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EUPITHECIA. By L. B. Prout. 
expallidata. 
grisescens. 
vulgata. 
atropieta. 
nigrofascia- 
ta. 
montium. 
cyrneata. 
ochraceata. 
jasioneata. 
castigata. 
obscura. 
diffisata. 
boh at? chi. 
kawakamia- 
na. 
jczonica. 
sophia. 
simplex. 
E. expallidata Dbld. (Vol. 4, pi. 12 e). This does not. seem to have been known in Belgium until 1930, 
though a by no means unexpected occurrence. In Franco it is distributed, but it is somewhat surprising that 
Lhomme has only been able to register five localities for it. The very late dates at wdiich the larva feeds prob¬ 
ably renders it a frequent victim to the frosts and may help to keep it in check and even to restrict its range. 
This species may be, as Dietze confidently avers, the one represented in Wood's Index Ent. (ed. Westwood) 
as elongata, but if so, it is a misidentification; see absinthiata. 
E. assimilata Dbld. (Vol. 4. pi. 12 f) f. grisescens Dietze does not seem to be a fixed race; a single specimen 
from Minussinsk examined by Dr. Wehrli is neither smaller nor greyer than his Central European. 
E. vulgata Haw. (Vol. 4, pi. 12 f). From the latest discoveries regarding the dates of publication of 
Hubner's work, it is virtually certain that this name antedates austerata Hbn. (= clusterata Hemming, err. 
transcr.), probably by 3 or 4 years; Dietze has the priority reversed. — ab. atropieta ( Dannehl in litt.) Dietze. 
Dannehl applies this name, no doubt correctly, to the dark (black-brown) form which he takes at Klausen; 
it was he who first proposed the name to Dietze. — ab. nigrofasciata Dietze is weakly marked, with the median 
area darkened. No locality is indicated. — montium Dietze. This is recorded by Zerny from the northern 
Lebanon. The form recently discovered in the Riff Mountains of Morocco is transitional, having a “dirty 
blackish-grey"' tone. — cyrneata Schawerda (18 a). Darker grey and somewhat larger than montium, but equally 
devoid of any brown admixture, the whitish markings, especially the subterminal, strengthened. Corsica. 
E. denotata Hbn. (Vol. 4, pi. 12 f) ab. ochraceata F. Fuchs. “Both wings ochre yellow, almost without 
markings." Dietze, probably more accurately, applies this to the “weakly marked, somewhat more ochreous 
coloured" form which is frequent in Central Germany. — jasioneata Crewe (17 li). Feeding on Campanula in 
a garden in mid-Devon, larvae were found by the late Mr. F. C. Woodforde which produced moths which 
neither he nor I could separate at all from the jasioneata of the Devonshire coasts. Further, in breeding this 
so-called species in large numbers from N. Cornwall I obtained occasionally (though very rarely) a specimen 
little darker than some of our English denotata. As the genitalia have shown no differences, there seems no 
doubt left about the status of this interesting form. 
E. castigata Hbn. (Vol. 4, pi. 12 g). According to Matsumura this occurs also in Saglialien. — ab. ob¬ 
scura Dietze. Ground-colour more or less strongly darkened, only the subterminal remaining clear. The ori¬ 
ginals came from Stainz and Graz and in some degree make the passage to the extremely melanic ab. obscu- 
rissima Prout.. 
E. diffisata Dietze (= diffidata Dietze). Although Dietze in 1913 wrote without comment “perhaps 
A of aequata ” (see Vol. 4, p. 287), his original description definitely stated that it “does not belong to aequata, 
kuldschaensis, sutiliata, biornata, of which the types were compared in the St at; dinger collection, where our 
insect is wanting". Length of forewing 10H mm. Rabbit-grey, scopariafa pattern, forewing elongate, but the 
apex not produced. In those species ( aequata, , etc.) the wing-form looks still more distinctive, perhaps an illu¬ 
sion due to their differently coloured costal region, whereas in diffisata, as in scopariata, the markings are 
nearly uniform all across the wings, though not very distinct. Hi, the type quite fresh; a rather worn specimen 
from Lagodechi possibly belongs with it. 
E. bohatschi Stgr. (Vol. 4, pi. 25 f). Djakonov records one of each sex from Kamtshatka; further 
known localities in Siberia are Minussinsk and Tukuringra. Southward it reaches Kalgan, N. China. — kawa- 
kamiana Matsumura. This, as also the following species, is unknown to me personally, but a fairly good figure 
of kawaJcamiana shows that it is extremely close to bohatschi, probably a race, or even a synonym. White with 
a faint rosy shade, the dark border of the forewing, as I gather from the description and figure, less extended 
into the posterior part of the median area, the hindwing with a heavier dark border, and perhaps less dark 
suffusion proximally, than in most b. bohatschi. Founded on 2 which were collected in late July at Ichino- 
sawa and Kawakami, both in South Saghalien. 
E. jezonica Matsumura. Ground-colour greyish white, the greater part of the forewing coppery brown, 
the apical two-thirds with 6 whitish spots (the 4 middle ones forming 2 pairs), the subterminal line excurved, 
nearest to the termen at vein 3, defined proximally by black interneural spots; the whitish parts (base, except 
costally, and cell) irregularly dark-marked; cell-mark linear. Hindwing with about 6 indistinct fuscous bands, 
the 1st conspicuous at inner margin, the 3rd the broadest (tapering posteriorly), the 5th partly double. Hok¬ 
kaido: near Sapporo, etc., 3 “Near to kawakamiana .” 
E. sophia Btlr. (Vol. 4. pi. 13 o) is usually much smaller than our figure (about 20 mm). It varies 
moderately in the extent of the two colours on the forewing. It is often closely similar to the Indian ustdta, 
but the antennal filiation is here about 1 (in ustata very short), the brown parts of the forewing a little lighter, 
the subterminal line on the whole weaker or more slender. — ab. (?) simplex Dietze (ex Btlr., M. S ). Dietze 
