postmedian of the hindwing not very sinuous, so that they bear a good deal 
of resemblance to bilunulata. 
E. bilunulata Zett. (Vol. 4, pi. 12 e) is still unknown in Britain, but eastward its range extends at 
least to Minussinsk, where it appears in a recently-described race, see below. — ab. (?) nageli Skala. “Very 
near strobilata (— bilunulata)-, small; the wing-form appears to me more stumpy; both wings show denser, 
darker irroration". Described provisionally as a good species, but with the acknowledgment that Prof. 
Rebel wrote:” darkened dwarf, very noteworthy; especially divergent in the uniformly grey-dusted hindwing. 
The characteristic palpus and the underside agree with strobilata” . Fulnek, N. Moravia, taken by Sigmund. 
6 July 1917. in the zoological gardens. — analoga Djakonov, from Minussinsk, is a parallel form to pini de- 
brunnescens which also occurs there. It will be noticed that Djakonov, without a query, accepts the original 
status of the last-named; see above. 
E. rufescens Btlr. (16 k). We figure a $ from Takao-San (W. of Tokyo), where a few were taken in 
June by M. Aigner. Matsumura records a $ from S. Saghalien. 
E. linariata F. (Vol. 4, pi. 12 d). The larva is clothed with a short, velvety pilosity while that of 
pulchellata is smooth, only with single long setae (Dietze). — ab. nigrofasciata Dietze. Darkened, the median 
area almost solidly blackish. Bred from the larva, Vienna. — gen. aest. aestiva Dietze is in general smaller, 
the markings on the whole less distinct. 
E. pulchellata Steph. (Vol. 4, pi. 12 d) granadensis Bubacek (= grenadensis Wehrli). Near pyreneata 
Mab. but immediately distinguishable by the dark-grey ground-colour of both wings. The rust-brown of py- 
renaeata is here restricted to a weak indication in the proximal subterminal shade and the proximal boundary 
of the median area. Granada, bred from larvae found on Digitalis obscura. Wehrli records one from a higher 
altitude in the Sierra Nevada (2850 m) which apparently belongs to this form, and supposes that the food- 
plant there is Digitalis nevadensis. Reisser notices a probable further race from the Riff Mountains, Morocco, 
with the markings not much contrasted, the median area, especially in its outer part, often more strongly white- 
mixed; it “somewhat recalls p. granadensis and comes quite near Culot’s figure of laquearia* in its tone of 
colour". A very aberrant example from the same district is described but not named, its determination being 
uncertain. pyreneata Mill. The reputed breeding of this form at Kirchhellen (Ruhr) from larvae found on 
Digitalis purpurea should presumably refer to slightly aberrant p. pulchellata rather than to true pyreneata. 
E. fletcheri Prout (16 k) somewhat recalls linariata-, head and palpus paler, face quite pale; S antennal 
ciliation nearly as long as diameter of shaft; forewing with the brown bands less bright, with little black niacu- 
lation, the median band straighter, cell-dot weaker; hindwing without conspicuous pale postmedian band. De¬ 
scribed from Kumaon (Muktesar, at 7500 feet), but the British Museum has a $ aberration (brown bands 
still brighter, median band narrower), from Khyra Gully, road to Rawalpindi. — hypognampta form. nov. (16 k). 
A little larger, less deeply coloured, the large cell-mark consequently more conspicuous, the postmedian and 
