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EUPITHECIA. By L. B. Prout. 
virgaureata. 
nigrofascia- 
ta. 
nigronotata. 
bistrigata. 
detritata. 
accessata. 
inconstans. 
p roterva. 
subbreviata. 
hirschkei. 
quercetica. 
dodoneata. 
dubiosa. 
cocciferata. 
semitincta- 
ria. 
E. virgaureata Dbl. (Vol. 4, pi. 12 f). Zerkowitz in 1927 recorded one example from Zugliget, near 
Budapest, and stated that it was new for Hungary. — ab. nigrofasciata Dietze. Median area of forewing dark¬ 
ened; corresponds to the forms of other Eupithecia species of like name. Stainz. — ab. nigronotata Dietze ( = 
notata Dietze). Cell-spots, or at least that of the fore wing, unusually large. — ab. bistrigata Dietze. Median 
area of forewing bounded by dark lines. Has been confused with the somewhat larger egenaria. This and the 
preceding were also described from Stainz. 
E. detritata Stgr. (18 d). We figure one of a series collected by Kardakoff in the Vladivostok district 
in April and determined by him as proterva but almost certainly referable to this species (see Vol. 4, p. 294). 
Paler and more thinly scaled than proterva, on the whole larger, the postmedian seldom quite so near the cell- 
spot. Antennal ciliation of shorter (scarcely y 2 as long). Staltdinger’s originals came from Vladivostok, 
taken in May (types), and Askold and have, with the exception of a worn been figured by Dietze. — accessata 
Dietze is not described beyond an indication that it is intermediate between inconstans and daemionata (Vol. 4, 
pi. 297). Kasaketvitsch, Ussuri, 2 examples. — inconstans Dietze, figured from Yokohama but nowhere de¬ 
scribed, was considered to be a form or forms (very variable) of detritata; I have not seen the originals, which 
are darker and more definitely banded than detritata , but it seems to me likely, if Dietze overlooked the an¬ 
tennal characters, that his Yokohama “type” is a proterva, the only Japanese representative of the group 
with which I am acquainted. 
E. proterva Btlr. (Vol. 4, pi. 13 i). After having been able, to examine Ussuri material (see the prece¬ 
ding and following), I see no evidence of the occurrence of proterva outside Japan, but, as Dietze remarks, 
eastern Asia yields “a whole series of very variable' species” in this group and much further research is needed. 
E. subbreviata Stgr. (17 k). An Ussuri species, described from Askold. More thinly scaled than pro¬ 
terva and — according to all the available evidence — with very short antennal ciliation. When our Okeans- 
kaia J was placed for figuring I supposed it to represent subbreviata; but I am now doubtful whether it differs 
specifically from the forms which I call detritata; indeed, since neither Staudinger not Dietze gives any 
differentiation between these two short-cilia forms, it may be that the sharply marked one was named sub¬ 
breviata and the washed-out examples detritata. The type figure of the latter, however, shows the antemedian 
line less angled, the subterminal shades reduced. 
E. abbreviate (Vol. 4, pi. 12 1) ab. hirschkei Bastelb. The description given in Vol. 4 (p. 295) of this 
aberration, after Dietze, was incomplete. Bastelberger emphasizes that the ground-colour of the forewing 
is darkened, more grey than yellow-brown, so that quite a different impression is produced. I have not seen 
Rhine specimens, but a number have been collected this year (1938) in the Wye Valley by Mr. C. G. M. 
de Worms, together with the type form, and look almost, though not altogether melanic. I learn that it has 
likewise been taken in Leicestershire. 
E. quercetica sp. n. (14 i). Length of a forewing 11 to 12 mm. Palpus almost twice as long as diameter 
of eye; pale beneath, as also the breast. Abdomen dorsally with some brown admixture, especially on the 
crests. Forewing a trifle narrower than in abbreviate but not so elongate as in unedonata; grey, only costally 
more tinged with brown, the markings there thickened somewhat as in virgaureata; cell-spot fairly strong, 
though not so large as in virgaureata; markings somewhat as in abbreviate ; antemedian without band-like shad¬ 
ing; postmedian with proximal dashes present, but short and pretty regular (more as in virgaureata than in 
abbreviate ); subterminal dentate, not much inbent near costa; fringe somewhat spotted on proximal half. 
Hindwing shaped much as in abbreviate; cell-spot distinct. Underside much as in abbreviata but greyer. Arayah 
(Lebanon), 2 $$, bred 22 February and March 1935, from larvae found feeding on oak (E. P. Wiltshire). 
They are found at middle heights in the Lebanon in April and May and their discoverer records them also on 
buckthorn, hawthorn and cistus; apparently similar in build and in ty pe of maculation to those of abbreviata 
and massiliata, occurring in at least two forms, the one ochreous, with a pink tinge and with yellowish or white 
oblique lateral marks, edged in front with pink, the other darker, with the dorsal line developing a series of 
purplish V-marks pointing forward, blackish-grey under the lateral dashes. 
E. dodoneata Ouen. (Vol. 4, pi. 12 1). Oberthur records, from Beni-Amar, Morocco, at the end of 
December and beginning of January, “a form with the markings blackish rather than brown”. As I have no 
further knowledge of it and cannot vouch for the determination, I do not propose to give it a name. - dubiosa 
Dietze. Very variable inter se. Brownish, with all the markings much finer. Slightly recalls massiliata or even 
the tempestivata form of G. pumileta, among which Dietze’s 5 originals were mixed. Beirut. Wehrli adds 
Marasch and declares it, a “good race, an sjiec.?”, with less distinct lines than d. dodoneata. Mr. E. P. Wilt¬ 
shire has 2 from Beirut, prettily variegated, which are quite evidently dodoneata. 
E. cocciferata Mill. (17 i). The original locality is given as Ardeche. We figure a $ from Vendee. — ab. 
semitinctaria Mab. More brightly marked, in part slightly suffused with purple-red, lighter about the cell- 
