spadiceata. 
praepupilla- 
ta. 
collusirata. 
drucntiata. 
signiferata. 
marginata. 
bella. 
sutiliata. 
thermosaria. 
sinuosaria. 
dilutaria. 
pallescens. 
modesta. 
obliquaria. 
acolpodes. 
198 EUPITHECIA. By L. B. Prout. 
E. spadiceata Zerny (= maeoticaria Wehrli, ? Bohatsch) (18 b). Dr. Wehrli is convinced that this is 
the maeoticaria of Bohatsch, at least in part, and lias given a very careful account of the species, including 
studies in the genitalia and ventral plate. In any case it is quite nearly related to millefoliata , though certainly 
a good species. Ventral plate narrower. Generally larger; forewing broader, notably in the $, with less ob¬ 
lique termen; brownish grey, rather coarsely scaled, the median and submedian veins (as also in the preceding 
species) with some yellowish scaling, recalling subfulvata; cell-spot of hindwing considerably larger than in the 
two preceding. Northern Lebanon (loc. typ.), throughout June; also a worn specimen from the Amanus Moun¬ 
tains which, according to Wehrli, agrees entirely with Dietze's Uralsk '''maeoticaria'’ . Areole double, as may 
also probably be assumed of the Uralsk. 
E. praepupillata Wehrli. It is suggested that this may be provisionally placed near subnotata , although 
the areole is undivided. Palpus long, more than twice the diameter of the eye. Forewing dark grey-brown, a 
rust-coloured costal streak bearing dark spots at the origin of the lines; the deep black cell-dot surrounded 
with white; lines indistinct; subterminal line ending in a characteristic, light ochre-yellowish spot. Underside 
lighter, the hindwing more strongly marked, the postmedian of the forewing black. Sutschansk, S. Ussuri. 1 
E. subnotata Him. (Vol. 4, pi. 12 g) collusirata Dietze. A synonym which I neglected to quote is issyka 
Dietze (ex Bang-Haas, MS.), which indicates, I suppose, that Issyk-kul should be the type locality. Karagai- 
tau (Issyk-kul), Altyn-dagh and Naryn were specified as producing the form. 
E. druentiata Dietze (Vol. 4, pi. 5 e, misprinted tricentiata; p. 421, tricendaria; p. 424, tvicentiata!). 
The type locality was Digne and when Dietze's monograph was published the species was only known from 
that locality and in Istria. It is now known from the Alibatus Planina and (1 specimen) Albania and there 
may be other records which I have overlooked; but it is certainly very local. — ab. signiferata Naufock, be¬ 
longing to the Istrian local form, which I do not think has been separately named but is of a “more uniform 
brownish-grey colour" than the name-type, is a striking aberration with the median area much narrowed, its 
boundary-lines heavy, almost black. 
E. marginata 8t.gr. (18 b). We figure a $ from Kurdistan. 
E. bella Stgr. (17 k). This species and probably all of the suboxydata group have the areole double. 
We figure a $ bella from the Kardakoff collection. 
E. sutiliata Christ. (17 e) is now figured from one of Christoph’s originals (a 9, Schahrud) and I take 
this opportunity to call attention to a misprint in the name (Vol. 4, p. 290, “ subtiliata ”). It is, I suppose, in¬ 
correctly placed, for the areole is simple. In coloration and the weakness of the markings it is not unlike some 
forms of extensaria, though the hindwing in slightly less narrowed. 
E. thermosaria Hmps. (14 e). A large, long-winged species with somewhat the coloration of the bright¬ 
est pimpinellata but — especially in the type — with much more extended white, particularly the basal area 
and much of the costal region, as well as on the hindwing; cell-spot large (broad as ivell as elongate); the clean 
brown band proximally to the subterminal conspicuous anteriorly, but losing itself in the bright brown suffusion 
posteriorly. Areole double. Only known in 2 9? examples from Kashmir. 
E. sinuosaria Ev. (Vol. 4, pi. 12 m). The species is indigenous also to parts of Scandinavia and a com¬ 
prehensive article on its northern distribution, with a sketch-map showing every recorded habitat in Scandi¬ 
navia and the Baltic countries, was published by Wahlgren in 1922. See further, for its occurrences in Ger¬ 
many, P. Schulze and Warnecke Zeitschr. wiss. Ins.bioh, Vol. 11, p. 40 and 276. The Tring Museum has a 
very small from Kalgan, N. China. In captivity the larva will accept such varied food-plants as Chrysanthe¬ 
mum. Capsella, Caragana, Achillea and Trifolium. — ab. dilutaria Kolossow. Very occasional weakly-marked 
examples from E. Russia are thus named. Perhaps similar to the following. pallescens Dietze. Dietze seems 
to have introduced some confusion into his work either by employing the name modesta twice for allied forms 
or else by indexing (on p. 166) the same form twice and giving discrepant localities. His type, from Aksu, is 
an extreme form, his other 5 (Yarkand) “essentially more strongly coloured". — ab. modesta Dietze (1913), 
from the Alai Mountains, Ferghana, is a transition from pallescens back towards typical sinuosaria. The 
modesta of 1910 (Dietze's fig. 380), given with a query as a form of exactata Stgr. (see our Vol. 4, p. 277), came 
from Aksu and does not fit this diagnosis. If intended for the same, why was the name not given precedence 
over pallescens (his fig. 385)? obliquaria Leech (17 g). Sterneck, who accepts the status assigned in Vol. 4 
(p. 290), adds Sunpanting as a locality. 
E. acolpodes sp. n. (13 i), evidently a further development of the pallescens-modesta series of sinuosaria, 
differs essentially in the loss of the sinuous median line, for which is substituted an anteriorly straight post- 
median; subterminal preceded by a strong brown shade, which is res u m e d b e h i n d the 2 n d m e - 
